2024 News
- Amirreza Mohammadi joined the RISE lab in January 2024.
- Amirreza Mohammadi presented a poster at the CEE Research Symposium on April 29th, 2024. He took second place in the Best Poster Awards.
- Amirreza Mohammadi presented a poster at the Natural Hazards Research Summit on May 14, 2024.
- Joy Shen presented a paper “Bayesian Network and Monte Carlo Simulation Augmented External Flood PRA for NPPs” at SMiRT27 in 2024
- Joy Shen won the Marvin Roush Fellowship 2024
- Saman Marandi presents at American Nuclear Society annual conference (ANS 2024).
- Sergio García Mejía presented a poster at the Annual Symposium from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UMD, College Park on April 29th, 2024). The title of the poster was “Emergency Communication Strategies during “Back to Back” Tropical Cyclones Eta and Iota and Potential Insights for Refining Communication Practices in Guatemala.”
- Sergio García Mejía presented a poster at the Natural Hazards Research Summit, Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) on May 14, 2024. The title of the poster was “Twitter Emergency Communication During Sequential Tropical Cyclones Eta and Iota (2020) In Guatemala.”
2023 News
- Joy Shen and Kaveh Faraji Najarkolaie present as finalists in the student paper competition at the 18th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2023)
- RISE Lab team members present at U.S. NRC PFHA Workshop.
- Constantinos Frantzis presents at Seismological Society of America meeting
- Joy Shen presents research during a university-research-focused session at the U.S. NRC Regulatory Information Conference.
- Dr. Ziyue Liu successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation titled: “Extension of existing probabilistic coastal hazard analysis for Bayesian network coastal compound flood analysis”
- Ziyue Liu won the best poster award in 2023-ASCE INSPIRE
2022 News
- Ziyue Liu presents “Multi-Tier Bayesian Network Models for Coastal Compound Probabilistic Flood Hazard Analysis” and Dr. Bensi presents “Commentary on Assessing the Performance of Machine/Statistical-Learning Models for Severe Natural Hazard Events” at AGU Fall Meeting.
- Sergio García Mejía presents “Emergency Communication Strategies During “Back to Back” Tropical Cyclones Eta and Iota” at Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting
- RISE Lab team members present posters at National Hazards Research Summit
- Dr. Somayeh Mohammadi successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation titled: “Probabilistic Assessment of Multi-Mechanism Flood Hazards Using a Bayesian Approach.”
- Somayeh Mohammadi, Joy Shen, Azin Al Kajbaf, and Ziyue Liu present their research at 2022 USNRC Probabilistic Flood Hazard Assessment Workshop.
- Azin Al Kajbaf and Kaveh Faraji Najarkolaie win MATLAB Bonus award (#6 overall) in deep learning competition related to wildlife conservation.
- Dr. Azin Al Kajbaf successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation titled: “Leveraging Machine Learning and Uncertainty Assessment for More Robust Coastal and Climate Hazard Estimation.”
2021 News
- RISE Lab team members present at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
- Somayeh Mohammadi presents poster “Probabilistic flood hazard assessment of multi-mechanism floods using a computationally tractable Bayesian-motivated approach”
- Azin Al Kajbaf presents “Leveraging Machine Learning for Temporal Downscaling of Current and Future Climate Model Projections”
- Ziyue Liu presents “Investigation of the Robustness of Probabilistic Coastal Hazard Analysis Results to Different Joint Distribution Models of Storm Parameters”
- Constantinos Frantzis presents poster “Developing Spatial Magnitude Frequency Distributions with LROC NAC Data for Preliminary Lunar Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessments”
- Emily Gibson presents “Spatial Correlation in Ground Motion Prediction Errors in Central and Eastern North America”
- Jefferson Antwi-Agyei, Alexia Hernandez and Jason Koehn present their summer research in their poster “Approach to Estimate Current and Future Destabilization Risk to Energy Facilities on Permafrost”
- RISE Lab team members present at the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting.
- Azin Al Kajbaf presents “The Future is Uncertain – and so is the Present: Quantifying Uncertainty in Precipitation Frequency under Current and Changing Climate”
- Kaveh Faraji Najarkolaie presents “Identifying Potentially Vulnerable Communities to Pandemics and Public Health Emergencies Using Social Vulnerability, Health Metrics, and COVID Status”
- Ziyue Liu presents “Storm Selection to Inform Probabilistic Assessment of Compound Coastal Storm Hazards”
- Somayeh Mohammadi presents “Multi-mechanism flood hazard assessment in coastal areas”
- RISE Lab team members featured in E&M Magazine Article
- RISE Lab team member engage at PSA 2021
- Azin Al Kajbaf presents at On the Pathway to a Digital Earth with her poster “Application of Machine Learning in Coastal and Precipitation Hazard Estimation”
- CEE and ME Department Collaborate on Nuclear Risk Assessment Tools
- Jonathan Dejesus Segarra, Ph.D. successfully defends Ph.D. dissertation
- Sergio García Mejía selected for John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program
- Constantinos Dimitrios Frantzis presents at LunGradCon 2021 about “Spatial Magnitude Frequency Distributions for Preliminary Lunar Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessments”
- Dr. Bensi earns NSF CAREER Award
- Sergio García Mejía presents at Natural Hazards Center Researchers’ Workshop about “Emergency Disaster Shelter use in Guatemala (2012-2018): A Protocol for Web-Scraping Geolocations”
- Somayeh Mohammadi and Azin Al Kajbaf present at the U.S. NRC PFHA Workshop
2020 News
- Dr. Bensi Leads DOE Study on Assessing Risks to Nuclear Facilities from Natural Hazard
- Kaveh Faraji and Dr. Bensi partner with Healthcare Ready to explore COVID impacts on communities of color
- Azin Al Kajbaf Nominated for Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award
- Kaveh Faraji receives Student Merit Award at SRA
- Azin Al Kajbaf and Kaveh Faraji Win Bonus Award For Deep Learning Challenge
- CRR Student Spotlight: Yalda Saadat
- CRR Student Spotlight: Azin Al Kajbaf
- CRR Student Spotlight: Joy Shen
- CRR Student Spotlight: Somayeh Mohammadi
- Constantinos Frantzis selected as Clark Doctoral Fellow
2019 News