Resilient-NET: International Networks Towards Urban Resilience

Goals: 

An international collaboration 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. 

Project main website: link

2023-2024 Activities:

Agenda:

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.

Agenda:

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: 8:50-9:15am

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

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

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

Time: 02:15-02:40pm

Dr. Jennifer Pazour

Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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)

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

Dinner

• All speakers are invited; Location: 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

Time: 8:55-9:20

Dr. Yiyi He

Assistant Professor, School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Tech.

Research 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

• 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