Head ShotSaini Yang

Saini Yang is an associate professor of the State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University. She worked as assistant professor at Cleveland State University from 2006 to 2009. Her major research interests include risk assessment of infrastructure systems and emergency response and management. She has participated in multiple state research projects in China and the United States and published more than 20 academic papers.

Yang got her PhD from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Maryland in 2006. She got her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the College of Transportation at Southeast University, China, in 1997 and 2000 respectively.

Yang is an invited speaker in international conferences and was a steering member for the TIDBP conference in Beijing, 2008. She is also a reviewer for multiple international academic journals.

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Workshop Abstracts

A Comparative Study of Post-Disaster Rehabilitation Processes Between China and the United States—Case Study of Greensburg and Wenchuan

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