Prof. Ali Mostafavi

Ali Mostafavi supervises the UrbanResilience.AL Lab. At Texas A&M, he is a fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Communities, the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy, as well as the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center. His research focuses on analyzing, modeling, and improving network dynamics in the nexus of humans, disasters, and the built environment to foster convergence knowledge of resilient communities. He received more than $7 million in external funding (his share is over $4.5 million). He has written 85 peer-reviewed journal articles. He received several awards and honors such as an Early-career Research Fellowship from the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program and a NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Mostafavi is a member of the ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division and an Editorial Board member of the ASCE Management in Engineering Journal.

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Dr. Hongrak Pak

Hongrak Pak, a collaborative postdoctoral researcher at both the UrbanResilience.AI Lab and the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas (IDRT), earned his Ph.D. from the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2023. His doctoral research focused on addressing limitations within traditional ML models and developing innovative transfer learning models within the realm of structural engineering. Building upon his prior expertise, his current research is centered around harnessing advanced machine learning techniques for infrastructure and urban resilience.

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Chia-Fu (Joey) Liu

Chiafu is currently a PhD student in Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University, advised by Prof. Ali Mostafavi. He joined the Urban Resilience.AI Lab in Fall 2021 and works as a graduate research assistant. Previously, Chiafu completed his M.S. in Industrial Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU), and B.S. in Industrial Management at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST). Broadly, Chiafu is interested in mathematically modeling of real-world problems and data analytics. Notably, his research focus on exploring urban mobility network and building resilience for disaster risk management. In his downtime, Chiafu enjoys going to the church’s meeting, jogging and cooking.

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Bo Li

Bo is a Ph.D. student in civil engineering at Texas A&M University. She joined the lab in Fall 2021 as a research assistant. Bo received her bachelor’s degree in Construction Engineering & Management from Southeast University and master’s degree in Management Science & Engineering from Tianjin University. Her research interests lie in data science and infrastructure resilience. She hopes to serve decision makers and residents and be a part of creating a better, safer world by her research. In her spare time, Bo enjoys playing badminton and reading.

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Akhil Rajput

Akhil started his Ph.D. in Fall 2020. Prior to his Ph.D., He was an undergraduate student in the Urban Resilience Lab in Summer 2019. He earned his B.S. in civil engineering with honors at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. His research interests lies at the intersection of urban resilience, complex networks, and data science. In his leisure time, he likes to solve the Rubik's cube (2×2, 3×3, 4×4) and play chess.

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Chenyue Liu

Chenyue is Data Science Researcher in the lab and also a PhD student majoring in Agriculture economics. She received her master’s degree in Quantitative Economics from Texas A&M University and bachelor’s degree in Statistics at Capital University of Economics and Business in China. She hopes to use statistics models in the real world to find some interesting things. Her research interests are about data science and machine learning .Chenyue is good at badminton. She won first place in women’s doubles and mixed doubles at Texas A&M University.

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Chia-Wei (Joe) Hsu

Chiawei is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. He joined the Urban Resilience.AI Lab in Fall 2020 as a Ph.D. student and research assistant. Chiawei holds his Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and Master's degree in Transportation Engineering from National Taiwan University. Before joining Texas A&M, he worked as a research assistant for a year on a nuclear powerplant evacuation project. His research interests lie in urban network resilience, traveler behavior and the intersection of the two. While not doing research, he enjoys swimming, playing basketball and watching movies.

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Junwei Ma

Junwei is a Ph.D. student in Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University. He joined the Urban Resilience.AI Lab in Fall 2021 as a research assistant. Junwei earned his master’s degree and bachelor’s degree in Construction Engineering and Management from Southeast University in China. Junwei’s most recent research quest is to apply artificial intelligence methodologies to address city and community resilience problems and be committed to creating a smarter and more equitable society. In his spare time, Junwei enjoys playing football and travelling.

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Yu-Hsuan (Viola) Ho

Yu-Hsuan is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and Master's degree in Transportation Engineering from National Taiwan University. Her research experience computer vision and urban data science. In her free time, she enjoys watching movies and visiting film festivals.

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Kai Yin

Kai is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. He obtained his MS degree from Beijing Jiaotong University. He joined the Urban Resilience.AI Lab in Summer 2022 as a graduate research assistant. Kai’s research experience covers urban resilience, data science, intelligent connected vehicle and traffic signal control. His recent research is to apply data-driven based method to study urban transportation system resilience and is committed to creating a more resilient transportation system under disasters. In his free time, Kai enjoys traveling and watching movies.

