Innovating Disaster Recovery

College of Engineering

Drs. Maria Koliou and Stephanie Paal, assistant professors at the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, are conducting new, collaborative research, to learn how communities both come back from natural disasters and withstand them. Koliou and Paal are working on developing ways to automate the process of damage assessment that occurs after natural disasters, allowing damage assessors to move more quickly in determining what efforts need to be prioritized for optimal p…