Objective Resilience Committee

Student Competition Winners

• 2025

  First Place
  “A Novel Framework for Detecting Disaster-Induced Power Outages Globally via Satellite Observations and Physics-Guided AI”
  Prateek Arora, New York University

  Second Place
  “Collective Emotional Response to Hazards: A Statistical Physics Perspective for Human-Centric Community Resilience”
  Xiaolei Chu, University of California, Berkeley

  Third Place
  “Uncertainty-Aware Fragility Modeling of Urban Building Exteriors Subjected to Hurricane-induced Windborne Debris with Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets”
  Ziluo Xiong, Colorado State University

• 2024

  First Place

  Raul Rincon, Rice University
  Title: “Coupling Effects of Fragility Fidelity and Network Resolution in Infrastructure Resilience”
  
  

  Second Place

  WoongHee Jung, University of Notre Dame
  Title: “Selection of Storm Ensembles Consistent with Storm Surge Hazard Maps Across Large Geographic Regions”
  
  
  

  Thank You to Our Judges

  Dr. Katherine Flanigan
  Dr. Zhiqiang Chen
  Dr. Katerina Aikaterini
  Dr. Milad Roohi
  

• 2023

  First Place

  Saransh Dikshit, PhD candidate, Iowa State University
  Advisor: Professor Alice Alipour
  Title: Characterizing Resilience of Transmission Tower Systems Considering Cascade Failures
  
  

  Second Place

  Saanchi Singh Kaushal, PhD student, Penn State University
  Advisor: Professor Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto and Professor Rebecca Napolitano
  Title: High-Fidelity Geometric Modelling and Analysis to Examine Tornadic Loads on Historic Masonry
  
  

  Third Place

  Michelle Reckner , PhD student, Georgia Tech
  Advisor: Professor Iris Tien
  Title: Spatial and computational analysis to prioritize green and grey flood infrastructure under uncertainty to increase resilience
  
  

  Thank You to Our Judges

  Professor Zhiqan Chen
  Professor Katherine Flanigan
  Professor Katerina Kyprioti
  Professor Teng Wu
  

• 2021

  First Place

  Mohammad Aghababei, Texas A & M University
  
  

  Second Place

  Ahmed Akl, McMaster University
  
  

  Third Place

  Zachary Bunn, Joshua Burns, Julia Wyatt, US Military Academy
  

• 2020

  First Place

  Mohamadreza Sheibani, University of Utah
  
  

  Second Place

  Tied for second place: Nariman Dehghani, Ohio State University and Ahmed Abdelhady, University of Michigan