Raúl Rincón’s work focuses on risk and resilience assessment of components, structures and spatially distributed systems; uncertainty propagation in multi-scale problems; and surrogate modeling for the efficient computation of systems performance and rare events estimations. He is originally from Villavicencio, Colombia and completed both his bachelor's and master’s degree in Civil Engineering in Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes) in Bogota, Colombia. He worked at Uniandes as a full-time Lecturer (3 years) and as a Research Assistant for the Material and Civil Works Research Center (CIMOC). Currently, he is a Fulbright Scholar and a Ph.D. student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rice University.