Stanford PhD graduate. Founder. Building technology to improve the resilience of our built environment.

My research at the John Blume Earthquake Engineering Research Center and Baker Research Group explores earthquake resilience at the building-level and regional scale. Beyond quantifying the risk of our past and present design practices (in terms of safety and downtime), I develop engineering methods that can rapidly identify scalable, cost-effective resilient design strategies.

I am actively building ResiQuant, a technology startup based in San Francisco building AI-powered property intelligence.

Updates

  • June 2024: Completed PhD degree program at Stanford University.

  • May 2024: Passed PhD Oral Defense for thesis, Engineering modeling for assessing and optimizing seismic resilience at Stanford University.

  • February 2024: Presented Optimization framework to support recovery-based design at the 2024 SimCenter Symposium at UCLA.

  • January 2024:  Presented as a panelist at “Breaking Down Barriers & Creating Pathways to Success” at the January SEAONC monthly meeting in San Francisco.

  • August 2023: Launched inaugural PSC Summit at UC Berkeley.

  • August 2023: Presented Optimization framework to support recovery-based design at the 2023 PEER Annual Meeting at UC Berkeley.

  • August 2023: Presented Assessing Urban Post-Earthquake Community Recovery to Inform Pre-Disaster Planning with Jack Baker at the 2023 NIST-NSF Disaster Resilience Research Symposium

  • June 2023: Passed PhD General Qualifying Exam at Stanford University.

  • April 2023: Awarded the 2023 Social Impact Fund (SSIF) by Stanford Professionals in Real Estate (SPIRE).

  • March 2023: Led an interdisciplinary, resilience-focused team through Stanford’s Lean Launchpad. Over ten weeks, our team completed 100+ interviews across real estate, insurance, engineering, and government.

  • March 2023: “Machine-learning-based optimization framework to support recovery-based design” is now available in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. You can download it here.

  • October 2022: Joined the Building Seismic Safety Committee (BSSC) Functional Recovery Task Committee (FRTC), to select design hazard levels for functional recovery performance objectives of new buildings in the U.S.

  • September 2022: Appointed as Director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) Student Committee. Over the next year, this committee will work to empower the earthquake engineering student community through targeted outreach, professional, and research initiatives.

  • July 2022: Presented Optimization framework to support recovery-based design —preliminary results at the 12th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah. You can download a copy of the paper here.

  • June 2022: Awarded the Shah Fellowship on Catastrophic Risk by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University.

  • March 2022: Started PhD degree program in Structural Engineering at Stanford University.