2020-present   Director, Institute for Future Cities and Infrastructures

2020-2025       Dean, School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua Univ.

2017-2020       Chair, School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua Univ.

2016-2024       Deputy director, Institute of future cities and infrastructures

2007-2017       Head, Department of Construction Management, Tsinghua Univ.

2003-2024       Deputy Director, Institute of International Engineering Project Management

2002-present   Professor of Construction Management, Tsinghua Univ.

2001-2005       Deputy Director, FIDIC-Tsinghua-CNAEC Training Center

1999-present   Director, Tsinghua-Gammon Construction Safety Research Center

1997-2000       Associate Director, Campus Planning & Construction Division, Tsinghua Univ.

1995-1998       Assistant to the Chair of Dept. of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua Univ.

1995-2002       Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua Univ.

1993-1995       Post-doctoral researcher, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua Univ.

1990-1993       Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.

1988-1990       Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.

Undergraduate Courses:

1.Safety and Health in Construction (16 credit hours)

2.Personalized Instruction for Future Excellent (16 credit hours)

Graduate Courses:

1.Risk Management in Construction (32 credit hours)

2.Best Practice in Engineering and Management (in English, 16 credit hours)

3.Frontier in Construction Management (in English, 48 credit hours)

• Safety and risk management in construction;

• Sustainability and Urban resilience;

• Safety analysis of concrete structures during construction;

• Structural analysis and preservation of Chinese ancient timber structures.

PI (co-PI) projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China:

1.The mechanism and policy optimisation of multi-stakeholder cross-regional collaboration in the construction industry of the GBA (National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) / Research Grants Council (RGC) Collaborative Research Scheme (CRS), , 2024–2027, Grant No. 7231101086)

2.Research on Theory and methodology of cross-system and cross-dimensional urban infrastructure system planning for safety and resilience (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2023-2026, Grand No 72242107)

3.Research on approaches for quantitative assessment and enhancement of healthcare system resilience to earthquakes (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2020-2023, Grand No 71974106)

4.Strategic research on construction safety towards 2035 (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2019-2020, Grand No L1824041)

5.The fundamental theories and key technologies for the safety and protection of smart city infrastructure systems from a resilience perspective (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018-2021, Grand No U1709212)

6.Impact of safety leadership on safety performance of construction project: Theoretical and empirical study (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2016-2019, Grand No 71572088)

7.Construction safety related behaviors simulation based on system dynamics modeling and multi-agent modeling (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2014-2017, Grand No 51378296)

8.Behavior-Based Safety and its application in construction project safety management under an organizational perspective (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2012-2015, Grand No 71172013)

9.Mechanism of unsafe behavior of construction workers and its application in construction safety management (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2010-2012, Grand No 50978155)

10.Structural reliability based safety and health risk management in international construction: Methodology and applications (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2008-2010, Grand No 70772013)

11.Study on construction company’s safety culture and worker’s safety behavior and their correlations (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2006-2008, Grand No 70572007)

12.Analytical theory and safety control of concrete structure during construction period based on characteristic parameter (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2004-2006, Grand No 50378051)

13.Research on construction safety management based on factor analysis and experimental psychology (National Natural Science foundation of China, 2003-2004)

• Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL), UK (2024–2026)

• Honorary Professor at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China (2024–present)

• Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (2018-2023)

• Visiting professor at UNSW, Australia (2006-2009, 2013-2016)

• Visiting professor at Loughborough Univ., UK (2009-2012)

• “Jubilee Professor”at Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden (2007)

• Eminent Scholar, Del Webb School of Construction, Arizona State Univ., USA (2006)

• Vice Chair, Urban Safety Committee, The architectural Society of China (2025-2028)

• Standing committee member, China Civil Engineering Society (2024-2028)

• Vice Chair, Engineering Management Committee, China Civil Engineering Society (2024-2028)

• Vice Chair, Engineering Management Research Committee, The architecture Society of China (2023-2028)

• Board member and Program Committee member, CIB (2022-2025)

• Vice Chair, Expert Committee of China Construction Industry Association (2020-present)

• Member, Quality and Safety Professional Committee, Science and Technology Committee of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (2019-2024)

