Dr. Elise D. Miller-Hooks
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1997
M.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1994
B.S., Lafayette College, 1992
Elise Miller-Hooks holds the Bill and Eleanor Hazel Endowed Chair in Infrastructure Engineering and serves as the Department Chair for the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University. She has served as an advisor to the World Bank Group and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Sustainability Analytics and Modeling journal. Prior to this, Dr. Miller-Hooks served as Program Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Civil Infrastructure Systems Program, lead Program Officer for the Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP) solicitation, and a cognizant program officer on CMMI’s Smart and Connected Communities initiative. She served on the faculties of the University of Maryland, Pennsylvania State University, and Duke University.
Her expertise includes: disaster planning and response, e.g., urban search and rescue, building and regional evacuation and sheltering, and crowd modeling; multi-hazard civil infrastructure resilience quantification and infrastructure protection investment; stochastic and dynamic network algorithms; mathematical modeling and optimization; transportation systems engineering; intermodal passenger and freight transport; maritime transport and port operations; real-time routing and fleet management; paratransit, ridesharing and bikeways; and collaborative and multi-objective decision-making.
