Bio

Affiliated Faculty Member

Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE)

John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center

Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics (SCCM) program

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Civil Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1981

Master of Science, Civil Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1979

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering (with High Honors), University of Hawaii, 1976

Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics (with Distinction), University of Hawaii, 1976

Employment History

1997-Present Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

1991-1997 Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

1988-1991 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

1982-1988 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

Professional Affiliations

American Society of Civil Engineers (Member, Technical Council on Information and Computing Technology and the Structural Engineering Institute)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Member, Engineering Information Management Program)

Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Association of Computing Machinery

California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center

Editorial Board

Journal of Engineering with Computers, Member of the Editorial Board

Journal on Advances in Engineering Software, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board

International Journal of Computer Integrated Design and Construction, Member of Editorial Board

Journal of Computing Information and Science in Engineering, ASME, Associate Editor

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Associate Editor (former)

Awards and Honors

Invited Guest Faculty, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL), July, 2003

Best Paper Award, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 1999

Faculty Member of the Year Award, Society of Chicano/Latino Engineers and Scientists, Stanford University, 1996.

Outstanding Research Advisor, Society of Chicano/Latino Engineers and Scientists, Stanford University, 1993.

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society of North America;

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi;

Chi Epsilon, a National Honorary Civil Engineering Society

Harold Thomas Scholarship Award, Civil Engineering Department, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1978;

Dai Ho Chun Scholarship Award, University of Hawaii, 1976.