User:Lchang

Liang Chang received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Chongqing Jianzhu University (former Chongqing Institute of Architecture & Engineering), Chongqing, China and his master degree in Engineering Mechanics from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. He then worked as a research assistant on several research projects of typhoon risk analysis and structureal health monitoring of high-rise buildings at the City Universtiy of Hong Kong. He currently is a S.C.M.P. Graduate Fellow and doctoral student in the Department of Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. He will continue his PhD study in the Civil Engineering program at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from the coming 2006 fall semester. His research interests include engineering risk analysis, structural reliability and system reliability, natural hazards impact on civil infrastructure systems, and spatial analysis.