Naiyu Wang
Industrial and system Engineering
University of Oklahoma
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Naiyu Wang joined the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma in 2013. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering, with an emphasis in Structural Engineering, from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, in 2010. Before joining the OU faculty, she worked as a senior structural engineer for three years at Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Inc. in Boston, MA, and was involved in projects concerning a variety of engineered facilities, including nuclear power plants, water distribution pipelines, radio telescopes, wind turbines, and buildings and bridges.
Research Interest
: i) science-based measurement tools to assess the resilience of built environment, including building portfolios, transportation systems and utility facilities and networks; ii) riskinformed decision frameworks to support optimal life-cycle engineering aimed at enhancing community sustainability and resilience to natural hazards (e.g. earthquakes, tornados and floods); iii) interface between hazard modeling at a community scale with damage and functionality loss estimation of geographically distributed infrastructure systems in both spatial and temporal dimensions; and iv) uncertainty propagation in resilience quantification and riskbased community resilience planning.
