GEO Faculty
Adjunct Professor
GeoSystems
Research Interests:
Earthquake ground motions, spectral attenuation relations
Associate Professor
Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate, GeoSystems
Research Interests:
Geotechnical Engineering infrastructure, Population growth and densification, Soil dynamics, Multi-hazard stressor mitigation strategies
Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence
Distinguished Professor
GeoSystems
Research Interests:
Earthquake engineering, Geotechnical engineering, Physical and numerical modeling, Environmental geotechnics
Adjunct Professor
Senior Scientist, U. S. Geological Survey
GeoSystems
Research Interests:
Earthquake geotechnical engineering, Interferometric Synthetic-Aperture Radar, Terrestrial Laser Scanning-LIDAR, Structure-From-Motion geomatics, Engineering geophysics, Engineering Geology, Seismic Soil Liquefaction, Hazard and Risk.
Professor
GeoSystems
Research Interests:
Exploration geophysics, Applied seismology, Machine Learning (oil & gas industry)
Adjunct Professor
GeoSystems
Research Interests:
Static and dynamic evaluation of soil properties, Constitutive behavior of sands, Liquefaction of unusual soil
Chancellor's Professor Emeritus
Professor of the Graduate School
Environmental Engineering, GeoSystems
Research Interests:
Groundwater hydrology, Inverse modeling, Modeling of flow & contaminant transport, Environmental risk assessment, Hydrogeology, Geostatistics
Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Professor of Civil Engineering
GeoSystems
Research Interests:
Geotechnical earthquake engineering, Wireless sensors, Seismic slope stability, Seismic Earth pressure, Rock erosion, Groundwater remediation
Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering
Chancellor's Professor
GeoSystems, Systems
Research Interests:
Infrastructure sensing and modeling, Energy Geotechnics, Fundamentals of soil behavior, Geotechnical structures, Ground engineering, Soil & granular mechanics
Vice Chair for Strategic Planning and Implementation
Professor
GeoSystems, Systems
Research Interests:
Geotechnical engineering, Landslides, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Satellites, Earthquakes, Natural hazards