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Bill & Eleanor Hazel Endowed Chair in Infrastructure Engineering
Professor and Department Chair
Phone: 703.993.1685
Email: miller@gmu.edu
Office: 4614 Nguyen Engineering Building
Address:
Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 6C1
Fairfax, VA 22030 USA |
Education
• Ph.D., University of Texas, 1997
• M.S. in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Civil Engineering, 1994
• B.S.C.E. Lafayette College, summa cum laude in Civil Engineering, 1992
Research Interests
• Infrastructure systems resilience and protection
• Interdependent infrastructure systems modeling
• Sustainability
• Disaster planning and response
--Urban search and rescue
-- Hospital preparedness
-- EMS response
-- Building and regional evacuation and sheltering
-- Crowd modeling
-- Hazardous materials routing
• Incident management
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• Stochastic and dynamic network algorithms
• Optimization and mathematical modeling with applications in transportation
• Collaborative and multi-objective decision-making
• Transportation systems engineering
• Real-time routing and fleet management
• Intermodal passenger & freight transport, supply chains
-- Paratransit, delivery, ridesharing and bikeway
-- Maritime transport and ports
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Biosketch:
Elise Miller-Hooks holds the Bill and Eleanor Hazel Endowed Chair in Infrastructure Engineering
and is Department Chair of the Sid & Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental &
Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University. She is founding Editor-in-Chief of
Elsevier’s Sustainability Analytics and Modeling journal. She previously served as an advisor to the World Bank, as a program officer (PO) (for Civil Infrastructure Systems, lead PO for CRISP,
cognizant PO on initial SCC) at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and on the faculties of the University of Maryland, Pennsylvania State University and Duke University. She is past chair of the TRB Transportation Network Modeling Committee, past president of the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) and past president of the Women in OR/MS Forum (WORMS). Prof. Miller-Hooks served on the U.S. Congress-initiated Transportation Resilience Metrics Committee for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine and as Chair for the OECD’s ITF’s Roundtable on Transport System Resilience in Paris in 2023. She is a member of the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine. In her work, she applies and advances operations research concepts to transportation and infrastructure systems applications, with a strong emphasis on disaster protection. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas – Austin, where she has been inducted as a distinguished alumni, and B.S. summa cum laude in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College.
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