Interdisciplinary Computation & Analysis of Resilience

We Analyze and Visualize Social Media Data for Disaster Resilience

The Interdisciplinary Computation & Analysis of Resilience (ICAR) research group was established at Louisiana State University in 2016 to foster interdisciplinary research on resilience analysis.

Our research has leveraged collaboration of experts in:

resilience and sustainability modeling — Nina S Lam,
environmental sociology — Michelle Meyer,
big data and HPC — Seung-Jong Park,
environmental policy — Margaret A Reams,
information systems and analysis — Seungwon Yang,
deep learning and spatial big data — Kisung Lee.

Funded Research

IBSS-L: Understanding social and geographical disparities in disaster resilience through the use of social media.

09/01/2016 – 02/29/2021

National Science Foundation #1620451, $834,585

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RAPID: The changing roles of social media in disaster resilience: The case of Hurricane Harvey.

01/01/2018 – 12/31/2019

National Science Foundation #1762600, $199,989

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Funded projects involving ICAR personnel

09/01/2019 – 08/31/2021. Sun MX, Lam NSN. AI-DCL: EAGER: Fairness-aware Informatics System for Enhancing Disaster Resilience.
National Science Foundation #1927513. $300,000. Press-release.
09/01/2019 – 08/31/2020. Jafari D, Lam NSN. RAPID: Collaborative research: Data mining and fusion between unmanned aerial systems and social media technologies to improve emergency operations.
National Science Foundation #1945787. $160,000. Press-release.
6/10/2020 – 5/31/2022. Lee K, Lam NSN, Curran S. RAPID: Investigating Public Health and Social Information Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. National Science Foundation #2032745. $216,000. Press-release.

We welcome collaboration with researchers within and outside LSU who are interested in research related to resilience analysis and computation.
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