Tarannom (Tara) Parhizkar

Tarannom (Tara) Parhizkar

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Engineering VI 5th Floor, 404 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Email: tparhizkar@ucla.edu

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
  • Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
  • Energy Systems Reliability, Risk, and Resilience
    • Power Grid Risk and Resilience,
    • Hydrogen Blending in Gas Infrastructure
  • Causal Modeling and Risk Quantification
    • Simulation-Based Methods for Reliability and Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Complex Systems
    • Hybrid Systems Risk and Reliability Analysis Methods (Identification of Failure Mechanisms and Reliability prediction of Hybrid Systems of Hardware, Software, and Human)
    • Bayesian Methods for System Health Monitoring and Sensor Placement (Solution Algorithms for Hybrid Dynamic Bayesian Belief Networks)
    • Bayesian Methods for Inference with Uncertain Evidence, Use of Expert Opinion, and Causal Modeling with Bayesian Belief Networks
    • Common Cause Failure Analysis (Reliability Models, Data Classification and Analysis)
    • Risk-based oversight and inspection of Infrastructure Systems  (e.g. Civil Aviation Safety, Oil and Gas Pipeline Integrity Management)
  • Sustainable Energy Systems
  • Wildfire Risk Management