Quantifying Risk
Advancing Resilience
Building Equitable Communities
Welcome to the Sustainable and Resilient Systems Lab Housed in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University.
What?
We study communities as interconnected systems—spanning infrastructure, social networks, logistics, economies, and governance—and work to make them more sustainable and resilient to climate change and natural hazards.
How?
Our research combines optimization, data science, machine learning, and simulation to quantify risk, predict impacts, and improve decision-making for adaptation. A central goal of our work is to close the climate resilience gap, by identifying and reducing the disproportionate burdens of extreme events on historically disadvantaged populations.
Check out our recent papers/posts!
- New paper on (extended) access impacts of electric vehicles
- New paper on the American Housing Survey
- New paper on access impacts of electric vehicles
- The universe is always expanding (and so is our research group)
- New Paper on Drought Impacts
Prospective Studdnts
Our group is growing!
If you are interested in a Ph.D. in engineering focused on data science, simulation, and machine learning for climate resilience, we would love to hear from you. Send an email to barachun at ncsu dot edu, and check out our Prospective Students page.