The following summer research opportunity is available at the Risk Assessment and Mitigation (RAM) Lab in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU). The RAM Lab mainly focuses on natural hazard risk assessment and mitigation, community resilience under natural hazards, robust analysis/design of complex engineering systems, machine learning, risk-informed decision making.

The overall goal of this opportunity is to use multi-fidelity simulation approaches to quantify the tsunami evacuation risk of coastal communities under earthquake-induced tsunami.

By working on this summer project, the student will gain skills on (1) how to use agent-based model (ABM) to simulate tsunami evacuation in coastal communities, (2) stochastic simulation approaches for uncertainty quantification and natural hazard risk assessment, (3) using super computers to run large-scale simulations, and (4) scientific presentation and communication.

Required skills and background: Some basic background in Matlab coding, or programming in general. Civil/Environmental Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or other relevant engineering majors are preferred.

List of citations for further reading:  Wang, Z., and Jia. G. (2021). “A novel agent-based model for tsunami evacuation simulation and risk assessment.” Natural Hazards, 105, 2045–2071. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-020-04389-8.

Contact information: If you are interested in applying or knowing more about this opportunity, please directly contact Dr. Gaofeng Jia (Gaofeng.Jia@colostate.edu).