NHERI Computational Symposium

May 28-29, 2026

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Important Dates

Abstracts Due:
Jan 8, 2026 (Extended)

Travel Assistance Requests Due:
Jan 8, 2026

Early Bird Discount Ends:
Mar 16, 2026

Registration Closes (space is limited):
Apr 13, 2026 (Extended)

Agenda

Wednesday, May 27

Pre-Symposium Workshop.

Thursday, May 28

7:30 AM Registration & Continental breakfast(Atrium)
8:30  Session 1: Plenary Welcome & Keynote(Jarvis Auditorium)
8:30 Welcome Pedro Arduino
8:40 NHERI Updates: Opportunities and Plans for Advancing Natural Hazards Research through Simulations Matthew DeJong & Krishna Kumar
9:30 Keynote Seth Guikema
10:20 Break
10:40  Session 2: Plenary Lightning Round(Jarvis Auditorium)
Improving regional wildfire risk assessment frameworks by including the probability of ignition sources.
Gabriela Calana Somoza
CommunityWindSim: An open-source framework to simulate wind flow around a community using computational fluid dynamics.
Tanmay Vora
Simulation of hurricane surge and waves through the built environment at regional scales.
Dylan Sanderson
Hydro-UQ–Enabled GPU Simulations of Wave–Debris–Structure Interactions in Inland Coastal Forests During Tsunamis.
Jun-Whan Lee
RoofNet: A Vision–Language Model–Enabled Dataset for Scalable Building Exposure Characterization Across Natural Hazards.
Gwyneth Nolde
Bridging the People Gap in Community Resilience Modeling: Introducing pyncoda.
Nathanael Rosenheim
From Census Blocks to Buildings: Downscaling Workforce Data for Natural Hazard Impact Modeling.
Chia-Fu Liu
A Probabilistic Digital Twin Framework for Multi-scale Post-Earthquake Assessment of Instrumented Buildings.
Milad Roohi
Extending tropical cyclone risk assessment through recovery simulations.
Simona Meiler
12:00 PM Lunch(Atrium)
1:00 Session 3(Breakout rooms)
3A: High-Fidelity Simulation and Surrogate Modeling for Wind, Wave, and Seismic Effects(Hearst Memorial Mining Building #290)
Numerical Investigation of Wave-Induced Uplift Forces on Elevated Coastal Structures Using DualSPHysics.
Keenan Hubbard
High Fidelity Simulation-based Fragility Assessment Approaches to Account for the Effects of Neighboring Structures.
Jainish Maheshbhai Patel
Real-Time Hybrid Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction Using AI-Based Surrogate Models.
Faisal Nissar Malik
CFD-based Integrated Aero-Hydro-Structural-Mooring Dynamics Modeling of Floating Wind Turbines.
Chao Sun
LES Evaluation of Terrain Adjusted Inflow Conditions on Gable Roof Buildings.
Prethesha Alagusundaramoorthy
Quantifying the Contribution of Wind-borne Debris Impact to Structural Failure through Multi-scale Modeling of Transmission Infrastructure.
Suman Poudel
Comparative Assessment of Gaussian Process and LSTM-Based NARX Surrogates for Large-Scale FE Models of Dam-Water-Foundation Rock Systems.
Enrique Gerardo Simbort Zeballos
Stochastic emulation for seismic risk assessment using recorded ground motions: evaluation of applicability and significance of intensity measure selection.
Sang-ri Yi
3B: Regional Risk and Resilience: Scalable simulation and uncertainty(Jarvis Auditorium)
Scalable Scenario-based Earthquake Risk Modeling via Linearized Ground-Motion--Fragility Coupling and Probabilistic PCA.
Soung Eil Houng
Reducing seismic risk assessment uncertainty with physics-informed non-ergodic ground motion model: a case study on Los Angeles’ power transmission network.
Jinyan Zhao
Uncertainty Quantification of Surrogate Exposure Characterization in Regional Seismic Risk Assessment.
Chenhao Wu
High-fidelity wind simulation and visualization for real cities based on Google Maps.
Ahsan Kareem
Bias-based evaluation of sub-model fidelity integration effects on multiscale infrastructure resilience estimates.
Raul Rincon
3C: Advances in PBE: Data, Vulnerability, and Recovery Across Hazards(Rosenblum Studio #202)
Datasets Supporting the 2026 NEHRP Functional Recovery Design Provisions.
Carlos Molina Hutt
