Ali Mosleh named inaugural director of B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences

Distinguished Professor Ali Mosleh, the Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the first director of the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA.

Mosleh, a professor in the departments of materials science and engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been a leading figure in risk and reliability engineering for decades. He conducts research on methods for probabilistic risk analysis and reliability of complex systems and has made many contributions in diverse fields of theory and application. In 2010, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest honor for U.S. engineers.

Mosleh is a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis and the American Nuclear Society. He is the recipient of several scientific achievement awards, and consultant and technical advisor to numerous national and international organizations. In 2004, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, on which he continued to serve, under President Obama, until 2012.  

He joined the UCLA Engineering faculty in 2014, after serving 20 years on the University of Maryland faculty. From 2004 until 2014, he was Nicole J. Kim Eminent Professor of Engineering and director of the Center for Risk and Reliability at the University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering, and he previously directed the school’s reliability engineering and nuclear engineering programs. He has advised more than 40 Ph.D. graduates and authored more than 450 technical publications. 

UCLA Engineering launched the Garrick institute in October, 2014, with a $9 million gift from alumnus B. John Garrick and his wife, Amelia. The institute is focused on reliability engineering, preventing failures of complex systems and managing disruptions to society and the environment caused by threats including major industrial accidents, natural disasters and climate change. The Garrick Institute will serve as a national resource in risk sciences education and research, drawing faculty from across disciplines and University of California campuses.

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