research

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publications

in press

• Hurricane-induced power outage risk under climate change is primarily driven by the uncertainty in projections of future hurricane frequency. Alemazkoor, Rachunok, Chavas, Staid, et. al. Scientific Reports.

2020

• Asymmetrical response of California electricity demand to summer-time temperature variation. Kumar, Rachunok, Silva, Nateghi. Scientific Reports.

• Evaluation of Parametric Wind Power Scenarios. Rachunok, Staid, Watson, Woodruff. Applied Energy.

• Assessing Global Environmental Sustainability Via An Unsupervised Clustering Framework. Paulvannan Kanmai, Obringer, Rachunok, Nateghi. Sustainability.

2019

• Twitter and Disasters: a Social Resilience Fingerprint. Rachunok, Bennett, Nateghi. IEEE Access.
• The Sensitivity of Electric Power Infrastructure Resilience to the Spatial Distribution of Disaster Impacts. Rachunok, Nateghi. Reliability Engineering & System Safety.

under review

• Convolutional Neural Networks Predict Global Solar Irradiance. Choi, Rachunok, Nateghi. Environmental Research Letters.
• A Path Forward for Leveraging Social Media to Improve the Study of Community Resilience. Rachunok, Bennett, Flage, Nateghi. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
• Decoding Regional Climate Attitudes by Integrating Social Media and Survey Data. Bennett, Rachunok, Flage, Nateghi. PLoS ONE.

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news/press

twitter and disasters

• The “Social Resilience Fingerprint” was featured by the UN Office of Disaster Risk Reduction
• Purdue Engineering Review: “Parsing tweets to strengthen community disaster resilience”

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invited talks

I'm regularly at the annual meetings for ...
- INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences)
- SRA (Society for Risk Analysis)
- IISE (Institute for Industrial & Systems Engineers)

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2020

• Natural Hazards Researchers Meeting (July 2020)
• IC2S2 (July 2020)
• INFORMS 2020 (October 2020)
• SRA 2020 (December 2020)

2019

• Decoding Climate Change Attitudes in Social Media. SRA Annual Meeting. Arlington, VA.
• Community Resilience & Twitter. SRA Annual Meeting. Arlington, VA.
• Social Resilience Fingerprinting. INFORMS Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA.
• Electric Power Infrastructure Resilience. IISE Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL.

2018

• Disaster Impact Distributions. SRA Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
• Spatial Distributions of Disasters. INFORMS Annual Meeting. Phoenix, AZ.
• Stochastic Unit Commitment Performance Consiering Monte Carlo Wind Power Scenarios. IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems. Boise, ID.

2017

• Transportation Network Recovery Analysis, an Equilibrated Perspective. SRA Annual Meeting. Arlington, VA
• Modling Uncertainty, the Cost of Wrong Assumptions. INFORMS Annual Meeting. Houston, TX.

2016

• UAVs Provide Lifesaving Medical Care. IISE Annual Meeeting Anaheim, CA.
• Simulating UAVs as a Healthcare Delivery Device. NCSU Research Symposium. Raleigh, NC.

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awards

• Outstanding Research Award, Honorable Mention, Purdue University 2020
• Outstanding Service Award, Purdue University 2020
• Lee Chaden Fellowship, Purdue University, 2018
• Estus and Vashti Magoon Award for Teaching Assitant Excellence, Purdue University, 2017.
• IISE Annual Conference Operations Research Undergraduate Research Dissemination Contest: 1st place, 2016