08/2025: Katrina delivered a presentation entitled “Research Experiences for Teachers – Coastal Resilience & Adaptation” during the RET final session, marking the conclusion of her journey in the NSF RET program. Well done! 

07/2025: Lisa attended the 7th Global Summit of GADRI, chaired a panel session, "Convergence Approaches in Research and Implementation", and delivered the panel session summary in the plenary.

07/2025: Jinyuan Xie, a PhD student has joined the Wang research group! He completed his BS and MS degrees at ODU as well! Welcome, Jinyuan!

06/2025: Lisa participated in the NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program and serves as a mentor, supporting dedicated high school teams from the Hampton Roads region in research projects and help them bring real-world STEM experiences into their classrooms. Katrina Owens has joined the Wang research group this summer! She is currently technology education teacher at Maury high school! Welcome, Katrina!

06/2025: Corey has been awarded the 2025 Paving the Future Scholarship in the amount of $5,000. This scholarship is administered by the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) Research and Education Foundation (NAPAREF) as part of its scholarship program. He also received the Paving the Future Scholarship in 2024. Congrats!

06/2025: Lisa attended the ICOSSAR 2025 conference, chaired two sessions, "Multi-Disciplinary Life-Cycle Community Resilience Under Natural Hazards to Support Policy Planning and Decision Support" and "Multi-Hazard Resilience Quantification of Community Systems for Informed Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, and Post-Event Managment", and delivered a presentation entitled "Physical-Social Community Resilience Simulation and Validation via Longitudinal Tornado Reconnaissance Studies".

05/2025: Lisa attended the EMI 2025 conference, chaired a session "Objective Resilience: Multi-Hazard Socio-Physical Community Resilience Quantification", judged the Objective Resilience Student Paper-Presentation Competition, and delivered a presentation entitled "Physical-Social Community Resilience Simulation and Validation via Longitudinal Tornado Reconnaissance Studies".

05/2025: Lisa's new paper, "Social Susceptibility–Driven Longitudinal Tornado Reconnaissance Methodology: 2021 Midwest Quad-State Tornado Outbreak", has been published in the ASCE OPEN: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering.

05/2025: Lisa attended the 15th ACWE conference, chaired a session "Multi-Disciplinary Community Resilience and Reconnaissance Studies under Wind-Induced Events", and delivered a presentation entitled "Physical-Social Community Resilience Simulation and Validation via Longitudinal Tornado Reconnaissance Studies".

04/2025: Lisa featured in This Old House Reviews article, "How to Weatherproof Your Home for Extreme Weather (link)", officially went live!  

04/2025: Lisa accepted the invitation for the Timber Engineering Design Faculty Development Workshop, hosted by the Clemson University, which is a two-day all-expenses-paid immersive experience designed specifically for civil engineering faculty interested in incorporating timber design into their curriculum.

04/2025: Lisa provided a panel session, titled "Post-Tornado Recovery and Performance of Communities: Buildings, Infrastructures, and Household", at the AEI Conference 2025.  

03/2025: Lisa received the funding under ODU’s Program for Undergraduate Research & Scholarship (PURS)! The project title is “AI-Driven Development of Minimum Building Portfolios for Coastal Resilience Enhancement”.

02/2025: Lisa led the hazard characteristics session in StEER's preliminary virtual reconnaissance report for Hurricane Milton, titled "StEER: Hurricane Milton Preliminary Virtual Reconnaissance Report (PVRR)", which has been published on DesignSafe. 

02/2025: Lisa received the ICAR Fellows/Affiliate Travel Grant for the attendance to The NHERI Computational Symposium 2025. 

02/2025: Lisa attended the NHERI Computational Symposium and delivered a presentation entitled "Physical-Social Community Resilience Simulation and Validation via Longitudinal Tornado Reconnaissance Studies".

01/2025: Lisa received the funding under ICAR’s Coastal Adaptation and Resilience Multidisciplinary Action (CARMA) Seed Funding program! The project title is “Trustworthy AI in the Data Revolution for Adaptation and Resilience in Coastal Communities”.

01/2025: Corey Holden, an undergraduate student has joined the Wang research group! Corey will participate in two seed funding projects supported by ODU and ICAR! Welcome, Corey!

01/2025: Michael Phillips, an MS student has joined the Wang research group! He is currently a structural engineer at NAVFAC! Welcome, Michael!

01/2025: Brianna Binowski, an MS student has joined the Wang research group! She is currently a bridge engineer at HDR! Welcome, Brianna!

