A startup emerging from the research group of Kenichi Soga, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, has received a $1.23 million award from the National Science Foundation through its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program.
The company, WUI-Go!, was founded by five UC Berkeley alumni—including several from Berkeley CEE—and is developing a personalized evacuation platform designed to help communities in wildfire-prone wildland–urban interface areas prepare for emergencies. The platform uses digital twin technology, traffic simulations, and artificial intelligence to provide residents with customized evacuation guidance and support emergency planning.
WUI-Go! builds on years of wildfire preparedness research from Soga’s lab and aims to translate cutting-edge research into practical tools that help communities make safer evacuation decisions.
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