Eun Jeong Cha

Eun Jeong Cha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. (2012) and M.S. (2009) from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. (2006) from Seoul National University. Her research focuses on risk-informed decision-making for infrastructure resilience under natural hazards, including hurricane risk assessment under climate change, interdependent infrastructure systems analysis, and seismic risk mitigation.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Georgia Tech (2012)
  • M.S. in Civil Engineering, Georgia Tech (2009)
  • B.S. in Architectural Engineering, Seoul National University (2006)

Her research interests span structural reliability, disaster risk management, and the integration of climate change impacts into infrastructure design. Key areas include hurricane risk modeling, interdependent infrastructure recovery, and socially-aware retrofit prioritization. She has received awards such as the ASCE/EMI Probabilistic Methods Committee Student Paper Award (2012) and is a Fellow of the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers (2015).

Dr. Cha leads the R4 Group, advancing methodologies for resilient infrastructure systems. She actively contributes to professional societies like ASCE, serving on committees for load combinations and climate adaptation. Her work bridges engineering, risk analysis, and policy to enhance community resilience against extreme events.