Faculty Profile: Yiyi Wang

Yiyi Wang, Ph. D.

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Discipline: Transportation Planning & Engineering

Office: SEIC 333

Phone: (415) 405-3956

Emailyiyiwang@sfsu.edu

Yiyi Wang

Education

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2013

M.S., Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, 2009

B.S., Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, 2006

Biography

Hello! I am an assistant professor of civil engineering. Prior to joining SFSU, I was an assistant professor (tenured) at Montana State University – Bozeman. My research focuses on the nexus between mapping, information technology, and transportation and published my interdisciplinary work in journals such as Accident Analysis & Prevention, Journal of Transportation Geography, and Annuals of Regional Science. My projects have been supported by the Federal Highway Administration, Electric Power Research Institute, and the Montana Department of Transportation. I also serve on the Transportation Research Board (TRB) ABJ80 Statistical Analysis committee and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) panel.

At MSU, I co-advised the Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter and received a number of awards such as the MSU Faculty Excellence Grant and the American Association of Geographers’ Garrison Award for Best Dissertation in Computational Geography. I am the newly appointed faculty co-adviser, along with Professor Xiaorong Zhang, for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at SFSU. I am looking for highly-motivated undergraduate and graduate students to work with on super exciting projects for the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are interested, shoot me an email. I am happy to connect!  

 

News & Awards

SoE Awarded $1M NSF HSI Grant to Strengthen Student Motivation and Resilience through Research and Advising, Sept 2021