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ZifaWang

December 29, 2020    Author:

    ZifaWang


Professor

 

School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Henan University

Jin Ming Avenue, Kaifeng, China

Email: zifa@iem.ac.cn

 

 

Education and Certificate

 

Sept. 2002 - Jun. 2003


MBA program, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA

Apr. 1991 – Mar. 1994


Doctor of Engineering in Architectural Engineering, Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Sept. 1986 - Jun. 1989


Master of Engineering in Earthquake Engineering and Protection Engineering, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, Harbin, China

          Sept. 1982 – Jul. 1986


Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Research Interests


Earthquake engineering, Catastrophe risk quantification and application, Application of artificial intelligence in risk detection and reduction.

Work Experiences



Jul. 2019 - present


Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Henan University, Kaifeng, China

Selected teaching courses: Earthquake Engineering, Technical English Writing for Civil Engineering Graduates

Nov. 2009 – Jul. 2019


Chief Analytics Officer, Validus Research (AIG), New York, USA

Nov. 2008 – Nov. 2009


Managing Director, RMS China, Beijing, China

Jun. 2003 – Oct. 2008


Director and Professor, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, Harbin, China

May 1998 – Jun. 2003


Principal Engineer, in the order Insweb, Turbolinux, and Tellme Networks, Silicon Valley, California, USA

Jul. 1995 – May 1998


Senior Engineer, RMS, Menlo Park, California, USA

Apr. 1994 – Jun. 1995


Principal Researcher, Marine River Technology, Tokyo, Japan




Selected Projects



Oct. 2007 – Dec. 2009

 

 

 

Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2008


Chief Scientist, Major State Basic Research Development Program (973 Program), Earthquake Damage and its Control of Urban Infrastructures (No. 2007CB714200)

 

Principal Investigator, Key Project for International Collaboration, Ministry of Science and Technology, Fundamental Testing Technologies in an Earthquake Engineering Network (2006DFA71640)

Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2023


Principal Investigator, General Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Deep Learning in Structural Vulnerability Analysis Using the Detailed Building Earthquake Damage Data from New Zealand (51978634)

Selected Publications

  1. Zifa Wang (2019). Spatial Correlation of Earthquake Loss and its Impact on Loss Aggregation, Proc. 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Sendai, Japan

  2. Hadi Ghasemi, Yoshimitsu Fukushima, Kazuki Koketsu, Hiroe Miyake, Zifa Wang, John G Anderson (2010). Ground-motion simulation for the 2008 Wenchuan, China, earthquake using the stochastic finite-fault method, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 100(5B), 2476-2490

  3. Zifa. Wang (2008). A preliminary report on the Great Wenchuan Earthquake, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 7(2), 225-234

     

Honors and Awards

1992


2nd Grade, State Science and Technology Progress Award

2006


National expert on earthquake science and technology, awarded by a joint committee from 5 ministries

Various


Numerous titles in international earthquake research community

 

 

 

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