Two-Day Short Course on Mathematics and Computing of Risk, Reliability and Resilience in Network and Enterprise Systems

This course is designed to familiarize the students with the mathematical concepts and computational techniques in quantifying the risk, reliability and resilience (RRR) of large, complex systems, in the presence of multiple types of uncertainty. Often the information available for RRR analysis is heterogeneous, coming from multiple sources (models, tests, experts) and in multiple formats. The use of Bayesian methods to integrate heterogeneous information will be presented. The use of RRR quantification results in various types of decisions will be discussed, such as system design, manufacturing, operations, and sustainment. The concept and use of digital twins that continuously update the system model with incoming data to maintain high levels of system performance and resilience will be presented. Application examples from engineering systems (e.g., aircraft, buildings), business enterprise systems (e.g., manufacturing and distribution supply chains), and civil infrastructure systems (e.g., power grid, transportation) will be used to illustrate the RRR techniques for large complex systems. For more information, please visit our website https://abcmc.iisc.ac.in/events/

Speaker: Dr. Sankaran Mahadevan

Biograpgy: 

Professor Sankaran Mahadevan has thirty-six years of research and teaching experience in reliability and risk methods, uncertainty quantification, model validation, system health and risk management, and optimization under uncertainty. His research has been extensively funded by NSF, NASA, FAA, DOE, DOD, DOT, NIST, General Motors, Chrysler, Union Pacific, American Railroad Association, and Sandia, Idaho, Los Alamos and Oak Ridge national laboratories. His research contributions are documented in more than 700 publications, including two textbooks on reliability methods and 350 journal papers. He is one of the world’s highest cited researchers in the field of uncertainty and risk analysis (Google Scholar h-index 90). He has directed 56 Ph.D. dissertations and 24 M. S. theses and has taught many industry and university short courses on the mathematics and computing of uncertainty and reliability analysis. Professor Mahadevan is a Fellow of AIAA, Fellow of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (ASCE), and Fellow of Prognostics and Health Management Society (PHM). He is the winner of several prestigious awards including the Senior Distinguished Research Award from the International Association of Structural Safety and Reliability, NASA Next Generation Design Tools award, SAE Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award, and best paper awards in several international conferences. He recently completed his service as President of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute and Managing Editor of ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (Part B: Mechanical Engineering). He is currently Chair of the ASME VVUQ50 Committee on Advanced Manufacturing.