Hazards intensify, resilience stays in tension with cost, and uncertainty compounds across climate, human behavior, and the built environment. We work from the human–disaster–built environment nexus, a computational framework for modeling people, infrastructure, and hazard as one coupled system. The choices households make about where to live, where to work, which services to seek, and how to cope when a system fails are what determine whether a disruption stays contained or cascades into a disaster. Representing that human dimension sharpens the questions and demands more of the methods, so we develop new algorithms, models, and tools that represent people and their surrounding physical systems as a coupled system, from household resolution to community scale. We build them to support risk-informed decisions about what to protect, what to restore, and for whom.Meet the team
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