Contact Information: Office: Olsson 112 Phone: 434-924-3803 Email: haimes@virginia.edu Personal Homepage Degree: Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

He holds the Lawrence R. Quarles Professorship at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and is a member of the Systems and Information Engineering and Civil Engineering faculties. He is the Founding Director (1987) of the university-wide Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, University of Virginia. On the faculty of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, for 17 years, he was the Chair of the Systems Engineering Department, and Director of the University-wide Center for Large-Scale Systems and Policy Analysis. During the 1977-78 sabbatical year, he was an AAAS/American Geophysical Union Congressional Science Fellow, joining the staff of the Executive Office of President Jimmy Carter, and later the staff of the House Science and Technology Committee. Over the years he has held several high offices as president and chair of boards of directors of professional and public service organizations. In 1998, he served as the President of the Society for Risk Analysis. He has published more than 250 articles and technical papers, more than 150 of which are in archival journals and encyclopedias. He has edited or co-edited 21 volumes, and authored or co-authored six books. His most recent book is Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management (New York: Wiley, 1998).

Research Interests:

Yacov Haimes' research interests include risk-based decision making, multiobjective tradeoff analysis, and hierarchical analysis of large-scale systems. He has applied his research results to water resources and environmental and industrial systems.

Sponsored Research:

• Channel Reliability of the Navigation System in the Upper Mississippi (funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
• Design Evaluation of Vehicle Safety System (funded by the National Science Foundation and General Motors)
• Sustainable Operation of Inland waterways (funded by the National Science Foundation)
• Risk-based Prioritization of Highway Projects (funded by the Virginia Transportation Research Center)
• Risk-based Decision Making (funded by the Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-benefit Analysis, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
• Project Cost Estimation (funded by TRW)
• Development of a Risk Management Road Map (funded by NASA Langley)
• Characterization of Support for Operations Other than War (funded by USDOD Army)
• Incorporating Risk Management with CriticalInfrastructure (funded by Joint Program Office/Infrastructure Assurance and Naval Surface Warfare Center
• Risk-Based Management of Hurricane Preparedness and recovery for a Highway Agency (funded by VDOT – VTRC)
• Mission Degradation Analysis Support for DTRA (funded by SAIC)
• Technical Support Services for Risk-Related Material (funded by Argonne National Laboratory)
• Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection (funded by VDOT - VTRC)
• OOTW Methodology and Benchmarking (funded by National Ground Intelligence Center)