Dr. Xiao Liang joined the department in 2018 after receiving his PhD in Civil Engineering in 2016 at University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on health monitoring of infrastructure systems and buildings taking advantage of data analytics and machine learning to enable assessing and quantifying the condition of structures in near-real time under service and extreme events.
He is particularly interested in algorithmic developments for health monitoring of critical transportation infrastructures that are aging and usually beyond the initial design periods of use. His interests also include performance-based methodologies for hazard resilience, nonlinear structural dynamics and earthquake engineering.
CSEE AT A GLANCE
Chair: Joseph Atkinson
Full-time Faculty: 33
41 Nations represented
Degrees Offered:
• Bachelor's of Science
• Joint BS (Civil)/MBA
• Master's of Science
• Doctor of Philosophy
Student Body:
• 689 Undergraduate
• 168 Graduate
Research Overview:
• 59,688 square feet of teaching and research labs across two buildings
• $5.5 million in annual research expenditures
Research areas in:
• bridge engineering
• computational engineering mechanics
• geomechanics, geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering
• environmental and water resources engineering
• structural and earthquake engineering
• transportation systems engineering