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)

Updated: July 5th, 2023 14:01

2023 journal article

Socio-hydrological drought impacts on urban water affordability

Nature Water.

By: B. Rachunok* & S. Fletcher*

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.

By: J. Bennett*, B. Rachunok*, R. Flage* & R. Nateghi*

Ed(s): N. Grabar

MeSH headings : Algorithms; Attitude; Climate; Geography; Models, Theoretical; Motivation; Social Media; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States
Source: ORCID
Added: January 19, 2023

2021 journal article

Overemphasis on recovery inhibits community transformation and creates resilience traps

Nature Communications.

By: B. Rachunok* & R. Nateghi*

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.

By: M. Choi*, B. Rachunok* & R. Nateghi*

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.

By: R. Obringer*, B. Rachunok*, D. Maia-Silva*, M. Arbabzadeh*, R. Nateghi* & K. Madani*

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.

By: A. Kanmani*, R. Obringer*, B. Rachunok* & R. Nateghi*

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.

By: B. Rachunok*, J. Bennett* & R. Nateghi*

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

Updated: January 19th, 2023 15:27

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

Updated: January 13th, 2021 10:32

2016 - 2020

Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, US
Ph.D. School of Industrial Engineering