Dr. Miriam Heller is an independent consultant focused on e-learning and sustainability. She currently holds a Visiting Senior Fellowship at the World Resources Institute’s Center for Sustainable Transport and serves as Special Projects Consultant for the Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab at the U.S. Department of Defense; both are in the Washington, D.C. area.

Dr. Heller’s professional activities in the research and education of systems engineering and sustainability span 25 years and include positions as director of information technology research advancement at the University of Southern California; program directorships at the National Science Foundation in cyber-infrastructure and engineering; and as professor of industrial engineering at the University of Houston. She was a 2001 National Academy of Engineering Young Researcher, a millennium Fulbright Senior Scholar in France, and an AAAS Science and Engineering Fellow. She is an American Society of Civil Engineers member and serves on the Committee on Sustainability and the editorial board of The Journal of Infrastructure Systems. She has more than 40 publications focusing on systems engineering solutions for the environment and civil infrastructure problems.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology-geology from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering and systems analysis at Johns Hopkins University.

 
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