Who We Are

Leadership

Ertugrul Taciroglu

UCLA

Research Interests:

Regional Natural Hazard Risk Assessment
Computational Science & Engineering

https://samueli.ucla.edu/people/ertugrul-taciroglu

Hamed Ebrahimian

University of Nevada, Reno

Research Interests:

Risk assessment/decision making under uncertainty
Integration of computational models with data/Digital Twins

https://www.unr.edu/cee/people/hamed-ebrahimian

Negar Elhami-Khorasani

University at Buffalo

Research Interests:

Fire engineering
Resilient communities
Cascading hazards

https://engineering.buffalo.edu/civil-structural-environmental/people/faculty_directory/negar_elhami_khorasani.html

Alistair Smith

University of Idaho

Research Interests:

Combustion physics
Wildland fire science
Forest biometrics

https://www.uidaho.edu/sci/ess/people/faculty-and-staff/smith

Alark Saxena

Northern Arizona University

Research Interests:

Forestry
Sustainability
Disaster Risk Reduction
Social-ecological resilience

https://directory.nau.edu/person/as4635

Rachael Brady

UCLA

Former CAL FIRE Research Data Specialist and 9-1-1 Dispatcher

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaelbradygisp/

Paolo Gardoni

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Research Interests:

Risk and reliability
Natural hazard resilience

https://cee.illinois.edu/directory/profile/gardoni

Institutions

Institution 1

UCLA

Institution 2

UCLA

Institution 3

UCLA

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UCLA

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UCLA

Researchers

Research Thrusts: Hazard and Exposure

Negar Elhami-Khorasani

University of Buffalo

Department/School: Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Area of Research: WUI communities, resilience

https://engineering.buffalo.edu/civil-structural-environmental/people/faculty_directory/negar_elhami_khorasani.html

Branko Kosovic

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Affiliation: Director of the Weather Systems and Assessment Program
Area of Research: Wildfire modeling

https://staff.ucar.edu/users/branko

Hamed Ebrahimian

University of Nevada, Reno
Department/School: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Area of Research: Risk assessment, resilience, Rapid Response Technology

Qing Zhu

UCLA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Department/School: Wildfire Group
Area of Research: Ignition ++

Andy Thode

Northern Arizona University
Department/School: School of Forestry
Area of Research: Fire Ecology and Management, Fire Science, Burn Severity

Melissa Bukovsky

National Center for Atmospheric Research
Affiliation: Project Scientist III
Area of Research: Regional Climate Model, climate analysis and climate change impacts

Jacquelyn Shuman

National Center for Atmospheric Research
Affiliation: Project Scientist II
Area of Research: Land Fuel Model

Zhenduo Zhu

University of Buffalo
Department/School: Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Area of Research: Suppression modeling, solutions, and impacts

George Gross

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Department/School: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Area of Research: Large-scale system analysis and computing, reliability and security assessment

Rajesh Kumar

National Center for Atmospheric Research
Affiliation: Project Scientist III
Area of Research: Air Quality Model

Research Thrusts: Loss and Recovery

Paolo Gardoni

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Department/School: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Area of Research: Infrastructure resilience, reliability

https://cee.illinois.edu/directory/profile/gardoni

Susan Cutter

University of South Carolina

Department/School: Department of Geography
Area of Research: Social science

https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/geography/our_people/our_people_directory/cutter_susan.php

Adam Rose

University of Southern California
Department/School: School of Public Policy
Area of Research: Economics and Public Policy

Robert Shriver

University of Nevada, Reno
Department/School: Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Science
Area of Research: Impacts of environmental variability

Ben Sullivan

University of Nevada, Reno
Department/School: Natural Resources & Environmental Science
Area of Research: Land/fuel modeling

Erin Brooks

University of Idaho
Department/School: Department of Soil and Water Systems
Area of Research: Complex ecosystems

Arden Rowell

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Department/School: College of Law
Area of Research: Environmental law

Sudeep Chandra

University of Nevada, Reno
Department/School: Department of Biology
Area of Research: Aquatic ecosystems

Mariana Dobre

University of Idaho
Department/School: College of Agricultural and Life Science
Area of Research: Hydrology

