Expertise

Specialty & Interests: Structural engineering

Technical Interests

  • Large-scale experimental techniques
  • Light-frame residential structures
  • Nonlinear finite element modeling
  • Nonlinear structural analysis
  • Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics
  • Fracture and fatigue of structures
  • Design of steel structures
  • Nonstructural testing with gypsum wall board and connectors
  • Materials processing

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Organizational Affiliations

Associate Dean for Operations (Interim), Coll of H&HS Deans Office

Education

Civil and Environmental Engineering
2008, Ph.D, University of California, Davis
Civil and Environmental Engineering
2004, M.S, Stanford University
Civil Engineering
2003, B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute