CSI Director Kenichi Soga opens the workshop.

Panel discussion on wildfire resilience planning.

Participants included:
Utilities – Alameda County Water District, City of Everett – Public Works, City of Hayward, City of Palo Alto, City of San Luis Obispo, City of Vancouver, Contra Costa Water District, County of Maui, EBMUD, Inland Empire Utilities Agency, LADWP, Las Vegas Valley Water District, Marin Water, Paradise Irrigation District, PG&E, Portland Water Bureau, San Diego County Water Authority, SFPUC, San Jose Water, Seattle Public Utilities, South Tahoe Public Utility District, The Metropolitan Water District, Tualatin Valley Water District, Utah DDW, Zone 7 Water Agency.

Agencies – CA Senate Committee on Emergency Management, CA Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Water, CA State Water Resources Control Board, CA State Water Board – DDW, Cal OES-SSC, CA Energy Commission, Capital Regional District (Victoria BC), City of Beaverton, Consulate General of Japan (San Francisco), Metro Vancouver Regional District.

Consultants – Brown and Caldwell, CA Davis Engineering, Carollo, CDM Smith, CoreAqua, Delve Underground, HDR, InfraTerra, McGrath Electric Inc., Slate Geotechnical Consultants, SPA Risk.

Manufacturers – American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Ferpal Infrastructure, Kajima, Kubota, McWane Ductile, Northwest Pipe Company, PPI America, Inc., PVC Pipe Association, Structural Technologies, Tstrata Strengthening Solutions, US Pipe, Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association, United States Pipe and Foundry, WUI-Go!

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Nori Nakata is a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he investigates subsurface fault behavior and structural changes driven by natural processes and engineered activities such as geothermal energy production, critical mineral extraction, and subsurface energy storage. His research focuses on understanding subsurface dynamics and the mechanisms of induced seismicity through field data acquisition, signal processing, artificial intelligence, and numerical modeling. He leads the development of AI-aided frameworks for geophysical imaging, forward and inverse modeling, and digital twins that integrate physics-based and data-driven approaches. Before joining Berkeley Lab, he earned a Ph.D. from the Colorado School of Mines in 2013, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, served as a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, and became a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Guodong Chen is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on subsurface fluid flow, AI for sustainability, and generative AI for scientific simulation, design and discovery. Guodong received his Ph.D. in Hydrogeology from The University of Hong Kong, his M.Eng. and B.Eng. in Petroleum Engineering from China University of Petroleum (East China). 

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Jingxiao Liu is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on non-dedicated sensing and physics-guided learning and modeling for scalable monitoring of cyber-infrastructure systems. Jingxiao received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering with a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, his M.S. in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Central South University, China. He has received several best paper and presentation awards from ASCE, ASME, SEM, and ACM.

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The comprehensive manual is titled “Geoenvironmental Engineering: Site Contaminant Characterization, Containment Facilities, Solid Waste Materials, and Contaminated Ground Interventions,” designated as “Manual of Practice (MOP) 159”, and serves as a consensus document of the state of practice in geoenvironmental engineering. Read the full article.

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Professor Soga’s lecture, “From Geo-monitor to Geo-adapt: leveraging distributed sensing and data analytics for performance-based design, construction, and maintenance,” was webcast and recorded. More details about the lecture and access to the recording are available here.

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The company is a spinoff from the research group of Professor Kenichi Soga, who in 2022 received a $2.5 million NSF grant for wildfire-preparedness work stemming from a 2019 CITRIS Seed Award. Professor Soga is a scientific advisor for WUI-Go!

WUI-Go! is developing a personalized evacuation platform to help communities in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) prepare for and respond to emergencies.

Using digital twin technology, traffic simulations and tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI), WUI-Go! provides residents with customized evacuation guidance and gives emergency managers adaptive planning strategies. Its initial focus is on preparedness, offering features such as virtual drills, multilingual maps and offline functionality. If tests with pilot communities prove successful, WUI-Go! plans to extend its platform into real-time evacuation support.
Read the full article and visit the WUI-Go! website at https://www.wui-go.com/.

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Specifically, to address “big picture” and long-term challenges, EBMUD leveraged CSI’s research and testing capabilities to the most pressing issues they face. “CSI allows academics, utility and infrastructure owners, and equipment manufacturers to come together and say, ‘these are the important topics,’” notes Professor Kenichi Soga, CSI Director.

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Won Young Park is a Research Affiliate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley and an Energy Environmental Policy Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on techno-economic analysis, modeling, and simulation to assess the impacts of emerging technologies at scale in cooling equipment, power grid, maritime transportation, and AI data centers. He has provided extensive national and regional market, technology, and policy analyses for several countries, including Brazil, China, Indonesia, Rwanda, and others across Southeast Asia and Africa. He previously worked at Samsung SDI in South Korea from 2003 to 2007, where he contributed to the development of large-size display technology. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Yonsei University, South Korea, and a Master of Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

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