NED: A Nonstructural Element Database for more robust and transparent performance-based seismic deign and functional recovery analysis.
Dustin Cook
Leveraging WE-UQ for Generating Wind Fragility Functions for Performance-Based Engineering of Low-Rise Buildings.
David Roueche
A Computational Framework for Two-Way Coupling Between Progressive Building Envelope Damage and Building Aerodynamic Loads.
Jieling Jiang
Recovery Time and Seismic Performance of Life-Safety and Functional Recovery - Designed Buildings across Hazard Intensity Levels.
Huy Pham
Functional recovery of mass timber buildings with post-tensioned rocking walls.
Morgan McBain
Redefining Casualty Estimation Inside Buildings.
Yvonne Merino
3D: Seismic hazard models and their influence on damage predictions(Brayton Community Room #162)
Computational Workflow for Batch Processing HVSR Data and Developing 3D Bedrock Surface Maps.
Mersad Fathizadeh
Site-based Stochastic Ground Motion Generation for Uncertainty Quantification in Earthquake Engineering.
Maijia Su
Machine Learning-Based Ground Motion Models for Shallow Crustal Earthquakes in California Using the NGA-West3 Database.
Sangwoo Kim
The Foundation Model of Ground Motion Generation.
Xiaolei Chu
Optimization of Physics-Based Regional Earthquake Simulations using Sequential Bayesian Experimental Design.
Malak Baya
A Probabilistic Framework for Assessing Distributed Infrastructure Performance under Spatially Correlated Sequential and Concurrent Hazards.
Amirreza Mohammadi
Coupled seismic hazard and risk analysis for the treatment of time-dependent rupture effects.
Ioannis Vouvakis Manousakis
2:20 Break
2:40 Session 4(Breakout rooms)
4A: Physics-Informed AI and Surrogate Modeling for Nonlinear Structural Systems(Hearst Memorial Mining Building #290)
Real-Time Hybrid Simulation of Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction Systems Using AI-Based Surrogate Models.
James Ricles
Augmented-Input Variational LSTM for Nonlinear Structural Response Histories Metamodeling Accounting for Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainty.
Manisha Sapkota
Physics-Informed Adaptive Fourier Neural Operator Framework for Nonlinear Seismic Response Prediction from SDOF to 5-Story MDOF Systems.
Kexun Li
An LLM-powered Chatbot to Automate Structural Analysis.
Minghui Cheng
A physics-informed machine learning approach based on knowledge distillation to support performance-based design.
Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati
Long Short-Term Memory Networks-Recursive Averaged Multistep Sequence-to-Sequence (LSTM-RAMSS) Model as Emulators for Finite Element Models of Nonlinear Structural Dynamic Systems.
Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly
Metamodeling of multi-hazard nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems with adaptive hybrid neural operator schemes.
Haimiti Atila
Enabling Higher-Resolution Nonlinear Structural Analysis Through GPU-Accelerated Solvers.
Gustavo A. Araujo R.
4B: Regional Risk and Resilience: Modeling Hazards and Impacts(Jarvis Auditorium)
A Digital Twin Approach for Dynamic Risk Assessment Under Sequential Earthquake Hazards.
Prateek Arora
A Scalable Computational Framework for Regional Scale Flood Fragility Assessment of Bridge Networks Using Open-Source Data.
Vishnupriya Jonnalagadda
Probabilistic Connection Fracture Assessment of Tall Welded Steel Moment Frame Buildings during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.
Juan Miguel Valois Martinez
Quantifying the Effects of Near-Fault Ground Motion Directionality on Regional Seismic Risk Assessment using Physics-Based Fault-Rupture Simulations.
Melisa Herrera
Phase Diagrams for Multi-Scale Regional Structural Risk Under Natural Hazards.
Sebin Oh
Multi-State Spatial Fragility Modeling Using a Warped Heteroscedastic Gaussian Process.
Abdullah Braik
Evaluating the Impact of Seismic Retrofit Programs using VLM-Enhanced Building Inventories.
Meredith Lochhead
4C: Wildfire Risk, Vulnerability, and Impacts(Rosenblum Studio #202)
A Transferable, Cause-Specific Deep Learning Framework for Wildfire Ignition Probability Estimation.
