Elisabeth Pate-Cornell
Encyclopedia
Dr. M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, a specialist in engineering risk analysis
, is professor of management science at Stanford University
.
She was born in 1948 in Dakar, Senegal. She holds a BS in mathematics and physics from Aix-Marseille University in 1968, MS and Engineering degrees in applied mathematics and computer science from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 1970; a Masters degree in Operations Research from Stanford in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems, also from Stanford, in 1978.
She held first the position of Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at MIT, and then Professor in the Stanford Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, from 1991 on. She has been Chair of the department since 1997. In 1999, she was named Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the Stanford School of Engineering. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for International Studies.
She was elected in 1995 to the National Academy of Engineering
. She and the late Dr. C. Allin Cornell
have two children.
Risk analysis (engineering)
Risk analysis is the science of risks and their probability and evaluation.Probabilistic risk assessment is one analysis strategy usually employed in science and engineering.-Risk analysis and the risk workshop:...
, is professor of management science at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
.
She was born in 1948 in Dakar, Senegal. She holds a BS in mathematics and physics from Aix-Marseille University in 1968, MS and Engineering degrees in applied mathematics and computer science from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 1970; a Masters degree in Operations Research from Stanford in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems, also from Stanford, in 1978.
She held first the position of Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at MIT, and then Professor in the Stanford Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, from 1991 on. She has been Chair of the department since 1997. In 1999, she was named Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the Stanford School of Engineering. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for International Studies.
She was elected in 1995 to the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
. She and the late Dr. C. Allin Cornell
C. Allin Cornell
C. Allin Cornell is a civil engineer who made important contributions to reliability theory and earthquake engineering and, along with Dr. Luis Esteva, developed the field of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis in 1968....
have two children.