Rate My Professor Hiba Baroud

Baroud’s research integrates data analytics, risk analysis, and resilience modeling to evaluate critical infrastructure performance during disasters. Her group develops statistical learning, network modeling, and decision analysis methods to address uncertain interdependencies across infrastructure, human, and environmental systems. Focus areas include security, resilience, and sustainability of sectors such as transportation, energy, and water amid natural hazards, climate change, and cascading disruptions. Applications span smart cities, developing countries, and Arctic communities. She co-chairs the Risk and Resilience Measurements Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers Infrastructure Resilience Division and serves as Associate Editor for ASCE Natural Hazards Review. Major awards include the NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award (2020), Global Voices Fellowship (2019), National Academy of Sciences Arab-American Frontiers Fellowship (2022), Global Young Academy membership (2023), International Science Council Fellowship (2024), and Society for Risk Analysis Chauncey Starr Distinguished Young Scholar Award (2024). Key publications are “Importance measures for inland waterway network resilience” (Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2014), “Stochastic measures of network resilience: Applications to waterway commodity flows” (Risk Analysis, 2014), “Inherent costs and interdependent impacts of infrastructure network resilience” (Risk Analysis, 2015), and “Selecting indicators for assessing community sustainable resilience” (Risk Analysis, 2019). Her contributions enhance risk-informed strategies for resilient infrastructure.