Eun Jeong Cha
Assistant ProfessorÂ
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois
United States of America
Biography
Eun Jeong Cha holds a Ph.D. (2012) and a M.S. (2009) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. (2006) in Architectural Engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea. Prior to joining the University of Illinois in 2014, Dr. Cha served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Part-time researcher at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Research Interest
Structural Engineering, Societal Risk Management
Publications
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Cha, E.J. & Ellingwood, B.R. (2013) “The role of risk aversion in nuclear plant safety decisions,†Structural Safety 44:28-36.
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Cha, E.J. & Ellingwood, B.R. (2014) “Attitudes toward acceptance of risk to buildings from extreme winds,†Structure and Infrastructure Engineering 10:697-707.
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Shafieezadeh, A., Cha, E.J. & Ellingwood, B.R. (2014) “A decision framework for managing risk to infrastructure systems from terrorist attack,†Risk Analysis (DOI: 10.1111/risa.12266)
