Dr Lauren McMillan

Lecturer

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

Dr Lauren McMillan is a Lecturer at the University of Northumbria. After completing her Ph.D. in the Infrastructure Systems Institute at University College London (UCL), she continued her research as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in UCL’s Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction before joining the University of Northumbria. Lauren’s research focuses on enhancing the sustainability and resilience of complex infrastructure systems, employing systems-based approaches to failure management. She explores methods to bolster infrastructure resilience to chronic and discrete hazards, including machine learning and deep learning-based techniques.

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Key Publications

Definitions and taxonomy for High Impact Low Probability (HILP) and outlier events, Pescaroli, G., McMillan, L., Gordon, M., Aydin, N., Comes, T., Maraschini , M., Palma Oliveira, J., Torresan, S., Trump, B., Pelling, M., Linkov, I. 1 Sep 2025, In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Artificial intelligence–enabled self-healing infrastructure systems, McMillan, L. 28 Mar 2024
Domain-informed variational neural networks and support vector machines based leakage detection framework to augment self-healing in water distribution networks, McMillan, L., Fayaz, J., Varga, L. 1 Feb 2024, In: Water Research
Flow forecasting for leakage burst prediction in water distribution systems using long short-term memory neural networks and Kalman filtering, McMillan, L., Fayaz, J., Varga, L. 1 Dec 2023, In: Sustainable Cities and Society
Infrastructure and city ontologies, Varga, L., McMillan, L., Hallett, S., Russell, T., Smith, L., Truckell, I., Postnikov, A., Rodger, S., Vizcaino, N., Perkins, B., Matthews, B., Lomax, N. 1 Jun 2023, In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction
Machine-Learning-Based Health Monitoring and Leakage Management of Water Distribution Systems, McMillan, L., Fayaz, J., Varga, L. 17 Jul 2023, 2022: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Evolving Cities, Southampton, University of Southampton
Towards self-healing in water infrastructure systems, McMillan, L., Varga, L. 1 Jun 2023, In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction
A review of the use of artificial intelligence methods in infrastructure systems, McMillan, L., Varga, L. 1 Nov 2022, In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Digital Twins in Civil Infrastructure Systems, Callcut, M., Agliozzo, J., Varga, L., McMillan, L. 19 Oct 2021, In: Sustainability

Professional Activity

Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting 2024
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: Multi-hazard DRR Academy for young researchers and practitioners 2024

PGR Supervision

Catherine Sillem Towards Sustainable Peatland Management in the UK: An Integrated Study on Carbon Balance and Ecosystem Services Start Date: 01/10/2025