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Dr. Abigail L. Beck
Abigail (Abby) Beck is a Research Assistant Professor and incoming Tenure Track Assistant Professor (September 2025) of Civil Engineering at University of Houston. She received a B.S. in Civil Engineering (2019) from the university of Texas at Austin and M.S. (2020) and Ph.D. (2024) in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research surrounds the development of community impact-based infrastructure decision support by integrating her fundamental specialization in structural reliability, risk assessment, systems modeling, and probabilistic methods with social science approaches. She has been a member of the NIST Center of Excellence for Community Resilience and collaborates with engineers, economists, social scientists, and planners on the development of tools to support community resilience decision-making. She has been recognized for her research at multiple international conferences with a Student Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR) in 2022 and the Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association (CERRA) Student Recognition Award at the International Conference on Application of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP) in 2023. She is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and 2023-2024 Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Through her career she plans to help usher engineering’s shift from a purely life-safety design mindset to one that is resilience and community impact oriented.
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