James H. Lambert
About
Professor Lambert is the Janet Scott Hamilton and John Downman Hamilton Professor, and a Professor in the Department of Systems & Information Engineering and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
He is the Director of the Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems and a Site Director of the NSF Center for Hardware & Embedded Systems Security & Trust.
He served as Chair of CESUN2021.org, 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), Diplomate (D.WRE) of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, member of INCOSE and IISE, and licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.).
He is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Environment Systems & Decisions. He is an Area Editor of the Wiley journal Risk Analysis. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering.
He has served with the World Federation of Scientists (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 served as 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
Prof. Lambert was a Keynote Speaker of the 2024 IEEE SysCon in Montreal, and a Best Paper Award recipient of the 2023 iCSEng International Conference on Systems Engineering. He was General Chair of CESUN2021.org, and Chair of the Fifth World Congress on Risk, in Cape Town www.sra.org/worldcongress2019. He is the Chair of the UVA Faculty Senate in 2024-25.