Linda K Nozick is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. She is a past Director of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a former Director and co-founder of Cornell’s College Program in Systems Engineering.
Professor Nozick has received numerous honors, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), presented by President Clinton for “the development of innovative solutions to problems associated with the transportation of hazardous waste.”
Her national service includes two successive appointments by President Obama to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB), where she contributed to federal-level policy guidance on the packaging, storage, and transportation of commercial spent nuclear fuel.
Professor Nozick has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications, with research spanning transportation systems, hazardous materials movement, and the modeling of critical infrastructure systems. She has served as an Associate Editor for Naval Research Logistics and as a member of the editorial board of Transportation Research Part A. She has also served on National Academy committees advising the U.S. Department of Energy on infrastructure renewal and resilience.
During the 1998–1999 academic year, she was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
She earned a B.S. in Systems Analysis and Engineering from The George Washington University and both an M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.