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Xiangpeng Li

Xiangpeng is a MS-Ph.D. student in UrbanResilience.AI Lab in Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University. She received her bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Davis, majoring in civil engineering, and her master’s degree at Northeastern University majoring in Engineering Management. She likes to research urban resilience, and combine data science with engineering to build a more resilient community. In her free time, she enjoys exploring delicious food and traveling.

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Lipai Huang

Lipai is a Master student majoring in Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He joined the UrbanResilience.ai Lab as a Data Science Researcher in Spring 2022. Lipai completed his Bachelor degree in Telecommunication Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China. His research interests contain machine learning, deep learning, data analysis and visualization. In his free time, he enjoys watching Warriors games and playing Switch.

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Miguel Esparza

Miguel is a Ph.D. student in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence track of Civil Engineering Department at TAMU. He was a structural engineer at Arup before returning the Urban Resilience.AI Lab for his Ph.D. As a Masters and Undergraduate student at Texas A&M, he worked for the Urban Resilience.AI Lab where his research focused on the societal impacts of infrastructure disruption due to disasters. Now he aims to elevate his past research by using data science techniques to converge different datasets to improve the resiliency of the built environment and communities from disaster induced disruptions. 

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Yiming Xiao

Yiming joined the Urban Resilence.AI lab in the Fall of 2024 as a PhD student and a research assistant. He is deeply interested in applying AI technology to solve civil engineering problems and enhance community disaster resilience. He also likes to use data processing tools to extract valuable hidden information. Before joining Texas A&M, he obtained his Master’s degree at Tongji University and Bachelor's degree at Zhengzhou University.


Outside of academics, Yiming is an active gym visitor and likes to stay muscular. He is also a fan of swimming and soccer.

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Lauren Moran

Allison is an undergraduate civil engineering major and project management minor at Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas. She began her research at the UrbanReslience.AI Lab in October 2021. Her research is focused on using crowdsourced data to better understand flash flood resilience in terms of environmental and social factors. Additionally, she serves on the Student Engineers’ Council Executive Council as Professional Trip Co-Chair, and she is a Civil Engineering Ambassador for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In the future, she hopes to help develop more sustainable water resources infrastructure systems. In her free time, she enjoys trying new foods, playing sports, doing graphic design, and playing board games with friends and family.

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Annie Bone

Shurui is an undergraduate Computer Science Honors student at Texas A&M University. He began his research at the UrbanReslience.AI Lab in August 2022. He has interests in Machine Learning and Data Analysis and is pursuing a Minor in Mathematics. After graduating in the fall of 2024, he plans to pursue a master's degree in the future. In his free time, he likes to play the piano and learn about new computers and parts technologies.

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Matthew McGee

Matthew is a Senior in civil engineering. He is on the geotechnical track within the major, and plans to graduate in the fall of 2024. After graduation, he will commission into the Marine Corps as a Second Lieutenant. He is currently in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M, and a member of the Society of American Military Engineers. He grew up in Bryan, loves A&M and its traditions, and is a second generation Aggie. After his time in the Marines, Matthew plans to return to College Station to either pursue graduate school or work locally.  In his free time, Matthew likes to read, work out, play guitar, and watch movies with friends.

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Allison Clarke

Allison is an undergraduate civil engineering major and project management minor at Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas. She began her research at the UrbanReslience.AI Lab in October 2021. Her research is focused on using crowdsourced data to better understand flash flood resilience in terms of environmental and social factors. Additionally, she serves on the Student Engineers’ Council Executive Council as Professional Trip Co-Chair, and she is a Civil Engineering Ambassador for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In the future, she hopes to help develop more sustainable water resources infrastructure systems. In her free time, she enjoys trying new foods, playing sports, doing graphic design, and playing board games with friends and family.

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Lauren Stapleton

Lauren Stapleton is a junior in civil engineering on the environmental track. Lauren joined the urban resilience lab in January 2022. Before working in this lab, she worked as an undergraduate research assistant at the Dallas Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Center. At Texas A&M she is a member of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ambassadors as well as the Club Equestrian Team and Zachry Leadership Program. She also works on campus as a group fitness instructor at the Rec Center where she teaches cycle, dance, kickboxing, and barre classes. When Lauren is not working or studying, she can be found spending time enjoying the outdoors or tending to her houseplants.

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Tyler Felton

Tyler is a junior at Texas A&M University studying computer science with an emphasis in statistics. He started his work as a Data Science Researcher at the UrbanResilience.AI Lab in August of 2022. His interests lie in data analytics and visualization. In his free time, he likes to spend quality time with his friends/family, travel to new places and play golf. He currently plans on pursuing a master's degree after graduation.

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