EHS On Tap: E99 Predicting Evacuation Behaviors With Location Data

February 15, 2022

On episode 99 of EHS On Tap, Xilei Zhao, assistant professor at the University of Florida, and Jeff White, CEO of Gravy Analytics, talk about using location analytics data to predict evacuation behaviors during natural disasters.

Xilei Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. She received her MSE in Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 2017. She specializes in applying data science (data analytics, machine learning, optimization, and simulation), complex systems modeling, and risk assessment to tackle challenging problems in transportation and resilience.

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