Publications

Hassan, Bilal, Areg Karapetyan, Aaron C. H. Chow, and Samer Madanat. "Climate Adaptation-Aware Flood Prediction for Coastal Cities Using Deep Learning." Paper presented at the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, San Diego, CA, 2025. https://www.climatechange.ai/papers/neurips2025/72. (Spotlight Paper Award)

Karapetyan, Areg, Aaron C. H. Chow, and Samer Madanat. "Deep Vision-Based Framework for Coastal Flood Prediction under Climate Change Impacts and Shoreline Adaptations." In Proceedings of the 4th Annual AAAI Workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering (AI2ASE). 2024. https://ai-2-ase.github.io/papers/10_CASPIAN.pdf. (Spotlight Paper Award)

Tcheukam A., Chow A., and Madanat S., “Analysis of inter-regional commuters traffic delay induced by Shoreline protection of different areas: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area", Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2023.

Sun J., Chow A., and Madanat S., “Tradeoffs between Optimality and Equity in Transportation Network Protection against Sea Level Rise”, Transportation Research Part A, 2022.

Sun J., Chow A., and Madanat S., “Equity Concerns in Transportation Infrastructure Protection against Sea Level Rise”, Journal of Transport Policy, 2021.

Sun J., Chow A., and Madanat S., “Multimodal Transportation System Protection against Sea Level Rise”, Transportation Research Part D, 2020.

Papakonstantinou I., Tcheukam A., and Madanat S., “Effects of sea level rise induced land use changes on traffic congestion”, Transportation Research Part D, 2020.

Hummel M., Tcheukam A., Chow A., Stacey M., and Madanat S., “Interacting Infrastructure Disruptions Due to Environmental Events and Long-Term Climate Change",  Earth’s Future, American Geophysical Union, 2020.

Papakonstantinou I., Lee J. and Madanat S., “Optimal Levee Installation Planning for Highway Infrastructure Protection against Sea Level Rise”, Transportation Research Part D, 2019.

Ogwang A., Madanat S. and Horvath A., “Optimal Cracking Threshold Resurfacing Policies in Asphalt Pavement Management to Minimize Costs and Emissions”, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2019.

Papakonstantinou I., Lee J. and Madanat S., “Game Theoretic Approaches for Highway Infrastructure Protection against Sea Level Rise: Co-Opetition among Multiple Players”, Transportation Research Part B, 2019.

Madanat S., Papakonstantinou I. and Lee J., “The Benefits of Cooperative Policies for Transportation Network Protection from Sea Level Rise”, Transport Policy, 2019.

Suh J., Siwe, A. T., and Madanat S., “Transportation Infrastructure Protection Planning against Sea Level Rise: Analysis Using Operational Landscape Units”, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000506.

Cheng H., Chao M., Madanat S. and Horvath A., "Minimizing the Total Costs of Urban Transit Systems Can Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The case of San Francisco", Transport Policy, 2018.

Gayah V., and Madanat S., "Accounting for Endogeneity in Maintenance Decisions and Overlay Thickness in a Pavement-Roughness Deterioration Model", Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2017.

Griswold J., Tal S., Lee J., Madanat S., and Horvath A., "Optimizing Urban Bus Transit Network Design Can Lead to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction", Frontiers in Built Environment, 2017.

Lee J., and Madanat S., "Optimal Design of Electric Vehicle Public Charging System in an Urban Network for Greenhouse Gas Emission and Cost Minimization", Transportation Research Part C, 2017.

Lee J., and Madanat S., "Optimal Policies for Greenhouse Gas Emission Minimization under Multiple Agency Budget Constraints in Pavement Management", Transportation Research Part D, 2017.

Cheng H., Madanat S., and Horvath A., "Planning Hierarchical Urban Transit Systems for Reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions", Transportation Research Part D, 2016.

Lee J., Madanat S., and Reger D., "Pavement Systems Reconstruction and Resurfacing Policies for Minimization of Life‐Cycle Costs under Greenhouse Gas Emissions Constraints", Transportation Research Part B, 2016.

Hassan, Bilal, Areg Karapetyan, Aaron C. H. Chow, and Samer Madanat. "Climate Adaptation-Aware Flood Prediction for Coastal Cities Using Deep Learning." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 30, no. 5 (2026): 1333–58. 

Karapetyan, Areg, Aaron C. H. Chow, and Samer Madanat. "Deep Vision-Based Framework for Coastal Flood Prediction under Sea Level Rise and Shoreline Protection." Scientific Reports 16, no. 1 (2026): 3663. 

Papakonstantinou, Iosif, Alain Tcheukam Siwe, and Samer M. Madanat. "How Closures of Bridges and Tunnels Affect Travel Time in New York City." Transportation Research Record 2680, no. 6 (2026): 19–33.

