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.
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