About Us

SAFER is a smartphone app designed by Dr. Carolyn A. Lin, a Professor of Communication at the University of Connecticut.  The goal of distributing this smartphone app is to invite coastal residents in the State of Connecticut to utilize the app to help keep themselves prepared when an imminent severe storm threatens their personal and property safety.  For questions about this project, please send an email to SAFER@uconn.edu.

The SAFER team that has supported the development of this smartphone app includes the following talented students from the University of Connecticut.

 

Carolyn Lin, Project Manager

 

Shariq Khan, App Developer

Andrew Abi-Karman, App Developer

Akhil Saini, App Developer

 

Ryan Perkins, GIS Specialist

 

Matthew Chen, Web Developer