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Karen Marais

Decision Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1997
Risk and Safety AnalysisOccupational Health and Safety ResearchSystems Engineering Methodologies and ApplicationsAir Traffic Management and OptimizationHuman-Automation Interaction and Safety

Publications

115

Citations

2,632

Est. group size

~3

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

29

Publishing since 1997

Research summary
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Karen Marais studies safety, risk, and resilience in complex engineered systems, with a strong focus on aviation and aerospace, including drones (UAS), aircraft accidents, and space/lunar habitats. Her work combines system safety analysis, risk modeling, and human factors (such as decision-making biases and cognitive errors) to understand and prevent failures in engineering projects and systems operations. She also works on methods for teaching and assessing systems engineering skills in students.

Aviation and aerospace safetyResilience of complex systems (space habitats, spacecraft)Risk assessment and modelingHuman factors and cognitive bias in decision-makingSystems engineering education and project failure analysis

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with a peak in 2019, a dip around 2021-2023, and a recent increase in 2024-2025, suggesting relatively steady but variable activity rather than a clear upward or downward trend.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.2/year recently
2017: 5 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 10 publications10192020: 7 publications202021: 4 publications212022: 6 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 5 publications242025: 7 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • INCOSE International Symposium×5
  • Aviation×3
  • Reliability Engineering & System Safety×3
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×3
  • Journal of Air Transportation×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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