Expertise

Dr. Wei Song’s research interests include structural condition assessment, advanced experimental technique, cyber-physical system design promoting community resilience and optimal control design for nonlinear stochastic systems.

Areas of Research

  • Advanced Experimental Techniques
  • Cyber-Physical System Design Promoting Community Resilience
  • Structural Condition Assessment
  • Structural Vibration Control under Extreme Loading Conditions

Research Interests

  • Structural dynamics, especially under hazardous loads (earthquake, wind, waves, etc.)
  • Structural condition assessment and model updating
  • Advanced experimental platform for large-scale structural system testing
  • Machine-learning based methods in civil engineering
  • Cyber-physical systems design towards promoting community resilience

Research

  • Structural Control for Response Reduction
  • Structural Condition Assessment and Model Updating
  • Real-time Hybrid Simulation
  • Deep-Learning in Civil Engineering 
Communities
Environmental Engineering, Construction, Civil Engineering
Degrees
PhD, Purdue University, Civil Engineering, 2011
MS, Washington University in St. Louis, Systems Science and Mathematics, 2008
MS, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Structural Engineering, 2004
BS, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Civil Engineering, 2001