UPDATED IN 3RD PERSON FOR (AT LEAST A PRETENSE OF) OBJECTIVITY

2025-09-21, sports: At his first Berlin Marathon, Dr. Victor Wang achieved a finish time of 2:48:55 on a very warm race day.

2025-09-14, religious: Dr. Victor Wang preaches sermon “When the Earth Shakes” at the Salvation Army Plymouth Corps Community Center.

2025-08-24, sports: Dr. Victor Wang becomes a Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) certified running coach.

2025-08-03, religious: At the Salvation Army Plymouth Corps Community Center, Dr. Victor Wang preaches a sermon entitled “Standing Strong“.

2025-06-25, academic: At this year’s Transportation Research Board (TRB) Conference on Innovative Science and Technologies to Improve Security and Safety in the Marine Transportation System at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Building in Washington, DC, Dr. Victor Wang delivers a presentation on “Introducing Empirical Predictive Modeling for Vulnerability and Risk Assessment“.

2025-06-03, academic: As an invited speaker, Dr. Victor Wang delivers an online presentation entitled “Introducing Empirical Predictive Modeling for Quantifying Social Vulnerability to Hazards” on the topic of Quantifying Social Vulnerability with Machine Learning and enjoys discussion with a group of highly regarded scholarly professionals from the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at the University of California Santa Cruz.

2025-06-01, religious: Dr. Victor Wang preaches a sermon at the Salvation Army Plymouth Corps Community Center with the title “Clothed in Humility“.

2025-04-21, sports: At his 4th consecutive Boston Marathon, Dr. Victor Wang breaks his personal record in marathon race with a finish time of 2:42:35, celebrating a wonderful Easter Patriots’ Monday. Let’s go and congratulate him!

2025-03-02, religious: Dr. Victor Wang preaches his first sermon on “Days of God” part I at the Salvation Army Plymouth Corps Community Center. He will continue with the message on part II next Sunday.

2025-02-06, academic: At this year’s Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Computational Symposium at the Luskin Conference Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Dr. Victor Wang presents his poster entitled “Simulation for Verifying Empirical Predictive Models for Social Vulnerability“, based on his paper recently published in the journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety.

2024-10-20, sports: At this year’s Baystate Marathon race in Lowell, Massachusetts, Dr. Victor Wang achieves a 3-minute personal record in marathon running, as he finishes his race in 2:44:29. This time also qualifies Dr. Wang as a fast runner for Berlin Marathon.

2024-06-05, academic: At the 26th Annual Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Higher Education Symposium in Emmitsburg, Maryland, Dr. Victor Wang delivers a well-received 30-minute presentation entitled “Introducing Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Management Technology Courses”. The presentation highlights the emphasis of Massachusetts Maritime Academy on graduating technology-focused emergency management and homeland security professionals.

2024-04-02, academic: As the first author, Dr. Victor Wang publishes his paper entitled “Nowcasting heavy rainfall with convolutional long short-term memory networks: A pixelwise modeling approach” openly accessible in the high-impact peer-reviewed IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. In his paper, Dr. Wang, along with his exciting colleagues at the Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing at Chapman University and Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea, proposes an artificial intelligence method based on an architecture of convolutional and recurrent artificial neural network to predict rainfall values at specific locations for forecasting hazardous conditions.

2024-01-02, sports: With a finishing time of 21:15:17, Dr. Victor Wang wins the third place in this year’s Across the Years 100-mile running race in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Wang also breaks his personal record in 100 miler by over 2 hours to celebrate a Happy New Year!

2023-08-20, academic: As the first and corresponding author, Dr. Victor Wang publishes his paper entitled “Verifying empirical predictive modeling of societal vulnerability to hazardous events: A Monte Carlo experimental approach” in the high-impact peer-reviewed journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety with open access. In his paper, Dr. Wang successfully demonstrates that machine learning models, such as artificial neural networks, can be effectively used to quantify societal vulnerability to hazards with historical data.

