Medina-Cetina’s lab, the Stochastic Geomechanics Laboratory (SGL), assesses the state of risk of complex processes varying in space and time, such as the state of risk for U.S. global supply chains.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economic activities and supply chains throughout the world.
As part of the CBTS's Distinguised Speaker Series, CBTS and SGL presented the webinar ""Breaking Silos: the power of collaboration and abstraction"", by Dataiku's Senior Engineer Catalina Herrera. This webinar introduced examples of a community working together to deliver a common end result using (and reusing data) to maximize community outcomes. It also presented how
The Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS) Center of Excellence at Texas A&M University (TAMU), sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), held its Annual Meeting this Tuesday, May 25th. This event, which took place virtually, aimed to update the Homeland Security Enterprise on the progress of its research and workforce development
Six students from the Stochastic Geomechanics Laboratory, under supervision by Dr. Zenon Medina-Cetina, were selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to represent Texas A&M University’s Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS) Center of Excellence (COE) at the Centers of Excellence Summit 2021, which took place virtually May 17 to the
On May 20, 2021, Dr. Zenon Medina-Cetina, Project Investigator, and Dr. Matt Cochran, Research Director at the Texas A&M Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS) DHS Center of Excellence, as well as Ph.D. students from the Stochastic Geomechanics Laboratory (SGL) Guillermo Duran, Juan Pablo Alvarado and Enrique Z. Losoya, participated in a presentation
Last Wednesday, May 12, 2021, one of the Ph.D. students at the Stochastic Geomechanics Laboratory at Texas A&M University (TAMU), Guillermo Duran, participated as a speaker in the “Experiences in the U.S. PPE Market: Lessons and Challenges” seminar, presented by TAMU’s Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS) Center of Excellence, part of the
“Mexico is the number one commercial partner for the U.S. so the sensitivity or any minor disruptions could have significant effects on both countries.”
The Texas A&M-led research provides real-time risk analysis for COVID-19's potential impacts on trade.