SURI researchers present at the 2026 NHERI Computational Symposium

NHERI Computational Symposium was held at UC Berkeley on May 28-29th. Several SURI researchers attended and presented at the symposium:

• Carmen Andrade - "Surrogate Modeling of Highway Bridges for Regional Earthquake Simulation of Transportation Networks"
• Christianos Burlotos - "Evaluating San Francisco's Soft-Story Retrofit Program: A Stakeholder-Engaged Regional Risk Assessment"
• Mia Lochhead - "Evaluating the Impact of Seismic Retrofit Programs using VLM-Enhanced Building Inventories"
• Simona Meiler - "Extending tropical cyclone risk assessment through recovery simulations"
• Gabriela Calana Somoza - "Improving regional wildfire risk assessment frameworks by including the probability of ignition sources"
• Tinger Zhu - "Simulating Firm-level Direct and Contingent Business Interruption after Disasters"
• Nikola Blagojević - "Simulating Regional Recovery After the 2025 Palisades Fire: Implications for Recovery Management"

Photos by Adam Lau/UC Berkeley Engineering