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Biography

Weiwei Zhan is an assistant professor in the UCF Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering. He serves as director the Geosystems Engineering and Intelligence Lab (GEI-Lab). Prior to coming to UCF, Zhan worked as a postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin and Tufts University, after receiving a doctorate in civil engineering from Clemson University and a bachelor’s degree in geological engineering from China. His main research area is geosystems engineering, where he uses comprehensive and multi-scale approaches including remote sensing, signal processing, geomaterial testing, computational geomechanics and artificial intelligence to study geohazards’ spatiotemporal patterns and infrastructure resilience.

Recent Publications

Forthcoming

Education


  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Clemson University

  • B.S. in Geological Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology

Specialties

  • Landslide hazard assessment and mitigation
  • Soil liquefaction triggering and consequence assessment
  • Earthquake site response and ground motion modeling
  • Explainable machine learning and deep learning
  • Geospatial modeling and uncertainty quantification
  • Multi-hazard infrastructure resilient design