
Tarannom (Tara) Parhizkar
ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Engineering VI 5th Floor, 404 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Email: tparhizkar@ucla.eduRESEARCH 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