Gaoyuan Wu

Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

Hi! My name is Gaoyuan Wu, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, working with Prof. Jan Drgona on differentiable programming and scientific machine learning for optimization and control of systems.

I recently obtained my PhD in civil engineering from Princeton University, advised by Prof. Maria Garlock. Prior to Princeton, I did my undergraduate studies in civil engineering at Tongji University with a focus in bridge engineering.

Research

My research focuses on enhancing coastal resilience of infrastructure and differentiable physics & machine learning for optimization. Please explore my papers here.

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I am from Chengdu (成都), a city in southwest China. I love our dialects, our amazing food and, of course, pandas! In my free time, I enjoy a variety of sports — tennis, soccer, badminton, and indoor rock climbing. I love listening to music — I am a proud top 1% listener of Wu Bai and Faye Wong, according to Spotify.

news

May 25, 2026 Officially hooded!
Apr 01, 2026 Our new work on multi-objective Bayesian Optimization to enhance coastal resilience of infrastructure is available online in Engineering Structures. DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2026.122780.