NHERI Computational Symposium

• "Post-Tornado Automated Building Damage Evaluation and Recovery Prediction by Integrating Remote Sensing, Deep Learning, and Restoration Models." Abdullah Braik
• "Towards Efficient Surrogate Models for Wind Fragility in Transmission Tower Damage Assessment." Abdel-Aziz Sanad
• "Applying the Coupled CM1 and CFD Simulation Approach to Simulate Tornado-Community Interaction." Grace Yan
• "Fragility Analysis of Transmission Towers through Physics-Based Modeling of Tornado-Induced Wind and Debris Impact Loads." Himamshu Poudel
• "Computer-vision enabled subassembly damage detection from hurricanes using heterogeneous reconnaissance imagery." Rachel Spence
• "Observations and Analysis of Wind Pressures on Partially Elevated Coastal Buildings: Insights from Field Damage and Wind Tunnel Testing." Amal Elawady
• "Evaluating data requirements for calibration of stochastic wind models with a focus on extreme responses." Arthriya Subgranon
• "Holistic collapse assessment of envelope and structural systems of high-rise buildings in extreme winds." Jieling Jiang

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• "Modeling Sediment Movement in the Shallow-Water Framework: A Morpho-Hydrodynamic Approach with Numerical Simulations and Experimental Validation." Ernesto Guerrero-Fernandez
• "Integrating Experimental Data and Numerical Modeling to Address Tsunami-induced Scour and Structural Response." Seyedalireza Mirghafouri
• "Uncertainty Quantification in Tsunami-Driven Debris Damming at Elevated Coastal Structures Using Non-Deterministic Kriging." Jayasekara R. Jayasekara
• "Machine learning for enhancing tsunami damage assessment in coastal areas: insights from the 2011 Great East Japan event." Anna Rita Scorzini
• "Tsunami regional risk assessment of coastal bridges due to Cascadia Subduction Earthquake." Waqas Iqbal
• "WebGPU for Coastal Hazards: Making State-of-the-Art Available to All." Patrick Lynett
• "The SimCenter Multi-Physics Engine for Experimental Facility Digital Twin Deployment, DataDepot Interfaced Surrogate Models with Uncertainty Quantification, and Regional Natural Hazard Recovery Simulations with Multiple Hazards, Multiple Scales, and Multiple Fidelities." Justin Bonus

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• "A Causal Perspective on Basin Effects." Rashid Shams
• "Performing probabilistic liquefaction hazard analysis inside the hazard integral, including impacts of sea level rise." Meera L. Kota
• "Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines Model Predictions for Seismic-Induced Landslide Displacements: A Comparative Study of two input datasets." Alireza Eskandarinejad
• "Recent Developments in Hazard Modeling from a Particulate Perspective." Estefan Garcia
• "A Framework for Forecasting and Runout Estimation of Regional Co-Seismic Landslides." Weibing Gong
• "Validation of hybrid broadband ground-motion simulation for large-magnitude earthquakes in New Zealand." Cesar Pajaro Miranda
• "Application of Machine Learning Algorithms in Calibrating Plasticity Models for Liquefiable Geosystems." Maziar Mivehchi
• "On the potential of physics informed neural networks for geotechnical earthquake engineering." Jorge Macedo

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• "Modeling Collective Emotional Polarization in Response to Hazards." Xiaolei Chu
• "Modeling Household Decision-Making for Structural Retrofit Processes." Maria Porada
• "Comprehending Regional Risk Analysis: Integrating Dynamic Building Inventory into a Multi-stakeholder Decision-making Framework." Jingya Wang
• "FLEE: An agent-based modeling framework to understand and improve hurricane evacuations." Austin Harris
• "Impact of Natural Disasters and Disruptions on Urban Transit: Accessibility and Equity in Washington DC's Public Transportation." Asal Mehditabrizi
• "Equity-Based Retrofitting to Mitigate Outage Impact Risk for Galveston’s Electric Distribution Network." Abigail Beck
• "Comparative analysis of macroeconomic models for indirect impacts of disasters." Tinger Zhu
• "Addressing Gaps in FEMA’s Public Assistance: The Role of Private Insurance and Public-Private Partnerships." Diako Abbasi

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• "High Fidelity Direct Numerical Simulations of Intense Wave-Wall Impacts." Hunter Boswell
• "The implications of CFD mesh design on building wind loads." Tsinuel Geleta
• "Assessing Hydrodynamic Impact of Debris Accumulation on Bridges Using Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling." Fahad Pervaiz
• "Quantifying Combined Wind-wave Loads on Offshore Wind Turbines." Chao Sun
• "Drone-base Photogrammetry for the simulation of Wind Field and Associated loads on Buildings in Urban Clusters." Ahsan Kareem
• "Towards developing a comprehensive aerodynamic database for low-rise buildings using CFD: validation against wind tunnel data." Abiy Melaku