Abdel-Aziz Sanad
From Imagery to Engineering Insight: Automating Post-Disaster Fire Damage Prediction with AI Using RAPID Imagery.
Barbaros Cetiner
Assessing Structure-to-Structure Fire Vulnerability in WUI Neighborhoods.
Serdar Selamet
Performance-Based Assessment of Wildfire-Induced Structural Damage Using Interpretable Machine Learning.
Churong Chen
Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty Propagation in Wildfire Risk Assessment .
Hamed Ebrahimian
Wildfire Exposure and Household Financial Distress: Evidence from Mortgage Default Data.
Henry Burton
An agent-based model for couple housing and household recovery simulation.
Rodrigo Costa
4D: Post-disaster: data collection & system recovery modeling(Brayton Community Room #162)
Simulating Regional Recovery After the 2025 Palisades Fire: Implications for Recovery Management .
Nikola Blagojevic
A Decision Framework for Equitable Use of Federal Funds for Voluntary Buyout Programs.
Pedro Romero Santiago
Simulating Firm-level Direct and Contingent Business Interruption after Disasters.
Tinger Zhu
Building-scale observation and modeling of recovery from hurricane-induced damage and loss.
Amina Meselhe
Resilience-Oriented Deep Reinforcement Learning for Post-Hurricane Recovery of a Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure System.
Shiwei Meng
Data Driven Method for Structural Roof Damage Evaluation.
Guangzhao Chen
4:00 Break
4:20  Session 5: Research Spotlights(Jarvis Auditorium)
Identify–Measure–Manage: AI-Driven Modeling of Infrastructure Risk and Adaptation under Climate Extremes.
Yuki Miura
Fire Reconstruction and Risk Assessment in the Wildland-Urban Interface.
Michael Gollner
Modeling Overland Flow of Hurricane Surge and Wave and the Impact on the Buildings.
Dan Cox
5:15 Plenary Closure
5:30 - 7:30 Poster Session & Reception(Hearst Memorial Mining Building - Moore Lobby)
Community & Regional Risk, Policy, and Exposure
Comprehensive Community-Level Risk Assessment of Aging Wood Residential Frames Under Seismic Loads.
Yosef Gebreyesus
Risk-Informed Earthquake Scenario Selection for Regional Infrastructure Networks Using Disaggregated System Metrics.
Miguel Gomez
Holistic Assessment of the Potential Benefits of Residential Seismic Retrofit Program for Canada.
Charlotte Hamilton
Linking People to Places: A Synthetic Housing-Household Model for Granular Disaster Risk Assessment.
Xiao Qian
Impact of Spatial Correlation on Population Dislocation Estimates for Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes.
Emmanuel Randle
Measuring Functional Recovery After Tornadoes: Linking Housing, Occupancy, and Socioeconomic Indicators.
Tyler Reida
Hazard Characterization, Simulation Tools & Decision Support
Multi-disciplinary framework for wildfire risk research.
Erica Fischer
Evaluating Frequency Contributions to Pseudo-Spectral Acceleration Using Observations and Physics-Based Earthquake Simulations.
Sajan K C
Estimating First Floor Height Above Ground Using Google Street View and Machine Learning.
Riccardo Negri
Integrating Agent-Based Modeling and Microscopic Traffic Simulation for Port and Intermodal Network Resilience under Hurricanes.
Xuechen Ni
A Physics-Inspired Deep Learning Framework for Seismic Site Response Analyses.
Kurt Walter Soncco Sinchi
Decoding Urban Drainage Resilience: Linking Network Topology and Spectral Resilience to Dynamic Flood Vulnerability.
Aqsa Zahid
Large-Eddy Simulations of Downburst Flow and Wind Loading using a Cooling Source Term.
Linqian Zheng
Structural Systems, Calibrated Experiments & Component Performance
Project Overview and Finite-Element modeling of a Full-Scale Six-Story Hybrid Mass Timber and Steel Building Subjected to Shake Table Motions.
Tanner Field
Application of Multi-Stripe Analysis to Reinforced Concrete Frames with Implications for the FEMA P-695 Spectral Shape Factor Adjustment.
Zhiyang Mao
Experimental Dynamic Characterization of Scaled Light Wood Framing Structures Subjected to Storm Surge Loading.
Jorge Romero-Loyola

