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Seth Guikema

Assistant Professor
sguikema@jhu.edu
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Biographical Sketch

Dr. Guikema has a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Cornell), a M.E. in Civil Engineering (University of Canterbury), a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Stanford), and a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering (Stanford). He was an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University before joining DoGEE in January 2008. Dr. Guikema is on the Editorial Boards of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Engineering and the Journal of Performability Engineering. He has authored or coauthored over 50 peer-reviewed journal papers, conference papers, and book chapters.

Dr. Guikema's research interests include probabilistic systems modeling techniques, especially risk analysis, uncertainty modeling, life-cycle assessment, and decision-making under uncertainty. His research focuses both on developing new methods in these fields and using these methods to understand the performance of complex systems and their impacts on the environment in order to support policy and management decision-making. This work is applied in a number of different areas including infrastructure systems modeling, public-sector environmental management decision-making, and modeling natural disasters.

Research Interests

  • Bayesian probability modeling
  • Parametric and non-parametric count data regression
  • Forecasting the impacts of hurricanes on infrastructure systems.
  • Environmental impacts of large-scale infrastructure systems
  • Performance and reliability of large-scale infrastructure systems in response to natural and human-induced hazards
  • Probabilistic risk analysis
  • Environmental life-cycle assessment methods
  • Modeling large-scale, interdependent infrastructure networks