Maryam Tabibzadeh
Associate Professor

Brief Biography

Dr. Maryam Tabibzadeh is an Associate Professor at the Department of Manufacturing Systems Engineering & Management at the CSUN. Her research has been focused on risk analysis in complex safety-critical and technology-intensive industries, such as offshore drilling, healthcare, and transportation sectors. Investigating the role of human and organizational factors (HOFs), along with technological elements, in the safety of operations in those industries has been a major focus of her research. As examples, in the offshore drilling industry, she has developed risk analysis frameworks to analyze the critical role of HOFs in the safety of operations, with an emphasis on the negative pressure test as a primary method to ascertain well integrity. In the healthcare industry, she has completed research projects in the area of patient safety and development of proactive risk assessment methodologies to improve quality of care.

Maryam Tabibzadeh has presented and published papers in the areas of risk assessment and safety management, safety culture improvement, systematic accident investigation, and interoperability analysis of multiple emergency response agencies in different peer-reviewed conferences and journals. As part of her accomplishments, she received the Distinguished Engineering Educator Award in 2022 and the Outstanding Engineering Achievement Merit Award in 2018 from The Engineers’ Council. She was the College of Engineering & Computer Science Research Fellow in 2021-22.

Research 

Risk Analysis Safety Management Safety Culture Human and Organizational Factors Macroergonomics Human Factors Engineering Decision Analysis

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