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