Assistant Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Lisa Wang

757-683-3189

137 C KAUFMAN HALL
NORFOLK, 23529

Dr. Wang is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Â鶹´«Ã½. Prior to joining Â鶹´«Ã½, Dr. Wang completed her Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Structural Engineering, both in the Department of Civil and Environment Engineering at Colorado State University and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, headquartered at Colorado State University. She is a licensed California Professional Engineer.

Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, Colorado State University, (2022)

M.S. in Structural Engineering, Jilin University, (2015)

M.S. in Structural Engneering, Unversity of Colorado Denver, (2015)

B.S. in Civil Engineering, Jilin University, (2012)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Wang, W., Wang, X. and Li, L. "Trustworthy AI in the Data Revolution for Adaptation and Resilience in Coastal Communities" $31,000. Â鶹´«Ã½. 2025 - 2026

Expertise

Structural Engineering
multi-disciplinary community resilience assessment, mitigation strategies and policy changes, community resilience model validation and improvement

Research Interests

Community resilience modeling and decision support under multi-hazards; resilience-based design of structural systems; multi-disciplinary data and algorithm fusion; disaster reconnaissance.

Articles

Wang, W. (2024). Interdependent Recovery Methodology for Residential Buildings and Household Housing in Community Resilience Modeling. ASCE OPEN: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering 2 (1).
  • 2021: O. H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering, ASCE

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