Smart and Resilient Cities: Mitigating the Risks of Climate Change

Recent advancements in information and communication technology, ubiquitous sensors, and improved data science allow us to create previously imagined insights, contributing to vision and strategies for disaster resilience. This presentation will provide an overview of the resilient infrastructure systems in smart city frameworks and discuss how we can integrate resilience thinking into smart city planning. An example of the smart city technologies, sources, and digital twin concepts for disaster management will be presented.

Speaker: Dr. Kijin Seong
Dr. Kijin Seong is a postdoctoral research fellow in School of Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the smart city framework for climate resilience. She is interested in disaster resilience, hazard mitigation and climate change adaptation, and environmental equity. She completed her PhD in urban and regional sciences at Texas A&M University, where she focused on post-disaster relocation, floodplain buyouts, and hazard mitigation policies. Previously, she obtained a Bachelor of Architecture from Yonsei University, South Korea, a master’s in architecture at Seoul National University, South Korea, and a master’s in community and regional planning at the University of Texas at Austin.