Team

Our team is a group of disaster analysts with multiple backgrounds—including engineering, data science, urban planning, geography, and more. We strive to conduct convergent research, blending our knowledge of data and statistics on disasters and/or the built environment with an understanding of the social and natural systems that surround them. Therefore, our team members employ multiple methods bridging multiple disciplines.

Alumni

Patricia Lee, '24 - now at Massuchesetts Institute of Technology
Jenny Levitt, '21 - now at Stanford University
Jing Cheng Ng, '20 - now at Nanyang Technological University

Opportunities

Interested in joining our team?

If you'd like to pursue a PhD in AIDD labs, please consider applying to Civil & Environmental Engineering program at the University of Michigan. Most of our students get their degrees in the Hazards, Risk, and Resilience Program. Please indicate in your application that you're interested in working with Professor Loos to ensure she is sent your application for review. We are open to folks from multiple disciplines, including engineering, geography, geoinformatics, urban planning, computer science, geology, among many more.

You are also more than welcome to email Professor Loos with “Prospective PhD student:” at the beginning of the subject line before applying. Please include your CV, a description of your research interests and how they align with AIDD labs research, what you're hoping to gain from a PhD, and any other relevant material. While Professor Loos would like to be able to respond to all inquiries, you may not receive a personal response given the number of emails received each year.

If you'd like to be a postdoc at AIDD labs, we are always looking for talented individuals to contribute to our team through skill sharing, mentorship, and conducting research. If you are interested in joining our team as a postdoc, please email Professor Loos with “Prospective Postdoc: " at the beginning of the subject line. Please also include your CV and the ways you believe you can contribute to AIDD labs.

If you'd like to collaborate or partner with AIDD labs, especially as a community organization or as a user of disaster information, please email Professor Loos with a description of your ideas and she'll respond as soon as she can.