Bilal M. Ayyub

Infobox Scientist
name = Bilal M. Ayyub


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birth_place = Palestine
residence = United States
nationality = United States
fields = Engineering (risk and uncertainty analysis)
workplaces = University of Maryland, College Park
alma_mater = Kuwait University Georgia Institute of Technology
doctoral_advisor = Achintya Haldar
doctoral_students = G.J. White Z. Eldukair Y.G. Sohn N.M. Al-Mutairi A. Ibrahim C.-Y. Chia K.-L. Lai M.H.M. Hassan R. Chao Y.-H.O. Chang K. Atua I. Assakkaf K. Eloseily A. N. Blair W. Bender H. Kamal R. Wilcox M. Al-Fadhala P. Hess, III A. Al-Wazeer K. Avrithi W. L. McGill
known_for = seminal contributions to risk and uncertainty analysis and modeling
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Bilal M. Ayyub is an American engineer. He is professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management (CTSM) at the A. James Clark School of Engineering. He also co-directs with Robert Finkelstein the CTSM's Intelligent Systems Laboratory. Ayyub has been at the University of Maryland since 1983. He is a leading authority in the areas of risk analysis, uncertainty modeling, decision analysis, and systems engineering. Ayyub is also president of BMA Engineering, Inc. [http://www.BMAEngineering.com] , a Bethesda, Maryland-based engineering consulting firm that works with infrastructure and defense systems.

Early life and education

Ayyub received his Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering in 1980 from Kuwait University, and moved to the United States of America in 1981. He received his Master of Science (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Career

Ayyub completed several research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Homeland Security, the Maryland State Highway Administration, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and several engineering companies.

Ayyub is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) [http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/fellows/fellows1.html] and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), and has served in various capacities at the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) as well. [http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/DHS-UM-website/faculty_page/ayyub.htm]

Ayyub is a multiple recipient of the ASNE Jimmie Hamilton Award [http://www.navalengineers.org/Awards/PastWinners/HamiltonWinners.html] for the best papers in the Naval Engineers Journal in 1985, 1992, 2000 and 2003. Also, he received the ASCE Outstanding Research Oriented Paper in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management for 1987, the ASCE Edmund Friedman Award in 1989, the ASCE Walter Huber Research Prize in 1997, and the K. S. Fu Award of NAFIPS in 1995. He received the Department of the Army Public Service Award in 2007 for leading the development of the risk model for the hurricane protection system of New Orleans. Dr. Ayyub was appointed to many national committees and investigation boards including most recently on the working group on higher education of the transition team of Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, 2006-07, the working group on homeland security of the transition team of Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, 2006-07, and the Committee for Assessment of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Security Program [http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/CommitteeView.aspx?key=48727] , Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, National Research Council of the National Academies, 2006-08. He was appointed to the Maryland Governor's Commission on Middle Eastern American Affairs [http://www.gov.state.md.us/executiveorders/01.01.07.22eo.pdf] [http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/08conoff/coord/html/08commf.html] , and on the Board of Advisors of the ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management (CDRM). [http://www.asce.org/instfound/techcomm_cdrm.cfm] Presently, he chairs the CDRM Vulnerability and Risk Committee. He has delivered many invited talks at leading national and international organizations including most recently a distinguished lecture to the Brazilian Research Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, Naval War College for the Chief of Naval Operations, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Australian National Marine Safety Committee. [http://www.nmsc.gov.au/msc2008.html]

Ayyub is the author and co-author of more than 550 publications in journals and conference proceedings, and reports. [http://www.ctsm.umd.edu] Among the publications of Dr. Ayyub are more than 20 books including the following selected textbooks used by many universities worldwide:
Ayyub, B. M., and Klir, G. J., Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis for Engineers and Scientists, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Press Boca Raton, FL, 2006. [http://www.navalengineers.org/Awards/PastWinners/HamiltonWinners.html]
Ayyub, B. M., Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2003. [http://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Engineering-Economics-Bilal-Ayyub/dp/1584883952/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217984544&sr=8-14]
Ayyub, B. M., Elicitation of Expert Opinions for Uncertainty and Risks, CRC Press, 2002. [http://www.amazon.com/Elicitation-Expert-Opinions-Uncertainty-Risks/dp/0849310873/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217984544&sr=8-15]
Ayyub, B.M., and McCuen, R., Probability, Statistics and Reliability for Engineers and Scientists, Second Edition, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2003. [http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Statistics-Reliability-Engineers-Scientists/dp/1584882867/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217984544&sr=8-1]
Ayyub, B.M., and McCuen, R., Numerical Methods for Engineers, Prentice Hall, New York, 1996. [http://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Methods-Engineers-Bilal-Ayyub/dp/0133373614/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217984544&sr=8-3]

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