Transforming How Scientists,
Engineers, Managers, and Leaders Confront Complex Systems

GAO Systematics is changing the way individuals and organizations approach engineering, business, and societal problems. Tackling today’s complex global challenges requires engineers, scientists, managers, and leaders who have interdisciplinary skills and understand, analyze, and solve strategic as well as operational problems from a systems perspective. GAO Systematics is training a new generation of systems talents — experts in systems science, engineering, leadership, and enterprise with a strong emphasis on systems thinking, data analytics, and system intelligence.

Forthcoming Books

Transportation Emissions and Air Quality: Statistical Modeling and Data Analytics– H. Oliver Gao, Yiannis Kamarianakis, and Britt A. Holmen. (Under Contract: Cambridge University Press)

Theory of Public–Private Partnership: Contract Design, Corruption, and Renegotiation–B. Brian Huang and H. Oliver Gao (Under Contract: Cambridge University Press)

Asset-Backed Securitization for Infrastructure Financing: Models and Applications–Yi-Chieh Liu and H. Oliver Gao

Life-Cycle Asset Investment and Management of Sustainable Infrastructure Systems– Yan Deng and H. Oliver Gao

Smart Mobility: Models and Applications for Smart Transit and Freight Data-Driven Informatics, Dynamic Programming, and Optimal Learning – Hamid R. Sayarshad and H. Oliver Gao

Research Initiatives

Featured
Future Infrastructure and Systems Innovation
Future Infrastructure and Systems Innovation

Using systems analytics, we identify new approaches to planning, designing, and managing next-generation infrastructure that better protects the environment and public health. By focusing on the interdependency of built and natural environments, our work aims to ensure that the decisions we are making about our urban systems enhance both economic vitality and quality of life.

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City Tech and Intelligence for Smart and Healthy Communities
City Tech and Intelligence for Smart and Healthy Communities

Our research in this area is designed to examine the relationship between infrastructure, users, air quality, climate change, and health costs, particularly for at-risk populations that are disproportionately impacted by pollution.

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System Innovations in Infrastructure Finance, Investment, and Asset Management
System Innovations in Infrastructure Finance, Investment, and Asset Management

We believe it is necessary to investigate ways to improve funding, financing, and investment to rehabilitate our aging infrastructure, improve daily operations, and build new sustainable construction. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are one way to attract private equity and reinforce conventional public funding mechanisms.

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Sustainable and Secure Food Systems, Supply Chains, and Systems Analytics
Sustainable and Secure Food Systems, Supply Chains, and Systems Analytics

Our goal is to provide data on specific supply chains in order to guide best practices and policy interventions that will improve food security, promote sustainability, and reinvigorate local and regional economies.

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Systems Thinking and Design, Architecture, and Strategy for Sustainability Business
Systems Thinking and Design, Architecture, and Strategy for Sustainability Business

By confronting the infrastructure challenge in a novel way — both with the methods and technologies we employ as well as the way we conceive the infrastructure business model — our built systems stand a better chance of enduring an opaque future.

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