NEESRCR - Key Persons


Ariel C. C. Ward

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Undergraduate Research Assistant / Civil and Environmental
Role in project: NEES-REU 2013. Learning from testing setting and data processing.

Blaine Jacob Fuselier

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Graduate Research Assistant / Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
Blaine Jacob Fuselier Visiting Graduate Research Assistant Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University Houston, TX 77005 bfusel2@rice.edu Expertise: Probabilistic seismic performance and retrofit assessment. Role in Project: Fragility modeling, cost-benefit studies and LCC analysis.

C. Charles

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Graduate Research Assistant / Civil and Environmental
Expertise: Structural engineering Role in project: Numerical analysis of framed structures with shape memory alloy based devices.

Claudia Marin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Howard University
Expertise: Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics. Role in Project: Nonlinear simulations, validation of models with tests data.

Dapeng Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant / School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expertise: Wireless and mobile sensing networks for structural health monitoring. Role in Project: Testing, advanced instrumentation, damage detection algorithms.

Dr. Reginald DesRoches

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor
  • Principal Investigator / Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology / School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expertise: Seismic retrofit, applications of shape memory alloys (SMA), nonlinear analysis. Role in Project: Project coordination, development of analytical models, directs education, outreach, and training (EOT).

Dr. Yang Wang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Professor
Expertise: Structural health monitoring and damage detection, decentralized structural control, smart materials and structures, wireless sensor networks. Role in Project: Testing, advanced instrumentation, damage detection algorithms.

Fabio Freddi

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Graduate Research Assistant / Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
Expertise: Probabilistic assessment, retrofit of reinforced concrete frames. Role in Project: Fragility modeling, cost-benefit studies and LCC analysis.

Jamie Padgett

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Rice University
Expertise: Application of reliability and probabilistic methods for risk assessment of structures and lifeline systems, earthquake engineering including seismic design, analysis, and retrofit of bridges. Role in Project: Fragility modeling, cost-benefit studies and LCC analysis.

Roberto Leon

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Expertise: Seismic behavior and design of steel and composite structures, building code provisions. Role in Project: Planning, design, and execution of experimental tests.

Taylor Valencia

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Undergraduate Research Assistant / Civil and Environmental
Role in project: NEES-REU 2013. Learning from testing setting and data processing.

Tim Wright

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant / School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expertise: Earthquake engineering, seismic retrofit. Role in Project: Shape memory alloy device design and experiments, planning and design of field testing.

Xi(Sissy) Liu

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant