anna coren entering the epicentre of the #flooding in #Feni #Bangladesh, where residents are wading through chest-height water to get to safety, or awaiting rescue from the army & volunteers CNN Salman Saeed

Hurricane #Helene Advisory 12: Helene Strengthening and Expected to Bring Catastrophic Winds And Storm Surge to the Northeastern Gulf Coast. Preparations to Protect Life and Property Should Be Rushed To Completion. hurricanes.gov

9/26 4am CDT: There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge from #Helene along the west coast of the Florida Peninsula & Florida Big Bend, where a Storm Surge Warning is in effect. Residents in the warning area should follow advice & evacuation orders from local officials.

Hurricane Helene's path.

higher order impacts of disasters.

Know your evacuation zone. #Hurricane Milton floridadisaster.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/l…

Last year I gave a 10-min talk at UCF on how rapidly intensifying hurricanes can complicate everything from evacuation to infrastructure disruption. These are some critical things for emergency management officials to consider. #HurricaneMilton youtube.com/watch?v=s10CS8…

To help facilitate evacuations for #HurricaneMilton, Emergency Shoulder Use (ESU) plans are actively being put in place for Eastbound I-4 and portions of Northbound I-75. Law enforcement and signage will alert motorists on when to enter and exit the shoulder. Learn more about ESU

I really enjoyed taking with Umair Irfan about emergency management and disasters. Thanks for your interest in this timely issue. UCF School of Public Administration UCFCCIE UCF

Orange and Seminole county's electricity grid is very resilient.

My collaborator Pallab Mozumder of FIU has been interviewed for this important piece in NPR. npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-…

As extreme storms seemingly make the once-trusted model obsolete, experts weigh what data should inform future risk calculations to bolster resiliency. Read more on the #ASCESource: go.asce.org/3NZigbq.

My Bluesky profile. bsky.app/profile/samiul…

AI will accelerate progress in some scientific fields. AI will reduce the barriers to enter to science. It will give access to literature and accelerate coding and writing. More people from developing countries will participate. They will publish new (and great) ideas.

🚗 💥 Excited to share that our latest article is now published in Sustainable Cities and Society! 🔗 lnkd.in/gE8QyWAH 💫 First study to use mobile phone activity data to estimate CO2 emissions validated with emissions sensor measurements

Rest in peace Prof. Mahmassani (H Mahmassani) who was a great scholar and a great person. Transportation community will miss you for a long time.

Excited to share our #NeurIPS2025 paper 🎉 "more thinking ≠ better reasoning" 👉 We uncover the 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭-𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠: increasing thinking tokens at test-time boosts accuracy briefly, then hurts as response variance increases