AI-powered urban resilience: intuitive design for stormwater challenges

Overview

Traditional flood management focused only on costs, but what about fairness? I built an AI tool that helps cities balance flood risks, infrastructure budgets, and social equity - three goals that often conflict.

To simplify complex tradeoffs, I designed an interactive dashboard where policymakers visually compare scenarios through a sliding interface. For example, adjusting a "Low-Income Priority" slider instantly recalculates flood protection coverage and costs across neighborhoods. The system revealed hybrid strategies deliver more equitable results than conventional methods — all through a single streamlined workflow that turns months of debates into data-driven decisions.