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Ziqi Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on analyzing and understanding the reliability, risk, and resilience of structures and critical infrastructures subjected to hazards. He is particularly interested in applying computational methods for structural reliability and uncertainty quantification, emphasizing interpretable probabilistic analysis methods. Wang develops probabilistic methods to analyze the regional impact of hazards, leveraging theories and models from reliability, uncertainty quantification, and statistical physics. His work aims to apply these methods to a broader field of science, particularly in civil engineering, where he explores hypotheses regarding optimal computation methods in terms of efficiency, accuracy, interpretability, and scalability for a wide spectrum of problems. Wang's research also employs statistical physics approaches to analyze regional-scale impacts of natural hazards, revealing simple yet striking statistical regularities through appropriate metrics. His expertise encompasses stochastic dynamics related to disasters.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.