Rate My Professor Teng Wu

Teng Wu is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2013, an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Notre Dame in 2012, an M.S. in Bridge Engineering from Tongji University in 2010, and a B.E. in Civil Engineering from Tongji University in 2007. Wu joined the University at Buffalo as Assistant Professor from 2014 to 2019, advanced to Associate Professor from 2019 to 2024, and was promoted to Professor in 2024. Previously, he served as Research Assistant Professor at Notre Dame in 2014. His research addresses the effects of service and extreme winds on the built environment, with emphasis on bridges, spanning wind engineering, hurricane engineering, structural engineering, bridge engineering, nonlinear and transient aerodynamics, performance-based wind design, community resilience to hurricanes, climate change, computational fluid dynamics, reduced-order modeling, and knowledge-enhanced machine learning. He has authored more than 100 articles in respected journals and presented over 110 conference papers, with research supported by U.S. federal and state agencies, industry, and international collaborators.

Wu's achievements include the 2024 and 2023 IABSE Outstanding Paper Awards, 2023 Outstanding Associate Editor Award from Frontiers in Built Environment, 2018 IABSE Prize, 2017 IAWE Junior Award, 2017 AAWE Robert Scanlan Award, 2016 ASCE Alfred Noble Prize, 2014 AAWE Best Paper Award, and 2013 ASCE O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship. He holds editorial positions as Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Wind Engineering; Associate Editor for ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE OPEN, IABSE Structural Engineering International, and Frontiers in Built Environment - Wind Engineering and Science; and editorial board member for several other journals. Key publications are 'Equitable Infrastructure: Achieving Resilient Systems through Restorative Justice and Innovation' (PNAS Nexus, 2024), 'Estimation of Extreme Wind Pressure Coefficients of Buildings Using POT with Automated Threshold Selection' (Journal of Building Engineering, 2024), and 'Physics-Statistics-Based Hybrid Simulation Scheme of Coupled Nonstationary Hurricane Wind and Wave Fields for Long-Span Floating Bridges' (Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure, 2023).