Bilal M. Ayyub

Bilal M. Ayyub
Residence United States
Scientific career
Fields Engineering (risk and uncertainty analysis)
Institutions University of Maryland, College Park

Bilal M. Ayyub (born 1958) is a Palestinian risk analyst, reliability engineer, and mathematician. He has been a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) since 1983, and is also the director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management at its A. James Clark School of Engineering.

Biography

Ayyub was born in the State of Palestine in 1958 and moved to Kuwait in 1961. He was K12 schooled in Kuwait, and earned a Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from Kuwait University in 1980. He received both a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering (1981) and a Doctorate of Philosophy (1983) from the Georgia Institute of Technology.[1][2]

Career

He works in the areas of risk analysis, uncertainty modeling, decision analysis, and systems engineering.[1] His specialty is risk and uncertainty analysis for decision and policy making.

Ayyub is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME).

Ayyub is also president of BMA Engineering, Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based engineering consulting firm that works with infrastructure and defense systems.[3]

Ayyub is a multiple recipient of the ASNE Jimmie Hamilton Award for the best papers in the Naval Engineers Journal in 1985, 1992, 2000 and 2003, and the ASNE Solberg Award for Research. He also received the ASCE Edmund Friedman Award in 1989, and the ASCE Walter Huber Research Prize in 1997. He received the U. S. Department of the Army Commander’s Award for Public Service (Public Service Commendation Medal).[4]

According to ASCE (2017) "Ayyub is one of the world’s leading researchers in risk methods for the protection of critical infrastructure and key resources. His inputs have led to changes in national codes and standards, international standards, professional practices, and innovations in many areas. His knowledge ranges from civil engineering to electrical, naval systems, statistical, economics, numerical, petroleum engineering, and risk analyses. He has worked at the invitation of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and was a critical reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s work group SREX, among other contributions." [5]

Ayyub is also president of BMA Engineering, Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based engineering consulting firm that works with infrastructure and defense systems.[6]

Publications

Ayyub is the founding editor-in-chief of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems in its two parts: Part A. Civil Engineering and Part B. Mechanical Engineering.[7] He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Risk Analysis and the Journal of Ship Research of the SNAME. He is the author or co-author of more than 600 publications in journals and conference proceedings, and reports.[8] He is author, editor, co-author, or co-editor of 20 books, including:

  • Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure: Prediction, Risks and Solutions, ASCE, Reston, VA, 2011 (edited with Kearney).
  • Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk: Analysis, Modeling, and Management, ASCE, Reston, VA, 2011 (editor).
  • Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis for Engineers and Scientists, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Press Boca Raton, Florida, 2006 (with Klir).
  • Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics, First Edition (2003), Second Edition (2014), Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2014.
  • Elicitation of Expert Opinions for Uncertainty and Risks, CRC Press, 2002.

Public Service

The public service record of Ayyub includes board members of civic organizations representing the interests of minority groups, and education oriented organization. Ayyub was recruited by a coalition of minority group leaders to compete for the 2013 Maryland State Senate vacancy in Montgomery County’s District 15, and then he withdrew his name. Ayyub was expected to challenge Del. Brian Feldman (D-Montgomery) for the opening created by the resignation of Sen. Robert J. Garagiola in June. Members of the county’s Democratic Central Committee made their decisions without due consideration of candidates and a recommendation to Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) who made the appointment of Senator Brian Feldman. Montgomery County has never sent a candidate of color to the state senate. Minority groups, citing the county’s shifting demographics, expressed displeasure at the party establishment’s rapid closing of ranks behind Feldman, a three-term incumbent.[9]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Bilal Ayyub faculty page at the UMD Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  2. ↑ UMD Graduate School Catalog Page archived Dec 23, 2015
  3. ↑ BMA Engineering, Inc., Research & Engineering Services
  4. ↑ "CTSM of the UMD".
  5. ↑ "The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)".
  6. ↑ "Center for Technology and Systems Management » Dr. Bilal M. Ayyub". ctsm.umd.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  7. ↑ http://www.asce-asme-riskjournal.org/
  8. ↑ Publications and see submenus there.
  9. ↑ "Bilal Ayyub, under pressure, withdraws from consideration for Maryland senate vacancy". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
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