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
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
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
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
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.
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
Omar A. Sediek
Role: Ph.D. Candidate
Affiliation: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA
Research: Seismic resilience of communities.
Contact:
Email: osediek@umich.edu
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

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.