Dr. 乔纳森·霍奇斯

Dr. 乔纳森·霍奇斯 leads a research group in the Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation Division at Jensen Hughes, focusing on the intersection of risk assessment, computational modeling, data analytics and 人工智能. With eight years of expertise in sensors, robotics, computational modeling, risk assessment and machine learning, he has worked on countless commercial safety assessments and conducted state-of-the-art research 在野外. As Service Line Leader in Advanced 建模, Dr. 霍奇斯监督 technical quality in modeling efforts across the company. 他也是一名副官 assistant professor with Clemson University, where he serves on Ph.D. committees for students in the Civil Engineering department.

In 商业部门，博士. Hodges leads a team responsible for the software development of the DataAdvisr platform, an 人工智能-based software for the nuclear sector that streamlines the analysis of reports. A software developer and code contributor to several open-source software packages, he actively supports the development of the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) source code managed by the National Institute of Standards and 技术.

Dr. Hodges actively participates in several industry task groups, with a primary focus on model verification, validation and documentation, digitalization, 人工智能, and risk assessment 在野外 of fire protection. He is a member of the SFPE task group that updates the SFPE guidance on fire model substantiation and participates in the SFPE Foundation’s grand challenge 计划(GCI). He is also a member of task groups focused on risk assessment in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI).