Hao Wang
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Research Interests
- Advanced and Multi-Functional Infrastructure Materials
- Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Modeling
- Highway and Airport Pavement
- Non-Destructive Testing and Sensing
- AI-Enabled Infrastructure Management System
- Life-Cycle Assessment and Transportation Electrification
Honors
- Tyson Faculty Award, Rutgers SOE, 2024-2027
- Rutgers Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award, 2023
- Researcher of The Year Award, ASCE New Jersey Section Central Jersey Branch, 2023
- Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, ASCE, 2022
- New Jersey DOT Research Implementation Award, 2021, 2023
- Emerging Outstanding Academic, Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE), 2021
- Applied Energy Highly Cited Paper Awards, 2020
- Theodore von Karman Fellowship, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2020
- Educator of The Year Award, ASCE New Jersey Section, 2019
- AASHTO High Value Research Award (PI of the winning project), 2014, 2024
Professional Affiliations
- Handling Editor, Transportation Research Record
- Associate Editor, Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Pavement Engineering
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, ASTM
- Editorial Board Member, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
- Chair, Pavement Mechanics Committee, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute
- Member of TRB and ASCE Technical Committees
Education
• Ph.D., Civil Engineering; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011
• M.S., Civil Engineering; Virginia Tech, 2006
• M.S., Transportation Engineering; Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2004
• B.S., Civil Engineering; Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2001
Summary
Dr. Wang’s general research is in the field of sustainable, smart, and resilient built environment. His recent research focuses on developing sustainable, resilient, and smart pavement and transportation infrastructure using innovative materials, computational modeling, and data analytics. He is a fellow of Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) of ASCE and the recipient of ASCE Huber Award in 2022.