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• "Regional hazard and exposure modeling for wildfire risk assessment." Gabriela Calana Somoza
• "The Role of Social Networks in Shaping Evacuation Behavior: A Case Study of the 2018 Campfire in Paradise, California." Behnam Tahmasbi
• "Transport of Firebrands using an Eulerian Multiphase Approach to model simulations at Community Level." Tanmay Vora
• "RoofSense: An AI-Based Algorithm for Mapping Roof Types Using High-Resolution Satellite Data." Zafer Yilmaz
• "A Stochastic Subset Selection Approach for Efficient Regional Wildfire Risk Assessment." Ji Yun Lee
• "Advances in modeling of wildfire impacts on reinforced concrete infrastructure." Thomas Gernay
• "Human-centered Computational Approach to Social-technical Wildfire Resilience Research." Haizhong Wang
• "Developing a Fire Vulnerability Rating for Buildings in the Wildland-Urban Interface using High-Resolution Satellite Data and Interpretable Machine Learning." Riyaaz Shaik

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• "Resilience Assessment of Networked Systems Through Model Integration and Model Interoperability." Raul Rincon
• "Physical-Social Community Resilience Simulation and Validation via Longitudinal Tornado Reconnaissance Studies." Wanting (Lisa) Wang
• "Modeling and Computational Challenges in Post-disaster Building Recovery under Multiple Hazard Scenarios." Pouria Kourehpaz
• "Leveraging Machine Learning and AI for Enhanced Tornado Resilience in Community Infrastructure." Pramodit Adhikari
• "Uncovering Social Inequities in Flood Risk: A Bayesian Network Analysis for Urban Vulnerability." Fuad Hasan
• "Role of Mangrove Forests in Housing Infrastructure Resilience During Tropical Storms." Catalina Gonzalez-Duenas

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• "Regional risk estimation using Gaussian Process metamodeling: application to storm-surge hazard." Alexandros Taflanidis
• "Surge-NF: Neural Fields inspired peak storm surge surrogate modeling with multi-task learning and positional encoding." Jize Zhang
• "Computationally Efficient Regional Hazard Response Prediction Leveraging Sparse Graph Neural Networks." Parisa Toofani Movaghar
• "Efficient Coastal Flood-Inundation Mapping Using Machine Learning-Enhanced Static Model." Armando Ulises Santos Cruz
• "Efficient real-time probabilistic storm surge risk assessment through adaptive multi-fidelity Monte Carlo." WoongHee Jung
• "Introducing coastal ecosystems in flood risk models for valuing nature-based solutions for coastal resilience and climate adaptation." Ali Rezaie

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• "From Uncertainty Toward Action: Climate Risk Modeling and Robust Decision-Making Under Uncertainty." Simona Meiler
• "Long Short-Term Memory Networks as Emulators for Nonlinear Structural Dynamic Finite Element (FE) Models." Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly
• "Leveraging multi-source data for enhanced flood damage modeling with explicit input uncertainty management." Mario Di Bacco
• "Metamodeling of Dynamic Nonlinear Systems with Uncertainties Through Graph Neural Networks." Haimiti Atila
• "Metamodeling of High-Dimensional Nonlinear Stochastic Systems through Autoencoders and LSTM Networks." Seymour Spence

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• "Dynamic risk modeling of civil infrastructure systems susceptible to multihazard impact." Eyitayo Opabola
• "High-resolution risk assessment of railway networks: A case study of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system." Miguel Gomez
• "Assessing Post-Earthquake Emergency Healthcare Accessibility Considering Damage to Hospital Buildings and Transportation Infrastructure." Kiranjot Kaur
• "Validating Wharf Damage at Port of Oakland from the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake: A Study of Liquefaction Effects Using Earthquake Simulations and Uncertainty Quantification." Sajan K C
• "Shakemaps for the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal using Finite Element Analyses of Surveyed Buildings." Andreas Stavridis
• "Assessing building damage after the 2021 Nippes earthquake and the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence: a Machine Learning approach using post-event Very High Resolution SAR data." Giorgia Giardina

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• "Development of A Combined Hurricane Storm Surge and River Runoff Model for the Texas Coast to understand transitional zones." Eirik Vasleth
• "A framework for managing life-cycle risk of coastal bridge network using digital twin technology." Minghui Cheng
• "Preparing for future hazards amplified by sea-level rise: Considering impacts to infrastructure and intelligent agents." Dylan Sanderson
• "EV Charging Station Accessibility and Usage During Extreme Weather Events: Insights from Hurricane Beryl." Safoura Safari
• "Non-locality and Spillover Effects of Residential Flood Damage on Community Recovery: Insights from High-resolution Flood Claim and Mobility Data." Junwei Ma
• "Robust design of earthen levees in the face of flood hazards." Lei Wang

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• "Model-to-data validation of coastal flood damage models for buildings impacted by Hurricane Ian (2022) at Fort Myers Beach, Florida." Mehrshad Amini
• "Post-Disaster Damage Assessment from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery using D-LinkNet with Hierarchical Transformer Difference Blocks." Shivam Shrivastava
• "Hurricane Wind Loss Modeling Using Insurance Claims Data." Nii Otu Tackie-Otoo
• "Capturing Wood Rot Implications for Community Resilience through Multi-scale Modeling." Garrett Tatum
• "NED: A refactored Nonstructural Element Database for performance-based engineering." Dustin Cook
• "Collective Behaviors and Phase Transitions in Regional Seismic Risk Metrics." Sebin Oh

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This session will introduce the high-performance computing (HPC) resources available through DesignSafe, including multi-node clusters, GPU-enabled systems, and research storage capabilities, along with the streamlined process to gain access. Demonstrations will showcase research workflows using software such as OpenSees, ADCIRC, ML tools, and OpenFoam. Participants will learn multiple approaches to job submission, including through the web portal interface, interactive Jupyter notebooks, and command line tools.

Hosts: Krishna Kumar and Scott Brandenberg

• "Using ATC-138 to Inform Functional Recovery Design Provisions." Kristen Blowes
• "A Probabilistic Framework for Estimating Post-earthquake Building Recovery Time in Regional Risk Assessment." Carmine Galasso
• "Quantifying the Realized and Unrealized Benefits of Seismic Interventions using Causal Inference." Henry Burton
• "How to create useful and usable surrogate models for earthquake engineering – status quo, limitations, and opportunities." Sang-ri Yi
• "Simulating the socio-technical interactions for community disaster recovery." Ting-Hsiang Tseng
• "Quantification of Resilience Using Resilience Deficit Index." Rohit Ranjan Singh

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• "Nonstationary joint probability analysis of coastal wind and flood hazards under climate change impact." Yiming Jia
• "Knowledge-Enhanced Deep Learning for Hurricane Track Synthesis under Changing Climate." Teng Wu
• "Future shifts in tropical cyclone risks across the US due to storm climatology change and socioeconomic growth." Avantika Gori
• "Identifying, measuring, and managing socioeconomic impacts of floods amid climate change." Yuki Miura

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• "Hercules 2.0: A Powerful Regional Earthquake Simulator with Expanded Capabilities." Chu-Han (Clifford) Yen
• "Deep Learning-based Digital Twin Models for Real-time Monitoring of Onshore Wind Turbines." Minhyeok Ko
• "Innovative Research Workflow for Seismic Design and Performance Assessment Using HPC and DesignSafe CI for Enhanced Accuracy and Efficiency." Shitao Shi
• "Validated numerical modeling of coastal groundwater variability and response to tides and sea level rise at Cardiff State Beach." Margit Maple
• "RTHS of a 3 story MRF-DBF frame with soil-structure interaction using neural networks." Faisal Nissar Malik
• "Neural network aided real-time model updating of digital twins in Real-Time Hybrid Simulations." James Ricles
• "GPU-Accelerated Structural Dynamic Analysis with an Unconditionally Stable Explicit Time Integration Scheme and a Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Solver." Gustavo A. Araújo R.

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• "Functional Recovery of Bridge Networks: Framework Development and Implementation." Chenhao Wu
• "Enhanced Methods for Residential Building Stock Inventory Development for Seismic Assessment in California." Mia Lochhead
• "Comparison of Detailed and Simplified Seismic Loss Estimate Methodologies and their Sensitivity to Analysis Choices for a Steel Building Inventory." Shivalinga Baddipalli
• "Influence of Damage Modeling Uncertainty on Assessment of Structural Collapse under Dynamic Earthquake Loading." Aman Karki
• "Modeling residual drifts: Recent improvements, challenges and opportunities." Adam Zsarnóczay
• "Adaptive Gaussian Process Surrogate Modeling for Efficient Iterative Bayesian Calibration of Expensive Numerical Models." Aakash Bangalore Satish

Abstracts

• "Multi-Hazard Non-Relational Database for Disaster Impact Predictive Modeling." Henry Burton
• "Relational Databases for Accessible, AI-ready Data Dissemination." Scott Brandenberg
• "Relational Database for Analyzing Biocemented Sand in Seismic Mitigation." Piyush Vyas
• "Promoting Data Reuse in Computational Simulation Workflows in Natural Hazards Engineering." Tracy Kijewski-Correa
• "Data-Driven Frameworks for Global Storm Surge Prediction." Carlos del-Castillo-Negrete
• "What Makes Natural Hazards Data AI-Ready?." Maria Esteva

Abstracts

• "Generating Synthetic Power Distribution Inventory for Regional Risk Assessment." Neetesh Sharma
• "Synthesizing drinking water distribution networks based on readily available data ." Emma Russin
• "Time-series clustering method reveals key properties of power system resilience curves." Bo Li
• "Integration of REWET into R2D Tool, Alameda Case Study." Sina Naeimi
• "Simulating Communities using Hetero-Functional Graph Theory: An Interconnected Model of Physical, Social, Economic and Governance Systems." Amin Enderami
• "Optimization of Complex Interdependent Systems during Wildfire Response." Andrea Martí

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