09.2026. I moderated a panel during Climate Week in New York City: Resiliency in an era of exponential growth: Examining how utilities can adapt to evolving demands, technologies, and sustainability goals. Thank you to Pirouz Bozorgnia, President of the the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering's New York Metro Chapter, for the invitation and to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' Tri-State Chapter for co-organizing the event.
08.2026. I was thrilled to present two papers at the CIGRE Paris Session and to reunite with my fellow members of the Joint Working Group on Methods of Reducing Bird Electrocution Risk.
04.2026. I was promoted to Managing Engineer in the Civil and Structural Engineering practice at Exponent.
04.2026. I attended my first retreat with the WILDWINGS writing group. I'm grateful to Alison Granucci for hosting us and to Chip Blake for the invitation to join such a welcoming group.
04.2025. I was promoted to Senior Associate in the Civil and Structural Engineering practice at Exponent.
12.2024. I co-authored a chapter in The Sustainable Power Grid: Challenges, Applications, and Case Studies.
07.2024. I presented two papers at the 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Milan, Italy.
09.2023. I co-presented a talk (Identifying overhead hardware wear with engineering principles and ML) with Sasha Yan of PG&E at T&D World Live in Sacramento, California.
06.2023. I was invited to give a guest lecture (Modeling threats to assets in infrastructure networks) in the Data Analytics of Urban Systems Failures course at NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress.
04.2023. I was invited to give a guest lecture (Probabilistic seismic risk assessment and mitigation in regional road networks) in the Big Data in Transportation graduate course at Columbia University.
11.2022. I was invited to give a guest lecture in the Forensic Structural Engineering graduate course at Columbia University. I discussed the performance and failure of components and structures in electric utility networks.
09.2022. I co-authored a thought leadership piece for Exponent on how we can help our clients ensure that infrastructure systems work for everyone.
06.2022. I presented work from my dissertation at the 12th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Salt Lake City, Utah.
04.2022. As an invited speaker at the Women in Science Network’s annual symposium, I presented some highlights from my dissertation research and shared the twists and turns of my career path.
01.2022. I presented work from my dissertation at the 2021-2022 ASCE Lifelines Conference, held remotely.
10.2021. I joined Exponent’s Building & Structures practice as an Associate (consultant) in the New York office.
09.2021. I graduated from Stanford with a PhD in civil and environmental engineering.
07.2021. I passed my defense! Art B. Owen chaired my committee, which included Jack W. Baker (my advisor), Anne Kiremidjian, Rishee Jain, and Zachary del Rosario.
06.2021. My paper, Factors affecting earthquake responders’ building damage information needs and use, was accepted for publication in the journal Earthquake Spectra. Co-authors are Robert Soden, Karen Barns, Sabine Loos, and David Lallemant. Read it here.
03.2021. My paper, co-authored with Jack W. Baker, Using global variance-based sensitivity analysis to prioritize bridge retrofits in a regional road network subject to seismic hazard was accepted for publication in the journal Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. Read it here.
05.2020. I was awarded the Shah Fellowship on Catastrophic Risk in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
05.2020. I started volunteering at The Barron Park Donkey Project.
02.2020. I presented my research proposal to my committee and passed my qualifying exams to become a PhD candidate.
03.2019. As an invited speaker for the USGS Earthquake Science Center’s seminar series, I presented Developing a task-centric understanding of responders’ post-earthquake building damage information needs and uses.
03.2019. I published another piece in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
01.2019. I presented Learning to manage bridges subject to seismic hazard using deep Q-networks (poster) at the PEER Annual Meeting at UCLA.
12.2018. My recommendation of The Nowhere Man by Kamala Markandaya was selected for inclusion in The Atlantic’s Books Briefing (Dec. 21, 2018).
10.2018. I published a piece in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
09.2018. I was invited to facilitate for the Stanford Life Design Lab’s Designing Your Life course (Fall quarter).
09.2018. I was awarded a graduate Voice and Influence Program (gVIP) fellowship by The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford
08.2018. I presented Modeling Bay Area Transport Network Resilience with Rodrigo Silva-Lopéz at the PEER Researchers’ Workshop in Richmond Field Station, CA
06.2018. I presented Developing a user-centric understanding of post-disaster building information needs (ID 1667) at the 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Los Angeles, CA.
06.2018. I was elected co-president of Stanford's Graduate Society of Women in Engineering.
06.2018. My abstract Developing a user-centric understanding of post-disaster building information needs (ID 1667) was accepted for an oral presentation at the 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (June 2018). I also co-authored two other abstracts accepted for oral presentations: Crowd-sourced remote assessments of regional-scale post-disaster damage (ID 678) and Rapid and seamless earthquake information to inspire individuals to recognize risk (ID 1893).
04.2018. I started PhD studies in Jack Baker's research group, with a focus on the resilience and reliability of transport networks.
03.2018. I graduated with an M.S., Structural Engineering from Stanford University.