Ali Mostafavi

Ali Mostafavi is a Zachry Endowed Professor of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is the director of UrbanResilience.AI Lab whose research focuses on creating advanced computational models and data science algorithms to advance urban resilience to crises. His research program has led to new ways of developing computational tools and improving the understanding of resilience in complex urban systems. His research program has received more than $8 million in funding support from various sponsors such as NSF, National Academies, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Department of Transportation, and CII. He is the author of more than 200 journal articles and 80 conference proceedings. He has received several prestigious awards such as the ASCE Halpin Award, NSF CAREER Award, Early-Career Fellowship of the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program, AWS Machine Learning Award, College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award, CII Outstanding Professor Award, and Best Paper Awards in ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering and Construction Research Congress. He is a member of the ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division, a Resilience Fellow of 4TU Resilience Engineering Center at TU Delft, and the Editorial Board Member of Nature Scientific Reports, ASCE Management in Engineering and Infrastructure Systems Journals. He is also a Founder of Resilitix Intelligence LLC (Resilitix.ai) which is a startup company focusing on bringing the most advanced AI technologies to community resilience processes.