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Yang Wang

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Email Address
yang.wang@ce.gatech.edu
Telephone
404.894.1851
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4160
Biography

Dr. Yang Wang is a Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also holds an adjunct position in Electrical and Computer Engineering.  His research interests include structural health monitoring, system identification, model updating, and wireless and mobile sensors.  Dr. Wang received an NSF Early Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2012 and a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in 2013.  In 2017, he received the Achenbach Medal from the international research community in structural health monitoring. Dr. Wang currently serves as an Associate Editor for Structural Health Monitoring – an International Journal (SHMIJ). 

Research

Dr. Wang’s research centers on advanced smart structural technologies designed to monitor and safeguard civil infrastructure systems, including buildings, bridges, tunnels, and dams. His group investigates cutting-edge sensing, control, and information technologies to enable the development of next-generation large-scale smart structural systems. 

Education

                                

Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental EngineeringStanford University 2007
M.S. in Electrical EngineeringStanford University 2007
M.S. in Civil Engineering Tsinghua University 2001
B.E. in Civil Engineering      Tsinghua University1998 

     

Teaching

Dr. Wang teaches a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses in structural engineering, covering topics from static to dynamic analysis of structural behavior under various loading conditions. 

Distinctions & Awards
 
2019 Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) Award 
2017 The Achenbach Medal 
2017 Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) Award 
2014 

Winner of Best Student Hardware Paper Competition (as advisor and co-author) 

ASME 2014 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS), Newport, RI, USA. 

2013 AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research) Young Investigator Award 
2012 NSF (National Science Foundation) Early Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Award 
2012 IEEE-IMS (Instrumentation and Measurement Society) Faculty Course Development Award 
2012 ASNT (American Society for Nondestructive Testing) Faculty Grant 
2011 

Best Student Paper Award (as advisor and co-author) 

The 8th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA, USA. 

2011 

Most Practical SHM Solution for Civil Infrastructures Award in the SHM-in-Action plenary competition 

The 8th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA, USA. 

Publications
  1. Otsuki, Y., and Wang, Y. (2025). “Recursive and batch Bayesian estimation of exponential non-viscous damping systems“, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 222: 111703. 
  2. Otsuki, Y., and Wang, Y. (2024). “Finite element model updating of non-proportional and exponential non-viscous damping systems using complex eigenvalues and eigenvectors“, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 589: 118589. 
  3. Otsuki, Y., Nguyen, S. T., La, H. M., and Wang, Y. (2023). “Autonomous ultrasonic thickness measurement of steel bridge members using a climbing bicycle robot“, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 149(8): 04023051. 
  4. Li, D., and Wang, Y. (2022). “Constrained unscented Kalman filter for parameter identification of structural systems“, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 29(4): e2908. 
  5. Otsuki, Y., Lander, P., Dong, X., and Wang, Y. (2022). “Formulation and application of SMU – an open-source MATLAB package for structural model updating“, Advances in Structural Engineering, 25(4): 698-715.   
  6. Otsuki, Y., Li, D., Dey, S.S., Kurata, M., and Wang, Y. (2021). “Finite element model updating of an 18-story structure using branch-and-bound algorithm with epsilon-constraint“, Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, 11(3), 575-592.  
  7. Wang, Z., and Wang, Y. (2021). “Bridge weigh-in-motion through bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network with long short-term memory and attention mechanism“, Smart Structures and Systems, 27(2): 241-256.  
  8. Wu, D., Zeng, M., Zhao, H., Wang, Y., and Du, Y. (2021).  “Detection and localization of debonding beneath concrete pavement using transmissibility function analysis“, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 159: 107802. 
  9. Liu, X., Wang, Y., and Verriest, E. (2021). “Simultaneous input-state estimation with direct feedthrough based on a unifying MMSE framework with experimental validation,” Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 147: 107083. 
  10. Li, D., and Wang, Y. (2021). “Parameter identification of a differentiable Bouc-Wen model using constrained extended Kalman filter,” Structural Health Monitoring, 20(1): 360-378. 

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