T-ITS Editorial Board Members
Nii Attoh-Okine
Senior Editor
Bio:
Nii Attoh-Okine is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
(a) Professional Preparation
Dipl. Ing - Civil Eng., Rostov Institute of Civil Eng., Rostov, Russia: June 1980 – June 1986
Ph.D. - Civil and Environmental Eng., University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS: January 1990-January 1992
(b) Appointments
Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD: September 2022 - Present
Professor, Associate and Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Eng., University of Delaware: 1999 – September 2022
Visiting Professor, Princeton University: June 2007-June 2008
Nii O. Attoh-Okine, Ph.D., P.E., F. ASCE, Snr Member IEEE, Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. He also served as the Interim Academic Director of the University of Delaware Cybersecurity Initiative. In the last couple of years, he has authored two books which are defining the direction of research across disciplines: a) Resilience Engineering: Models and Analysis [Cambridge Press 2016] and b) Big Data and Differential Privacy in Railway Track Engineering [John Wiley 2017]. He is a founding associate editor for ASCE/ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty Analysis. He has served as an Associate Editor on the following ASCE Journals: a) ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems; b) ASCE Journal of Computing; c) ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering; d) ASCE Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice.
http://www.cee.umd.edu/
Research Interests
Research Areas:
1. Railway Track Engineering
2. Graphical Probability Models
3. Topological Data Analysis
4. Tensor Decomposition
5. Game Theoretic Probability (Betting)