Enrique López Droguett

Enrique López Droguett Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of Maryland M.S. University of Maryland M.S. Federal University of Bahia B.S. Federal University of Bahia

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Dr. Enrique López Droguett is a Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. He is also an Associate Editor for both the Journal of Risk and Reliability, and the International Journal of Reliability and Safety. Also, he serves in the Board of Directors of the International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (IAPSAM). Prof. López Droguett conducts research on Bayesian inference and artificial intelligence supported digital twins and prognostics and health management based on physics informed deep learning for reliability, risk, and safety assessment of structural and mechanical systems. His most recent focus has been on quantum computing and quantum machine learning for developing solutions for risk and reliability quantification and energy efficiency of complex systems, particularly those involved in renewable energy production. He has led many major studies on these topics for a broad range of industries, including oil and gas, nuclear energy, defense, civil aviation, mining, renewable and hydro energy production and distribution networks. Prof. López Droguett has authored more than 250 papers in archival journals and conference proceedings.

Jiaqi Ma

Jiaqi Ma Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of Virginia M.S. University of Virginia B.S. Beijing Jiaotong University

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Dr. Jiaqi Ma is an Associate Professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Prior to that, he was Assistant/Associate Professor and Academic Director of the University of Cincinnati Advanced Transportation Collaborative, Project Manager and Research Scientist with Leidos working at the Federal Highway Administration Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, and a contractor researcher at the Virginia Transportation Research Council of the Virginia Department of Transportation (DOT). He has led and managed many research projects funded by U.S. DOT, National Science Foundation, state DOTs, and other federal/state/local programs covering areas of smart transportation systems, such as cooperative driving automation, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), connected vehicles, shared mobility, and large-scale smart system modeling and simulation, and artificial intelligence and advanced computing applications in automated transportation. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is Member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation, Member of TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications, Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Connected & Autonomous Vehicles Impacts Committee, Co-Chair of the IEEE ITS Society Technical Committee on Smart Mobility and Transportation 5.0, and Member of the Academic Advisory Council of Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE).

Reza Ahmadi

Reza Ahmadi Professor Anderson School Of Management Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin M.S. University of Texas at Austin B.S. New Mexico State University

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Dr. Ahmadi is a Professor of Decision, Operations and Technology Management at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He joined UCLA after receiving his Ph.D. in Operations Management in 1988 from the University of Texas at Austin and since then he has been with UCLA. Professor Ahmadi’s research interest is operations management, a part of management science that is concerned with designing and controlling production processes and business operations. In his research, he builds mathematical models to guide firms in the design planning and scheduling of their internal and external business processes. In the best traditions of his field, Dr. Ahmadi advances theory motivated by a real problem, and frequently follows through with a practical implementation of his theoretical research. He has made major contributions to scheduling and production planning, product and process design, and, more recently, to supply chain management. Over the years he has worked on a variety of problems in these three areas. Currently, he works on supply chain management problems arising from business-to-business interactions.

Yousef Bozorgnia

Yousef Bozorgnia Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Berekeley M.S. University of California, Berkeley B.S. Sharif University of Technology

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Dr. Yousef Bozorgnia is Professor at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UCLA. Dr. Bozorgnia’s expertise includes earthquake engineering and ground motion hazard, with emphasis on multidisciplinary aspects of earthquake science and engineering. He has extensively published scientific papers on earthquake ground motion models, seismic hazard analysis, and structural earthquake engineering. Dr. Bozorgnia has developed earthquake ground motion models that are used worldwide for seismic analysis and design of buildings, bridges, dams, infrastructure and critical facilities. Bozorgnia received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and was the Executive Director (2009-2016) and the Associate Director (2004-2009) of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), a multi-university research center. Dr. Bozorgnia is a licensed Professional Civil Engineer (PE) in the State of California, has been a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) since 1998, and is currently the Associate Editor of journal Earthquake Spectra, a scientific journal dedicated to earthquake engineering.

