Dr. Haizhong Wang

Bob Benmosche Endowed Professorship

Areas of Interest:
Resilience to Extreme Event
Wildfire, Smoke, and Health Impacts
Risk-informed Decision-making under Deep Uncertainty
AI-driven Multimodal Transportation
Climate–Resilience–Health–Energy Nexus

Education:
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010
M.S. in Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, 2006
B.S. in Civil Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, 2003

Classes typically taught:
CE-3110 Transportation engineering, planning, and design
CE-8930 Risk and Resilience
Traffic Flow Theory
Agent-based Modeling

Professional Society Memberships:
- ASCE Infrastructure Resiliency Division – Transportation Subcommittee
- ASCE Infrastructure Resiliency Division – Risk and Resilience Measurements Committee
- ASCE Infrastructure Resiliency Division – Emerging Technologies Committee
- Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Member, Transportation Research Board (TRB)

Sample Publications:

Sedighi, F., Staes, B.M., Ghoreishi, B., Jing, X. and Wang, H. (2026). A community-driven recommender system for speed safety camera policy using large language models and knowledge graphs. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 214, p.105236.

Ghoreishi, B., Staes, B.M., Liu, C., and Wang, H. (2025). Mapping climate extremes and infrastructure vulnerability: A new database for US railroads. Scientific Data, 12(1), 1932.

Liu, C., Lindell, M.K., and Wang, H. (2025). Households’ expected and actual preparation times in tsunami evacuation drills. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105767.

Liu, C., Staes, B.M., and Wang, H. (2025). Evacuation time estimates for life safety in tsunami hazards. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 119, 105237.

Siam, M.R.K., Staes, B.M., Lindell, M.K., and Wang, H. (2025). Lessons Learned From the 2018 Attica Wildfire: Households’ Expectations of Evacuation Logistics and Evacuation Time Estimate Components. Fire Technology, 61(2), 795–827.

Wang, Q., Liu, K., Wang, M., Koks, E., and Wang, H. (2024). Exposure of Global Rail and Road Infrastructures in Future Record-Breaking Climate Extremes. Earth’s Future, 12(1), e2023EF003632.

Siam, M.R.K., Lindell, M.K., and Wang, H. (2024). Modeling of multi-hazard warning dissemination time distributions: An agent-based approach. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 100, 104207.

Staes, B.M., Wang, H., and Bertini, R.L. (2024). Development of a Length-Based CellState Framework Toward the Re-Creation of Large-Scale Dense Congestion Patterns. Transportation Research Record, 2678(11), 1352–1365.

Ge, Y., Kapucu, N., Zobel, C.W., Hasan, S., Hall, J.L., Wang, H., Wang, L., Mart´ın, Y., and Cechowski, M. (2023). Building Community Resilience through Cross-sector Partnerships and Interdisciplinary Research. Public Administration Review, 83(5), 1415–1422.

Wang, Y., Zhou, J., Sun, Y., Fan, J., Wang, Z., and Wang, H. (2023). Collaborative Multidepot Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Shared Charging Stations. Expert Systems with Applications, 219, 119654.

Wang, Y., Wei, Y., Wang, X., Wang, Z., and Wang, H. (2023). A Clustering-Based Extended Genetic Algorithm for the Multidepot Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Three-Dimensional Loading Constraints. Applied Soft Computing, 133, 109922.

Koll, C., Lindell, M., Chen, C., and Wang, H. (2023). Emergency Warning Dissemination in a Multiplex Social Network. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 26(1), 7.

Katzilieris, K.I., Vlahogianni, E.I., and Wang, H. (2022). Evacuation Behavior of Affected Individuals and Households in Response to the 2018 Attica Wildfire: From Empirical Data to Models. Safety Science, 153, 105799.

Chen, C., Lindell, M.K., Wang, H., Jung, M.C., and Siam, M.R.K. (2022). Tsunami Preparedness and Resilience: Evacuation Logistics and Time Estimations. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 109, 103324.

Wang, H., Lindell, M.K., Siam, M.R.K., Chen, C., and Husein, R. (2022). Local Residents’ Immediate Responses to the 2018 Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami. Earthquake Spectra.

Wang, Y., Ran, L., Guan, X., Fan, J., Sun, Y., and Wang, H. (2022). Collaborative Multicenter Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Mixed Deliveries and Pickups. Expert Systems with Applications, 197.

Feng, Z., Cao, C., Mostafizi, A., Wang, H., and Chang, X. (2022). Uncertain Demand-Based Integrated Optimization for Train Timetabling and Coupling on the High-Speed Rail Network. International Journal of Production Research.

Chen, C., Mostafizi, A., Wang, H., Cox, D., and Cramer, L. (2022). Evacuation Behaviors in Tsunami Drills. Natural Hazards, 112, 845–871.

Siam, M.R.K., Wang, H., Lindell, M.K., Chen, C., Vlahogianni, E.I., and Axhausen, K. (2022). An Interdisciplinary Agent-Based Multimodal Wildfire Evacuation Model: Critical Decisions and Life Safety. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 103.

Chen, C., Wang, H., Cramer, L., and Cox, D. (2022). An Integrative Agent-Based Vertical Evacuation Risk Assessment for Near-Field Tsunami Hazards. Risk Analysis, 42(12), 2720–2734.

Shao, C., Siam, M.R.K., Deng, S., Wang, Y., and Wang, H. (2021). An Efficiency-Based Capacity Formulation: Mathematical Properties and Practical Implications. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 17(4).

Wang, Y., Wang, X., Guan, X., Li, Q., Fan, J., and Wang, H. (2021). A Combined Intelligent and Game Theoretical Methodology for Collaborative Multicenter Pickup and Delivery Problems with Time Window Assignment. Applied Soft Computing, 113.

Wang, Y., Peng, S., Guan, X., Fan, J., Wang, Z., Liu, Y., and Wang, H. (2021). Collaborative Logistics Pickup and Delivery Problem with Eco-packages Based on Time-Space Network. Expert Systems with Applications, 170.

Wang, Y., Yuan, Y., Guan, X., Xu, M., Wang, L., Wang, H., and Liu, Y. (2020). Collaborative Two-Echelon Multicenter Vehicle Routing Optimization Based on StateSpace-Time Network Representation. Journal of Cleaner Production, 258.

Mostafizi, A., Wang, H., Cox, D., and Dong, S. (2019). An Agent-Based Vertical Evacuation Model for a Near-Field Tsunami: Choice Behavior, Logical Shelter Locations, and Life Safety. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 34.

Dong, S., Mostafizi, A., Wang, H., Gao, J., and Li, X. (2020). Measuring the Topological Robustness of Transportation Network Under Random Failures: A Percolation Approach. ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 26(2).