Civil engineer says recent Atlanta water main breaks could be connected
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Iris Tien
Associate Professor
College of Engineering School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Iris Tien from ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ is an expert in infrastructure resilience, risk analysis, and the use of data and modeling to improve the reliability and safety of critical infrastructure systems during extreme events.
Iris Tien, Williams Family Early Career Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, joined the faculty in 2014 after earning her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Her expertise includes infrastructure resilience, probabilistic risk assessment, data analytics for smart cities, and decision making under uncertainty. Tien's research, funded by NSF, DHS, USDOT, and NIST, has received numerous awards. She organized the session on Resilient Infrastructure at the U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium and was honored with the Early Achievement Research Prize by IASSAR.
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