Friday, May 29

7:30 AM Registration & Continental breakfast(Atrium)
8:30  Session 7: Plenary Welcome & Keynote(Jarvis Auditorium)
8:30 Welcome & Day 2 Orientation Matthew DeJong
8:35 NEHRI Update: Synergies of Field Reconnaissance and Simulations Jeffrey Berman
8:50 Keynote Helen Crowley
9:30 Break
9:50 Session 8(Breakout rooms)
8A: High-Fidelity Simulation of Structural Systems for Seismic Performance(Hearst Memorial Mining Building #290)
Modeling Seismic Degradation and Axial Collapse of Reinforced Concrete Columns Using Nonlinear Continuum Finite Elements.
Sasan Dolati
Nonlinear Spring Calibration for Reinforced Concrete Column-Foundation Connection Bar Group Breakout Failure.
Benjamin Worsfold
Integrated Computational Framework for Seismic Load Paths and Functional Recovery in Cast-in-Place Diaphragms with Openings.
Pratik Patra
Three-Dimensional Simulation of Soil–Structure Interaction for Low- and High-Rise Reinforced Concrete Buildings Under Earthquake Loading.
Sherif H. Helmy
Stochastic Buckling Reliability of Thin-Walled Tubular Sections: An AI-Enhanced Workflow using quoFEM and LS-DYNA.
Md Rayedul Islam Rajee
A novel macroelement-based strategy for modeling masonry structures.
Christian Salvatori
8B: Regional Risk and Resilience: Networks, interdependencies, and system performance(Jarvis Auditorium)
Assessing risk across regional infrastructure networks at scale.
Ji-Eun Byun
Surrogate Modeling of Highway Bridges for Regional Earthquake Simulation of Transportation Networks.
Carmen Andrade
Flood Fragility Portfolios for Network Resilience of Transportation Systems.
Reza Filizadeh
Advancing Urban Flood Management and Design through Coupled Infrastructure and Storm Modeling.
Nehal Ansh Srivastava
Regional-Scale Vulnerability Assessment of Electric Transmission Infrastructure subjected to Flood Hazards in Oklahoma.
Suraj Thapa
Validating water quality predictions in a synthetically generated drinking water distribution system.
Edward Peltier
8C: Humans, Behaviors, and Decision-Making in Disaster Simulations(Rosenblum Studio #202)
A Joint Synthetic Housing-Household Inventory.
Shangjia Dong
Unveiling Occupant Response to Earthquakes: An Immersive Virtual Reality Study.
Yan Liu
Assessing Public Tornado Shelter Access Using an Agent-Based Model of Household Sheltering Behavior.
Saba Faghirnejad
Generative Agents to Model Household Adaptation in a Historically Flood-Prone City.
Chao Fan
Unraveling and Understanding Household-level Adaptation Decision Diffusion after Hurricanes across U.S..
Susu Xu
Adaptation Investment Under Climate Uncertainty: A Dynamic Decision Model for Coastal Communities.
Jamal Julien
8D: Simulation of wind and water hazards(Brayton Community Room #162)
Site-specific Joint Depth–Velocity Tsunami Hazard Accounting for Spatial, Phase, and Magnitude Dependence.
Daniel Padron
Large Eddy Simulation of Wave-Backwash Interactions and the Effects on Morphological Change.
Benjamin Tsai
Learning the Exact Flux: Neural Riemann Solvers for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.
Yucheng Zhang
Numerical simulations of wind loading in the presence of waves.
Max Beeman
Knowledge-Enhanced Autoencoder for High-Resolution Downscaling of Hurricane Precipitation.
Teng Wu
