Prateek Arora | Civil and Urban Engineering, New York University

About Prateek

Prateek is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University (NYU) in Civil and Urban Engineering. He is supervised by Dr. Luis Ceferino who leads Disaster Risk Analysis Lab at NYU. Prateek’s research focuses on utility risk managemnet to natural disasters. His current focuses on improving the resilience of power systems to hurriacnes by (a) forecasting power outages before arrival of hurricane for emergency response (b) investating increased resilience throught deployment of distributed energy resources such as solar panels.

Prior to joining NYU, Prateek worked as a structural engineering in the city of San Francisco. He obtained his MS Structural Engineering (2020) from Stanford Unviversity, CA and B.E. (Hons.) Civil Engineering from BITS Pilani, India (2018).

Research Interests

Risk Analysis: Utility risk management, Natural hazards
Machine Learning: Power outage prediction, surrogate modeling of disasters

News

[April. 2024] Prateek was invited to attend the International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (2024) and Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Fellowship Convocation upon successful completion of his CDRI fellowship project for the year 2022-2023.
[Jan. 2024] Prateek completed his research proposal defense on the topic “ Probabilistic Methods for Power Outage Predictions and Adoption of Renewables towards the Resilience of Power Infrastructure to Extreme Weather Events”
[Jan. 2024] Journal paper accepted in ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering “A Quasi-Binomial Regression Model for Hurricane-Induced Power Outages during Early Warning”
[July. 2023] Presented our research at International Conference on Applied Statisitcs and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP-14, Dublin, Ireland).
[May. 2023] Jorunal article published in Natural Hazards Earth System Sciences.
[Mar. 2023] Two papers selected to present at International Conference on Applied Statisitcs and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP-14, Dublin, Ireland).
[June. 2022] Prateek passed his Ph.D. Qualifying Exam.
[April. 2022] Selected as Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Fellow (2022-23)
[May. 2021] Selected for NYU Urban Doctoral Fellowship.
[Jan. 2021] Joined NYU Disaster Risk Analysis Lab as a Ph.D. Student.

Publications

The Feasibility of Energy Communities for Hurricane Resilience (2024)

Prateek Arora, Luis Ceferino

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A Quasi-Binomial Regression Model for Hurricane-Induced Power Outages during Early Warning

Prateek Arora, Luis Ceferino

ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering , 2024 10(2).

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Probabilistic and machine learning methods for uncertainty quantification in power outage prediction due to extreme events

Prateek Arora, Luis Ceferino

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2023.

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A Framework for Flexible Peak Storm Surge Prediction

Benjamin Pachev, Prateek Arora, Carlos del-Castillo-Negrete, Eirik Valseth, Clint Dawson

Coastal Engineering, 2023.

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Reliability-based mix design of marble dust incorporated concrete and its assessment using the concept of performance index

Manpreet Singh, Saurav Yadav, Shaik Hussain, Prateek Arora, Anshuman Srivastava

Structural Concrete, 2022.

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