Dr. Arka Bhattacharyya

Arka Bhattacharyya is a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft’s TPM Resilience Lab. He has recently received his doctorate in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in the U.S. Overall his multi-disciplinary research focuses on understanding how different systems such as communities, infrastructures, industries, etc., prepare for, adapt to, and recover from external shocks originating from natural and man-made hazards. During his time at Purdue University, he has worked on several research projects on the resilience of critical infrastructure and disaster affected communities. His expertise lies in developing empirical models integrating econometric, statistical, and machine learning techniques to unearth insights from historical data. Arka is involved in AGILE work package 2, which is about developing a multi-disciplinary reference library for High Impact Low Probability or HILP events that can assist in enhancing our understanding about historical HILP events so that resilience against future HILP events can be improved.