A Hybrid Physics-based and Machine Learning Approach for AI-generated Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Prediction.
Yanmo Weng
Future wind risk using nonstationary probability models.
Kristen Blowes
11:00 Break
11:20 Session 9(Breakout rooms)
9A: High-fidelity simulation of geosystems and SSI(Hearst Memorial Mining Building #290)
Fine-Scale Assessment of Landslide Risks in California.
Melis Fidansoy
A Physics-Informed DeepONet Framework for Rainfall Infiltration Forecasting in Unsaturated Slopes.
Weibing Gong
Regional Simulations of Rainfall-Induced Landslides: The example of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
Mirna Kassem
A Computational Framework for Separating Shallow and Deep Resonance in HVSR Analysis.
Hosna Kianfar
Seismic Shielding for Soil-Structure Systems.
Boris Jeremic
Fast Efficient Metamodeling for OpenSees-based Resilience Analysis (Femora).
Amin Pakzad
9B: Regional Risk and Resilience: Planning, recovery, and policy(Jarvis Auditorium)
Integrated Spatiotemporal Assessment of Infrastructure Resilience and Community Vulnerability in Houston.
Jangjae Lee
Advancing a new paradigm for prioritizing residential buildings in community resilience using testbed simulations.
Afeez Badmus
Designing Earthquake Reciprocal Exchanges with Retrofit-Informed Risk Reduction.
Godfred Ababio
Evaluating San Francisco’s Soft-Story Retrofit Program: A Stakeholder-Engaged Regional Risk Assessment.
Christianos Burlotos
9C: Modeling Community Fire Dynamics and Infrastructure Interaction(Rosenblum Studio #202)
Modeling Wildfire Dynamics and Thermal Loads on Water Infrastructure Using Weighted Percolation Theory.
Zul Kazeem
Dynamic modeling of water systems during wildfires.
Erica Fischer
Simulations of Flame Spread at the Wildland-Urban Interface in a Landscape-Scale Fire Risk Model.
Yiren Qin
Coupling Cell2Fire with Downscaled High Resolution Wind Data.
Minho Kim
Influence of Built Environment Characteristics on Fire Spread Dynamics and Community-Scale Damage.
Negar Elhami-Khorasani
A multi-hazard computational approach for damage assessment of steel buildings under fire-following-earthquake scenarios.
Shiva Baddipalli
Post-Wildfire Hydrological Hazard Risk in the United States.
Haizhong Wang
9D: Coastal Hazard and Risk Modeling: Physics, Machine Learning, and Damage Analytics(Brayton Community Room #162)
Rapid Spatio-Temporal Prediction of Hurricane-Induced Flooding Via Knowledge-Enhanced Graph Neural Network.
Mohammad Movahhed
Global Peak Storm Surge Prediction.
Benjamin Pachev
Storm Surge and Coastal Inundation Nowcasts/Forecasts During Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Yonggang Liu
A Scalable Framework for Multi-Hazard Flood Damage and Resilience Assessment in Urban Coastal Communities.
Rouzbeh Nazari
Multi-Hazard Resilience Assessment of Coastal Communities.
Yiming Jia
12:30 PM Lunch(Atrium)
1:15  Session 10: Research Spotlights(Jarvis Auditorium)
Automated Building Damage Assessment from Large Aerial and Street-Level Image Datasets: A Vision-Language Model Approach Applied to the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires.
Joseph Wartman
Computing losses over time with an ensemble of hazard event sequences.
Rachel Davidson
An International Alliance for a Step-Change National Risk Management Digital Framework and Dashboard.
Stefano Pampanin
2:15 Symposium Closure