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).

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.

Gaurav N. Sant

Gaurav N. Sant Assistant Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Purdue University M.S. Purdue University B.S. Purdue University

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Dr. Sant is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and holder of the Edward K. and Linda L. Rice Endowed Chair in materials science. His research is focused on elucidating structure-property relations in inorganic materials including metallic, and non-metallic materials, and specifically understanding how reaction processes are formative, and/or destructive of microstructure. As thrust areas, the research, which spans from "atoms to infrastructure", seeks to: (i) quantify solute-solvent reaction dynamics at interfaces, (ii) monitor, manipulate and mitigate electrochemical corrosion processes and (iii) quantify and simulate coupled mass and ion transport processes in random porous media.

Jonathan P. Stewart

Jonathan P. Stewart Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley M.S. University of California, Berkeley B.S. University of California, Berkeley

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Dr. Stewart's primary research interests are in geotechnical earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, with emphases on seismic soil-structure interaction, earthquake ground motion characterization, seismic ground failure, and the seismic performance of earth structures including structural fills and levee embankments. His research has involved: interpretation of earthquake strong motion data to gain insight into soil-structure interaction effects, characterize site effects, and to produce practical models for the prediction of ground motion intensity measures; cyclic field testing of earth structures and full-scale foundation components including shallow foundations, drilled shafts, and bridge abutment walls; advanced dynamic testing of soils in the laboratory; and case history studies of the seismic field performance of infrastructure in California, Taiwan, Turkey, Japan, Greece, Italy, and India. Results from his research group are widely utilized in engineering practice, including a 2012 NIST guidelines document for soil-structure interaction, ground motion prediction equations used for the USGS National Seismic Hazard Maps, ASCE-7 (for new structures), ASCE-41 (existing structures) and additional guidelines documents for landslide risk and tall building design.

Ertugrul Taciroglu

Ertugrul Taciroglu Professor and Chair Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign B.S. Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey

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Professor Taciroglu's research interests lie within the broad area of computational solid and structural mechanics. He is currently working on topology optimization of smart material systems, soil-structure interaction in deep and shallow foundation systems, wave propagation in continuous media, inverse problems—with various applications in system identification, structural health monitoring as well as surveillance—and simulation of structural response under extreme loadings such as explosions, and ballistic impact.