Mayar Ariss

About

Mayar Ariss received the MEng degree in civil and environmental engineering from Imperial College London in 2024. He is currently a Research Fellow with the Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he focuses on the resilience of urban systems. His research develops strategies to keep critical infrastructure networks operating under deep uncertainty and severe external shocks. His work on AI-driven approaches to infrastructure resilience has been supported by OpenAI and recognized with the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium Award and the MIT Machine Intelligence for Manufacturing and Operations Symposium Prize. He is a member of the IEEE, the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, and MIT Sigma Xi.