Systemic Risk & Cascading Failures
We study how local disruptions spread through infrastructure, supply chains, and broad socioeconomic systems, and identify the nodes that amplify systemic risk.
systemic riskcascading failurenetwork science
Domino Risk
Lab
Advancing understanding of cascading and systemic risks through AI and social science, and translating research into decision intelligence for governments and businesses.
Research Themes
Research Themes
Our research is organized around interconnected themes that link fundamental questions with methods, data, tools, and real-world applications.
Infrastructure & Supply-Chain Risk
We map dependencies among transport, energy, water, communications, and supply-chain systems to analyze disruptions, bottlenecks, and substitution pathways.
infrastructuresupply chainresilience
AI for Risk Assessment
We explore machine learning, knowledge graphs, and language models for risk identification, evidence extraction, scenario generation, and decision support.
AIknowledge graphdecision intelligence
Climate Risk & Urban Resilience
We study exposure, vulnerability, adaptation capacity, and long-term resilience investments under flood, heat, storm surge, and other climate risks.
climate riskurban resilienceadaptation
Disaster Impact & Recovery Modeling
We assess the direct and indirect effects of disasters and compound shocks on industries, cities, and regional economies, and simulate recovery pathways.
ARIOdisaster impactrecovery modeling
Data Infrastructure for Risk Science
We build maintainable, citable, and traceable data products to support risk research, model development, and policy assessment.
data infrastructuremetadataopen science
Selected Outputs
Selected Outputs
Explore verified publications, reports, datasets, and research tools, and see how they connect across our research themes.
Stress-testing the cascading economic impacts of urban flooding across 306 Chinese cities
Nature Cities 3, 89–101 (2026)
Urban food delivery services as extreme heat adaptation
Nature Cities 2, 170–179 (2025)
Global supply chains amplify economic costs of future extreme heat risk
Nature 627, 797–804 (2024)
Latest
Latest News
New policy brief examines the steady evolution of China’s climate policy
Daoping Wang and Peipei Chen examine how China’s climate policy has moved from broad energy-saving measures towards a more integrated and increasingly specific policy framework.
Expert briefing explores how digitalisation can strengthen climate risk management
In a Centre for Climate Engagement briefing, Daoping Wang explains how digital technologies can improve climate-risk monitoring, impact forecasting, and evidence-based adaptation.
Fireside chat: how digitalisation can help societies adapt to climate change
Daoping Wang joined Qiancheng Wang and Emily Farnworth at Hughes Hall to discuss how digital technologies can turn climate-risk evidence into faster, more practical adaptation decisions.
We connect expertise across academia, government, and industry to advance interdisciplinary research and deliver real-world impact.
Polytechnic University, Hong KongDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, UKDepartment for Transport, UKWSPSwiss ReTsinghua University