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Linda Nozick is a professor in Cornell's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She served as director of the school for more than a decade. Prior to this role, Nozick was the director of the college’s Systems Engineering Program, which she co-founded. Nozick has received several prestigious awards, including the Career Award from the National Science Foundation and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Clinton for her development of innovative solutions to problems associated with transportation and hazardous waste management. A past U.S. Presidential appointee to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, Nozick has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications focused on transportation and the movement of hazardous materials, along with modeling critical infrastructure systems. Her research emphasizes quantitative modeling of risk and resilience in complex infrastructure systems, integrating systems engineering with game theory and stochastic optimization to improve decision-making amid uncertainty in transportation and energy networks. Nozick also advocates for financially sustainable approaches to managing disaster risk through her integration of engineering with economic and policy considerations.
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