• Vice chair, Construction Technology Committee, The architecture Society of China (2019-present)

• Vice Chair, Engineering diagnosis and maintenance Committee, The architecture Society of China (2019-2024)

• Vice Chair, Teaching Guidance Committee for Construction Management, MOE. China (2018-2022)

• Vice President, Professional Committee on urban and rural resilience and disaster prevention and reduction, China Association for Disaster Prevention (2018-2023)

• Standing committee member, Engineering Management Research Committee, The architecture Society of China (2017-2023)

• Executive Committee Member, Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and Management Programs (GLF-CEM) (2011-present)

• Vice President, CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction) (Conseil International du Bâtiment) (2013-2016)

• Program Committee Chair, CIB (2010-2013)

• Editorial board of refereed journals: Safety Science, Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, Construction Management and Economics, Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management, International Journal of Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, China Civil Engineering Journal (In Chinese), Journal of Engineering Management (In Chinese), China Safety Science Journal (In Chinese), Journal of Civil Engineering and Management (In Chinese), Labor Protection (In Chinese), Construction Safety (In Chinese)

1.Innovation Award of Industry-University-Research Cooperation, China (2025)

2.International Grand Prize Award of CIC Construction Innovation Award (2022)

3.The First Prize, Beijing Technology Progress Reward (2021)

4.The 13th Guanghua Engineering Technology Award, Chinese Academy of Engineering. (2020)

5.The First Prize, Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award (2020)

6.Grand Award for Science and Technology, The Architectural Society of China. (2019-2020)

7.Most Cited Chinese Researchers, Elsevier (2014-2024)

8.The First Prize, Beijing Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award (2018)

9.The First Prize, China State Construction Engineering Corporation Science and Technology Award (2018)

10.The First Prize of Tsinghua University Teaching Achievement Award (2014)

11.The First Prize of Science and Technology Award of China Occupational Safety and Health Association (2013)

12.The Second Prize, Beijing Education and Teaching Achievement Award (2009)

13.Emerald Literati Network 2009 Outstanding Paper Award (2009)

14.ICPMA (International Construction Project Management Association) Research & Innovation Award, CIOB. (2008)

Journal articles published in recent years

1.Wang L, Huang Y, Wang Y, Gu B, Li B, Fang D. Comprehensive lifecycle safety risk assessment for construction robotics using TS fault tree analysis and Bayesian network. Automation in Construction. 2025 Apr 1;172:106041.

2.Zhao Z, Li Z, Tong R, Gu T, Fang D. Unveiling the spatial heterogeneity of factors influencing physical and perceived recovery disparities under extreme rainstorms: A geographically weighted machine learning approach. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2025 Jan 1;118:106023.

3.Zhao Z, Li Z, Wang T, Lin Z, Fang D. Post-Disaster Recovery Planning for Infrastructure Systems Based on Residents’ Needs: A Hypernetwork Approach. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2025 Jan 28:105258.

4.Wang F, Magoua JJ, Li Z, Li N, Fang D. Framework for Improving the Postdisaster Repair Sequence of Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Systems. Journal of Management in Engineering. 2025 Jan 1;41(1):04024062.

5.Zhang Y, Lin Y, Zheng G, Liu Y, Sukiennik N, Xu F, Xu Y, Lu F, Wang Q, Lai Y, Tian L. MetaCity: Data-driven sustainable development of complex cities. The Innovation. 2025 Jan 16.

6.Fang D, Li W, Li J, Yu Y, Yang H, Liu H. Unethical behaviors of contractors in construction project management: Framework development and causal analysis. Frontiers of Engineering Management. 2025 Jan 28:1-9.

7.Zhao Z, Zhou X, Zheng Y, Meng T, Fang D. Enhancing infrastructural dynamic responses to critical residents’ needs for urban resilience through machine learning and hypernetwork analysis. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2024 Jul 1;106:105366.

8.Fang D, Wang L, Wang Y, Huang Y, Li L, Wu H, Li B. Analysis of interaction path among construction owner’s leadership-culture-management behavior (LCB) based on association rule mining. Safety Science. 2024 Nov 1;179:106632.

