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Carlos Restrepo

Research Scientist, ICIS

Carlos Restrepo is a research scientist at ICIS. His main areas of research include infrastructure security, environmental quality and public health, and environmental policy. In the area of infrastructure security his work has concentrated on analyzing outage and failure data in the electricity and oil & gas sectors, and studying interdependencies among infrastructure systems. Carlos is also project manager for the ICIS component of the South Bronx Environmental Health and Policy Study. This is a joint project between NYU's Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, ICIS/Wagner and four South Bronx community groups. The main goal of the ICIS component of the project is to examine transportation and waste management activities in the South Bronx and to relate them to environmental quality and public health issues. Carlos has a PhD in Public Administration from NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. His dissertation topic was the association between asthma hospitalizations and air pollution in New York City. Before coming to NYU, Carlos worked for three years in El Salvador as a policy analyst for FUSADES, a non-profit organization, and worked in environmental, energy, telecommunications, and science and technology policy studies. He holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Lehigh University, and a M.S. in International Development and Appropriate Technology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Contact Email: cer202@nyu.edu  

Projects:

• Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
• Empirically Based Analysis of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems and Critical Infrastructures
• Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS)
• Public Infrastructure Support for Protective Emergency Services
• Risk Communication for Large Scale Emergency Response (LaSER)
• South Bronx Environmental Health and Policy Study
• Urban Infrastructure in a Time of Crisis: Lessons From September 11th

Publications:

• A Comparison of Ground-Level Air Quality Data with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Monitoring Stations Data in South Bronx, New York
• A Spatial Analysis of Asthma Hospitalization Rates and Socioeconomic and Land Use Varibles in New York City
• Asthma Hospital Admissions and Ambient Air Pollutant Concentrations in New York City
• Beyond September 11th: An Account of Post-Disaster Research. Special Publication #39
• Boston Harbor Wastewater Infrastructure Renewal
• Bringing Information Technology to Infrastructure Final Report
• CREATE Electricity Case Main Report: Risk, Consequences, and Economic Accounting, Report 1
• CREATE Electricity Case: Economic Cost Estimation Factors for Economic Assessment of Terrorist Attacks, Report 2
• CREATE Electricity Case: Statistical Analysis of Electric Power Outages, Report 3
• Diagnostic Tools to Estimate Consequences of Terrorism Effects Against Critical Infrastructure
• Gowanus Expressway Rehabilitation
• ICIS Conference on the Coordinated Renewal of Civil Infrastructure Systems for Sustainable Human Environments (Conference Report)
• Learning from Urban Disasters: Summary of a Workshop
• Measures of Risks of Failure of Oil and Gas Facilities for Energy Risk Management
• Modeling Spatial Concentration of Transportation Systems to Assess Vulnerability to Natural Hazard and Terrorist Threats
• Planning Tools to Protect Border Area Infrastructure
• Risk Communication Focus Groups Report
• Risk Management and Risk Analysis-Based Decision Tools for Attacks on Electric Power
• Risks and Costs of a Terrorist Attack on the Electricity System
• South Bronx Environmental Health and Policy Study Phase I Report
• South Bronx Environmental Health and Policy Study Phase II and III Report
• The Next Step: Quantifying Infrastructure Interdependencies to Improve Security
• Trends for Oil and Gas Terrorist Attacks
• Unraveling Geographic Interdependencies in Electric Power Infrastructure
• Vulnerabilities in the Oil and Gas Sector

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