Organization

Conference Co-Chairs

  • Yuri Bazilevs, Structural Engineering, UC, San Diego
  • JS Chen, Structural Engineering, UC, San Diego

Local Organizing Committee

  • Joel Conte, Structural Engineering, UC, San Diego
  • Gilbert Hegemier, Structural Engineering, UC, San Diego
  • Alicia Kim, Structural Engineering, UC, San Diego
  • Petr Krysl, Structural Engineering, UC, San Diego
  • Kenneth Loh, Structural Engineering, UC, San Diego
  • Benson Shing, Structural Engineering, UC, San Diego

UCSD Administrative Staff and Students

  • Jonghyuk Baek, Structural Engineering
  • Frank Beckwith, Structural Engineering
  • Natalie Favorite, Structural Engineering
  • Tsung-Hui Huang, Structural Engineering
  • Dominique Nguyen, Office of Engineering Computing
  • Lisa Russon, Jacobs School of Engineering

On-Site Coordinator

  • Ruth Hengst, US Association for Computational Mechanics

EMI Administrative Staff

  • Amar Chaker, ASCE/EMI
  • Verna Jameson, ASCE/EMI

International Scientific Committee

  • Jose Andrade, California Institute of Technology
  • Sanjay Arwade, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Roberto Ballarini, University of Houston
  • Zdeněk Bažant, Northwestern University
  • Yuri Bazilevs, University of California, San Diego
  • Markus Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Noel Challamel, Université de Bretagne - Sud
  • J. S. Chen, University of California, San Diego
  • Sheng-Wei Chi, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • Gianluca Cusatis, Northwestern University
  • George Deodatis, Columbia University
  • C. Armando Duarte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Jacob Fish, Columbia University
  • John Foster, University of Texas, Austin
  • Dan Frangopol, Lehigh University
  • Roger Ghanem, University of Southern California
  • Somnath Ghosh, Johns Hopkins University
  • Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University
  • Muhammad Hajj, Virginia Tech
  • Christian Hellmich, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
  • Mike Hillman, Penn State University
  • Ming-Chen Hsu, Iowa State University
  • Ahsan Kareem, University of Notre Dame
  • Sinan Keten, Northwestern University
  • Artem Korobenko, University of Calgary
  • Chung-Hao Lee, University of Oklahoma
  • Yongming Liu, Arizona State University
  • Ning Lu, Colorado School of Mines
  • Jerome P. Lynch, University of Michigan
  • Sankaran Mahadevan, Vanderbilt University
  • Majid Manzari, George Washington University
  • Arif Masud, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Karel Matouš, University of Notre Dame
  • Çağlar Oskay, Vanderbilt University
  • Harold Park, Boston University
  • Glaucio Paulino, Georgia Tech
  • Arun Prakash, Purdue University
  • Nima Rahbar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Richard Regueiro, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Anthony Rosato, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Andrew Smyth, Columbia University
  • Lizhi Sun, University of California, Irvine
  • Ertuğrul Taciroğlu, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Vikas Tomar, Purdue University
  • George Voyiadjis, Louisiana State University
  • Haim Waisman, Columbia University
  • Huiming Yin, Columbia University
  • Zhanping You, Michigan Technological University
  • Mourad Zeghal, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

2017 EMI Board of Governors

  • J. S. Chen, University of California, San Diego
  • Georgios Deodatis, Columbia University
  • Roberto Ballarini, University of Houston
  • Amar A. Chaker, ASCE
  • Glaucio H Paulino, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Jose E Andrade, California Institute of Technology
  • Raymond Daddazio, Thornton Tomasetti
  • Somnath Ghosh, Johns Hopkins University
  • Antoinette Tordesillas, The University of Melbourne