📄 New Publication: AI-Enabled Decision Support for Coastal Infrastructure Resilience

Dr. Lei Zou has co-authored a new paper titled “Toward Coastal Infrastructure Resiliency: An AI-Enabled Decision Support Framework for Multiscale Comprehension and Stakeholder Empowerment,” published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.

Coastal flooding remains one of the most pressing challenges for communities worldwide, yet strategies to enhance resilience across multiple geographic scales are still underdeveloped. This study addresses that gap by proposing an AI-enabled digital twin platform that leverages advances in computer vision, natural language processing, and network science to integrate and interpret complex datasets related to the built environment.

The framework enables multi-scale comprehension of coastal infrastructure mechanisms while empowering stakeholders to:

• Evaluate tradeoffs between different planning and design options

• Understand the collective impacts of these actions on shared objectives

• Support incremental and place-based planning for climate resilience

  
  

By providing real-time prioritization, policy guidance, and actionable recommendations, this decision-support platform serves as a bridge connecting disparate datasets and fostering collaboration between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. It also offers training opportunities, paving the way for more informed, data-driven coastal planning and resilience strategies.

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