NHERI Graduate Student Council
2025 Mini-Conference
Updates
Thank you to over 90 participants who attended the 2025 NSF NHERI GSC Mini-Conference, those who presented natural hazard research, and those who participated in the 2025 NSF NHERI GSC Data Challenge. You made this a wonderful experience which we look forward to hosting again.
We thank Dr. Jamie Padgett from Rice University, Stanley C. Moore Professor in Engineering Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for speaking at the 2025 NSF NHERI GSC Mini-Conference.
Program Information
The NHERI Graduate Student Council hosted its third annual NHERI GSC Mini-Conference. This year’s keynote speaker was Dr. Jamie Padgett who shared her presentation, "Opportunities and Lessons Learned when Modeling Resilience Across Scales and Hazards." This fully virtual one-day conference brought together natural hazards graduate researchers as they presented original research and collaborative research based on natural hazards data within NSF NHERI DesignSafe DataDepot. Accepted research demonstrated novel approaches to methods, empirical research, and research from a variety of including geotechnical engineers, structural engineers, sociologists, demographers, computer scientists, and other disciplines. NSF NHERI GSC Data Challenge participants also presented their findings after working in research groups over the spring semester.
We are happy to announce the winners of the 2025 NSF NHERI Data Challenge.
| First place | Ali Lesani Fuad Hasan |
Graph Attention Network for Spatial Correlation Analysis in Post-Hurricane Damage Assessment UAV-Based |
| Second place | Samihana Sharma Mohammad Movahedi Syed Mostofa Asif |
Predicting Real-Time Population Behavior during Hurricanes Synthesizing Data from Transportation Systems and Social Media |
| Third place | Mujungu Museru Peter Ogunjinmi |
Utilizing Machine Learning to Assess the Performance of Single-Family Residential Building During Windstorms |
2025 NSF NHERI GSC Mini-Conference Program Schedule
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| 10:00am – 11:05am |
Welcome Remarks & Keynote Address |
| 11:05am – 11:15am |
Short Break |
| 11:15am – 12:10pm |
Data Challenge: Morning Poster Session |
| 12:10pm – 12:20pm |
Short Break |
| 12:20pm – 1:05pm |
Paper Session 1 – Broad Risk-Based Approaches for Natural Hazard Mitigation |
| 1:05pm – 1:15pm |
Short Break |
| 1:15pm – 2:00pm |
Paper Session 2 – Earthquakes in Focus: Seismic Resilience in a Changing World |
| 2:00pm – 2:30pm |
Long Break |
| 2:30pm – 3:25pm |
Data Challenge: Afternoon Poster Session |
| 3:25pm – 3:35pm |
Short Break |
| 3:35pm – 4:20pm |
Paper Session 3 – Disaster Risk in Context: Social Science Perspectives and Structural Approaches to Hazard Mitigation |
| 4:20pm – 4:30pm |
Closing Remarks |
Contact Us
For questions, please contact the NHERI GSC Organizing Committee.
- Pooria Mazaheri, Chair of Research (mazaheri@iastate.edu)
- Parisa Toofani Movaghar, Chair of Data Challenge (ptoofani@nd.edu)
- Harman Singh, President (harmansingh1412@gmail.com)
- Richard Campos, Vice President (richard.campos@ou.edu)
- Rajendra Gautam, Chair of Workshops and Mentoring (rgautam.nepal@gmail.com)