Purdue Team to Contribute to NSF-Accelerator Project

Center affiliates Venkatesh Merwade (Professor, Civil Engineering), Ayman Habib (Professor, Civil Engineering) and David Yu (Assistant Professor, Poli Sci, Civil Engineering) recently received funding on the $5 million, University of Cincinnati-led, NSF project, “The Urban Flooding Open Knowledge Network (UF-OKN): Delivering Flood Information to Any one, Any time, Any where.” The team is one of nine selected by NSF to be part of the NSF Convergence Accelerator initiative as part of their 2019 Cohort. The theme for this focus was, “Accelerating research to impact society at scale.” Over the next 24 months, the selected teams will continue to apply Convergence Accelerator fundamentals to include leveraging innovation processes and integrating multidisciplinary research and cross-cutting partnerships to develop solution prototypes and to build a sustainability model to continue impact beyond NSF support. 

Venkatesh Merwade, the Purdue lead for the project, will lead the Research and Development efforts across all institutions for UF-OKN to enable integration of observed data, simulation models and other flood related information into the knowledge network. David Yu will develop and incorporate governance information and analysis capability into UFOKN. Dr. Ayman Habib will advise the team on accessing infrastructure monitoring data and how that information can be incorporated into UFOKN.

Learn more about the project here: https://ufokn.github.io/UFOKN/