James H. Lambert

About
Dr. Lambert received the 2024 Distinguished Educator Award of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA).
He is a 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 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 (BC.WRE) by the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, and a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.).
He is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Environment Systems & Decisions, an Area Editor of the Wiley journal Risk Analysis, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering.
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 was a Keynote Speaker at each of the 2024 IEEE GESS in Long Beach, CA, and the 2024 IEEE SysCon in Montreal, Canada. He received a Best Paper Award at the 2023 iCSEng International Conference on Systems Engineering.
Research Interests
Selected Publications
Lambert, James H., R. Ranger Dorn, Bilal M. Ayyub, William A. Barletta, John F. Organek, Marco Piras, Megan E. Gunn, and S. Fabrizio Zichichi