{"id":7498,"date":"2026-01-08T16:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/?p=7498"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:55:12","slug":"crest-students-present-phd-research-proposals-on-urban-flood-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/?p=7498","title":{"rendered":"CREST Students Present PhD Research Proposals on Urban Flood Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ali Haider<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PhD Candidate, Civil Engineering, CCNY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposal Title: <b><i>AI-Driven Multi-Sensor Modeling Framework for Urban Flood Prediction and Mapping in Data-Scarce Environments<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ali\u2019s research sits at the forefront of remote sensing, machine learning, and urban resilience. His work aims to develop innovative, data-efficient approaches for understanding and predicting urban flood dynamics, particularly in regions where traditional ground-based observations are scarce or unavailable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Shima Kamali<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PhD Candidate, Civil Engineering, CCNY<\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposal Title: <\/span><b><i>Integrative Urban Flood Modeling for New York City: Advancing LISFLOOD-FP and Surrogate Machine Learning for Real-Time Prediction<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shima\u2019s research integrates high-resolution hydrodynamic modeling with surrogate machine-learning approaches to enhance urban flood prediction in New York City. Her work advances the LISFLOOD-FP model to better represent urban drainage processes and leverages data-driven surrogates to enable computationally efficient, near\u2013real-time flood forecasting, supporting effective urban flood preparedness and decision-making.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to Ali and Shima on successfully presenting their proposals! Their innovative research exemplifies CREST\u2019s commitment to advancing resilient urban systems through cutting-edge science, technology, and data-driven solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Haider PhD Candidate, Civil Engineering, CCNY Proposal Title: AI-Driven Multi-Sensor Modeling Framework for Urban Flood Prediction and Mapping in Data-Scarce Environments Ali\u2019s research sits at the forefront of remote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_elementor_edit_mode":"","_elementor_template_type":"","_elementor_data":"","_elementor_page_settings":null},"categories":[13,3,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlight","category-news","category-student-highlights"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crest.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}