Dr. Gaofeng Jia is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. His primary research interests are in the areas of natural hazard risk assessment and mitigation (including earthquake, tsunami, hurricane and other hazards), robust analysis/design of complex engineering systems (including renewable wave and wind farms, complex infrastructure networks), risk-informed decision making, aging and deterioration of civil infrastructure, as well as automated condition assessment of civil infrastructure with the ultimate goal of enhancing infrastructure resilience.

 

 

Dr. Jia earned his Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering (2007) and Master's degree in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (2009) from Beijing Jiaotong University, China. He obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame (2014). Prior to joining CSU, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame (2014-2015) and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015-2016). He is recipient of the Young Researcher Best Paper Award in the International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (2013), and of the Best Student Paper Award in the ASCE EMI/PMC conference (2012).