9.Jianhua LI, Yu HA, Kaiming SH, Kejia ZH, Hongling GU, Dongping FA, Jiaming CA. Small-target worker detection on construction sites. Journal of Graphics. 2024 Oct 31;45(5):1040.

10.Shen W, Lim HW, Fang D. The roles of partnering and boundary activities on project resilience under disruptions. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management. 2024 May 22;30(5):391-403.

11.Wang Y, Gu B, Miao C, Yu Y, Huang Y, Zhang Z, Fang D. Measuring and identifying pre-service fatigue due to hypoxic exposure. Automation in Construction. 2024 Apr 1;160:105307.

12.Yuan H, Wang X, Gao L, Wang, T, Liu, B, Fang D, Gao, Y. Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has been slowed by indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Communications Earth & Environment, 2023, 4(1): 184.

13.Ma R, Fang D, Chen J, Li X. A tiled multi-city urban objects dataset for city-scale building energy simulation. Scientific Data, 2023, 10(1): 352.

14.Li Z, Lim H, Li N, Long Y, Fang D. Assessing the seismic resilience of a healthcare system: A hybrid modeling. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2023, 93: 103730.

15.Wang Y, Huang Y, Gu B, Cao S, Fang D. Identifying mental fatigue of construction workers using EEG and deep learning. Automation in Construction, 2023, 151: 104887.

16.Magoua J J, Wang F, Li N, Fang D. Incorporating the human factor in modeling the operational resilience of interdependent infrastructure systems. Automation in Construction, 2023, 149: 104789.

17.Huang Y, Zhang Z, Cao S, Li J, Fang D. Safety culture management mechanism design in the construction industry based on semantic analysis. Qinghua Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Tsinghua University,2023,63(02):179-190.

18.Huang Y, Li B, Yu X, Wang Y, Fang D. Path analysis of attachment in the safety interactions of construction team members. Qinghua Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Tsinghua University,2023,63(02):169-178.

19.Gu B, Cao S, Wang Y, Huang Y, Fang D. Types and characteristics of unsafe behaviors in construction team work. Qinghua Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Tsinghua University,2023,63(02):160-168.

20.Fang D, Wang Y, Lim H W, et al. Construction of a Bayesian Network Based on Leadership-Culture-Behavior Model to Improve Owner Safety Management Behavior. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2023, 149(3): 04022177.

21.Fang D, Li W, Zhang H, Liu H. Engineering Management Ethics in the Context of Engineering Practice in China. Strategic Study of CAE, 2022, 24(05): 187-196.

22.Li N, Wang F, Magoua J J, Fang D. Interdependent effects of critical infrastructure systems under different types of disruptions. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022, 81: 103266.

23.Long, Y, Li, Z, Pan, S, Lim, H. W, Zhao, Z, Huang, Y, Fang, D. Assessing Prehospital Seismic Resilience: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach. IT Professional, 2022, 24(3): 18-27.

24.Li K, Zhang J, Fang D, Guo H, Zhu D, Han J, Su P. Civil Engineering and Systems: Exploration and Practice of Liberal Education Mode in Civil Engineering Undergraduate Program. Research in Higher Education of Engineering, 2022(03): 46-51.

25.Guo H, Wang Y, Ma L, Cao S, Guo B, Huang Y, Fang D. Research on civil engineering construction safety:status and trends. Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Natural Science Edition),2022,50(08):89-98.

26.Fang D, Li W, Zhang H, Liu H. Analysis of Ethical Issues in the Emergency Engineering Management of COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control. Journal of Engineering Studies, 2022, 14(02): 104-113.

27.Xu Z, Wu Y, Hao X, Li N, Fang D. A joint analysis method for capability and demand of post-earthquake medical rescue in a city. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022: 103249.

28.Pan S, Zhao Z, Lim H W, Li N, Fang D. Restored quality of life-based approach (REQUALIFE) for urban seismic resilience assessment: Quantitative method. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022, 79:103169.

29.Pan S, Zhao Z, Lim H W, Li N, Fang D. Restored quality of life-based approach (REQUALIFE) for urban seismic resilience assessment: Case study. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022, 79:103170.

