CRR Showcases Research at the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting

In December, the University of Maryland Center for Risk and Reliability (CRR) participated in the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Annual Meeting, held December 7–10. The annual conference brings together global experts in risk analysis to share research that advances understanding of complex, interconnected risks across engineering, policy, and society. CRR’s Reliability Engineering Program was well represented, with 10 presentations featuring 11 students, highlighting the breadth and depth of research conducted across the Center.

CRR faculty and students presented work spanning infrastructure resilience, climate and hydroclimatic risk, hydrogen safety, probabilistic risk assessment, emergency communication, and social vulnerability. Research topics included probabilistic frameworks for distributed infrastructure systems under compound hazards, time-frequency relationships between septic failure and hydroclimatic stressors, and Bayesian methods to improve the safety and reliability of hydrogen fueling stations. Additional presentations examined policy and climate drivers of sustainable residential development, as well as linguistic differences in emergency communication messages for tropical cyclones.

Below is a snapshot of the outstanding work presented by the CRR community at SRA 2024:

Oral Presentations

Amirreza Mohammadi
A Probabilistic Framework for the Analysis of the Performance of Distributed Infrastructure Systems under Spatially Correlated Compound Hazards
Amirreza Mohammadi, PhD Student, University of Maryland, College Park; Michelle Bensi, Associate Professor, University of Maryland; Uichan Seok, Seoul National University
Jerin Tasnim
Evidence of Time-Frequency Dependency between Septic Failure and Hydroclimatic Stressors in Coastal Virginia
Jerin Tasnim, Graduate Research Assistant II; Michelle Bensi, Associate Professor, University of Maryland; Allison Reilly, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
Lauren Reising
Paving the Way for Safe and Reliable Hydrogen Fueling Stations with Probabilistic Component Data Analysis and Bayesian Methods
Lauren Reising; Camille Levine; Katrina Groth, Professor, University of Maryland
Suroosh Mosleh & Katrina Groth
Integration of Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Multi-Horizon Stochastic Programming for Risk Management
Suroosh Mosleh, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park; Katrina Groth, Professor, University of Maryland
Sergio Garcia Mejia & Michelle Bensi
Toward Improved Emergency Communication Messages: A Linguistic Comparison of Spanish and English Short Warnings for Tropical Cyclones
Sergio Garcia Mejia, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland; Emina Herovic, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Michelle Bensi, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
Adriana Bryant
Investigation of Policy and Climate-Relevant Drivers of Sustainable Residential Building Development in the United States
Adriana Bryant, PhD Student
· Behnam Tahmasbi & Deb Niemeier

Social Networks and Evacuation Timing During Wildfires: A Data-Driven Analysis of the 2018 CampFire
•Behnam Tahmasbi, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland; Deb Niemeier, Professor, University of Maryland

Poster Presentations

Safoura Safari & Diako Abbasi
Disparities in Maintenance Services Across D.C. Public Schools: Examining School- and Community-Level Characteristics (P.30)
Safoura Safari; Diako Abbasi, University of Maryland; Zahra Halimi, University of Maryland; Deb Niemeier, University of Maryland
Saeed Saleh Namadi
It’s All About Accessibility! A Geospatial Analysis of Healthcare Access for ADRD Patients (P.42)
Saeed Saleh Namadi; Deb Niemeier; Jie Chen, University of Maryland
Meredith Walsh & Gabrielle Scott
Analysis of Hurricane Impact in Communities Based on Social Vulnerability (P.29)
Meredith Walsh, Undergraduate Student, University of Maryland; Gabrielle Scott, University of Maryland, College Park
Gretchen Bella
Improving Community Resilience to Disrupted Food Access: Empirical Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Volunteer-Based Crowdsourced Food Delivery (P.79)
Gretchen Bella, University of Maryland; Elisa Borowski, UC Irvine; Amanda Stathopoulos, Northwestern University