Haizhong Wang
Oregon State University

Dr. Haizhong Wang is a Professor of Transportation Engineering within the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Dr. Wang received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Applied Mathematics and Civil Engineering (Transportation), and B.S. and M.S. degrees from Hebei University of Technology and Beijing University of Technology, China. Dr. Wang’s research interests include (1) Resilience to Extreme Events: Computational interdisciplinary agent-based models and simulation framework to integrate infrastructure and social-technical systems under climate change and extreme events to assess decision-making under deep uncertainties for improved community and infrastructure network resilience at community and regional-scale. (2) Wildfire, Smoke, and Health Impacts: Interdisciplinary agent-based model which integrates natural (i.e., fire behavior and spread), social (i.e., people and exposure to smoke), and the engineered system (i.e., health or energy infrastructure failures) for short-term life safety and longer-term health outcomes. (3) Energy Transition and Decarbonization: Household-level decision-making behavior and processes related with energy choices and investments in an interdisciplinary agent-based household energy choice model.; and (4) Interconnected Climate, Resilience, Health, and Energy Nexus: Climate mitigation and adaptation strategies to combat the health effects of climate change (extreme weather events), integrated and interdisciplinary approaches to address climate resilience, sustainable energy transition, and health outcomes. He was a member for three TRB standing committee: AHB45 Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics, ABJ70 Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications and ABR30: Emergency Evacuation and AHB45 (3) Subcommittee on Connected and Automated Vehicles through Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics. Dr. Wang is also actively involved in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) and serving on the Critical Infrastructure and Lifeline System Committee (CILSC), Disaster Response and Recovery Committee (DRRC), Emerging Technologies Committee (ETC), and Risk and Resilience Measurements Committee (RRMC). He is also serving on the Board of Directors for the Chinese Oversea Transportation Association (COTA) since Jan. 2014 and was the organizing committee chair for CICTP2017. He is the 2014 recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer for ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering and 2023 PacTrans Researcher of the Year Award. Dr. Wang has published over 93 journal papers and 75 major conference papers, he has attracted 5.2 million (his share) external funding from eight different funding sources including multiple ongoing NSF grants (Awards #1826407, #1902888, #1940345, #2044098, #2052930, #2103713).