Bilal M. Ayyub (born 5 January 1958, Tulkarm, Palestine) is a researcher in risk analysis and reliability engineering. He has been a professor of

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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

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Biography

Ayyub was born in Tulkarm,

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, 5 January 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

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Career

He works in the areas of risk analysis, uncertainty modeling, decision analysis, and

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. His specialty is risk and uncertainty analysis for decision and policy making including climate adaptation. Ayyub is a distinguished member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), an

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of the

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(ASME), and a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) and the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute. Ayyub provides advisory services as needed through BMA Engineering, Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based engineering consulting firm that works with

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and

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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. 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.Publications
and see submenus there. 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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ayyub, Bilal M Living people American civil engineers Georgia Tech alumni People from Tulkarm University of Maryland, College Park faculty 1958 births