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Raúl Rincón Garcia

Raúl Rincón

Ph.D. Candidate,
2024-25 Future Faculty Fellow

Civil and Environmental Engineering

CONTACT

6100 Main Street - MS 318, Ryon Lab 217 | raul.rincon@rice.edu

WEBSITE(S)| Personal Website | Padgett Research Group

Raúl Rincón is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. He works with Dr. Jamie Ellen Padgett on smart and equitable techniques for measuring and modeling dynamic resilience in infrastructure systems. Raul’s research focuses on infrastructure systems operating under progressive and shock-based hazards, particularly on methods and mechanisms to facilitate adaptive, resilient, and equitable performance. 

Raul is from Villavicencio, Colombia, and completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering at Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes) in Bogota, Colombia. Before coming to Rice, he worked at Uniandes as a research assistant for the Material and Civil Works Research Center (CIMOC) and as an instructor of undergraduate courses for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

 

 

Research Areas

* Algorithms and statistical tools to simulate, measure, and learn the performance and resilience of infrastructure systems in the context of progressive and shock-based stressors * Infrastructure models with adaptive capabilities, enabling them to dynamically cope with the ever-changing system conditions. * Methods to identify and mitigate possible data and modeling biases that could exacerbate inequities in the societal impacts due to system failures.

Honors & Awards

2024-25 Future Faculty Fellow, George R. Brown School of Engineering (July, 2024)

1st Place EMI Objective Resilience Student Paper/Presentation Competition, EMI/PMC2024 (May, 2024)

2023 Robert P. and Eleanor Warden Shubinski Awardee, Rice University (Spring, 2023)

2021 H. W. Reeves Endowed Scholarship Awardee, Rice University (Spring, 2021)

Outstanding Journal Paper Award for 2018, ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (January, 2020)

Innovative Teacher Recognition, at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. (June, 2019)

Mario Galan Gomez Scholarship, granted by ECOPETROL, Colombia. (2009 – 2013)

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