Scott Brandenberg

Scott Brandenberg Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Davis M.S. University of California, Davis B.S. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Professor Brandenberg's research interests are geotechnical earthquake engineering, geophysical imaging, data acquisition and signal processing, and numerical analysis. His current research projects are: (1) developing fragility functions for bridges in liquefied and laterally spreading ground, (2) developing design guidelines for pile foundations in liquefied ground, (3) evaluation of the seismic levee deformation by destructive cyclic field testing, (4) centrifuge modeling of the large-strain site response behavior of soft clays, (5) CPT-based ultrasonic imaging of jet grout columns, and (6) developing correlations between shear wave velocity and penetration resistance at Caltrans bridge sites.

Henry V. Burton

Henry V. Burton Assistant Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Stanford University M.S. Stanford University B.S. Morgan State University

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Dr. Burton joined the UCLA Engineering faculty in 2014. His research interests are in increasing the resilience of structures and communities in relation to natural hazards while incorporating sustainable practices in building construction, maintenance and operation. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Morgan State University and his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Specific areas of interest include (1) developing enhanced earthquake resistant building systems, (2) performance-based life-cycle design and assessment, (3) modeling the relationship between the performance of infrastructure systems within the built environment, and the ability of communities to minimize the extent of socioeconomic disruption following extreme events such as major earthquakes. This work relies heavily upon large-scale experimental testing, high-performance computing for structural simulations and advanced probabilistic methods.

Milos D. Ercegovac

Milos D. Ercegovac Professor Computer Science Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign M.S. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign B.S. University of Belgrade

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Professor Ercegovac specializes in research and teaching in digital arithmetic, digital design, and computer system architecture. His recent research is in the areas of approximate arithmetic, composite algorithms, complex arithmetic, design for low power and arithmetic in application-specific architectures.

Christina Fragouli

Christina Fragouli Professor Electrical And Computer Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles B.S. National Technical University of Athens

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Dr. Christina Fragouli is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. She directs the Algorithmic Research in Network Information Flow (ARNI) which performs research in areas such as network coding, algorithms for networking, wireless networks and network security

Timu W. Gallien

Timu W. Gallien Assistant Professor Coastal Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Irvine M.S. Purdue University B.S. Purdue University

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Timu Gallien’s research examines evolving coastal hazards from climate change and urbanization using numerical modeling and high resolution field observations. Her research interests include urban coastal flood prediction, beach groundwater, coastal infrastructure, and nearshore processes.  Gallien received her Ph.D. from UC Irvine.

Mekonnen Gebremichael

Mekonnen Gebremichael Associate Professor Engineering Hydrology Ph.D. University of Iowa M.S. Twente University, the Netherlands B.S. Haromaya University, Ethiopia

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My research interests are understanding and prediction of hydrological fluxes on a range of spatial and temporal scales, advancing the use of satellite observations for water resource applications, uncertainty analysis of hydrological estimations and forecasts, transboundary river basin management, water resource management and governance in developing countries, and impact of hydrological and climate changes on vector-borne diseases.

Nasr M. Ghoniem

Nasr M. Ghoniem Professor Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison M.S. McMaster University B.S. Alexandria University

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Professor Ghoniem's areas of interest are: Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Material Degradation in Severe Environments (e.g., Nuclear, Fusion, Rocket Engines, etc.); Plasma and Laser Processing; Materials Non-equilibrium, Pattern formation and Instability Phenomena; Radiation Interaction with Materials (neutrons, electrons, particles, laser and photons).

Subramanian S. Iyer

Subramanian S. Iyer Professor Electrical Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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Dr. Iyer is Distinguished Professor and Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair at UCLA's Electrical Engineering Department. His research and teaching interest include: System Scaling Technology, advanced packaging and 3D integration, technologies and techniques for the memory subsystem integration and neuromorphic computing. His pioneering development of embedded dynamic random access memory (eDRAM) has boosted the power of computer processors for applications ranging from high-end servers to gaming consoles and personal electronics.

Alex Hall

Alex Hall Professor Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

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Alex Hall is a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and an expert in climate change. Hall, an atmospheric physicist and a member of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, specializes in regional climates, global climate change and climate modeling.

