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Professor Devineni receives $2M grant to tackle natural disasters
The funded project aims to train scientists in AI-driven natural hazard risk management and resilience.
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Naresh Devineni / CCNY
A study led by Indian-origin researcher to tackle challenges posed by extreme natural hazards has received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy under its RENEW (Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce) initiative.
The three-year project, led by Naresh Devineni, a professor of civil engineering at the City College of New York (CCNY), is will focus on preparing a workforce that will be engaged in equipping students and early-career scientists with the knowledge and skills to better understand and manage natural hazards such as floods, landslides, and heatwaves.
The research will focus on the Greater New York metropolitan area, one of the most densely populated regions in the country, which faces increasing vulnerability to these extreme events.
“The project aims to improve the knowledge of extreme natural hazards by quantifying and understanding the properties of floods, landslides, heatwaves, and multi-hazard impacts in the Greater New York metropolitan area,” said Devineni.
“A synergistic approach that blends Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with traditional computational methods will be used to create more robust, scalable, and dynamic climate-informed natural hazard risk management tools for the next generation of energy science workforce,” he added.
The program will prepare graduates and postdoctoral scientists for careers in government, industry, and academia, providing them with the expertise needed to contribute to resilience and adaptation projects in an AI-driven workforce.
The research team includes a multidisciplinary team of experts from CCNY, Stony Brook University, and national research labs, including the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.
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