Multiple students win travel award to present at SRA

Several students (Zeinab Jasour, Azin Al Kajbaf, Kaveh Faraji, and Somayeh Mohammadi) advised by Dr. Allison Reilly and Dr. Shelby Bensi have receieved travel awards to present research at SRA 2019: Risk Analysis in the Data Analytics Era. The conference will take place in Arlington, VA from December 8-12.

Dr. Reilly will be presenting research alongside two of her students: Zeinab Yahyazadeh ("Improving emergency management services in coastal communities prone to repetitive flooding") and Paul Magoulick ("Improving Post-Disaster Operation Readiness on DOD Installations through Advanced Infrastructure Planning").

Dr. Bensi will be presenting research alongside several of her students and professionals: Azin Al Kajbaf ("Investigating the Effect of Locally Intense Rainfall Events on Precipitation Frequency Analysis Estimates and Addressing Sources of Uncertainty"), Kaveh Faraji Najarkolaie ("Risk Assessment of Contaminated Sites Vulnerable to Inundation due to Sea Level Rise," also with Dr. Allison Reilly), and Somayeh Mohammadi ("A review of joint probability studies used for estimation of flood hazards due to combinations of flooding mechanisms," also alongside Shih-Chieh Kao, Scott T. DeNeale, Meredith Carr, and Joseph Kanney).

Additional information for SRA 2019 may be found here.

Congratulations to all students who received travel awards!

Published October 23, 2019