Aims of Lab
1. Examine Climate-Vulnerable Communities with Urban Data Science
2. Initiate Climate-Resilient Planning in the Context of Global Environmental Change
3. Explore Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Methods for Urban and Regional Planning
News
Sep 1st, 2022: The Computational Urban Resilience Lab is launched in UTSA officially.
June 16th, 2022: The paper using big data of ride-hailing services in Austin, Texas has been covered by LSEUSA blog.
Research
Disaster Damage Assessment
An approach that leverages street view images to assess post-disaster damage
Social Media for Disaster Communication
Research that demonstrates the effectiveness of social media for disaster communication
NLP for Resilience Planning Documents
Examples of how natural language processing can be applied for reading resilience plans
Social Vulnerability in COVID-19
Studies that examine the resilience and social vulnerability of communities during the pandemic
Extreme Heat
Projects that examine the effects of extreme heat on human society and health