DISASTER RISK ANALYSIS LAB
Creating probabilistic methods to make our cities more resilient
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Journal Publications
2022
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February 2022: Luis Ceferino presents the research "Community Resilience through Microgrids and Solar Generation to Earthquakes and Hurricanes" at the ASCE Lifelines Conference 2021-2022 (link to video).
2021
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November 2021: Luis Ceferino participates in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, as part of the NYU official delegation.
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September 2021: Charalampos Avraam joins our group as a Smart Cities Postdoctoral Associate at CUSP. He will also work with Prof. Yury Dvorkin and Ramesh Karri. He joins after finishing his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in Civil and Systems Engineering. Welcome!
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September 2021: Luis Ceferino reflects on approaches to manage flood risks after Hurricane Ida in an interview with News 12 Brooklyn
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July 2021: Luis Ceferino and Yury Dvorkin, from the NYU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the NYU Climate Change Seed Funding for the project entitled "Data-Driven Testbed for Studying Urban Energy Resiliency under Climate Change".
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May 2021: Yvonne Merino joins our group as a visiting Ph.D. student. She is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Welcome!
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May 2021: Prateek Arora received the cross-university NYU Urban Doctoral Fellowship. Congratulations.
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April 2021: Luis Ceferino presents his work on hospital system modeling in the "Critical Healthcare Infrastructure & Operational Modeling" workshop at Johns Hopkins University.
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February 2021: Our paper "Effective plans for hospital system response to earthquake emergencies" was featured in the Editor's Highlight in the Public Health Section of Nature Communications.
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January 2021: Prateek Arora joins our research group as a Ph.D. student. He holds an M.S. degree in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from BITS Pilani, India. Welcome!
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January 2021: Luis Ceferino joins the New York University to start a tenure-track assistant professorship. Luis joins NYU from Princeton Univerisity, where he was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University in 2019.

Ceferino, L., Lin, N., & Xi, D. (2022). Bayesian Updating of Solar Panel Fragility Curves and Implications of Higher Panel Strength for Solar Generation Resilience. [Preprint]

Ceferino, L., Galvez, P., Ampuero, J., Kiremidjian, A., Deierlein, G., & Villegas-Lanza, J. C. (2021). Bayesian parameter estimation for space and time interacting earthquake rupture model using historical and physics-based simulated earthquake catalogs. Bulletin of Seismological Society of America. [Link] [Preprint][Data+Code]

Markhvida, M., Ceferino, L., and Baker, J. W. (2018). “Modeling spatially correlated spectral accelerations at multiple periods using principal component analysis and geostatistics.” Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 47(5), 1107–1123. [Link] [Simlation code] [Correlation model]

Ceferino, Luis, Anne Kiremidjian, and Greg Deierlein. "Probabilistic model for regional multiseverity casualty estimation due to building damage following an earthquake." ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering 4.3 (2018): 04018023. [Link]

Noh, H.-Y., Kiremidjian, A., Ceferino, L., & So, E. (2017). Bayesian Updating of Earthquake Vulnerability Functions with Application to Mortality Rates. Earthquake Spectra, 33(3), 1173–1189. [Link]

Lallemant, D., Burton, H., Ceferino, L., Bullock, Z., & Kiremidjian, A. (2017). A Framework and Case Study for Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment of Incrementally Expanding Buildings. Earthquake Spectra, 33(4), 1369–1384. [Link]
