 Email: leonardo.duenas-osorio@rice.edu Phone: (713) 348 - 5292 Office: 6100 Main Street, MS-318 Houston, TX 77005 Ryon Laboratory Room 212 |
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Leonardo Dueñas-OsorioAssistant Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringComputational modeling of complex systems, failure analysis of interdependent infrastructures, instantaneous reliability of smart lifeline systems, probabilistic extreme-event risk estimation, soil-foundation-bridge interaction effects on road networks, and long-term performance analysis of wind turbines. Dr. Dueñas-Osorio was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1976. He obtained a Magister degree in Structural Engineering from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá in 1998, followed by a Master’s degree in High Performance Structures from MIT in 2001, and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005. He joined Rice University as Assistant Professor of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in July of 2006. The research interests of Dr. Dueñas-Osorio are in the area of complex system reliability and risk assessment. Applications of his work include the response characterization of interdependent lifeline systems subjected to natural or man-made hazards, real-time reliability prediction of smart utilities, topological investigation of civil infrastructure layouts, propagation of soil-foundation-bridge response uncertainties to road-network reliability, estimation of wind turbine unavailability from wind turbulence and wind induced accelerations, and regional hurricane risk assessment of single family residential houses and utility systems in coastal cities. His research program is funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security of the City of Houston, the Shell Center for Sustainability, and Rice University. Recognitions for his work include the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) award in 2005 for the paper entitled “Interdependent Response of Networked Systems”, the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006, and the NSF CAREER award in 2008 to investigate new mitigation principles for reliability enhancement of smart interdependent infrastructure systems. In terms of professional service, he is Associate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), and Member of the Institute for Electric and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Regarding teaching activities, Dr. Dueñas-Osorio has taught courses in structural mechanics, probability and statistics for engineers, and risk and uncertainty assessment methods. Currently, he teaches a graduate course on the topology and reliability of complex lifeline systems, and an undergraduate course on hurricane risk assessment for residential housing and utility systems. He enjoys playing classical guitar and attending independent film festivals. He also enjoys playing board games, solving puzzles, experimenting with cuisine, reading science history, and volunteering for the Houston Humane Society. |
