Bilal M. Ayyub (born 5 January 1958, Tulkarm, Palestine) is a researcher in risk analysis and reliability engineering.

He has been a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) since 1983, and is also the director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management at its A. James Clark School of Engineering.

Ayyub was born in Tulkarm, Palestine, 5 January 1958 and moved to Kuwait in 1961.

He received both a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering (1981) and a Doctorate of Philosophy (1983) from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

[1] His specialty is risk and uncertainty analysis for decision and policy making including climate adaptation.