Emily uses geospatial analytics to investigate the spatial character of socio-technical systems, in which human decision-making affects resource availability and infrastructure performance as resource and infrastructure systems affect human decisions. She develops agent-based models of sociotechnical systems to simulate feedback mechanisms and adaptive behaviors among consumers, infrastructure, and environmental systems. Her interests include optimization models and algorithms to manage the sustainability, security, and resilience of complex infrastructure systems––particularly those managing household water, stormwater, and solar power.

Roles

• Fellows

Publications

• Simulation of containment and wireless emergency alerts within targeted pressure zones for water contamination management (2020)
• An agent-based modeling approach to project adoption of water reuse and evaluate expansion plans within a sociotechnical water infrastructure system (2019)
• Genetic Algorithm–Genetic Programming Approach to Identify Hierarchical Models for Ultraviolet Disinfection Reactors (2019)
• Multiphase Procedure to Design District Metered Areas for Water Distribution Networks (2019)
• Allocating countermeasures to defend water distribution systems against terrorist attack (2018)
• An Agent-based Modeling Framework for Assessing the Public Health Protection of Water Advisories (2018)
• An integrated approach to place Green Infrastructure strategies in marginalized communities and evaluate stormwater mitigation (2018)
• Assessing the effects of water restrictions on socio-hydrologic resilience for shared groundwater systems (2018)
• Placing an ensemble of pressure sensors for leak detection in water distribution networks under measurement uncertainty (2018)
• Toward effective adoption of secure software development practices (2018)

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