Resilient Futures fans- Say hello to our first podcast episode of 2025!

This month’s guest is someone close to home for our team- meet Alysha’s PhD student, Negin Shamsi! Negin gives an overview of her first first-author publication, titled “Interdependency classification: a framework for infrastructure resilience.”

Shamsi’s research focus is infrastructure and urban resilience. Infrastructure managers collaborate across engineering, urban planning, emergency response, policy making and more. The goal of Shamsi’s research, including the new paper, is to better prepare all of these fields for disturbances from hurricanes to cyber attacks.

“These systems do not function in isolation, they are interdependent and if one system fails, it will have effects on other systems as well,” she said. “When we talk about interdependencies, especially in the past, people think about vulnerabilities, cascading failures- something negative. But recently, there has been a changing perspective: we can look at them as an opportunity for collaboration and innovation.”

Negin’s Haiku:
Steel towers endure
Rivers rise yet life still flows
City bends, not breaks

Links:

Check out the new paper here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4505/adac89/pdf

Negin’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/negin-shamsi-b6736b160/

Learn more about the podcast here.