Pranavesh Panakkal

Pranavesh Panakkal is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. His work with Dr. Jamie Ellen Padgett focuses on situational awareness and smart resilience.
On situational awareness, he develops algorithms and tools to predict and sense the performance of urban infrastructure systems to stressors such as natural disasters to inform emergency response and recovery. An example application would be real-time sensing of flood impacts on roadways to inform emergency response navigation.
His work on smart resilience aims to leverage diverse data sources, physics-based data-informed algorithms, and equity-aware models to predict, sense, and respond to acute stressors to enhance community resilience. An example application would include digital twins that can aid in informing preparedness and risk-informed decision-making during flood disasters.
News
Jul 17, 2024 | Reliability Engineering and System Safety has published our paper titled ‘More eyes on the road: Sensing flooded roads by fusing real-time observations from public data sources’ ![]() |
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Sep 21, 2023 | Preprint ‘ISLAND: Informing Brightness and Surface Temperature Through a Land Cover-based Interpolator’ is now available on arXiv ![]() |
Aug 25, 2023 | The Journal of Hydrology has published our paper titled ‘Safer this way: Identifying flooded roads for facilitating mobility during floods’ ![]() |
Jul 25, 2023 | Natural Hazards Review has published our paper titled ‘Sensing Flooded Roads to Support Roadway Mobility during Flooding: A Web-Based Tool and Insights from Needs Assessment Interviews’ ![]() |