12/2024: Lisa joined the longitudinal Midwest Tornado Field Study and worked with other colleagues for Wave 7 data collection.

12/2024: Lisa served as an instructor for an undergraduate course in fall 2024, Statics (CEE 204), at Old Dominion University. She organized a novel ‘popsicle stick bridge’ competition and received a 4.5 score as “an effective teacher”.

12/2024: Lisa attended the AGU2024 and delivered a presentation entitled "Longitudinal Tornado Reconnaissance Studies: 2021 Midwest Tornado Outbreak".

11/2024: Lisa was invited as a panel reviewer for the NSF program.

11/2024: Lisa attended the NIST CoE Semi-annual Meeting and delivered a presentation entitled "Midwest Tornado Field Reconnaissance Study".

10/2024: Lisa was invited to serve as a section author of the technical report entitled "Hurricane Milton: Preliminary Virtual Reconnaissance Report (PVRR)". 

10/2024: Lisa was invited to review the Mountain-Plains Consortium (MPC) Final Report.

09/2024: Lisa served on an ad hoc committee for review of three undergraduate structural courses (CEE 204 Statics, CEE 205 Dynamics, CEE 220 Mechanics of Deformable Bodies).

09/2024: Lisa was invited by NHERI Graduate Student Council to deliver an invited talk entitled "Multi-Disciplinary Community Resilience and Reconnaissance Studies Under Tornado Hazards for Decision-Making".

07/2024: Lisa starts her tenure-track assistant professor job at Old Dominion University!

07/2024: Lisa received the American Geophysical Union 2024 Annual Meeting Faculty Travel Grant.

07/2024: Lisa's new paper, "Interdependent Recovery Methodology for Residential Buildings and Household Housing in Community Resilience Modeling", has been published in the ASCE OPEN: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering.

06/2024: Lisa attended the 2024 Natural Hazards Workshop and Researchers Meeting.

06/2024: Lisa attended the 7th AAWE Workshop and delivered a presentation entitled "Commercial Building Recovery Modeling Under Tornado Hazards" and chaired a session on large-scale laboratory and wind tunnel testing.

05/2024: Lisa attended the NIST CoE Semi-annual Meeting, the last full Semi-annual Meeting organized by the Center of Excellence of NIST-funded Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning over the past ten years.  

04/2024: Lisa virtually attended the ASCE ICVRAM 2024 & ISUMA 2024 and delivered a presentation entitled "Community Resilience Enhancement for Tornados by Broad Policy Levers".

04/2024: Lisa attended the Joplin in-person IN-CORE community engagement workshop and delivered a presentation to the city of Joplin.

04/2024: Lisa accepted an offer to serve as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University!! 

04/2024: Lisa's new paper, "Application of Multidisciplinary Community Resilience Modeling to Reduce Disaster Risk: Building Back Better ", has been published in the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities.

03/2024: Lisa was invited by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of University of Utah to deliver a job talk presentation.

03/2024: Lisa was invited by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Old Dominion University to deliver a job talk presentation.

03/2024: Lisa was invited by the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering of University of Alabama at Birmingham to deliver a job talk presentation.

01/2023: Lisa joined the longitudinal Midwest Tornado Field Study and worked with other colleagues for Wave 6 data collection.

01/2023: Lisa served as a judge for the St. Joseph Catholic School Science and Engineering Fair.

01/2023: Lisa served as an instructor with full teaching responsibility for a graduate course, Bridge Engineering (CIVE 508), at Colorado State University.

11/2023: Lisa attended the ASCE INSPIRE 2023 conference and delivered a presentation entitled "Physical-Socio-Economic Systems Integration for Community Resilience-Informed Decision-Making and Policy Selection".

11/2023: Lisa attended the ASCE INSPIRE 2023 conference and help with the IN-CORE workshop "Next Generation Community Resilience Modeling with IN-CORE". 

11/2023: Lisa attended the NIST CoE Semi-annual Meeting and delivered a presentation entitled "Supporting Community Resilience Impacted by Broad Policy Levers in the IN-CORE Modeling Environment: Using Joplin Testbed as an Example".

11/2023: Lisa attended the NIST CoE Simi-annual Meeting and delivered a presentation with other colleagues entitled "Data Collection, Processing, and Initial Results: December 2021 Tornado Outbreak".

09/2023: Lisa served as a panelist of a series of CEE graduate writing panel at Colorado State University and delivered a presentation entitled "Visualization of Data - Figures and Tables".

08/2023: Lisa attended the NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Workshop.

