About

Dr. Jessica Boakye received her B.S. Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2014. She then received her M.S. Degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2016 and a Ph.D. Degree in Societal Risk and Hazard Mitigation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2020.

She is currently an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on quantifying, predicting, and mitigating the consequences of infrastructure failure or disruption. Her research group uses interdisciplinary methods drawing from fields such as philosophy, network science, statistics, and data science.