Live Breaking News & Updates on Sanjay Govindjee|Page 1

Stay updated with breaking news from Sanjay govindjee. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Envisioning safer cities with AI


 E-Mail
IMAGE: Visualization of the percentage of a building s repair cost to its replacement value after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in San Francisco.
view more 
Credit: Chaofeng Wang, SimCenter, UC Berkeley
Artificial intelligence is providing new opportunities in a range of fields, from business to industrial design to entertainment. But how about civil engineering and city planning? How might machine- and deep-learning help us create safer, more sustainable, and resilient built environments?
A team of researchers from the NSF NHERI SimCenter, a computational modeling and simulation center for the natural hazards engineering community based at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a suite of tools called BRAILS Building Recognition using AI at Large-Scale that can automatically identify characteristics of buildings in a city and even detect the risks that a city s structures would face in an earthquake, hurricane, or tsunami. ....

United States , New Jersey , Atlantic City , San Francisco Bay , Lake Charles , San Francisco , Frank Mckenna , Charles Chaofeng Wang , Stella Yu , Sanjay Govindjee , Barbaros Cetiner , Qian Yu , Ertugrul Taciroglu , Satish Rao , Yunhui Guo , Ellen Rathje , University Of Texas At Austin , University Of California , Texas Advanced Computing Center , Operational Research Logistics In The Nearshore Environment , Google Maps , Microsoft Footprint Data , Simcenter Principal Investigator , Director Sanjay , Disaster Preparedness , Hurricane Laura ,