Researchers
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John W. van de Lindt, Ph.D. Co-Director Howard H. Short Endowed Chair Colorado State University Email: jwv@engr.colostate.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Multi-hazards; performance-based analysis and design damage/loss modeling; fragility curves and surfaces |
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Bruce Ellingwood, Ph.D. Retired Professor Colorado State University Email: Bruce.Ellingwood@colostate.edu Personal Webpage Expertise: Structural reliability; extreme/abnormal events loads/modeling; probabilistic risk assessment |
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Andre Barbosa, Ph.D. Task 4 Lead Professor Oregon State University Email: Andre.Barbosa@oregonstate.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Performance-based earthquake engineering; reliability analysis; resilient design |
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Eun Cha, Ph.D. Researcher Associate Professor University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign Email: ejcha@illinois.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Risk analysis; risk aversion and risk informed decision modeling; stochastic modeling |
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Dan Cox, Ph.D. Task 1 Lead Professor Oregon State University Email: Dan.Cox@oregonstate.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Surge, wave and tsunami modeling; coastal fluid/structure interaction |
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Leonardo Duenas-Osorio, Ph.D. Researcher Professor Rice University Email: leonardo.duenas-osorio@rice.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Computational and theoretical models; Resilience and Risk Assessment |
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Amin Enderami, Ph.D. Researcher Postdoctoral Researcher University of Kansas Email: a.enderami@ku.edu Personal Webpage Expertise: structural engineering with a particular focus on community disaster resilience |
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Paolo Gardoni, Ph.D. Task 6 Lead Professor University of Illinois - Urbana - Champaign Email: gardoni@illinois.edu Personal Webpage Expertise: Risk and life cycle analysis; decision making under uncertainty; deteriorating systems |
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Andres Gonzalez, Ph.D. Researcher Assistant Professor University of Oklahoma Email: andres.gonzalez@ou.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Developing and applying analytical tools from systems dynamics; statistical physics, operations research; and civil engineering to study the dynamics associated with social and physical systems |
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Yanlin Guo, Ph.D. Researcher Assistant Professor Colorado State University Email: Yanlin.Guo@colostate.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Real-time structural health monitoring (SHM); system identification and diagnosis; signal processing; structural dynamics and vibration; big data interpretation; remote sensing; decision making; data-driven wind simulation |
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Gaofeng Jia, Ph.D. Researcher Associate Professor Colorado State University Email: Gaofeng.Jia@colostate.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Uncertainty quantification and propagation; Stochastic simulation; Risk-informed design and decision making; Aging and deterioration of infrastructure system |
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Victoria (Tori) Johnson, Ph.D. Researcher Associate Professor U.S. Naval Academy Email: vjohngson@usna.edu Personal Webpage Expertise: Engineering Risk Analysis |
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Maria Koliou, Ph.D. Researcher Associate Professor Texas A&M University Email: maria.koliou@tamu.edu Personal Webpage Expertise: Multi-Hazard Performance-Based Design of Buildings and Non-Building Structures; Engineering Risk Analysis; Post-Disaster System Functionality; Collapse Assessment of Structural Systems; Timber Structures |
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Hussam Mahmoud, Ph.D. Researcher George T. Abell Professor of Infrastructure and Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering Colorado State University Email: Hussam.Mahmoud@colostate.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Fire analysis; tsunami/structure interaction; earthquake engineering; fragility development |
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Charles Nicholson, Ph.D. Researcher Associate Professor University of Oklahoma Email: cnicholson@ou.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Meta-heuristic and evolutionary search, network flows, applications of data mining |
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Jamie Padgett, Ph.D. Task 5 Lead Professor Rice University Email: jamie.padgett@rice.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Multi-hazard analysis; bridge engineering; fragility development |
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Elaina J. Sutley, Ph.D. Researcher Associate Professor University of Kansas Email: enjsutley@ku.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Community resiliency; performance-based seismic design; loss modeling; fragility curves and surfaces; social vulnerability; woodframe structures |
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Bret Webb, Ph.D. Researcher Professor University of South Alabama Email: bwebb@southalabama.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Coastal engineering; storm surge and wave modeling; climate change impacts; scour and erosion; vulnerability and risk |
