Dr. Gaofeng Jia

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Gaofeng JiaDr. Gaofeng Jia specializes in natural hazard risk assessment/mitigation, robust analysis/design of complex engineering systems and high performance structures, risk-informed decision making, modeling of aging and deterioration of infrastructure, as well as automated condition assessment of civil infrastructure with the ultimate goal of enhancing infrastructure resilience. His research brings together the versatility of generalized simulation-based approaches and the efficiency of soft computing and high performance computing to address the challenges associated with solving complex engineering problems. Dr. Jia earned his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (2007) and Master’s degree in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (2009) from Beijing Jiaotong University, China. He obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame (2014). Prior to joining CSU, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame (2014-2015) and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015-2016). He is recipient of the Young Researcher Best Paper Award in the International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (2013), and of the Best Student Paper Award in the ASCE EMI/PMC conference (2012).

Research Interests

  • Natural hazard risk assessment and mitigation
  • Uncertainty quantification and propagation, advanced stochastic simulation
  • Surrogate modeling
  • Aging and deterioration of infrastructure
  • Bayesian approaches
  • Infrastructure resilience

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Contact Information

Office Location: Engineering A205H
Phone: 970-491-6580
Fax: 970-491-7727
gjia@colostate.edu

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Education

  • B.S. 2007, Beijing Jiaotong University – Civil Engineering
  • M.S. 2009, Beijing Jiaotong University – Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
  • Ph.D. 2014, University of Notre Dame – Civil Engineering