Professor Suthaharan is one of the recipients of the Ignite Transdisciplinary Research Award for a collaborative research project titled “Dynamics of Human Mobility after Natural Disasters in the Appalachian Mountains and Coastal Carolinas.” This interdisciplinary project brings together faculty from multiple departments to investigate how human mobility patterns evolve in the aftermath of natural disasters.
Professor Suthaharan will lead the artificial intelligence component of the project, focusing on modeling human mobility as irregular, non-Euclidean graph structures. Using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), he will develop advanced AI models to capture complex and non-linear interactions among geographic regions (nodes) and travel flows (edges), enabling deeper insights into post-disaster mobility dynamics. In essence, his research will focus on understanding population movement across affected regions, with the goal of improving disaster response strategies and community resilience.
Congratulations to Professor Shan Suthaharan on this recognition!
