Eun Jeong Cha

Eun Jeong Cha is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Prior to joining the University of Illinois in 2014, Dr. Cha served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Part-time researcher at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her awards and honors include the ASCE/EMI Probabilistic Methods Committee Student Paper Award in 2012, the International Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association (CERRA) Student Recognition Award in 2011, and Korean Government Scholarship in 2007. She is also a fellow of the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers in 2015. Dr. Jeong Cha’s research interests are in the general areas of civil infrastructure risk-based decision-making, including structural safety target optimization, building design load calibration, disaster impact modeling for buildings and infrastructure systems, life-cycle analysis of buildings and infrastructure exposed to extreme events, the role of risk acceptance attitudes in civil engineering decisions, and extended life spans of civil infrastructure projects in planning, design, maintenance and replacement for a sustainable development.