Jie Gong

Jie Gong, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University. Prior to joining Rutgers University, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville from 2010 to 2012. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009, his M.S. degree from Texas Tech University, and his B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has three years of professional working experiences as a geotechnical engineer on projects ranging from tunneling to rapid public transit systems.

Gong’s general research interest is in the field of community resilience and sustainability. His recent research focuses on two fronts: (1) using geospatial big data and developing data analytics to support disaster response and data collection, damage assessment and modeling, vulnerability assessment and visualization, risk analysis for critical infrastructure, and debris removal and management; and (2) sensing, building data modeling, and analytics for high performance building systems. He has extensive experience in the areas of remote sensing, structural forensics, building information modeling, data fusion and visualization, and pattern recognition. Dr. Gong has been the principal investigator and co-principal investigator for research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of Transportation, the New Jersey Department of Transportation, the New Jersey Board of Public Utility, and the Illinois Department of Transportation. His research has been supported by industry organizations and companies such as Bentley Systems and St. Louis Masonry Institute.