2023-08-12, sports: Dr. Victor Wang wins the first place in this year’s Watershed Endurance 6-hour running race at Edwardsville, Illinois. With a finishing distance of 42.42 miles, Dr. Wang breaks the course record by 5.05 miles.

2023-07-29, sports: For a second time in a row, Dr. Victor Wang wins the second place in the annual Harding Hustle 50-kilometer mountain trail running race in Modjeska Canyon, California. This year, his official finish time is 4:57:54.

2023-07-21, academic: Dr. Victor Wang presents poster entitled “Characterizing Ignition Risk of Wildfire due to Lightning over Western United States” at this year’s International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) in Pasadena, California.

2023-07-13, academic: Dr. Victor Wang serves as the moderator for the lightning-talk session on Advancements in Modeling Physical Impacts of Disaster during this year’s Natural Hazards Center Researchers Meeting.

2023-07-13, academic: At this year’s Natural Hazards Center Researchers Meeting, Dr. Victor Wang delivers his presentation on “Quantifying Social Vulnerability with Empirical Predictive Modeling” during the session of Innovations in Vulnerability and Risk Assessment.

2023-06-10, sports: Dr. Victor Wang finishes this year’s Santa Monica Mountains (SAMO) 100 Mile foot race in 29:46:53, covering a distance of 104.5 miles and a total elevation gain of around 20,000 feet.

2023-04-17, sports: In this year’s Boston Marathon race, Dr. Victor Wang achieves his course personal record with an official finish time of 2:50:19.

2023-03-04, sports: Dr. Victor Wang wins the second place in this year’s SoCal River Marathon race on the beautiful Santa Ana River Trail from Yorba Linda to Huntington Beach, California, with an official finish time of 2:58:43.

2023-01-01, sports: In his first attempt of fixed-time running race, Dr. Victor Wang completes a total of 106.871 miles at the 2022–2023 Across the Years 24-hour trail running race in Phoenix, Arizona, achieving his another personal best to celebrate a Happy New Year!

2022-12-22, academic: As the first and corresponding author, Dr. Victor Wang publishes his paper entitled “Equivalent hazard magnitude scale” with Dr. Antonia Sebastian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the high-impact peer-reviewed journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. The paper is openly accessible at https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-4103-2022. The presented study proposes a methodology to comparatively measure hazard strengths, in terms of the spatial-temporal entirety of a hazardous event, across different hazard types, such as earthquake Richter magnitude versus tornado peak enhanced Fujita scale.

2022-12-20, academic: As the first author, Dr. Victor Wang publishes his paper entitled “Relative importance of radar variables for nowcasting heavy rainfall: A machine learning approach” with an outstanding cohort of scholars at the Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing at Chapman University and Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea, in the high-impact peer-reviewed journal IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. The article is openly accessible at https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3231125. The presented study proposes a machine learning approach with a permutation importance algorithm to identify pertinent radar variables for short-term prediction and early warning of heavy rainfall.

2022-12-15, academic: Dr. Victor Wang chairs sessions on “Human-Induced Factors and Effects on Natural Hazards” (I Oral, II Oral, III Online Poster Discussion, and IV Poster) at the 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

2022-12-15, academic: Dr. Victor Wang participates as a co-author in an invited presentation, delivered by Prof. Menas Kafatos, on “Human-Induced Factors and Cascading Effects for Recent Large Wildfires in California” at the 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

2022-12-14, academic: Dr. Victor Wang presents poster on “Pixelwise Modeling with Two-Dimensional Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Nowcasting Heavy Rainfall” at the 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

2022-10-09, sports: In his first Chicago Marathon in Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Victor Wang breaks the 2:50 barrier for the first time and continues his personal record streak in marathon race running with an official finish time of 2:48:09.

2022-08-20, sports: Dr. Victor Wang achieves his third consecutive personal record in his 50-kilometer running racing, as he finishes this year’s The Bulldog Ultra 50K mountain trail running race in 4:32:20 in Calabasas, California.

