Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile:

Dr. Ali Mosleh
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

0151F Glenn L. Martin Hall, Building 088
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Phone: 301.405.5215
Fax: 301.314.9477
Email: mosleh@umd.edu

Research Interests

Risk and safety assessment, reliability analysis, and decision analysis.

Vita

Dr. Mosleh has made research contributions in Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis; Methodology for Use of Expert Quantitative Opinion, Reliability Growth Modeling, Probabilistic Reliability Physics, Common Cause Failure Analysis, Modeling the Impact of Organizational Factors on System Reliability, Dynamic Accident Simulation and Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Human Reliability Analysis (Cognitive Modeling, Simulation and Data Classification), Methodology for Information Systems Security Risk Management, and Space Systems Risk Analysis. He has performed risk and safety assessment, reliability analysis, and decision analysis for nuclear, chemical, and aerospace industries.

He is the editor of four books, author or co-author of four source books and guidebooks, and over 140 papers in technical journals and conferences. Professor Mosleh was the organizer and/or chairman numerous international conferences and technical sessions, and panel discussions, and was the winner of 3 Best Paper Awards. He serves as Chairman, Engineering Division of the International Society for Risk Analysis, and is a Board Member of International Association of Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management. He is a member of the Board of Editors for the Journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety. He is a member and Program Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Human Factors Division, American Nuclear Society, as well as a member of the Risk Analysis Methodology Committee, International Society for Risk Analysis. He also serves as Co-Director, Center for Technology Risk Studies at Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland. He is Director of the X-Ware Systems Reliability Analysis Laboratory, which focuses on reliability of integrated hardware-software-human systems. He is an expert consultant to national and international organizations on risk and reliability issues.

Education

Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1981

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