Ximin He

Ximin He Assistant Professor Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. University of Cambridge M.S. Tsinghua University

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Dr. He is an Assistant Professor in UCLA's Materials Science whose research focuses on biologically inspired materials based on stimuli-responsive polymers and micro/nanostructure fabrication, for applications in biomedicine, environment, and energy. The interdisciplinary research across “design – synthesis – properties – functions” involves polymer chemistry and physics, molecular design and synthesis, and studies of mechanical, optical and electrical properties of soft materials. Dr. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard and obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry/Nano Optoelectronics; University of Cambridge.

David Jassby

David Jassby Associate Professor Engineering Hydrology Ph.D. Duke University M.S. University of California, Davis B.S. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Biology

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Dr. Jassby joins C&EE in 2017-2018. Previously he was an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Jassby received his B.S. in Biology from Hebrew University (2002), a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Davis (2004), and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University (2011). 

Jennifer A. Jay

Jennifer A. Jay Professor Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Our approach involves integrating field, experimental, and geochemical modeling work to understand the environmental fate and transport of microbial and chemical pollution and nutrients. We are currently working in several areas: 1) We are characterizing how sediments in coastal creeks can provide the ecosystem service of reducing the impact of microbial pollution on water quality.

Michael Jerrett

Michael Jerrett Professor and Chair Environmental Health Sciences Ph.D. University of Toronto M.S. University of Toronto B.S. Trent University

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Dr. Michael Jerrett is an internationally recognized expert in Geographic Information Science for Exposure Assessment and Spatial Epidemiology. He is professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. Dr. Jerrett earned his PhD in Geography from the University of Toronto (Canada). For the past 22 years, Dr. Jerrett has researched how to characterize population exposures to air pollution and built environmental variables, how to understand the social distribution of these exposures among different groups (e.g., poor vs. wealthy), and how to assess the health effects from environmental exposures. Over the last decade, Dr. Jerrett has also studied the contribution of the built and natural environment to physical activity, obesity, and several health outcomes. In 2009, the United States National Academy of Science appointed Dr. Jerrett to the Committee on “Future of Human and Environmental Exposure Science in the 21st Century.” The committee recently concluded its task with the publication of a report entitled "Exposure Science in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy." In 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency appointed Dr. Jerrett to the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Sub-Committee for Nitrogen Oxides. From 2014 to the present, Dr. Jerrett has been named to the Thomson Reuters List of Highly Cited Researchers, indicating he is in the top 1% of all authors in the fields of Environment/Ecology in terms of citation by other researchers.

Jiann-Wen “Woody” Ju

Jiann-Wen “Woody” Ju Professor Structural Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley M.S. University of California, Berkeley

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My current research interests concern mechanics of materials and constitutive modelings of advanced engineering materials. In particular, I am interested in micromechanical damage mechanics of brittle composites, micromechanics of random heterogeneous elastic and inelastic fibrous and particulate composites, continuum elastoplastic damage mechanics, plasticity and viscoplasticity theories and computational algorithms, advanced constitutive modeling of materials, nonlinear computational mechanics, nondestructive and destructive testing, durability, reliability, sulfate attack, and construction defects.

Jon Keeley

Jon Keeley Adjunct Professor Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. University of Georgia, Athens M.S. San Diego State University B.S. San Diego State University

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Jon Keeley, an adjunct professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, is an expert on the ecological impacts and history of wildfires in Southern California and other ecosystems with Mediterranean-type climates. A focus of Keeley’s research involves the relationship between wildfires and the invasion of natural ecosystems by non-native plants, how plants respond to environmental stresses such as fire, and also seed germination.

Miryung Kim

Miryung Kim Associate Professor Computer Science Ph.D. University of Washington M.S. University of Washington B.S. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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Professor Kim is an expert on software engineering, with focus on designing techniques to evolve large software systems and to improve software quality. Her research group, Software Evolution and Analysis Laboratory, develops sofware analysis algorithms and development tools to make it easier to develop and evolve large scale software systems. she also has extensive background in automated program transformation, user studies with professional engineers, and statistical analysis of open source project data to allow data-driven decisions for designing novel software tools. 

She is a recipient of an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, Microsoft SEIF Award, IBM Jazz Innovation Award, and Google Faculty Award. She has a strong track record of building scalable and practical tools for program transformation, refactoring, and mining software repository data.