People

Faculty:

Sherif El-Tawil

Dr. Sherif El-Tawil
Role: Professor, ICoR Project Director
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Earthquake engineering, community resilience, disaster management, and computational simulation as applied to these topics.  

Contact:
Email: eltawil@umich.edu  

Links:
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Google Scholar Page

Dr. Benigno Aguirre

Dr. Benigno Aguirre
Role: Emeritus Professor
Affiliation: Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, USA

Research: Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Sociology of Disasters, Evacuation, Migration, Race and Ethnic Relations.  

Contact:
Email: aguirre@udel.edu

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Personal page

Dr. Vineet R. Kamat

Dr. Vineet R. Kamat
Role: Professor, ICoR Project Deputy Director
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Composable simulation, Real-time visualization, Smart and connected cities, Automation and robotics, and their applications to civil infrastructure systems.  

Contact:
Email: vkamat@umich.edu  

Links:
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Google Scholar Page

Dr. Jason McCormick

Dr. Jason McCormick
Role: Associate Professor, ICoR Project Deputy Director
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Earthquake engineering, wind engineering, experimental testing, steel systems, hollow structural sections, innovative materials and community resilience simulation  

Contact:
Email: jpmccorm@umich.edu

Links:
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Google Scholar Page

Dr. Carol Menassa

Dr. Carol Menassa
Role: Associate Professor, ICoR Co-Principal Investigator
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Human Infrastructure Interaction, Distributed Simulation, Agent Based Modeling, Life Cycle Analysis, Life Cycle Cost Analysis  

Contact:
Email: menassa@umich.edu

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Google Scholar Page

Dr. Atul Prakash

Dr. Atul Prakash
Role: Professor
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Security and privacy, robust machine learning, software systems, cyber-physical systems. I am also interested in modeling of systems so that they can be evaluated and tested under a variety of scenarios to find vulnerabilities or behavior under stress.  

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DBLP

Dr. Seymour Spence

Dr. Seymour Spence
Role: Assistant Professor, ICoR Project Co-Principal Investigator
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Harnessing the computational and technological revolution of the last decades with the aim of developing models that better predict and optimize the performance of the built environment to natural hazards.  

Contact:
Email: smjs@umich.edu

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Students / Staff:

Ahmed U. Abdelhady

Ahmed U. Abdelhady
Role: Student
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Resilience of communities under wind hazards.  

Contact:
Email: auhady@umich.edu  

Links:
LinkedIn

Andrew Hlynka

Andrew Hlynka
Role: Staff, Research Applications Developer
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Software tools developer and support for SRTI framework.  

Contact:
Email: ahlynka@umich.edu  

Links:
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Szu-Yun Lin

Szu-Yun Lin
Role: Ph.D. Student
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Distributed computational simulation of hazard analysis and modeling interactions between various infrastructures and systems for improving community resilience.  

Contact:
Email: sylin@umich.edu  

Links:
LinkedIn
Researchgate
Google Scholar Page

Harvey Lu

Harvey Lu
Role: Student
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Security and Privacy of Computer Systems  

Contact:
Email: harveylu@umich.edu

Omar A. Sediek

Omar A. Sediek
Role: Ph.D. Candidate
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Seismic resilience of communities.  

Contact:
Email: osediek@umich.edu  

Links:
LinkedIn
Researchgate
Google Scholar Page

Xi Wang

Xi Wang
Role: Student
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor

Research: Life cycle analysis

Contact:
Email: wangix@umich.edu  

Links:
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Lichao Xu

Lichao Xu
Role: Ph.D. Student
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA  

Research: Data sharing platform, Distributed simulation, Visual SLAM, Localization and perception.  

Contact:
Email: lichaox@umich.edu  

Links:
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Eileen Young

Eileen Young
Role: Student
Affiliation: Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, USA  

Research: Evacuation from fire.  

Contact:
Email: efyoung@udel.edu  

Links:
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This project is supported by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) through grant 1638186 (CRISP Type 2: Interdependencies in Community Resilience (ICoR): A Simulation Framework). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed on this site are those of the project team members and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.