Jize Zhang

Affiliations

• Assistant Professor (Primary), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Assistant Professor (Joint), Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas

Biography

Professor Jize Zhang has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since January 2022.

Before joining HKUST, he was a Machine Learning Research Scientist in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2019 to 2021.

His research lies at the intersection of uncertainty quantification and artificial intelligence for infrastructure systems. Applications include risk assessment and sensing for civil structures, engineering design optimization, autonomous transport systems, and natural-hazard mitigation for storm surges and tropical cyclones.

He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Data-Centric Engineering, Scientific Reports, the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, and the International Journal of Energy Research. He is also a member of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute’s Probabilistic Methods Committee and Machine Learning in Mechanics Committee.

Education

• University of Notre Dame: PhD in Structural Engineering (2019)
• University of Notre Dame: MSc in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics (2019)
• Carnegie Mellon University: MSc in Advanced Infrastructure Systems (2013)
• Xi'an Jiaotong University: BEng in Electrical Engineering (2012)