Contribute to Neara’s applied research function for infrastructure risk and resilience.
Establish rigorous standards for risk modeling, uncertainty quantification, and decision-making.
Develop predictive models for equipment damage, vegetation failure, outage likelihood and duration, and wildfire-related risk.
Design decision models that quantify the operational and economic consequences of resilience and reliability investments, including asset replacement, vegetation management, and network redesign.
Quantify the value of data including pole loading analysis, visual inspections, and the installation of new devices and remote sensing capabilities, both empirically and by analytical methods.
