Category Archives: Research

Statistical Controls on Induced Seismicity

Statistical Controls on Induced Seismicity Conference paper by Yunjie Wen, Saurabh Sinha, Rafael Pires De Lima, and Kurt Marfurt Seismicity in Oklahoma has shown a sharp increase since 2010 and is mostly attributed to wells used to dispose wastewater from hydraulically fractured production wells (McClure, Gibson, Chiu, & Ranganath, 2017). Many studies are conducted so far… Read More »

NIST-funded COE for Community Resilience: Webinar

Community Recovery Webinar Announcement Thursday, May 3, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (CDT) In this Community Recovery Webinar learn more about the NIST-funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning and how the Center’s research is progressing to models of community recovery and to field studies. Webinar Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdGW7St1Ayk A resilient community is prepared for and… Read More »

Multi-Drug Resistance in Cancer: Data Analysis for P-glycoprotein Inhibition

Drug efflux and P-glycoprotein Over time, cancerous cells have the ability to become resistant to treatments such as chemotherapy through several mechanisms. One of them is drug efflux, an otherwise useful body mechanism that protects normal cells by ensuring the intracellular drug concentration stays below a cell-killing threshold. Drug efflux is possible thanks to proteins… Read More »

Probabilistic Prediction of Post-disaster Functionality

Probabilistic Prediction of Post-disaster Functionality Loss of Community Building Portfolios Considering Utility Disruptions I am proud to announce that the latest collaborative work from the CORE lab has been accepted for publication in the ASCE’s Journal of Structural Engineering.  The new paper title is a mouthful, “Probabilistic Prediction of Post-disaster Functionality Loss of Community Building… Read More »

Southwest Airlines Operations Tour

OU NOC Tour I was happy to represent the Analytics Lab recently as a part of a larger team from OU who were invited down to Dallas, TX near Love Field to meet with Southwest Airlines (SWA) to learn more about the airline business and operations.   The attendees from OU included the Vice President… Read More »

Two new resilience publications 2017!

Two new resilience publications! Well, here at the Analytics Lab @ OU  2017 started off nicely with two new articles published in the area of community resilience. We are also very excited about finally being able to share the virtual community we created named “Centerville” as a part of the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience… Read More »

A New Research Lab!

The Analytics Lab at OU has joined forces with Naiyu Wang and Amy Cerato (Civil Engineering and Environmental Science) to create a new joint research lab, the Community Resilience CORE Research Lab.  The new lab space will house up to 8 PhD students and Post-Docs (6 spots already filled!)   The lab space is on the 4th… Read More »

Journal submissions!

This week at the analytics lab have made some great progress with respect to research productivity.  We have one major revision re-submitted to an excellent journal.  As well as a major collaborative article written to define a new sub-field of study within the area of resilience. Objective Scaling Ensemble Approach for Integer Linear Programming Dr. Nicholson… Read More »

Recruiting grad student for data science project

Recruiting for research! The Analytics Lab is currently recruiting a MS or PhD student to work on 2 year sponsored research from Nerd Kingdom collaboratively with SMU Guildhall.  The project is a data intensive, data science project that requires significant analytical skills and creative thinking.  Nerd Kingdom is a video game technology and research group that is interested… Read More »