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Samrat (Sam) Chatterjee, a chief data scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), has been recently elected President of the Resilience Analysis Specialty Group (RASG), which is part of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). The U.S. National Academies define resilience as “the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, or more successfully adapt to actual or potential adverse events.” 

Chatterjee has been a highly active member of SRA for over 15 years. He has served in multiple leadership roles within SRA, including chairing other specialty groups on security and defense, and engineering and infrastructure. Most recently, he was invited to serve on the Editorial Board of the journal Risk Analysis, the flagship journal of the SRA. As President of the RASG, Chatterjee will chair the annual RASG Meeting at the next Annual Meeting of SRA and work with SRA officials to organize additional RASG meetings and panels, among other duties.

At PNNL, Chatterjee serves as chief data scientist and team leader with the Data Sciences and Machine Intelligence group within the Advanced Computing, Mathematics, and Data Division. He leads multiple projects in national security and computational science research that support sponsors within the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy, and Department of Defense. His research primarily focuses on infrastructure network resilience modeling, security risk and decision analytics, and multi-agent learning and optimization. 

Among Chatterjee’s many accomplishments, he has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the infrastructure, risk science, and artificial intelligence/machine learning domains and received multiple best paper awards. He also holds an affiliate faculty appointment with Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.