08/2023: Lisa attended the National Full-Scale Testing Infrastructure for Community Hardening in Extreme Wind, Surge, and Wave Events (NICHE) Research capacity Workshop and served as a scribe.

08/2023: Lisa attended the Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and Reduction Symposium (THWARTS) and delivered a presentation entitled "Physical-Social Interdependent Recovery Modeling following an EF5 Tornado".

07/2023: Lisa's new paper, "Commercial Building Recovery Methodology for Use in Community Resilience Modeling", has been published in the Natural Hazards Review.

06/2023: Lisa attended the CSU ping pong tournament and won the championship! 

06/2023: Lisa served as an instructor with full teaching responsibility for an undergraduate course, Mechanics of Solids (CIVE 360), at Colorado State University.

06/2023: Lisa attended the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) conference and delivered a presentation entitled "Hindcasting Residential Building Damage and Predicting Recovery for the Mayfield, Kentucky December 2021 Tornado".

05/2023: Lisa attended the CSU graduation ceremony. Ph.D. officially done! 

04/2023: Lisa attended the NIST CoE Semi-annual Meeting, served as a panelist in the webinar, and co-delivered a presentation entitled "Joplin Testbed, Missouri: Multi-Disciplinary Tornado Resilience Models and Community User App".

04/2023: Lisa attended the NIST CoE Simi-annual Meeting and delivered a presentation entitled "Testbed Model to Support Potential Structural Design Code Changes: The 2021 U.S. Midwest Tornado Outbreak".

04/2023: Lisa attended the Joplin in-person IN-CORE community engagement workshop and worked with other colleagues to co-deliver a presentation to the city of Joplin.

03/2023: Lisa was invited by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of South Dakota State University to deliver a job talk presentation.

03/2023: Lisa attended the NSF CAREER Proposal Preparations Workshop organized by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University.

02/2023: Lisa served as a judge for the St. Joseph Catholic School Science and Engineering Fair.

01/2023: Lisa was invited by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Oklahoma State University to deliver a job talk presentation.

01/2023: Lisa started a new position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University!

01/2023: Lisa was invited by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Northeastern University to deliver a job talk presentation.

12/2022: Lisa joined the longitudinal Midwest Tornado Field Study and worked with other colleagues for Wave 4 data collection.

12/2022: Lisa chaired a session on Non-Synoptic Wind-Induced Loading in the 1st China-US Future Wind Engineering Talent Summit. 

12/2022: Lisa attended the 1st China-US Future Wind Engineering Talent Summit and delivered a presentation entitled "Physical-Socio-Economic Integration for Community Resilience Modeling Impacted by Tornado Hazards".

12/2022: Lisa was invited by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Maine to deliver a job talk presentation.

12/2022: Lisa was invited by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Loyola Marymount University to deliver a job talk presentation.

11/2022: Lisa was invited to be involved in the "future cities" class project at the Compass Community Collaborative School and provide feedback.

11/2022: Lisa attended the NIST CoE Semi-annual Meeting and delivered a presentation entitled "IN-CORE Community Briefs – Joplin Testbed".

11/2022: Lisa attended the NIST CoE Simi-annual Meeting and delivered a presentation entitled "Multi-Disciplinary Recovery Methodology for use in Community Resilience Modeling".

10/2022: Lisa successfully passed her Ph.D. dissertation defense!

10/2022: Lisa received the Jack E. Cermak Wind Engineering Graduate Fellowship awarded by Colorado State University.

09/2022: Lisa remotely attended the 13th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR) and delivered a presentation entitled "Probabilistic Decision-Support Methodology to Improve Community Resilience to Tornadoes: Integration of Physical Infrastructure and Socio-Economic Systems".

08/2022: Lisa chaired a session of Lightning Presentations by Students/PDs in the NIST CoE All Researcher Meeting. 

08/2022: Lisa passed all the exams and received her California PE license!

06/2022: Lisa joined the longitudinal Midwest Tornado Field Study and worked with other colleagues for Wave 3 data collection.

05/2022: Lisa attended the 14th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, served as a panelist in the Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning IN-CORE platform Special Session, and co-delivered a presentation entitled "Modeling and Assessing Community Resilience using IN-CORE".

05/2022: Lisa co-chaired a session of Socioeconomic Impacts of Wind Hazards at the 14th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering. 

05/2022: Lisa attended the 14th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering and delivered a presentation entitled "Probabilistic Decision-Support Methodology to Improve Community Resilience to Tornadoes: Integration of Physical Infrastructure and Socio-Economic System".

