Resilient-NET: International Networks Towards Urban Resilience
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A network that acts as a catalyst to facilitate cross-disciplinary global collaborations, synergize complementary scientific expertise, and provide critical access to pilot projects, platforms and research capabilities for the U.S. and international researchers to make global impacts on emerging challenges in building resilience into future urban socio-technical systems.
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Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation grant 2201467.
Focused Areas
01 / Cybernetic Infrastructure Resilience
02 / Social Resilience
03 / Climate Change and Urban Resilience
Indentify research gaps and priorities for the monitoring, planning and maintenance of digitalized cyber-physical systems
Identify research gaps and priorities in bringing social justice and equity into the solutions for urban resilience.
Identify research gaps and priorities in quantifying uncertainty of climate change impact on urban resilience
People
Advisory Committee
Core Team Members
A diverse and vibrant network of researchers from multiple disciplinary areas including Data Science, Sociology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logistics, Geosciences and Climatology
Collaborators
A Growing Network
2023 Workshop on Urban Resilience
Time: Aug 1 – Aug 2, 2023
Location: Singapore-ETH Centre, Future Resilient Systems, Value Lab, 1 Create Way, 06-01 CREATE Tower, Singapore 138602
Day 1
7:30-8:45
Signup + Breakfast
8:45-9:20
[8:45-8:50] Opening remarks given by the leadership team members of Singapore-ETH Centre
[8:50-9:05] Opening remarks given by the US NSF Program Officer (pre-recorded video)
[9:05-9:20] Overview and introduction to the project and workshop
9:20-10:05
Keynote 1 (On Zoom)
Speaker: Dr. Jayant Kalagnanam, Director of AI Applications & Distinguished Industry Leader, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Founding director of IBM Singapore Research Collaboratory
Title: AI for Cyber-Physical Systems – with a mix of examples from Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Earth systems
10:05-10:25
Break
10:25-11:10
Keynote 2
Speaker: Prof. Bozidar Stojadinovic, Prof. Edmond Lo
Title: Modeling and Quantifying the Resilience of Interdependent Systems in Dense Urban Regions
11:10-12:40
[11:10-11:40]
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Pazour, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Title: Open challenges and salient modeling features of supply chain resiliency and last-mile goods and people movement in cities.
[11:40-12:10]
Speaker: Dr. Beatrice Cassottana
Title: InfraRisk - a simulation model for estimating the indirect impacts of infrastructure disruptions.
[12:10-12:40]
Speaker: Dr. Hiba Baroud, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
Title: Are we ready for the next disaster? The role of data, humans, and uncertainty in achieving sustainable resilience.
12:40 – 1:40
Lunch break
1:40 – 3:10
[1:40-2:10]
Speaker: Tanya Talwar
Title: Climate resilience modelling and pre-emptive planning
[2:10-2:40]
Speaker: Dr. Lijuan Shen
Title: Cyber-physical systems resilience
[2:40-3:10]
Speaker: Dr. Siqi Song
Title: Exploring the relationship between urban resilience and the built environment
3:10 – 3:30
Break
3:30 – 5:00
[3:30-4:00]
Speaker: Pradeep Alva
Title: Overview on resilience in the built environment and work on digital twins for energy, carbon and climate resilience
[4:00-4:30]
Speaker: Prof. Renate Schubert
Title: How to strengthen the social resilience of urban systems?
[4:30-5:00]
Speaker: Dr. Linyin Cheng, University of Arkansas
Title: Climate risk from compound events
6:30
Dinner:
Tamarind Restaurant; Tamarind Hill Singapore
30 Labrador Villa Road
Singapore 119189
Day 2
9:00-12:30
Discussions on the future collaborations. The goals are:
1. Identify future collaboration topics (problems, data, platform, etc.)
2. Discussions on potential student/scholar short-term visit
3. Discussions on future plans (meetings, 2024 workshops, etc.)
[9:00-9:55]
Topic 1. Collaborations on future cyber-physical systems resilience
[9:55-10:50]
Topic 2. Collaborations on future urban logistics resilience
[10:50-11:05] Break
[11:05-12:00]
Topic 3. Collaborations on the interactions between climate change, infrastructure resilience and social resilience
[12:00-12:30]
Discussions on follow-up actions, including future meetings, student/scholar visit, etc.
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2024 Workshop on Urban Resilience
Day 1 (May 15)
Opening remarks: 8:30-8:50
• Dr. Kara Hoover, Program Officer, Accelerating Research through International Networkto-
Network Collaborations (AccelNet), National Science Foundation
Morning Session I: 8:50 – 11:00
• Speakers
Dr. Subhrajit Guhathakurta
Professor, School of City & Regional Planning, Georgia Tech.
