Complex Systems & Processes
Urban and natural environmental areas are complex systems, with complexity arising from interactions between social, biologic and environmental agents & processes. These processes take place on multiple spatial, temporal and contextual scales. Understanding these interactions & their interdependencies is key to developing effective environmental & health policies. Our research is focused on the following topics:
Watershed Processes and Control; Environmental Processes, Sustainability; Public Health; Big Data
- Sustainable urban systems, complex systems, impact of multi hazards, cascading failures
- Networks and network processes in watersheds, ecosystems and human populations; and implications for biosecurity and public health
- Network, flow and transport controllability. Coupled surface-ground water systems. Applications to floods and water quality management
- Stochastic multimedia and multi-scale contaminant transport processes in watersheds
- Watershed sustainability, risk assessment, reliability, vulnerability and resilience analysis
- Climate change adaptation
Multifunctional Advanced Materials and Environmental Sensing
- Soft biomimetic materials, devices and robotics
- Autonomous mobile devices
- Environmental sensors
Porous Media
- Multiphase flow simulation
- Porous media characterization
- Thin porous media, multi-scale and asymmetric materials
- Material design
Faculty
Lilit Yeghiazarian
Professor, CEAS - Environmental Eng & Science
701E MANTEI
Research Website: Complex Systems & Processes