30.Zhao Z, Pan S, Li N, Li Z, Zhao C, Xu Z, Fang D. A seismic emergency performance optimization model for infrastructure systems under demand differences: A case study in China. Earthquake Engineering and Resilience, 2022, 1(2):193-210.

31.Lim H, Fang D. Role of hazard information in the adoption of seismic hazard adjustments: Information treatment experiment in Beijing. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022, 79:103182.

32.Chen J, Xu Q, Fang D, Zhang D, Liao P. C. Perceptual decision-making ‘in the wild’: How risk propensity and injury exposure experience influence the neural signatures of occupational hazard recognition. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2022, 177:92-102.

33.Wang Y, Ma L, Zhang P, Fang D. Evaluation and improvement of owner's safety management behavior based on lcb theory. Tumu Gongcheng Xuebao/China Civil Engineering Journal, 2021,54(10):117-124.

34.Ma L, Wang Y, Huang Y, Li P, Fang D. Safety leadership characteristics and key dimensions of building industry regulators. Qinghua Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Tsinghua University,2022,62(02):221-229.

35.Guan Z, Xiang T, Fang D, Guo H. Improved experimental measurement method of construction worker fatigue and unsafe behavior. Qinghua Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Tsinghua University,2021,61(10):1186-1194.

36.Fang D, Ma L, Guo H, Yang F, Zhang J. Risk Evaluation of Accidents for Super High-rise Buildings under Construction I: Methods.Industrial Construction,2021,51(11):200-204.

37.Huang Y, Chang Z, Ni S, Yao Z, Jin D, Fang D, Yue Q. Key Issues of Urban Safety Development and Administration.Industrial Construction,2021,51(11):171-177.

38.Gao X, Guo H, Fang D. Suggestions on the Development of Vocational Education in the Construction Industry Based on German Experience. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management,2021,38(04):30-33+40.

39.Mao Q, Li N, Fang D. Modeling the Multisector Business Interruption Ratio in Earthquake-Struck Regions. Journal of Management in Engineering, 2021, 37(6): 04021072.

40.Liu B, Wang T, Zhang J, Wang X, Chang Y, Fang D, Yang M & Sun X. Sustained sustainable development actions of China from 1986 to 2020. Scientific Reports, 2021, 11(1): 1-10.

41.Lim H, Zhang F, Fang D, Pena-Mora, Liao P. Corporate social responsibility on disaster resilience issues by international contractors. Journal of Management in Engineering. 2021; 37(1), 04020089.

42.Zhang Q, Guo H, Liao P, Fang D, Fu M. Optimizing safety-measure combinations to address construction risks. International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics. 2020:1-82.

43.Mao Q, Li N, Fang D. Framework for modeling multi-sector business closure length in earthquake-struck regions. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2020; 51: 101916.

44.Pan S, Lim H, Xiao N, Wang T, Fang D. Revelation of Wuhan City’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic on Urban Resilience Enhancement. Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications. 2020; 1(1): 59-72.

45.Wang F, Magoua JJ, Li N, Fang D. Assessing the impact of systemic heterogeneity on failure propagation across interdependent critical infrastructure systems. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2020: 101818.

46.Fang D, Li W, Zhang H, et al. Ethical Reflection on the Emergency Engineering Management of COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control[J]. Engineering (Beijing, China), 2020, 6(10): 1070.

47.Lu X, Liao W, Fang D, Lin K, Tian Y, Zhang C, Zheng Z, Zhao P. Quantification of disaster resilience in civil engineering: A review[J]. Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, 2020, 1(1): 19-30.

48.Fang D, Pan S, Li Z, Yuan T, Jiang B, Gan D, Sheng B, Han J, Wang T, Liu Z. Large-scale public venues as medical emergency sites in disasters: lessons from COVID-19 and the use of Fangcang shelter hospitals in Wuhan, China. BMJ Global Health. 2020; 5(6): e002815.

49.Fang D, Huang Y, Guo H, Lim H. LCB approach for construction safety. Safety Science. 2020; 128: 104761.

50.Lim H, Li Z, Fang D. Impact of management, leadership, and group integration on the hospital response readiness for earthquakes. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.2020: 101586.