Early Career Research Fellow - Shangjia Dong
Implementing Organization
University of Delaware
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$76,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Grants
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Dr. Shangjia Dong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a core faculty member of the Disaster Research Center, and a member of the Coastal Hazards, Equity, Economic Prosperity and Resilience (CHEER) Hub at the University of Delaware. His research revolves around understanding the complex dynamics between human and infrastructure systems during disasters. He aims to establish an algorithmic and theoretical framework to assess community resilience and equity, which can facilitate risk-informed decision-making for climate change adaptation, critical infrastructure protection, effective disaster preparedness and response, equitable resilience planning and operationalization, and smart operation and design of urban infrastructure. Dr. Dong takes an interdisciplinary research approach, drawing on models and insights from civil engineering, social science, public policy, urban planning, public health, and network science. His work has been published in leading interdisciplinary journals, such as Communications Earth & Environment (Nature), Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Risk Analysis, Sustainable Cities and Society, and Computer, Environment and Urban Systems. Dr. Dong received his B.S. in Information and Computation Science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from Oregon State University, following which he completed post-doctoral research training in the Urban Resilience Lab at Texas A&M University.
Contact
Shangjia DongNone
sjdong@udel.edu
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