
Paolo Gardoni
· ProfessorUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · African Studies
Active 1997–2026
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About
Paolo Gardoni is a professor affiliated with the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois. He holds the Alfredo H. Ang Family Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering and is also a professor in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, and Biomedical and Translational Sciences. His research focuses on probabilistic seismic risk and vulnerability assessment, spatiotemporal storm surge modeling, machine learning-driven probabilistic frameworks for uncertainty quantification, and the evaluation of infrastructure resilience. Gardoni has contributed to the development of frameworks and models that address seismic risk, storm surge, radiation shielding, and infrastructure interdependence, demonstrating a broad expertise in engineering risk assessment and resilience analysis.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Computer Security
- Engineering
- Data Mining
- Artificial Intelligence
- Risk analysis (engineering)
- Political Science
- Mathematics
- Systems engineering
- Sociology
Selected publications
Reliability Engineering & System Safety · 2022 · 314 citations
Reliability Engineering & System Safety · 2020 · 305 citations
A Critical Review on Structural Health Monitoring: Definitions, Methods, and Perspectives
Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering · 2021 · 270 citations
A review and assessment of importance sampling methods for reliability analysis
Structural Safety · 2022 · 247 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingThe role of transportation infrastructure on the impact of natural hazards on communities
Reliability Engineering & System Safety · 2021 · 130 citations
Recent grants
Frequent coauthors
- 57 shared
David Trejo
Oregon State University
- 54 shared
Colleen Murphy
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- 35 shared
Mary Beth D. Hueste
- 33 shared
Zhixiong Li
Opole University of Technology
- 31 shared
Armin Tabandeh
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- 29 shared
Stefan Hurlebaus
Texas A&M University
- 29 shared
Kenneth F. Reinschmidt
College Station Medical Center
- 28 shared
Radhakrishna G. Pillai
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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