CIVL PhD Student Wins the Second-Class Best Student Paper Award at ICVRAM-ISUMA 2024

We wish to congratulate Ms. Xi ZHONG, PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering supervised by Prof. Jize ZHANG, for winning the Second-Class Best Student Paper Award in the 4th International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management & 8th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis (ICVRAM-ISUMA 2024) held at Tongji University in Shanghai, China.

Sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the conference aimed to address the challenges of hazards, risks, and respective mitigation strategies in infrastructure systems and the built environment. This year's conference saw the participation of 331 attendees from 21 countries. Ms. Zhong presented her paper titled "Physics-based Tropical Cyclone Track and Intensity Models via Data-driven Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics" which was recognized for its excellent quality and presentation.

Congratulations to Ms. Zhong for her well-earned award!