Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff
James H. Lambert
Janet Scott Hamilton & John Downman Hamilton Distinguished 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, and Member, UVA Board of Visitors (2025-26)
Chair, UVA Faculty Senate (2024-25)
Dr. James H. Lambert's interests are systems engineering and risk analysis, with a focus on disruption and resilience of system orders, and applications in systems security and trust with embedded computing devices. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, IEEE, ASCE, and SRA and received the 2025 SRA Richard J. Burk Distinguished Service Award.
Julianne Quinn
Associate 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