Rate My Professor Linda Nozick

Linda Nozick is a professor in Cornell University’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and has served as its director for more than a decade. She previously directed the college’s Systems Engineering Program, which she co-founded. Nozick received a B.S. in systems analysis and engineering from George Washington University in 1989, an M.S.E. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, and a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. She is affiliated with graduate fields in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Systems Engineering, Applied Information Systems, and Risk Analysis, Communication and Policy.

Nozick’s research specializes in the quantitative modeling of risk, resilience, and complex infrastructure systems. Her work employs systems engineering, game theory, stochastic optimization, and risk analysis to improve decision-making under uncertainty in areas such as transportation, energy systems, and interdependent networks. She has produced over 100 peer-reviewed publications, with more than 6,000 citations. Key publications include “Inventory, transportation, service quality and the location of distribution centers” (European Journal of Operational Research, 2001; 438 citations), “Shelter location and transportation planning under hurricane conditions” (Transportation Research Part E, 2012; 303 citations), “Optimizing scheduling of post-earthquake electric power restoration tasks” (Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 2007; 258 citations), “Computing multi-region competitive prices for hurricane-related insurance” (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2025), and “Quantifying the Earthquake Risk to the Electric Power Transmission System in Los Angeles at the Census Tract Level” (IEEE Access, 2025). Nozick has earned the NSF CAREER Award and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1997 for innovative hazardous waste transportation solutions. Appointed by President Obama, she served two terms on the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board from 2011. Other recognitions include the Best Contributed Paper at the 2021 Winter Simulation Conference and a 2009 Sandia National Laboratories Recognition Award.