Dr. Jampole is a civil engineer specializing in rigorous risk assessment and performance-based design for utilities, as well as failure analysis, with expertise in structural engineering. He has developed quantitative risk assessment frameworks for utilities to determine the risk of many assets due to multiple hazards including wildfire, wind, flood, and temperature, and with consideration for climate threats, aging of assets, and non-stationary climate scenarios. He has performed rigorous engineering-based risk assessments for numerous facilities and developed natural hazard risk mitigation schemes to reduce expected losses. He has led the development of state-of-the-art probabilistic risk analysis methodologies for arc faulting, contamination-induced insulator flashover, earthquake-induced landslides affecting steel transmission towers, and more. He led the evaluation of the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation strategies such as undergrounding, covered conductors and several mitigation programs for a major California utility, including evaluating approximately 30 ignition sources. He has developed engineering-based models to evaluate failure risk of covered conductors relative to bare conductors and undergrounding, including evaluating line slapping and vegetation contact.

Dr. Jampole is very experienced in performance-based engineering, including performing research in the underlying risk calculation methodologies and developing hazard models for use in probabilistic hazard assessments. He has performed numerous field investigations into property losses due to natural disasters. Additionally, he has managed large teams of consultants on complex projects.