News

2026

Jul 2026 — Our work on multi-stakeholder risk and land-use planning will be presented at the 13th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (13NCEE), Portland, OR.
May 2026 — Research spotlight presentation at the NHERI Computational Symposium on computational methods for modeling long-term sequences of hazard losses and their implications for recovery and resilience.
Mar 2026 — Two first-authored papers accepted:
- Wang, J., Siders, A. R., Davidson, R., & Nozick, L. (2026). Stakeholder Dynamics in Disaster Mitigation Funding: The Roles of Timing, Spatial Scale and Allocation Basis in Policy Design. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
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- Wang, J., Davidson, R., & Nozick, L. (2026). An Optimization-Based Approach to Developing Computationally Efficient Long-Term Event-Loss Scenario Ensembles. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering.
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Dec 2025 — Presented first-authored research at the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Washington, DC:
Wang, J., Williams, C., Davidson, R., Nozick, L., & Millea, M. (2025). Coupling Land Use Planning and Multi-Stakeholder Dynamics to Inform Disaster Risk Management: Who Pays for Risk and Who Gains from Intervention?
Feb 2025 — Presented research at the NHERI Computational Symposium, Los Angeles, CA:
Wang, J., Williams, C., Davidson, R., Liu, D., Nozick, L., Millea, M., & Trainor, J. (2025). Comprehending Regional Risk Analysis: Integrating Dynamic Building Inventory into a Multi-stakeholder Decision-making Framework.

2024–2025 — Named a U.S. NSF–Every Page Foundation Ocean Decade Champion.
2023–2024 — Served as Chair, Engineering and Infrastructure Specialty Group, Society for Risk Analysis.
2023 — Completed Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Purdue University.