报告题目：Game Theory and Disaster Management(博弈论与灾害管理)
报 告 人：庄峻（美国纽约州立大学）
报告时间：2015年5月6日（星期三）下午4：00
报告地点：南一楼中311室
Abstract:
Society is faced with a growing amount of property damage and casualties from man-made and natural disasters. Developing societal resilience to those disasters is critical but challenging. In particular, societal resilience is jointly determined by federal and local governments, private and non-profit sectors, and private citizens. We will present a sequence of games among players such as federal, local, and foreign governments, private citizens, and adaptive adversaries. In particular, the governments and private citizens seek to protect lives, property, and critical infrastructure from both adaptive terrorists and non-adaptive natural disasters. The federal government can provide grants to local governments and foreign aid to foreign governments to protect against both natural and man-made disasters; and all levels of government can provide pre-disaster preparation and post-disaster relief to private citizens. Private citizens can also, of course, make their own investments. The tradeoffs between protecting against man-made and natural disasters, specifically between preparedness and relief, efficiency and equity, and between private and public investment, will be discussed.
Speaker’s Short Bio:
Dr. Jun Zhuang is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (UB, or SUNY-Buffalo). Dr. Zhuang has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering in 2008 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Zhuang's long-term research goal is to integrate operations research, game theory, and decision analysis to improve mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery for natural and man-made disasters. Other areas of interest include applications to health care, sports, transportation, supply chain management, and sustainability. Dr. Zhuang's research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) and the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) through the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Dr. Zhuang is a recipient of the 2014 MOR Journal Award for the best paper published in 2013 in the journal Military Operations Research. Dr. Zhuang is a recipient of the UB's Exceptional Scholar--Young Investigator Award for 2013. Dr. Zhuang is also a fellow of the 2011 U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (AF SFFP), sponsored by the AFOSR, and a fellow of the 2009-2010 Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Program, sponsored by the NSF. Dr. Zhuang has published ~40 peer-reviewed journal articles in Operations Research, Risk Analysis, and Decision Analysis, the European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, and Military Operations Research, among others. His research and educational activities have been highlighted in The Wall Street Journal, Industrial Engineer, Stanford GSB News, The Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, and The Pre-Engineering Times, among others. He is on the Editorial boards of both Risk Analysis and Decision Analysis, is the co-Editor of Decision Analysis Today, and has reviewed proposals for NSF/ASEE/DOD/NASA, book chapters for Springer, and has reviewed articles for 70+ academic journals and conferences for 200+ times. Dr. Zhuang is also dedicated to mentoring high school, undergraduate, and graduate students in research. Dr. Zhuang's mentoring efforts have been recognized by the 2008 Graduate Student Mentor Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the 2012 President Emeritus and Mrs. Martin Meyerson Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring from the University at Buffalo.
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