Director, Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization
Talk Title: Being Smarter about Smart Cities: Geospatial Tools for Urban Resilience
Time: 8:50-09:15am
Dr. Hendrik Hamann
Chief Science Officer for Climate and Sustainability
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Talk Title: Geospatial Foundation Models for Climate and Sustainability
Time: 9:15-09:40am
Dr. Jonas Joerin
Director, Future Resilient Systems (FRS), Singapore-ETH Centre
Talk Title: Towards Future Resilient Systems
Time: 9:40-10:05am
Dr. Cynthia Chen
Interim Chair of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Industrial & Systems Engineering
University of Washington
Talk Title: Untapped capacity in place-based resource sharing for enhanced community
resilience
• Panel discussions (10:30-11:00am)
Panelists: all speakers of the session
break: 11:00 – 11:10
• Snacks/Coffee will be provided
Morning Session II: 11:10 – 12:10
• Speakers
Dr. Adam Roberts
Senior Researcher, Singapore-ETH Centre
Talk Title: TBD
Time: 11:10-11:35am
Dr. Yisha Xiang
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Houston
Talk Title: Ambiguity learning in sequential decision making with parameter uncertainty
Time: 11:35-12:00pm
Dr. Levente Klein
Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Talk Title: Urban Forests for Heat Island Reduction and Carbon Sequestration
Time: 12:00-12:25pm
Lunch break: 12:25 – 01:25pm
• Lunch at Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center for all speakers and audiences
Afternoon Session I: 01:25 – 3:35pm
• Speakers
Dr. Benoit Montreuil
Coca-Cola Material Handling & Distribution Chair Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of
Industrial & Systems Engineering
Director, Supply Chain and Logistics Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: TBD
Time: 01:25-01:50pm
Dr. Diana Ramirez-Rios
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Buffalo
Talk Title: Building Resilient Communities from Critical Infrastructure Failures of Natural
Hazards
Time: 01:50-02:15pm
Dr. Rosemarie Santa Gonzalez
Postdoctoral Fellow
AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT)
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: TBD
Time: 02:15-02:40pm
Dr. Jennifer Pazour
Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Talk Title: TBD
Time: 02:40-03:05pm
• Panel discussions (03:05-03:35pm)
Panelists: all speakers of the session
break: 03:35– 03:45
• Snacks/Coffee will be provided
Afternoon Session II: 03:45 – 05:00
• Speakers
Dr. Qinghua Li
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
The Twenty-First Century Research Leadership Chair, University of Arkansas
Talk Title: Supporting Energy Resilience with Automated Cybersecurity Operations
Time: 03:45-04:10pm
Dr. Feng Qiu
Principal Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Talk Title: TBD
Time: 04:10-04:35pm
Dr. Xiao Liu
David M. McKenney Family Associate Professor
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Harnessing the convergence of domain knowledge into statistical machine learning
models for natural and environmental processes
Time: 04:35-05:00pm
Afternoon Tour (to be determined)
• Supply Chain and Logistics Institute, Physical Internet Center
Dinner
• All speakers are invited; Location: to be determined (mid-town Atlanta)
Day 2 (May 16)
Morning Session I: 8:30 – 10:40
• Speakers
Dr. Valerie Thomas
Anderson-Interface Chair of Natural Systems Professor
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Convergence or Divergence: Urban Resilience, Climate Action, and Environmental
Justice
Time: 8:30-08:55
Dr. Chao Yuan
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Director of Research, NUS CITIES Program
Principal Investigator, Urban Climate Design Lab, NUS
Talk Title: TBD
Time: 8:55-9:20
Dr. Yiyi He
Assistant Professor, School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Tech.
Researh areas: urban planning, GIScience, climate science, and artificial intelligence.
Talk Title: When floods hit the road: a network approach to evidence-based resilience
planning under a changing climate
Time: 9:20-9:45
• Panel discussions (10:10-10:40am)
Panelists: all speakers of the session
break: 10:40 – 10:50
• Snacks/Coffee will be provided
Morning Session II: 10:50 – 12:30
In this session, we will present three 25-min talks by PhD students
• Speakers
Michael Biehler, Ph.D Candidate
Ph.D Candidate
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Leveraging Dynamic 3D Machine Learning and Multimodal Data Fusion for Urban
Resilience
Time: 10:50-11:15
Zihan Zhang, Ph.D Candidate
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Federated Multiple Tensor-on-Tensor Regression (FedMTOT) for Multimodal Data
under Data-Sharing Constraints
Time: 11:15-11:40
Xinchao Liu, Ph.D Candidate
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Optimal Sensor Allocation for Emission Source Detection with Linear Atmospheric
Dispersion
Time: 11:40-12:05
Braedyn McBroom, Ph.D Candidate
Assessing the Resilience and Vulnerability of Arkansas to Winter Weather Impacts”
Talk Title: Assessing the Resilience and Vulnerability of Arkansas to Winter Weather Impacts
Time: 12:05-12:30
Lunch break: 12:30 – 01:30
• Lunch is at Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center for speakers and audiences
Afternoon (to be finalized)
• Tour to AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT)
• Tour to Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization
• Discussions on Follow-Up Actions and Planning
