Rate My Professor Alice Chang-Richards

Alice Chang-Richards is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland. She obtained her PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Auckland in 2012, with her doctoral thesis investigating resourcing for post-disaster housing reconstruction. She joined the University of Auckland as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2011 and took up a lecturing role in Construction Engineering in 2013. Her research focuses on performance-based earthquake engineering, structural health monitoring, construction engineering and automation, disaster resilience, urban resilience, and the application of AI and technologies in these areas. She has been a Fulbright New Zealand Scholar hosted at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2023 to 2024 and has served as a visiting scholar at the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Research Institute at Tongji University in China. Chang-Richards has received awards including the Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award and recognition for early career research excellence from the University of Auckland Faculty of Engineering. Her work is highly cited, with over 4,900 citations on Google Scholar, reflecting influence in the fields of resilience and earthquake engineering. She supervises doctoral students and contributes to research on post-disaster recovery, housing quality, and digital technologies in construction and civil engineering.