Regan Patterson

UCLA
Department/School: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Area of Research: Air quality

Paige Fischer

University of Michigan
Department/School: School for Environment and Sustainability
Area of Research: Human dimensions of environmental change

Tom Cova

University of Utah
Department/School: Department of Geography
Area of Research: Evacuation

Kirstin Dow

University of South Carolina
Department/School: Geography
Area of Research: Adaptation, climate risk

Anthony Wexler

University of California, Davis
Department/School: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Area of Research: Air quality

Ryan Fitch

Northern Arizona University
Department/School: Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting
Area of Research: Wildfire economics, ecological economics

Ian Sue Wing

Boston University
Department/School: Earth and Environment
Area of Research: Climate policy models

Dan Wei

University of Southern California
Department/School: Geography
Area of Research: Energy and Environmental Economics

Fynn Prager

California State University, Dominguez Hills
Department/School: Public Administration
Area of Research: Public policies

Research Thrusts: Resilience Pathways

Alistair Smith

University of Idaho

Department/School: College of Natural Resources
Area of Research: Wildland fire science

https://www.uidaho.edu/sci/ess/people/faculty-and-staff/smith

Adam Rose

University of Southern California

Department/School: School of Public Policy
Area of Research: Economics and Public Policy

https://priceschool.usc.edu/people/adam-rose/

Dan Wei

University of Southern California
Department/School: School of Public Policy
Area of Research: Economics and Public Policy

Ali Mosleh

UCLA
Department/School: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Area of Research: Risk and reliability

Tarannom Parhizkar

UCLA
Department/School: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Area of Research: Operation optimization of complex systems

Alark Saxena

Northern Arizona University
Department/School: School of Forestry
Area of Research: Socio-ecological resilience

Rajan Batta

University at Buffalo
Department/School: Industrial and Systems Eng. and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Diversity
Area of Research: Education and workforce, system integration

Colleen Murphy

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Department/School: College of Law
Area of Research: Legal and ethical dimensions of risks

Enabling Technology: Cyber Infrastructure

Tim Cockerill

Texas Advanced Computing Center

Department/School: User Services (Director)
Area of Research: Web-based platform supporting natural hazards research

https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/about/directory/tim-cockerill

Mohamad Alipour

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department/School: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Area of Research: Construction Materials, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Systems

https://grainger.illinois.edu/about/directory/faculty/alipour

Paul Navratil

Texas Advanced Computing Center
Department/School: Strategic Technologies
Area of Research: Hardware, software, data, analysis and UI/UX

John Anderson

University of Idaho
Department/School: Virtual Technology & Design
Area of Research: Virtual reality

Roger Lew

University of Idaho
Department/School: Virtual Technology & Design
Area of Research: Virtual reality, Sociotechnical systems

Frank McKenna

University of California, Berkeley
Department/School: NHERI SimCenter
Area of Research: Software and data

Enabling Technology: Makers

Sriram Narasimhan

UCLA

Department/School: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Area of Research: Smart infrastructure

https://samueli.ucla.edu/people/sriram-narasimhan/

Lili Cai

University of Idaho

Department/School: Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences
Area of Research: Bio-based fire retardants

https://www.uidaho.edu/cnr/faculty/cai

Enabling Technology: Field Operations

Neil Lareau

University of Nevada, Reno

Department/School: Department of Physics
Area of Research: Lidar/Radar and fire data

https://www.unr.edu/physics/people/neil-lareau

Sudeep Chandra

University of Nevada, Reno

Department/School: Natural Resources & Environmental Science
Area of Research: Watershed & Ecology

https://www.unr.edu/biology/faculty/sudeep-chandra

Testbeds

Alark Saxena

Northern Arizona University

Department/School: School of Forestry
Area of Research: Socio-ecological resilience

https://directory.nau.edu/person/as4635

Loretta Singletary

University of Nevada, Reno

Department/School: Economics
Area of Research: Knowledge Co-Production, Stakeholder Outreach

https://www.unr.edu/business/about/faculty-and-staff/singletary-loretta

Christina Restaino

University of Nevada, Reno
Department/School: Living with Fire
Area of Research: Community Outreach/Policy