Ben Rachunok is an assistant professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at NC State University. Broadly, Rachunok works in risk and decision analysis with applications in sustainability and climate change adaptation. More specifically, his research uses methods from simulation and data science to understand how communities respond to natural hazards and climate change. Much of his recent work quantifies the disproportionate impact of climate change and extreme events on low-income or historically disadvantaged communities.
Works (11)
2023 journal article
Socio-hydrological drought impacts on urban water affordability
Nature Water.
www.nature.com (publisher PDF)
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023
2021 journal article
Mapping climate discourse to climate opinion: An approach for augmenting surveys with social media to enhance understandings of climate opinion in the United States
PLOS ONE.
Ed(s): N. Grabar
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023
2021 journal article
Overemphasis on recovery inhibits community transformation and creates resilience traps
Nature Communications.
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023
2021 journal article
Short-term solar irradiance forecasting using convolutional neural networks and cloud imagery
Environmental Research Letters, 16(4), 044045.
author keywords: solar irradiance forecasting; deep learning; convolutional neural network; satellite imagery; remote sensing; renewable energy
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023
2021 journal article
The overlooked environmental footprint of increasing Internet use
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 167, 105389.
author keywords: Environmental footprint; Data center; Sustainability; Internet; Energy transition; Social responsibility
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023
2020 journal article
Assessing Global Environmental Sustainability Via an Unsupervised Clustering Framework
Sustainability, 12(2), 563.
author keywords: environmental sustainability; unsupervised learning; self-organized maps; global analysis; environmental performance index; clustering framework
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023
2020 journal article
Assessment of wind power scenario creation methods for stochastic power systems operations
Applied Energy.
author keywords: Wind power; Scenario creation; Probabilistic scenarios; Scenario evaluation; Stochastic unit commitment; Production cost modeling
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023
2020 journal article
Asymmetrical response of California electricity demand to summer-time temperature variation
Scientific Reports.
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023
2020 journal article
The sensitivity of electric power infrastructure resilience to the spatial distribution of disaster impacts
Reliability Engineering & System Safety.
author keywords: Infrastructure; Resilience; Natural hazards
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023
2019 journal article
Twitter and Disasters: A Social Resilience Fingerprint
IEEE Access, 7, 58495–58506.
author keywords: Data analysis; human computer interaction; resilience; Twitter
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023
2018 conference paper
Stochastic Unit Commitment Performance Considering Monte Carlo Wind Power Scenarios
2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS).
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023
Employment
2023 - present
North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Assistant Professor
Industrial & Systems Engineering
2021 - 2022
Stanford University Stanford, CA, US
Postdoc
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Education
2016 - 2020
Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, US
Ph.D.
School of Industrial Engineering
