Elise Miller-Hooks holds the Bill and Eleanor Hazel Endowed Chair in Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University, is an advisor to the World Bank Group, and is founding Editor-in-Chief of IFORS/Elsevier’s Sustainability Analytics and Modeling journal. Dr. Miller-Hooks previously served as a program director at the U.S. National Science Foundation and on the faculties of the University of Maryland, Pennsylvania State University and Duke University. Dr. Miller-Hooks received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas – Austin and B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College. She has expertise in: multi-hazard civil infrastructure resilience quantification and protection; disruption planning and response; transportation systems engineering; sustainability; intermodal rail- and maritime-based freight transport; real-time routing and fleet management: paratransit, delivery, ridesharing and bikeways; stochastic and dynamic network algorithms; and collaborative and multi-objective decision-making.
Babak Heydari is an Associate Professor and Program Director at the College of Engineering at Northeastern University. There, he is also an affiliate faculty at the School of Public Policy and the Network Science Institute, and a core faculty at the Institute of Experiential AI. His interdisciplinary research aims at establishing a bridge between engineering system design and computational social sciences where he uses network science to study the architecture of sociotechnical and human-AI systems, resilience and its relationship with the emergence of collective behavior and social norms, and platform-based sharing economy systems. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and has three years of Silicon Valley start-up experience. Professor Heydari is a recipient of the national science foundation CAREER award, the President of the Council of Engineering Systems Scholars and Universities (CESUN), and the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the ETH-Singpaore Future Resilient Systems.