2022-07-30, sports: 2 weeks after his previous ultra-marathon running race, Dr. Victor Wang wins his second second place in a 50-kilometer mountain trail running race. This time, Dr. Wang achieves another personal record of 4:47:21 at the Harding Hustle 50K in Modjeska Canyon, California.

2022-07-16, sports: Dr. Victor Wang wins the second place in this year’s The Peak 50-kilometer mountain trail running race with his personal record of 5:56:25. This is Dr. Wang‘s first 50K running race.

2022-07-14, academic: Dr. Victor Wang delivers presentation entitled “Paradigmatic Proposal for Ontological Inquiries in Disaster Studies” on foundational topics of disaster and hazard scholarship during the session of Perspectives on Disasters and Disaster Studies at this year’s Natural Hazards Center Researchers Meeting.

2022-07-02, art: Dr. Victor Wang writes a classical Chinese poem of the 5-character 8-line regulated verse form (五言律詩) entitled “夜炊時分長行思” based on his thoughts during his back-to-back long run training in the afternoon.

2022-06-25, sports: Dr. Victor Wang wins the first place in this year’s Orange Curtain 100-kilometer running race with a new personal record of 8:35:49.

2022-05-16, academic: Dr. Victor Wang, as the first author and the corresponding author, publishes his paper entitled “Murphy Scale: A locational equivalent intensity scale for hazard events” with Dr. Antonia Sebastian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the high-caliber peer-reviewed journal Risk Analysis. The paper is openly accessible at https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13933. The presented work is the first scholarly effort to generalize knowledge in a new research area called “hazard equivalency” and to propose an empirical modeling methodology to compute the equivalency of hazard intensities of events across different hazard types within the multi-hazard context.

2022-05-12, academic: Dr. Victor Wang, as a coauthor in collaboration with an excellent cohort of Korean scholars, publishes a peer-reviewed journal article in the high-impact journal of Atmospheric Research on the meteorological characteristics of fog events in South Korea and the development of visibility estimation model for fogs in Korea based on machine learning methods. The paper is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106239.

2022-05-11, academic: Dr. Victor Wang delivers an invited seminar presentation on “Empirical Modeling for Disaster Risk Quantification” at the Science Forum of the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University.

2022-04-18, sports: Dr. Victor Wang finishes his first Boston Marathon with a personal record of 2:52:50. His new record also qualifies him for the 2023 New York City Marathon.

2022-03-20, sports: Dr. Victor Wang becomes a sub-3 hour marathon runner for the first time, as he completes his second Los Angeles Marathon with a personal best of 2:56:56.

2022-03-09, academic: Dr. Victor Wang presents invited lectures on Data Analytics during Dr. Susan Yang‘s classes of Introduction to Application in Computational Science on Monday and Wednesday at Chapman University. During the lectures, Dr. Wang introduces a variety of exciting concepts such as variables, uncertainty, statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

2022-02-12, sports: Dr. Victor Wang completes his first 100-kilometer race, the Black Canyon Ultras 100K in Arizona, in 15:55:03. He is now qualified for the 2023 Western States 100-mile race lottery.

2022-01-16, sports: Dr. Victor Wang wins a sub-24 hour buckle for his running performance at his first 100-mile race, the Coldwater Rumble 100 Miler in Arizona, with a finish time of 23:25:33.

2021-12-16, academic: Dr. Victor Wang, as a pioneering and leading researcher in an excellent team of scholars, delivers presentation on his research on “Deep Learning for Spatial Interpolation of Rainfall Events” at the 2021 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

2021-12-13, academic: Dr. Victor Wang presents his poster on “Frequency Modeling for Bolide Hazard” at the 2021 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

2021-12-13, academic: Dr. Victor Wang participates as the leading researcher in a presentation, delivered by Dr. Seung Hee Kim, on “Assessment of Relative Importance of Radar Products for Nowcasting Heavy Rainfall Using Machine Learning Techniques” at the 2021 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

2021-12-04, sports: Dr. Victor Wang achieves his third consecutive personal best in 50-mile race, as he finishes this year’s Ray Miller 50 Miler in Malibu, California, in 9:50:10.