Profile

Steve Conrad

• USA Node Leader
• Colorado State University, USA

Dr Steve Conrad has conducted research and consulted with the water and energy industry for over 25 years on the feedbacks between human-environmental systems through the coupling of social and engineering sciences to inform decision making and visualisation, the quantification and modelling of system function, system optimisation and resilience, and policy and planning as applied to four research thrusts:

1. Water – Energy nexus interactions in the urban environment,
2. Applications of AI in the built environment and augmenting decision making,
3. The human dimensions of engineering and decision sciences, and
4. Sustainable and environmental systems engineering encompassing nature-based solutions, ecological resilience, and community.

Prior to joining the systems engineering department, he led the Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Before that he was the Associate Director of the Pacific Water Research Centre and chair of the REM Water Research Group at Simon Fraser University.

Dr Conrad is active in industry having served on the Board of Directors for the American Water Works Association and the British Columbia Water and Waste Association, and chairing multiple industry committees on energy management, climate change, and risk and resilience.