Preetish Kakoty

Preetish is currently a Visiting Student Researcher at the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center. He is a PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia where his work focuses on quantifying basin amplification for earthquake shaking and investigating its consequence on the collapse risk of aging tall buildings and regional-level post-earthquake recovery times. At Stanford, Preetish's focus is on developing a framework to conduct multi-scale regional earthquake risk models to explicitly characterize damage to highly vulnerable buildings (aging reinforced concrete shear wall buildings in this case) that is a subset of the entire building exposure set. This research aims to contribute to the seismic risk reduction policy of the City of Vancouver which is currently an ongoing effort.