The vision of the OASIS lab is to advance the field of risk science addressing the complex global challenges related to the resiliency and sustainability of our sociotechnical systems. The overarching research mission is to better understand, assess, characterize, communicate, manage, and govern risk of the complex societal problems, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Our research team intends to accomplish this mission through a) development of quantitative models examining systemic/stochastic impacts of various chronic/acute shocks on sociotechnical systems, b) the development of risk-informed decision models, and c) the investigation of cost-effective adaptation measures to advance the resilience and sustainability of our communities and the critical infrastructure systems.
The major research contributions of the OASIS lab fall into three broad overarching domains:
- 1. advancing resilience of critical infrastructure systems;
- 2. studying community-level socioeconomic disparities under extreme events
- 3. investigating health inequities and social justice issues.