The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Richelle Adams received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998 and the M.Sc. degree in Communication Systems in 2001 from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. In 2007, she received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Her Ph.D. thesis was entitled, “Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis for Active Queue Management”. In 2011, she was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. , USA. There she investigated the role of telecommunications in disaster management – the US perspective. Also, in 2013, she participated in Disaster Communications training offered by the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI).

Currently, she is a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of the West Indies. Together with students (undergraduate and postgraduate) and colleagues, she conducts research on the efficacy of the communications function in disaster management (preparation, response, mitigation) and investigates approaches to improve such in different contexts.

Her other main research interests include infinitesimal perturbation analysis for active queue management in communication networks and simulation of queuing systems.

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