Ao Du

Ao Du, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at the Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design, The University of Texas at San Antonio. His research focuses on enhancing the resilience of infrastructure systems against natural hazards and aging through advanced modeling and data analytics.

• Education: Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Rice University, 2020), M.S. in Civil Engineering (Tongji University, 2016), B.S. in Civil Engineering with minor in Mathematics (Tongji University, 2013).

Research Interests include probabilistic seismic risk assessment, multi-hazard resilience analysis, surrogate modeling, uncertainty quantification, and structural reliability. His work integrates physics-based modeling, stochastic simulations, and artificial intelligence to address infrastructure risk management.

Labs & Teams: Leads the Smart and Sustainable Infrastructure Resilience (S2IR) Lab, focusing on multi-modal sensing, optimization methods, and life-cycle analysis for infrastructure resilience under deep uncertainties.