04/2022: Lisa attended the NIST CoE Semi-annual Meeting and co-delivered a presentation entitled "Update on the Community Resilience-Focused Study of the Quad-State Tornado Outbreak".

04/2022: Lisa attended the NIST CoE Simi-annual Meeting and delivered a presentation entitled "Decision Modeling for Joplin Testbed".

04/2022: Lisa's new paper, "Quantifying the effect of improved school and residential building codes for tornadoes in community resilience", has been published in the inaugural issue of Resilient Cities and Structures.

03/2022: Lisa joined the longitudinal Midwest Tornado Field Study and worked with other colleagues for Wave 2 data collection.

03/2022: Lisa's new paper, "Determination of Individual Building Performance Targets to Achieve Community-Level Social and Economic Resilience Metrics", has been published in the Journal of Structural Engineering.

02/2022: Lisa remotely attended the NIST All-CoE Research Meeting and delivered a presentation entitled "Modeling Commercial Recovery and Improved School Designs for Community Resilience Studies (Updates on Joplin testbed for IN-CORE v3.5)".

01/2022: Lisa remotely attended the ASCE UCLA Lifelines 2022 Conference and delivered a presentation entitled "Modeling the Dependencies Between Buildings, Electrical Power Networks, and the Economy at the Community Level".

12/2021: Lisa joined the longitudinal Midwest Tornado Field Study and worked with other colleagues for Wave 1 data collection.

11/2021: Lisa remotely attended the NIST CoE Virtual Semi-annual Meeting and co-delivered a presentation entitled "Linking Policy and Metrics in IN-CORE".

10/2021: Lisa remotely attended the IN-CORE Tech Webinar and delivered a presentation entitled "Chaining of Physical Infrastructure Damage Model and Dynamic CGE Model through Capital Shocks".

10/2021: Lisa received the Jack E. Cermak Wind Engineering Graduate Fellowship awarded by Colorado State University.

10/2021: Lisa received the NTU Foundation Graduate Fellowship awarded by Colorado State University.

09/2021: Lisa received the O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers, annually awarded to several top graduate students in structural engineering in the United States!

09/2021: Lisa remotely attended the 5th Global Summit of Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI) and delivered an E-poster entitled "Determination of Individual Building Performance Targets to Achieve Community-Level Social and Economic Resilience Metrics".

08/2021: Lisa's new paper, "Effect of Residential Building Wind Retrofits on Social and Economic Community-Level Resilience Metrics", has been published in the Journal of Infrastructure Systems.

04/2021: Lisa's new paper, "Quantitative modeling of residential building disaster recovery and effects of pre- and post-event policies", has been published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

02/2021: Lisa remotely attended the NIST All-CoE Research Meeting and co-delivered a presentation entitled "Joplin Testbed Dashboard and IN-CORE Notebooks".

11/2020: Lisa was selected to join the Princeton Pathway into the Academy Program (PPIA) organized by Princeton University to attend the year-long career development program to help prepare early-stage researchers for faculty careers!

11/2020: Lisa attended the graduate student showcase 3-minute talk competition organized by Colorado State University and won the research top scholar award!

11/2020: Lisa remotely attended the NIST CoE Virtual Semi-annual Meeting and delivered a presentation entitled "Joplin testbed/hindcast: Example effects of policy implementation on recovery modeling with validation".

10/2020: Lisa remotely attended the 7th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2020) and delivered a presentation entitled "Community Resilience Assessment of an EF-5 Tornado Using the IN-CORE Modeling Environment".

09/2020: Lisa received the Jack E. Cermak Wind Engineering Graduate Fellowship awarded by Colorado State University.

06/2020: Lisa's new paper, "Failure Analysis of Pot Bearings in a Curved Viaduct", has been published in the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities.

06/2020: Lisa remotely attended the IN-CORE Tech Webinar and delivered a presentation entitled "Community-level damage, retrofit decisions, and recovery modeling of Joplin, MO in IN-CORE".

11/2019: Lisa started to serve as the Vice President and then President of the Student and Postdoc Council of the Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning 

10/2019: Lisa attended the 2019 Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and Reduction Symposium and delivered a presentation entitled "Community Resilience Assessment of a Simulated EF-5 Tornado in Joplin Using IN-CORE Beta".

10/2019: Lisa received the Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and Reduction Symposium Travel Award by THWARTS 2019.

08/2019: Lisa transferred into the Colorado State University PhD program and continued with the PhD journey!