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Harvey Cutler, Ph.D. Retired Task 3 Lead Professor Colorado State University Email: Harvey.Cutler@ColoState.EDU Personal Webpage Expertise: Regional economics; computable equilibrium modeling; risk analysis |
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Bradley Ewing, Ph.D. Researcher Professor Texas Tech University Email: Bradley.Ewing@ttu.EDU CV/Bio Expertise: Natural hazards economics; energy economics; times series analysis; economic impact analysis; development of new benefit, cost and performance metrics; integration of economics with engineering and physical sciences |
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Jamie Kruse, Ph.D. Co-Director Professor East Carolina University Email: Jamie.Kruse@colostate.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Risk and decision making; experimental economics; industrial organization and regulation; natural hazards economics; insurance and risk mitigation; and interdisciplinary research that integrates economic analysis with engineering, ecology, and the geosciences |
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Anita Pena, Ph.D. Researcher Professor Colorado State University Email: Anita.Pena@ColoState.EDU Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Public sector economics; labor economics; economic development, public policy |
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Martin Shields, Ph.D. Researcher Professor Colorado State University Email: Martin.Shields@ColoState.EDU Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Regional economics; labor economics; economic volatility modeling; risk modeling |
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Yong Wook Kim Researcher Research Programmer NCSA Expertise: Developer on Ergo and IN-CORE teams, GIS, Database Management |
Rob Kooper Researcher Senior Research Programmer NCSA Expertise: Software Engineering, Web Application and Service development | |
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Jong Sung Lee, Ph.D. Task 1 Lead Deputy Associate Director of software directorate, NCSA Lead of ERGO (MAEviz) platform Email: jonglee1@illinois.edu Personal Webpage Bio Expertise: GIS; transportation planning; regional science; data management |
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Vismayak Mohanarajan Researcher Research Programmer NCSA Expertise: |
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Chris Navarro Lead Research Programmer NCSA Expertise: One of the original MAEviz developers, on which ERGO is now based, an Eclipse Committer Open Source Developer |
Rashmil Panchani Researcher Research Programmer NCSA Expertise: |
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Chen Wang Researcher Research Programmer NCSA Expertise: Web Application and Service development. (OPIETM) for scientific portals. |
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Lisa Watkins Researcher Associate Program Manager NCSA Expertise: |
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Alexander Abuabara, Ph.D. Researcher Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center Texas A&M University Email: aabuabara@arch.tamu.edu Personal Webpage Expertise: Probabilistic causal analysis through influence diagrams, Risk assessment for natural hazards with social impacts, Spatial analyses of risk, including thematic cartography and geo-visualization |
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Steven French, Ph.D. Researcher Professor City & Regional Planning Georgia Institute of Technology Email: steve.french@design.gatech.edu Personal Webpage Expertise: Earthquake and Flood Hazard Analysis and Mitigation; Sustainable Urban Development; Urban Planning and Policy; Urban Big Data |
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Sara Hamideh, PhD Associate Professor Community & Regional Planning Stony Brook University Email: sara.hamideh@stonybrook.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Disaster recovery and community resilience |
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Michelle Meyer, Ph.D. Researcher Associate Professor, Director Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center Texas A&M University Email: mmeyer@tamu.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Disaster resilience and mitigation; climate change displacement; environmental sociology and community sustainability |
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Walter Peacock, Ph.D. Researcher Professor Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center Texas A&M University Email: peacock@tamu.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Urban planning; sustainability and resiliency issues; natural hazard mitigation; long-term disaster recovery |
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Nathanel Rosenheim, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center Texas A&M University Email: nrosenheim@arch.tamu.edu CV/Bio Expertise: Urban planning; food security; data management; social impacts of disasters |
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Shannon Van Zandt, Ph.D. Task 2 Lead Professor, Executive Associate Dean College of Architecture Texas A&M University Email: svanzandt@arch.tamu.edu Personal Webpage CV/Bio Expertise: Social Impacts of Disaster; Housing and Housing recovery; nexus housing and business resovery |
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Maria Watson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor College of Design, Construction, and Planning University of Florida Email: maria.watson@ufl.edu Personal Webpage Expertise: Urban Planning; Small Business; Disaster Recovery; Survey Methods |