Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering
Contact Information
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 1405
Email: cgonza31@gmu.edu
Personal Websites
Biography
Catalina González-Dueñas's research focuses on enhancing the resilience of infrastructure and communities to extreme events such as hurricanes, flooding, and extreme winds. She applies probabilistic methods and artificial intelligence to assess risks under multi-hazard conditions, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic interactions among built, natural, and social systems that drive cascading impacts.
Her work lies at the intersection of structural engineering, probabilistic hazard analysis, artificial intelligence, and risk-informed decision-making to understand, mitigate, adapt to, and respond to the complex challenges posed by extreme events—now and in the future.
Degrees
- PhD, Civil Engineering, Rice University
- MS, Civil Engineering, Universidad de los Andes
- BS, Civil Engineering, Universidad de los Andes
Research Interests
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Risk and resilience assessment of infrastructure systems
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Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for civil infrastructure
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Cascading effects in complex systems under extreme events
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Performance-based assessment of built-natural systems under multi-hazard conditions
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Risk communication and decision support