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James H. Lambert

Janet Scott Hamilton & John Downman Hamilton Professor Director, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems Site Director, NSF Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security & Trust Professor of Systems & Information Engineering Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Representative, and Member, UVA Board of Visitors (2025-26) Past Chair, UVA Faculty Senate (2025-26)
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(434) 982-2072
Location
Olsson Hall 102C
PO Box 400747
Charlottesville, VA 22904
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About

Dr. Lambert is a Keynote Speaker of the 12th IEEE CoDIT (CoDIT2026), Bari, Italy.

He is a Program Co-Chair of the 3rd IEEE ICCTIX.0, Paris, France, 2026. 

He received the 2025 Richard J. Burk Distinguished Service Award of the Society for Risk Analysis.

He received the 2025 Aspen Institute Italia Award for scientific research and collaboration.

With his graduate students, he received the Best Student Paper Award of the IEEE TEMSCOM Global 2025, San Diego, CA, USA.

He received the 2024 Distinguished Educator Award of the Society for Risk Analysis. 

He received the 2023 Best Paper Award of the iCSEng International Conference on Systems Engineering.

He was the General Co-Chair of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies CoDIT2025.org (Split, Croatia). 

He was the Chair of the 8th Engineering Systems Symposium CESUN2021.org (Charlottesville, VA, 2021), Chair of the Fifth World Congress on Risk (Cape Town, South Africa, 2019), President (2015-2016) of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), and Chair of the SRA Annual Meeting with over 800 participants (Washington DC, 2015). 

He is a Fellow of the AAAS (F.AAAS), Fellow of the IEEE (F.IEEE), Fellow of the ASCE (F.ASCE), Fellow of the SRA (F.SRA), Board Certified by the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers (BC.WRE), and a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA.

He is Area Editor of the Wiley journal Risk Analysis, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering. He was a founding Editor-in-Chief (2012-2025) of the Springer journal Environment Systems & Decisions.

He has served on the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Mitigating Catastrophic Risks, National Academy of Medicine Standing Committee on Health Threats Resilience and Workforce Resilience, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Aviation Cooperative Research Program, and Transit Cooperative Research Program. 

He was a Delegate (2012-2015) of AASHTO to the World Roads Association Congress (PIARC).

Education

Ph.D.​ University of Virginia, 1994

M.S. University of Virginia, 1990

B.S.E. Princeton University, 1988

Dr. Lambert’s interests are systems engineering and risk analysis, with a focus on disruption and resilience of system orders. Applications include systems security and trust with embedded computing devices.

JAMES H. LAMBERT

Research Interests

Risk Management
Smart Buildings/Cities
Human Machine Interface
Risk and Decision Analysis
Environmental Engineering
Infrastructure Engineering/Transportation Studies

Selected Publications

Wildfire risk mitigation through systems analysis of the planetary emergency, ASCE OPEN: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering, 2(1). 2024.
Lambert, James H., R. Ranger Dorn, Bilal M. Ayyub, William A. Barletta, John F. Organek, Marco Piras, Megan E. Gunn, and S. Fabrizio Zichichi
https://doi.org/10.1061/AOMJAH.AOENG-0040
Multi-dimensional data and model uncertainties in comparing heterogeneous benefits of distributed transportation projects. ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems. 22(2). 2016. LAMBERT, J.H., N.N. JOSHI, AND S.A. THEKDI.
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Multiscale approach to the security of hardware supply chains for energy systems. Environment Systems & Decisions. 33(3):326-334. 2013. LAMBERT, J.H., J.M. KEISLER, W.E. WHEELER, Z.A. COLLIER, AND I LINKOV.
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Understanding and managing disaster evacuation on a transportation network. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 50(1): 645-659. 2013. LAMBERT, J.H., A.I. PARLAK, Q. ZHOU, J.S. MILLER, M.D. FONTAINE, T.M. GUTERBOCK, J.L. CLEMENTS, AND S.A. THEKDI.
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Prioritizing infrastructure investments in Afghanistan with multiagency stakeholders and deep uncertainty of emergent conditions. ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems. 18(2): 155-166. 2012. LAMBERT, J.H., C.W. KARVETSKI, D.K. SPENCER, B.J SOTIRIN, D.M. LIBERI, H.H. ZAGHLOUL, J.B. KOOGLER, S.L. HUNTER, W.D. GORAN, R.D. DITMER, AND I. LINKOV.
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Courses Taught

SYS/CEE 6050 Risk Analysis
SYS/CEE 4050 Risk Analysis
SYS 2057 E-Commerce Systems
SYS 4053/4054 Capstone Design
SYS 6002 Systems Integration
SYS 6081 Information Technology
SYS 7054 Multiobjective Optimization
SYS 5081 Multiobjective Optimization
SYS 6003 Optimization Models and Methods

Awards

Richard J. Burk Distinguished Service Award, Society for Risk Analysis 2025
Best Student Paper Award, IEEE TEMSCON, San Diego, CA, USA 2025
Distinguished Educator Award, Society for Risk Analysis 2024
Best Paper Award iCSEng--30th International Conference on Systems Engineering 2023
Election to Fellow, AAAS 2020
Distinguished Researcher Award, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Virginia 2019
Election to Fellow, IEEE 2017
R.A. Glenn Best Paper Award, American Chemical Society 2016
Outstanding Reviewer, Elsevier journal Reliability Engineering & System Safety 2015
INFORMS Graduate Faculty Award of Excellence, UVa Chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, University of Virginia, USA 2015
Election to Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers 2013
Fellowship, National Science Foundation, Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Globalized Physical Distribution Systems. August 5-17, 2013. 2013
Best Reviewer Award, Wiley journal Risk Analysis. Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, San Francisco, CA. 2012
Election to Fellow, Society for Risk Analysis 2011
Honorable Mention, Education and Outreach Sustainability Award, Society of American Military Engineers (SAME). 2011
Board Certified BC.WRE, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers 2006
Commendation, Commonwealth of Virginia Secretary of Transportation, for contributions to VTrans 2025, the Statewide Multimodal Long-Range Transportation Plan. 2005
Election to Sigma Xi scientific research honor society. 2001
Election to Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society 1992
National Science Foundation Travel Award, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Engineering Risk and Reliability in a Changing Physical Environment in Deauville, France. 1993

In the News

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