Qi “Ryan” Wang
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty,
School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs
Contact
- q.wang@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 433 SN
- 617.373.7984
Research Focus
Urban and social resilience; geo-social networking; coupled, human-natural systems, natural disaster response and evacuation; urban computing
Education
- 2015 Virginia Tech, PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 2012 Michigan State University, MS
Honors & Awards
- 2023 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow
- 2021 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering
Research Overview
Urban and social resilience; geo-social networking; coupled, human-natural systems, natural disaster response and evacuation; urban computing
Selected Research Projects
- Strengthening Elderly Mobility in Urban Landscapes: Towards Age-Inclusive and Equitable Communities
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Dynamical Coupling of Physical and Social Infrastructures: Evaluating the Impacts of Social Capital on Access to Safe Well Water
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Toxic-Free Footprints to Improve Community Health against Respiratory Hazards
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- A Whole-Community Effort to Understand Biases and Uncertainties in Using Emerging Big Data for Mobility Analysis
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Geo-Spatio Temporal Monitoring and Mapping, For Predictive Analytics, With Privacy Protection: Anticipating the Next Virus Hot Spot.
- – Co-Principal Investigator, IARPA
- The Carbon Footprint of Airbnb.
- – Co-Principal Investigator, Internet Society Foundation
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Small, M., Torres, M., Akhavan, A., Wang, Q. (2021). Banks, Alternative Institutions, and the Spatial-Temporal Ecology of Racial Inequality. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01153-1
- Rahimi-Golkhandan, A., Garvin, M. J., & Wang, Q. (2021). Assessing the Impact of Transportation Diversity on Postdisaster Intraurban Mobility. Journal of Management in Engineering, 37(1). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000872
- Mirzaee, S., & Wang, Q. (2020). Urban Mobility and Resilience: Exploring Boston’s Urban Mobility Network Through Twitter Data. Applied Network Science, 5(75). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-020-00316-9
- Zhang, H., Liu, X., Wang, Q., Zhang, W., & Gao, J. (2020). Co-Adaptation Enhances the Resilience of Mutualistic Networks. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 17(168). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0236
- Chen, Y., Wang, Q., & Ji, W. (2020). Rapid Assessment of Disaster Impacts on Highways Using Social Media. Journal of Management in Engineering, 36(5). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000836
- J. Du, Q. Zhu, Y. Shi, Q. Wang, Y. Lin, D. Zhao Cognition-Digital Twins (Cog-DT) for Personalized Information Systems of Smart Cities – A Proof of Concept, Journal of Engineering Management, 2020
- Akhavan, N.E. Phillips, J. Du, J. Chen, B. Sadeghi, Q. Wang, Accessibility Inequality in Houston, IEEE Sensors Letters, 3(1), 2019
- J. Du, Q. Wang, Q. Shi, Description-Experience Gap under Imperfect Information Information Continuum and Aggressive Cost Estimating in Capital Project, Journal of Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2019
- J. Chen, W. Wang, N. Li, Q. Wang, Linking Energy-Cyber-Physical System Through Human- Centric Occupancy Predication and Interpretation with Wi-Fi Probe-Based Ensemble Classifications, Applied Energy, 236, 2019, 55-69
- N.E. Phillips, M. Small, R. Sampson, Q. Wang, The Social Integration of American Cities: Network Measures of Connectedness Based on Everyday Mobility across Neighborhoods, Sociological Methods & Research, 2019
- J. Chen, Q. Wang, Z. Lin, X. Guo, Measuring the Cognitive Loads of Construction Safety Sign Designs During Selective and Sustained Attention, Safety Science, 105, 2018, 9-21