Xin’s research interests include risk, reliability, and resilience analysis of natural hazards under climate change, leveraging interdisciplinary approaches such as remote sensing, geospatial modeling, data-driven and physics-based models. Before joining the University of Michigan, he earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the supervision of Prof. Lulu Zhang. He was also a visiting scholar in Prof. Paolo Gardoni’s group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
In the Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, he will explore integrated AI-Physics solutions to understand the impact of past landslides on communities and to develop risk assessment tools that will mitigate future impacts.
- Science Mentor: Sabine Loos, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Additional Science Mentor: F. Estéfan T. Garcia, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- AI Mentor: Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Research Theme: Landslide risk assessment