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

• Agent-based modelling approach to evaluate the effect of collaboration among scientists in scientific workflows (2019)
• 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)
• Toward effective adoption of secure software development practices (2018)
• Agent-based modeling to simulate the dynamics of urban water supply: Climate, population growth, and water shortages (2017)

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