Assistant Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Lisa Wang

757-683-3189
Wang Research Group

137 C KAUFMAN HALL
NORFOLK, 23529

Dr. Wang is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Old Dominion University. Prior to joining Old Dominion University, 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)

Professional Engineer (94251)
Sponsoring Organization: California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists
Date Obtained: 2022-08-20

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Wang, W. "AI-Driven Development of Minimum Building Portfolios for Coastal Resilience Enhancement" $10,000. Old Dominion University. May 2025 - 2026
Wang, W., Wang, X. and Li, L. "Trustworthy AI in the Data Revolution for Adaptation and Resilience in Coastal Communities" $31,000. State. May 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).
Wang, W. (2024). Application of Multidisciplinary Community Resilience Modeling to Reduce Disaster Risk: Building Back Better. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 38 (3).
Wang, W. (2023). Commercial Building Recovery Methodology for Use in Community Resilience Modeling. Natural Hazards Review 24 (4).
Wang, W. (2022). Quantifying the effect of improved school and residential building codes for tornadoes in community resilience. Resilient Cities and Structures 1 (1).
Wang, W. (2022). Determination of Individual Building Performance Targets to Achieve Community-Level Social and Economic Resilience Metrics. Journal of Structural Engineering 148 (5).
Wang, W. (2021). Effect of Residential Building Wind Retrofits on Social and Economic Community-Level Resilience Metrics. Journal of Infrastructure Systems 27 (4).
Wang, W. (2021). Quantitative Modeling of Residential Building Disaster Recovery and Effects of Pre- and Post-event Policies. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 59.
Wang, W. (2020). Failure Analysis of Pot Bearings in a Curved Viaduct. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 34 (5).
  • 2021: O. H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering, ASCE

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