【Title】Resilience Engineering 

【Presenter】Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez, Associate Professor, School of Systems & Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology 

【Host】Dr. Chi Zhang

【Date】Friday, June 12, 2015, 10:30am-11:30am 

【Venue】Room 412, Shunde Building 

【Abstract】The term “system resilience” by itself incites debate about its inherent concept and its computation. To clarify this concept, recent studies have proposed metrics to understand and to quantify the ability of systems to recover from an external disruptive event. Unfortunately, most of this research is focused on deterministic metrics. This presentation will introduce recent advances in the analysis of network resilience- via description of corresponding stochastic time dependent formulae for addressing the problem of quantifying network resilience. In specific, the presentation will discuss: Time to Total Network Restoration, Time to Full Network Service Resilience and, Time to α %-Resilience. The presentation will unveil and discuss two optimization problems of stochastic order inherent to the resilience process when considering recovery activities: 1) minimize the time to full network service resilience and 2) minimum expected total cost of disruptive event. The presentation will highlight different issues regarding data collection and analysis for implementing a systems resilience framework in practice

【Bio】Dr. Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez is Director of the Engineering Management program and Associate Professor in the School of Systems & Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. A former Fulbright Scholar, he holds degrees from Rutgers University in Industrial Engineering (Ph.D. and M.Sc.) and Statistics (M.Sc.) and from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Actuarial Science. His research efforts focus on the development of mathematical models for the analysis and computation of system operational effectiveness; reliability and vulnerability analysis as the basis for designing system resilience. He also works at the intersection of evolutionary computation for the optimization of complex problems associated with system performance and design. In these areas, Dr. Ramirez-Marquez has conducted funded research for both private industry and government and, has published over 100 refereed manuscripts in technical journals, book chapters and industry reports. Dr. Ramirez-Marquez has presented his research findings nationally and internationally in conferences such as INFORMS, ISERC, INCOSE, CESUN and, ESREL. He has served as the President of the Quality Control and Reliability division board of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and he is a member of the Technical Committee on System Reliability for the European Safety and Reliability Association.

All interested are welcome!