Projects

Covid19 Network Technology based Responsive Action (CONTRA)

The project aims at developing a decision support system for distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

Ubiquitous Connectivity via Autonomous Airborne Networks (Airbonnet)

Using AI and UVAs to in create internet connection everywhere.

Systemic Pandemic Risk Management

INSITU: Sharing incident and threat information for common situational understanding

Emergency responders lack support to effectively share information and establish a common operational picture (COP), for reaching shared situational understanding of threats and incidents. The INSITU project will address these challenges by developing systematic support for enhanced situational understanding.

Virtual Reality in Higher Education, Erasmus+

A goal of the project is to work together to identify potential VR application scenarios and current VR practices in higher education.

Social Media Analytics for Society and crisis communication, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange

EU funded Networking: RISE SMA at a glance. RISE SMA creates an interdisciplinary, international network combining world-leading scholars and excellent practitioners to enable intensive knowledge sharing and to develop solutions for the next level in social media analytics (SMA).

Augmented Reality Support for Decision-Making in Crisis Management (AUREAS)

Bilateral mobiliy project with University of Duisburg-Essen

Disaster Diplomacy in the High North and Arctic

Disaster diplomacy examines how dealing with disasters does and does not impact diplomatic collaboration. This project uses Norway-Russia relations on, for, and around Svalbard to examine how dealing with disasters might or might not be used more in the Arctic and the High North to foster links between Norway and Russia.

PhD Project: Towards a sociotechnical resilience for digital infrastructure in times of crises

This research project focuses on the understanding of intra-sector criticality of infrastructure and digital services in critical sectors and how the notion of a sociotechnical resilience may be applied as a response to crises.

PhD Project: Exploring the Emergence of Situational Awareness through Social Media Listening Practices in Crisis Management

Towards an integrated approach on the practice of social media listening.

Reaching Out

Effective EU support to a large external crisis requires new approaches. In response to this challenge and to identified user and market needs from previous projects, Reaching Out proposes an innovative multi-disciplinary approach that will optimize the efforts, address a wide spectrum of users and maximize market innovation success. The developed system including tools will be tested in three different situations; Ebola outbreak in West Africa, earthquake in the Jordan Valley and flooding in southeast Asia.

PhD Project: Enhancing common situational understanding in natural disaster management

Common operational picture, situational awareness and crisis communication in emergency management.

PhD Project: Artificial Intelligence for Uncovering Deception in Social Media During Political Crisis

Detection of fake news during political crisis

PhD Project: Designing Decision support for humanitarian logistics operations

PhD project: A Situational Awareness Platform in Crisis Situations Using Iterative Information Gathering from Social Media

My Ph.D. thesis proposes an approach to improve social media analysis in crises situations and achieve better understanding and decision support during a crisis. In this thesis, we aim to use an artificial intelligence to handles the non-standard spelling challenge is social media. Further, it develops a model to fetch a specific set of information from social media. Finally, the thesis models the iterative question answering process by fetching answers to question form social media and generate the next set questions based on the answers to the previous question. The final objective is to combine the previous solutions to provide an overview of the crisis.

iTRACK: Integrated system for real-time TRACKing and collective intelligence in civilian humanitarian missions

iTRACK is designed to be a cost effective open source system, supporting organisations where resources may be limited. To further facilitate its uptake by humanitarian organisations operating conflict and disaster missions, we design technology and policies in with humanitarian practitioners with pilot applications with the World Food Programme and iMMAP in on-going conflict disasters in the Middle East.

Smart Mature Resilience

Smart Mature Resilience (SMR) is a multi-disciplinary research project working for more resilient cities in Europe. Researchers and cities come together to enhance cities’ capacity to resist, absorb and recover from the hazardous effects of climate change. A Resilience Management Guideline and a set of practical tools are piloted in a core group of cities and shared with a wider group of cities, strengthening the nexus of Europe’s resilient cities.

KriseSIM

Developing a realistic control room as a venue for experimentation and training in the crisis management area.

COMRADES - Collective Platform for Community Resilience and Social Innovation during Crises

COMRADES (Collective Platform for Community Resilience and Social Innovation during Crises) aims to empower communities with intelligent socio-technical solutions to help them reconnect, respond to, and recover from crisis situations.

Global Orchestrated Disaster Defense (GO2D)

In the GO2D project we seek a paradigm shift in emergency response. Victims, citizens and first responders will be equipped with superior situation awareness and response capability, supporting coordinated action in the face of disaster.

SmartRescue

A crisis can occur with little or no warning, anywhere, anytime and it can happen either locally or globally. The SmartRescue project will explore how communication technology can be used in acute crisis situations.

CIEMCOE

A paradigm shift in Emergency Preparedness and Management is now possible owing to persistent progress in mobile technologies and services, their world-wide diffusion and affordability, and the emergence of ever new ingenious uses by citizens.

SmartEMIS

The SmartEMIS (Smart Emergency Management Information Systems) project focuses on how mobile devices such as smart phones combined with different forms of social media can be applied for improving information sharing and collaboration in emergency preparedness and management

Bayesian networks for modeling of hydrological processes

Developing tools to express uncertainty in the forecasts of hydrologic power