Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff

James H. Lambert
Janet Scott Hamilton & John Downman Hamilton Professor
Director, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems
Site Director, NSF Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security & Trust
Professor of Systems & Information Engineering
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Representative, UVA Board of Visitors (2025-26)
Past Chair, UVA Faculty Senate (2025-26)
Dr. Lambert received the 2025 Aspen Institute Italia Award for scientific research and collaboration. He received the 2024 Distinguished Educator Award of the Society for Risk Analysis. He received the 2023 Best Paper Award of the iCSEng International Conference on Systems Engineering. He is theā¦

Julianne Quinn
Assistant Professor
Quinn's research focuses on optimization and simulation methods used to inform the design and management of water resources systems with the goals of protecting people from nature (floods and droughts), and nature from people (pollution and consumption). She is interested in how advanced sensing and forecasting techniques inform this optimization.
Thomas L. Polmateer
Research Program Director
Research Program Director, University of Virginia
Secretary to the Board, Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems (CCALS)
Nastassja A. Lewinski
Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University