About
I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at Rice University, where I will work with Dr. Jamie Padgett. I recently completed my M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), advised by Dr. Mingang Gao at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). I received my B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from Nanjing Tech University in 2023, advised by Dr. Lingzhi Li.
My research develops optimization, simulation, and data-driven methods for complex systems under uncertainty, with a particular focus on infrastructure resilience, emergency management, and robust decision-making. I am especially interested in how infrastructure systems can be modeled, compared, and restored under uncertain hazards, limited resources, and heterogeneous stakeholder preferences.
Education
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA (expected).
M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China.
Selected Publications
View All ->Generalized Ordinal Priority Approach with Small-Sample Incomplete Preference Learning for Multi-Attribute Decision-Making
2026Renlong Wang
Annals of Operations Research (SCI JCR-Q1, IF: 4.5)
Oral presentation: Oral presentation at 2024 POMS Summer School in China; Excellent Paper Award.
Proposes GOPA, which learns utility functions from sparse preference comparisons and derives closed-form weights for noisy small-sample decisions.
Prospect-Theoretic Risk Assessment of Emergency Response Performance Under Procedural Dependency and Organizational Collaboration: A Dynamic Metanetwork-Based Framework
2026Renlong Wang, Jingyao Yue, Mingang Gao†, Anh Ngoc Quang Huynh, Jintao Lu
Risk Analysis (SSCI JCR-Q1, IF: 3.3)
Oral presentation: Oral presentation at 2024 International Symposium on Emergency Management; Best Paper First Prize.
Proposes a prospect-theoretic metanetwork framework, which links procedure timing, collaboration patterns, and bounded rationality in emergency response assessment.
A Hybrid MADM Method Considering Expert Consensus for Emergency Recovery Plan Selection: Dynamic Grey Relation Analysis and Partial Ordinal Priority Approach
2024Renlong Wang
Information Sciences (SCI JCR-Q1, IF: 6.8)
Develops DGRA-POPA, which translates expert consensus into dominance structures for robust emergency recovery plan selection.
Selected Drafts
View all ->Working papers and manuscripts currently under review.
Consensus Resilience Planning for Multi-Agency Restoration of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems: A Unified Framework and Resilience-Informed Heuristic-Exact Decomposition Algorithm
SubmittedRenlong Wang
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Develops a consensus resilience planning framework that coordinates shared restoration resources through resilience-informed allocation search and exact agent-level restoration oracles.
From Resilience Curves to Cross-System Benchmarking: A Non-Parametric Relative Measurement Framework for Interdependent Infrastructure
Under ReviewRenlong Wang
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Introduces a benchmark-relative measurement framework for comparing resilience curves across systems and identifying peer references and feature-level performance gaps.
News
Received my M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Google Scholar citations reached 100.
One sole-authored paper was accepted by Annals of Operations Research.
One co-authored paper was accepted by Chinese Journal of Management Science.
Will join Rice University as a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering in August 2026, advised by Dr. Jamie Padgett.
One first-author paper was accepted by Risk Analysis.
One corresponding-author paper was accepted by Scientific Reports.
One paper was recognized as a CNKI Highly Cited Paper.
Awarded the National Scholarship for Postgraduates.
One corresponding-author paper was accepted by Energy.
One first-author paper was accepted by Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory.
One first-author paper was accepted by Expert Systems with Applications.
Awarded the Excellent Prize of the President Scholarship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
One corresponding-author paper was accepted by Energy.
Received the Excellent Paper Award at the 2024 Student Academic Forum of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Awarded the National Scholarship for Postgraduates.
Received the Best Paper First Prize at the 2024 International Symposium on Emergency Management.
Received the Excellent Paper Award at the 2024 POMS Summer School.
Recognized as a Merit Student of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
One sole-authored paper was accepted by Information Sciences.
One first-author paper was accepted by Chinese Journal of Management Science.
One first-author paper was accepted by Environment, Development and Sustainability.
Received the Best Paper Third Prize at the 2023 International Symposium on Emergency Management.
Started M.S. studies at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Received the Excellent Paper Award at the 2023 POMS Summer School in China.
Recognized as a Distinguished Graduate in Civil Engineering by Jiangsu Universities and Colleges.