I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. With a background in civil engineering and statistics, I do interdisciplinary research incorporating economics, data science, governance, insurance, and emergency response to bring a holistic approach to solving complex challenges in disaster resilience. Before my current position, I did postdoctoral work at the Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative, graduate studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and undergraduate studies from NIT Trichy, India.
Research interests
My research interests cover a broad range of topics, including risk mitigation and disaster recovery, infrastructure and socioeconomic resilience and sustainability, reliability, decision-making under uncertainty, performance assessment of interdependent infrastructure, uncertainty quantification, catastrophe insurance, statistical modeling and machine learning, project management, and optimization.
Some human details
I am a native of Punjab, India. My life experiences related to natural hazards, financial hardship, and attaining foundational education in rural regions inspire my research ideas and teaching methods. My impact metric is human well-being, starting from the people in contact with me and extending to communities worldwide. In my free time, I enjoy DIY projects, poetry, cooking, and chess.