John W. Van De Lindt, Ph.D., is a Professor of Engineering at Colorado State University and serves as Co-Director for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-funded Center for Risk Based Community Resilience Planning that developed IN-CORE. He has more than 25 years experience in hazards research and has authored more than 500 technical publications including 250 journal papers. He is an expert in community resilience assessment, measuring community resilience, and improving resilience to natural hazards such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis.

Jamie Kruse is the associate director of Project IN-CORE and co-director for the Center of Risk-based Community Resilience Planning. Her research focuses on decision making under uncertainty and the integrated modeling of natural hazards. She held faculty positions at the University of Colorado, Texas Tech University, East Carolina University, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, and the position of Chief Economist at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Jong S. Lee, Ph.D., is Deputy Associate Director of Software Directorate at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He serves as Co-PI for the NIST-funded Center for Risk Based Community Resilience Planning and leads the development of IN-CORE.

Milad Roohi, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He worked as a Senior Scientist at Aon and completed his postdoc at Colorado State University. His research on infrastructure resilience and health monitoring is supported by NIST, NSF and NDOT. He actively serves on national and international committees, including ASCE, IAMDR and lABSE.

Melina Matos, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. She has over ten years of experience as a planning practitioner with local and state governments. She has actively participated in the plan-making process, land use planning, floodplain management, disaster mitigation, climate adaptation, resilience planning, and community engagement.

Jamie E. Padgett, Ph.D., is a Professor and the Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. Padgett is a structural engineer whose research is focused on multi-hazard risk and resilience modeling of structures and infrastructure systems, while understanding their impacts on communities. Padgett serves in leadership roles within several large national research efforts including the NIST-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-based Resilience Planning and the NSF-funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Cyberinfrastructure “DesignSafe”.

Xinyue Ye, Ph.D., is a Harold Adams Endowed Professor in Urban Informatics at Texas A&M University. His research integrates computational social science, urban data science, and geospatial artificial intelligence to address issues ranging from infrastructure resilience and climate change to social justice and community perceptions, underscoring the dynamic interplay between technology, policy, and human behavior in shaping sustainable and livable cities. He directs Texas A&M Center for Geospatial Sciences, Applications, and Technology.

Omar Nofal, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in structural engineering and risk and reliability analysis of structures at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University. Over the last decade, Dr. Nofal’s research focused on flood and hurricane risk, mitigation analysis, post-hazard functionality, and recovery assessment for buildings and communities. His research seeks to improve the built environment’s performance against natural hazards including physical, social, and economic systems.

With over 35 years of experience as a professional office assistant, Connie has a proven track record of excellence in high-volume, high-pressure environments. As the center coordinator for the Center of Excellence, she skillfully manages operations and fosters collaborative relationships with colleagues. Connie ensures the center runs smoothly by maintaining budget records, coordinating executive-level scheduling, managing travel arrangements, and overseeing purchasing, while also handling confidential information.

Managing Director, Climate
Marsh McLennan

Kissinger Campo & Associates Term Professor
Dept. of Civil and Coastal Engineering
University of Florida

Co-Founder and CEO
Dimagi