People

Faculty:

	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: Personal page Google Scholar Page
	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   Links: Personal page
	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: Personal page Google Scholar Page
	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: Personal page Google Scholar Page
	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   Links: Personal page Google Scholar Page
	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.   Links: Personal page Google Scholar Page DBLP
	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   Links: Google Scholar Page

 

 

 

Students / Staff:

 

	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 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: LinkedIn
	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 Role: Student Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA   Research: Security and Privacy of Computer Systems   Contact: Email: harveylu@umich.edu
	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 Role: Student Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor Research: Life cycle analysis Contact: Email: wangix@umich.edu   Links: Personal page
	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: LinkedIn
	Eileen Young Role: Student Affiliation: Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, USA   Research: Evacuation from fire.   Contact: Email: efyoung@udel.edu   Links: Personal page

 

 

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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.