Ran Cao received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2019.
He is currently an Associate Professor and "Yuelu Scholar" at the College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University.
He also serves as an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering. He has received several accolades from the society,
including the ASCE Raymond C. Reese Research Prize (2023), the Arthur M. Wellington Prize (2020), and the ASCE O.H. Ammann Research Fellowships (2019).
His primary research interests include hazard mitigation, computational simulation, and embodied intelligence (e.g. intelligent construction robots).