Contact Information: Office: Olsson 103A Phone: 434-982-2067 Email: rk@virginia.edu Degree: Ph.D., University of Arizona

Dr. Krzysztofowicz joined the faculty in 1982, after he had held faculty posts at the University of Arizona and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He directed the department's graduate program and was a founding associate director of the Center for Risk Management. An author/coauthor of over 100 archival articles published in some 25 journals, 15 books, and 4 encyclopedias, he is currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hydrology and associate editor of Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. A frequent plenary speaker at international conferences, he also has lectured at NATO Advanced Study Institutes and has served as expert on forecasting to the World Meteorological Organization. He is the Eminent Engineer of Tau Beta Pi and a recipient of the Witold Wierzbicki Award and the Presidential Young Investigator Award.

Research Interests:

• Bayesian decision theory
• Bayesian forecasting
• forecast verification and combining
• sensor fusion
• economic value of information
• probabilistic modeling
• risk, reliability, and decision analyses
• stochastic control with forecasts
• multiobjective decision making
• decision support systems
• warning systems
• natural hazards
• hydrology, meteorology, and water resources
• environmental systems

Sponsored Research:

• A Theory of Warning Systems for Natural Hazards (funded by the National Science Foundation)
• Methods of Probabilistic Forecasting (funded by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)
• Probabilistic Hydrometeorological Forecast System (funded by the National Weather Service)