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AI Meets Natural Hazard Risk: A Nationwide Vulnerability Assessment of Data Centers to Natural Hazards and Power Outages
Miguel Esparza, Bo Li, Junwei Ma +1
Our society is on the verge of a revolution powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. With increasing advancements in AI, there is a growing expansion in data centers (…
Establishing Nationwide Power System Vulnerability Index across US Counties Using Interpretable Machine Learning
Junwei Ma, Bo Li, Olufemi A. Omitaomu +1
Power outages have become increasingly frequent, intense, and prolonged in the US due to climate change, aging electrical grids, and rising energy demand. However, largely due to t…
Recent Decade's Power Outage Data Reveals the Increasing Vulnerability of U.S. Power Infrastructure
Bo Li, Junwei Ma, Femi Omitaomu +1
Despite significant anecdotal evidence regarding the vulnerability of the U.S. power infrastructure, there is a dearth of longitudinal and nation-level characterization of the spat…
Non-locality and Spillover Effects of Residential Flood Damage on Community Recovery: Insights from High-resolution Flood Claim and Mobility Data
Junwei Ma, Russell Blessing, Samuel Brody +1
Examining the relationship between vulnerability of the built environment and community recovery is crucial for understanding disaster resilience. Yet, this relationship is rather…