Himadri Sen Gupta, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma (2025) Dissertation: Designing for Resilience: Integrating Flood Mitigation, Multi-Hazard Preparedness, and Social Justice in Community Decision Support.

• M.S., Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma (2022) Thesis: Optimal Selection of Short- and Long-Term Mitigation Strategies for Flooding Hazard. 

• B.S., Industrial & Production Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (2018)

Academic Appointments

• Assistant Professor, Colorado State University Pueblo (2025–present)
• Graduate Assistant (Instructor/Researcher), University of Oklahoma (2021–2025)
• Lecturer, Military Institute of Science and Technology (2019–2020) 

Teaching

Typical courses include EN 375 Stochastic Systems Engineering, EN 434 Engineering Economy, and EN 477/577 Operations Planning and Control. Instruction emphasizes active learning, real-world case studies, reproducible analytics, and optimization/ML practice aligned with community-scale resilience challenges.

Student Mentoring (Selected)

Co-mentors undergraduate and graduate researchers on optimization- and ML-driven resilience analytics; recent advisees include students working on flood-loss prediction, equitable multi-objective planning, and integration of cultural heritage in resilience modeling.

Honors & Awards (Selected)

• Dissertation Excellence Award 2025, Gallogly College of Engineering, University of Oklahoma (2025)
• Outstanding International Student Award, Lions International Club (2024–2025)
• FutureBAProf Fellow, University of Iowa (2024–2025)
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Oklahoma (2022–2025)
• Best Master’s Thesis Award, School of ISE, University of Oklahoma (2022–2023)
• IISE Future Faculty Fellowship (2023–2024)

Professional Service (Selected)

Organizer/chair and panel moderator for invited sessions at INFORMS, IISE Annual Conference & Expo, and ICOSSAR (topics include optimization for resilience, ML-OR integration, and societal challenges in OR).

Gupta, H.S., Nofal, O.M., González, A.D., Nicholson, C.D., & van de Lindt, J.W. “Machine learning-based prediction of optimal building-level flood mitigation strategies in at-risk communities.” Natural Hazards Review, (2025).

Braik, A.M., Gupta, H.S., Koliou, M., & González, A.D. “Multi-hazard probabilistic risk assessment and equitable multi-objective optimization of building retrofit strategies in hurricane-vulnerable communities.” Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (2025).

Gupta, H.S., Adluri, T., Sanderson, D., González, A.D., Nicholson, C.D., & Cox, D. “Multi-objective optimization of mitigation strategies for buildings subject to multiple hazards.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 100 (2024): 104125.

Gupta, H.S., Nofal, O.M., González, A.D., Nicholson, C.D., & van de Lindt, J.W. “Optimal selection of short- and long-term mitigation strategies for buildings within communities under flooding hazard.” Sustainability 14 (2022): 9812.

(A full and current list of publications is available on the personal website.)