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Allison Reilly an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on identifying governance systems that enable resilient infrastructure and strong communities. She has a particular focus of recent on risk equity in rural, coastal communities vulnerable to sea-level rise, and how investments in transportation infrastructure that are integrated within broader resilience strategies may enable more just transitions. She is also a scholar in the area of federal disaster policy, and how the current paradigm fuels risk in the build environment.

She is the recipient of a 2022 NSF CAREER Award, and a 2019 National Academy of Science Gulf Coast Research Early-Career Fellowship. She is currently an associate editor in the area of risk and resilience for the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems and an editorial boardmember for the journals Risk Analysis and Decision Analysis. Prior to her appointment at the University of Maryland, Dr. Reilly was a research fellow at the University of Michigan and a post-doctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University. In addition, Dr. Reilly was a research analyst for a federally-funded research and development center in support of the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Reilly holds an MS and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Cornell University and a BS in Civil Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. 

• Hazard risk assessments
• Decision-making
• Infrastructure system performance and protection

• FEMA’s Public Assistance Program and its role in community recovery
• Assessing resilience of Maryland state parks
• Adaptation of municipal infrastructure under sea level rise

• ENCE 302 Probability and Statistics for Civil and Environmental Engineers
• ENCE 430/632 Resilience of Infrastructure Systems

• Best, K., He, Q., Reilly, A. C., Niemeier, D. A., Anderson, M., & Logan, T. (2023). Demographics and risk of isolation due to sea level rise in the United States. Nature communications, 14(1), 7904.
• Best, K.B., Q. He., A.C. Reilly, N. Tran, and D. Niemeier. (2023) “Rent Affordability after Hurricanes: Longitudinal Evidence from U.S. Coastal States” Risk Analysis [accepted].
• Logan T.M., M. Anderson, and A.C. Reilly. (2023) “Risk of isolation: Revising the estimated burden of sea-level rise” Nature Climate Change, 13, 397-402.
• Najarkolaie, K., M. Bensi, and A.C. Reilly. (2023) “Near-Term and Long-Term Inundation Risk Insights for Contaminated Sites in the U.S.” ASCE Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, 27(1), 04022043.
• Best, K.B, S. Kerr, A.C. Reilly, A. Patwardhan, D. Niemeier, and Guikema, S. (2023). Spatial regression identifies socioeconomic inequality in multi-stage power outage recovery after Hurricane Isaac. Natural Hazards, 117(1), 851-873.
• Zhai, C., A.C. Reilly, and S.D. Guikema. (2023). “Individual learning as a driver of changes in community vulnerability under repeated hurricanes and changing climate.” Risk Analysis, 43(4), 762-782.
• Frimpong E., A.C. Reilly, and D. Niemeier. (2022) “Federal flood mitigation assistance and the community’s response to flood risk mitigation.” Risk Analysis [accepted]. 
• Ghaedi, H., A.C. Reilly, H. Baroud, D.V. Perrucci, and  C.M. Ferreira. (2022) “Predicting flood damage using the flood peak ratio and Giovanni Flooded Fraction.” PLoS ONE, 17(8), e0271230.
• Jasour, Z.Y., A.C. Reilly, G. Tonn, and C. Ferriera. (2022) “Roadway flooding as a bellwether for household retreat in rural, coastal regions vulnerable to sea-level rise.” Climate Risk Management.
• Reilly, A.C., H. Baroud, R. Flage, and M. Gerst. (2021) “Sources of uncertainty in interdependent infrastructure and their implications.” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 107756. 
• Tonn, G., Reilly, A.C., Czajkowski, J., Ghaedi, H., and Kunreuther, H. (2021). “US transportation infrastructure resilience: Influences of insurance, incentives, and Public Assistance.” Transport Policy, 100, 108-119. 
• Johnson, C.A., A.C. Reilly, R. Flage, and S.D. Guikema. (2021) “Characterizing the robustness of power-law networks that experience spatially-correlated failures.” Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 235(3), 403-415. 
• Reilly, A.C., R. Dillon, and S. Guikema. (2021) “Agent-Based Models as an Integrating Boundary Object for Interdisciplinary Research” Risk Analysis, 41(7): 1087-1092.