Himadri Sen Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at Colorado State University Pueblo, where he leads the Gupta Risk-Informed Systems Engineering (RISE) Lab. His research group focuses on developing data-driven and optimization-based decision-support tools to enhance the resilience of communities and infrastructure systems under natural hazards. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, where he also completed his Master’s degree in the same field. During his doctoral studies, Himadri worked as a Research Assistant affiliated with two prominent labs: the Community Resilience CORE Research Lab, a NIST-funded initiative focusing on natural hazard mitigation and resilience, and the NetSys Research Lab, where he contributed to the NSF-funded CoPe project aimed at enhancing coastal community resilience.
Prior to joining CSU Pueblo, Himadri was deeply involved in research, teaching, and student leadership at the University of Oklahoma. He actively participated in organizations such as the INFORMS, IISE, and APICS Student Chapters, and received multiple awards for his outstanding contributions as a graduate teaching assistant.
Before his time in the U.S., Himadri served as a lecturer in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering at the Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. With a strong foundation in optimization, disaster resilience, and risk-informed decision-making, Himadri brings a global and interdisciplinary perspective to his work. At CSU Pueblo, he is committed to advancing research, mentoring students, and driving innovation in the field of Industrial and Systems Engineering, with a special focus on data-driven resilience and infrastructure systems under risk.
04/19/2025: Our paper, titled "Two-stage machine learning framework for predicting building-level direct economic losses due to flood hazard" received nomination for Best Track Paper Award in Sustainable Development track at the IISE Annual Conference and Expo 2025.
04/09/2025: Accepted new research article titled "Machine learning-based prediction of optimal building-level flood mitigation strategies in at-risk communities" in ASCE - Natural Hazards Review journal.
02/20/2025: Published new research article titled "Multi‐hazard probabilistic risk assessment and equitable multi‐objective optimization of building retrofit strategies in hurricane‐vulnerable communities" in Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering journal. [Link]
12/15/2024: Attended "Optimization Workshop: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications", at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, with a complete NetSys Research Lab team. [Link]
11/24/2024: Awarded International Student Award from the Lions Clubs International of Norman, Oklahoma for contributions to the University of Oklahoma campus and the local community. [Link]
10/24/2024: Organized two research session titled "Towards Sustainable Resilient Communities" and two panel session on decision making in community resilience at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.
10/15/2024: Accepted into the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Doctoral Consortium at the 2024 DSI Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
09/24/2024: Presented poster "AI-ML for Optimal Building Mitigation in Flood-Prone Communities" at the Gallogly College of Engineering Graduate Student Poster Fair.
08/11/2024: Attended Business Analytics Future BAProf 2024 workshop organized by the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business at Iowa City, Iowa. [Link]
06/19/2024: Presented poster titled "Fairness-Driven Multi-Objective Optimization for Evacuation Planning in Natural Disasters" at the ASCE ICTD Conference at Atlanta, GA. [Link]
06/14/2024: Published conference paper titled "Fairness-Driven Multi-Objective Optimization for Evacuation Planning in Natural Disasters" at the ASCE ICTD Conference, Atlanta, GA. [Link]
05/17/2024: Presented research at the National Science Foundation (NSF) NHERI GSC Research Subcommittee Representatives (RSR) Session. [Link]
05/17/2024: Presented my work, titled "Two-stage stochastic optimization for multi-hazard mitigation and evacuation planning focuses on enhancing community resilience" at the IISE Annual Conference and Expo 2024, Montreal, Canada. [Link]
04/05/2024: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma for academic year of 2023 - 2024. [Link]
04/05/2024: Most Helpful ISE Graduate Student Award from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma for academic year of 2023 - 2024. [Link]