Dr. Ali Mostafavi.

Biography

Dr. Ali Mostafavi is the Director of the UrbanResilience.AI Lab, a Zachry Endowed Professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Director of Disaster AI at the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas (IDRT). His research pushes the frontiers of artificial intelligence to solve disaster resilience challenges. His lab works at the leading edge of Disaster AI — developing large language models, vision-language models, foundation models, and agentic AI systems that strengthen how communities anticipate, respond to, and recover from disasters, with published advances in disaster question answering and benchmarking, AI-based flood and damage assessment, and AI-driven decision support for emergency management. At Texas A&M, he is a fellow of the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy and the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center. His honors include the ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, the ASCE Daniel W. Halpin Award for Scholarship in Construction, an NSF CAREER Award, and an Early-Career Research Fellowship from the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program. He is a member of the ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division and an Editorial Board member of the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering.