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Building resilient utilities: UCLA issues report on key water and power infrastructure needs
Building resilient utilities: UCLA issues report on key water and power infrastructure needs
Risk Institute Researcher Nominated for 2025 Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research
Risk Institute Researcher Nominated for 2025 Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research

Dr. Tingting Cheng— your Risk Institute family is proud and we will be rooting for you on November 12, 2025.

American Nuclear Society 19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
American Nuclear Society 19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)

Dr. Cheng presented on HRA at PSA 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.

F25 GIRS Seminars: Hydrogen Research Initiatives at CEERMA-UFPE: A Risk and Reliability Overview
F25 GIRS Seminars: Hydrogen Research Initiatives at CEERMA-UFPE: A Risk and Reliability Overview

Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 1:00pm PT

ITU Professor Joins Risk Institute as Visiting Researcher
ITU Professor Joins Risk Institute as Visiting Researcher

Dr. Sertel— welcome to the Garrick Institute!

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Autonomous Systems Safety
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Autonomous Systems Safety

Available for download now!

NHR3 Co-Director Named Inaugural Holder of Sabol-Scott Endowed Term Chair
NHR3 Co-Director Named Inaugural Holder of Sabol-Scott Endowed Term Chair

Congrats Professor Stewart!

Wildfire Planning Tool for Bidirectional Long-Term Risk Quantification and Management
Wildfire Planning Tool for Bidirectional Long-Term Risk Quantification and Management
Risk Institute Awarded $1 Million Caltrans Contract
Risk Institute Awarded $1 Million Caltrans Contract

The research will improve earthquake hazard characterization and seismic risk analysis of transportation structures, particularly bridges. 

GIRS STAR Award Recipients 2025
GIRS STAR Award Recipients 2025

Congratulations Nick and Joselyne!

UCLA Wildfire Evacuation Model Research Study
UCLA Wildfire Evacuation Model Research Study

We invite you to participate in a wildfire evacuation model research study!

Congratulations Class of 2025!
Congratulations Class of 2025!
UCLA Research Study Driver-System Interaction in Automated Driving
UCLA Research Study Driver-System Interaction in Automated Driving

We invite you to participate in a driving simulator study!

S25 GIRS Seminars: One-Step-Ahead Forecasting With Recurrent Variational Quantum Machine Learning
S25 GIRS Seminars: One-Step-Ahead Forecasting With Recurrent Variational Quantum Machine Learning

Thursday, June 05, 2025 at 1:00pm PT

S25 GIRS Seminars- The Role of Autonomous Vehicle Policy in Driving the Future of Mobility
S25 GIRS Seminars- The Role of Autonomous Vehicle Policy in Driving the Future of Mobility

Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 1:00pm PT

S25 GIRS Seminars- Resilience Quantification: State of Science and Practice
S25 GIRS Seminars- Resilience Quantification: State of Science and Practice

Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 1:00pm PT

US Earthquake Safety Relies on Federal Employees' Expertise
US Earthquake Safety Relies on Federal Employees' Expertise

NHR3 Co-Director comments on the importance of scientists and engineers’ expertise on US earthquake safety.

S25 GIRS Seminars: Human-Autonomy Teams: An Integrated Methodology to Enhance Automated Driving Systems Operational Safety
S25 GIRS Seminars: Human-Autonomy Teams: An Integrated Methodology to Enhance Automated Driving Systems Operational Safety

Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 1:00pm PT

Quantifying Safety Impacts of V2X-Enabled Traffic Systems
Quantifying Safety Impacts of V2X-Enabled Traffic Systems

This study explores the safety impacts of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication systems using probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) frameworks.

S25 GIRS Seminars: Harnessing High-Performance and Cloud Computing for Natural Hazards Research: NSF DesignSafe and AWS in Action
S25 GIRS Seminars: Harnessing High-Performance and Cloud Computing for Natural Hazards Research: NSF DesignSafe and AWS in Action

Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 1:00pm PT