Wang, Yue, D. Difallah, Areg Karapetyan, and Samer Madanat. "UniST-Pred: A Robust Unified Framework for Spatio-Temporal Traffic Forecasting in Transportation Networks under Disruptions." In Proceedings of the 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2026). 2026.

Papakonstantinou, Iosif, Alain Tcheukam Siwe, Aaron C. Chow, Diffin Sun, and Samer M. Madanat. "Coastal Protection Strategies to Minimize Transportation Network Disruption from Sea Level Rise." Transportation Research Procedia 82 (2025): 3176–97.

Stamoulis, Kostantinos A., Jade M. S. Delevaux, S. J. Pittman, M. Antonopoulou, S. Carpenter, R. Zaaboul, Aaron C. H. Chow, H. S. Das, and D. Mateos-Molina. "Conserving Key Coastal Areas for Mangrove Expansion and Eco-Tourism Secures Ecosystem Services under Sea-Level Rise." npj Ocean Sustainability 4 (2025). 

Chow, Aaron C., and Diffin Y. Sun. "Combining Sea Level Rise Inundation Impacts, Tidal Flooding, and Extreme Wind Events Along the Abu Dhabi Coastline." Hydrology 9, no. 8 (2022): 143. 

Karapetyan, A., and S. Madanat. "Towards Climate-Resilient Coastal Infrastructure: Deep Vision-Based Framework for Coastal Flood Prediction under Sea Level Rise and Shoreline Protection." Paper presented at the 6th Symposium on Infrastructure Asset Management (SIAM 2026), Osaka, Japan, 2026.

Karapetyan, A. "Learning Where to Protect: An AI-Boosted Bayesian Framework for Optimizing Coastal Transportation Network Protection Against Sea Level Rise." Paper presented at the 6th Symposium on Infrastructure Asset Management (SIAM 2026), Osaka, Japan, 2026.

Wang, Y. "Disruption Resilient Traffic Flow Forecasting via Decoupled Spatiotemporal Fusion." Paper presented at the 6th Symposium on Infrastructure Asset Management (SIAM 2026), Osaka, Japan, 2026.

Chow, A. C. H. "Spatially Resolved Extreme Sea Levels for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) under Sea-Level Rise: Contrasting Shamal- and Cyclone-Dominated Coasts." Paper presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM26), Glasgow, Scotland, February 24, 2026.

Papakonstantinou, I. "Shoreline Protection Strategies to Reduce Transportation Network Disruption from Sea Level Rise." Paper presented at the International Conference on Natural Hazards and Infrastructure (ICONHIC 2026), Chania, Greece, 2026.

Karapetyan, A. "Protecting UAE Coasts from Future Sea Level Rise (2050–2100) Using AI." Paper presented at MOEI Innovation Week 2025, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2025.

Karapetyan, A. "Climate Adaptation-Aware Flood Prediction for Coastal Cities Using Deep Learning." Paper presented at the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, San Diego, CA, 2025.

Karapetyan, A. "Deep Vision-Based Framework for Coastal Flood Prediction under Climate Change Impacts and Shoreline Adaptations." Paper presented at the 4th Annual AAAI Workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, 2024.

Chow, A., and A. Almasri. "Protection of the UAE Shoreline Against the Effects of Sea Level Rise." Paper presented at the MENA Climate Proof Forum, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 29, 2024.

Chow, A. "The Impact of Sea Level Rise on the UAE Coastline." Paper presented at the World Future Energy Summit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, April 16, 2024.

Papakonstantinou I., Tcheukam A., Chow, A. and Madanat S., “Coastal Protection Strategies to Minimize Transportation Network Disruption from Sea Level Rise”, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), Dublin, Ireland, 2023

Madanat, S., A. Chow, I. Papakonstantinou, and A. Tcheukam Siwe. "Coastal Protection Strategies to Minimize Transportation Network Disruption from Sea Level Rise." Paper presented at the World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Montreal, Canada, 2023.

Madanat, S., A. Chow, I. Papakonstantinou, and A. Tcheukam Siwe. "Coastal Protection Strategies to Minimize Transportation Network Disruption from Sea Level Rise." Paper presented at ICASP14, Dublin, Ireland, 2023.

Madanat, S., A. Chow, and J. Sun. "Multimodal Transportation Systems Protection Against Sea Level Rise." Paper presented at ICONHIC, Athens, Greece, 2022.

Chow, A. C., J. Sun, and S. Madanat. "Investigation of Coastal Hydrodynamic Impact with Sea Level Rise on Highway Infrastructure Along the Abu Dhabi Coastline." Paper presented at the UAE Climate Change Research Network, MENA Climate Week, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 31, 2022.