We contribute innovative decision frameworks for deeply uncertain problems in environmental management and infrastructure.

  • Post-2026 Colorado River Basin negotiations:  our research with CADSWES supports negotiations to find a new operating plan for the Colorado River Basin, featured in the Washington Post

  • Decision support for complex problems: we have worked on diverse engineering domains including water resources planning, coupled water-energy systems, drinking water treatment, design of sustainable materials, and hydrologic modeling

  • Many Objective Robust Decision Making (MORDM): we have made fundamental contributions in decision making under deep uncertainty. In MORDM, coupled optimization and simulation models are evaluated using ensembles of potential futures, evaluating the robustness and vulnerability of management plans

About Prof. Kasprzyk

Prof. Kasprzyk

Prof. Joseph Kasprzyk is associate professor and associate chair for graduate education in the Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. Prof. Kasprzyk holds the BS, MS, and PhD degrees from Penn State University, and he is proud to be the recipient of the Outstanding Scholar Alumni Award from the Penn State Schreyer Honors College and the Early Career Research Excellence Award from the International Environmental Modelling Society.

Recent Publications

  • Post MORDM uses Self Organizing Maps to facilitate decision maker compromise, with an illustrative Colorado River Basin test case (publication | GitHub code)
  • Balancing cost, water, emissions, and reliability in power systems operations (publication | GitHub code)
  • Guiding questions for water resources systems analysis research (publication)