Ph.D. Students

Current Ph.D. Students

 

Jack Cheng, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Amanda Askin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

Former Ph.D. Students

 

Yang Wang

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Wireless Sensing and Decentralized Control for Civil Structures: Theory and Implementation

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Date of completion:  September, 2007

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Georgia Institute of Technology)

 

Xiaoshan Pan

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Computational Modeling of Human and Social Behaviors for Emergency Egress Analysis

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Date of completion:  June, 2006

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: CDM Tech., CAD-Centre, Cal Poly)

 

Gloria Lau

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  A Comparative Analysis Framework for Semi-Structured Documents, with Applications to Government Regulations

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Minor: Computer Science)

Date of completion:  August, 2004

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: FindLaw, Inc.)

 

Jinxing Cheng

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  A Simulation Access Language and Framework with Applications to Project Management

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering  (Minor: Computer Science)

Date of completion:  August, 2004

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Yahoo, Inc..)

 

Shawn Kerrigan

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  A Software Infrastructure for Regulatory Information Management and Compliance Assistance

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Minor: Computer Science)

Date of completion:  August, 2003

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Bridgewater Associates)

 

David Liu

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  A Distributed Data Flow Model for Composing Software Services

(Co-advisor, Principal Advisor:  Professor Gio Wiederhold)

Department of Electrical Engineering

Date of completion:  June, 2003

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Danoo, Inc.)

 

Jie Wang

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Distributed Information Organization and Management for Hazardous Waste Regulation Compliance Checking

(Co-advisor, Principal Advisor:  Professor Jim Leckie)

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Date of completion:  March, 2003

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Stanford University)

 

Jun Peng

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  An Internet-Enabled Software Framework for the Collaborative Development of a Structural Analysis Program

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering  (Minor: Computer Science)

Date of completion:  December, 2002

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Google, Inc.)

 

Jerome P. Lynch

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Decentralization of Wireless Monitoring and Control Technologies for Smart Civil Structures

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Date of completion:  July, 2002

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: University of Michigan)

 

Urmi B. Holz

(Co-advisor, Principal Advisor:  Professor Gene Golub)

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Subspace Approximation Methods for Perturbed Quadratic Eigenvalue Problems

Department of Mathematics

Date of completion:  July, 2002

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: National Security Agency)

 

Charles S. Han

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Computer Models and Methods for a Disabled Access Analysis Design Environment

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Date of completion:  June, 2000

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Cadalytic, Inc..)

 

Hoon Sohn

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  A Bayesian Probabilistic Approach to Damage Detection for Civil Structures

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Date of Completion:  December, 1998

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

 

Eduardo De Santiago

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  A Distributed Implementation of The Finite Element Method for Coupled Fluid Structure Problems

Department of Civil Engineering

Date of Completion:  December, 1996.

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: R.W. Cooper, Associates, Chicago)

 

Karthik Krishnamurthy

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  A Data Management Model for Change Control in Collaborative Design Environments

Department of Civil Engineering

Date of Completion: February, 1996.

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Cisco Systems)

 

Narayana Aluru

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Parallel and Stabilized Finite Element Methods for the Hydrodynamic Transport Model of Semiconductor Devices

Department of Civil Engineering

Date of Completion:  June, 1995

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

 

Dian Yang

(Co-advisor, Principal Advisor:  Professor Robert Dutton)

Ph.D. Thesis Title :  Mesh Generation and Information Model for Device Simulation

Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics Program

Date of Completion: June, 1994.

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Innologic Systems Inc..)

 

Made Suarjana

Ph.D. Thesis Title :  Conjugate Gradient Method for Linear and Nonlinear Structural Analysis on Sequential and Parallel Computers

Department of Civil Engineering

Date of Completion: February, 1994

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia)

 

Hiroyuki Fuyama

(Co-advisor, Principal Advisor:  Professor Helmut Krawinkler)

Ph.D. Thesis Title :  Computer Assisted Conceptual Structural Design of Steel Buildings

Department of Civil Engineering.

Date of Completion: November, 1992

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Takasago R&D Center, Mitsuibishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Japan)

 

David R. Mackay

Ph.D. Thesis Title :  Solution Methods for Static and Dynamic Structural Analysis on Distributed Memory Computers.

Department of Civil Engineering.

Date of Completion: August, 1992.  

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Intel Corporation)

 

Nobuyoshi Yabuki

Ph.D. Thesis Title :  An Integrated Framework for Design Standards Processing.

Department of Civil Engineering.

Date of Completion: June, 1992

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Osaka University, Japan)

 

Gregory Luth

(Co-advisor, Principal Advisor:  Professor Helmut Krawinkler)

Ph.D. Thesis Title :  Reasoning and Representation for Integrated Structural Design of High Rise Commercial Office Buildings.

Department of Civil Engineering.

Date of Completion: June, 1991.

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Gregory P. Luth & Associates)

 

Deepak Jain

(Co-advisor, Principal Advisor: Professor Helmut Krawinkler)

Ph.D. Thesis Title :  Logic Based Approach to Structural Engineering Design

Department of Civil Engineering

Date of Completion: March, 1991

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Saba Inc.)

 

John H. Grubbs

Ph.D. Thesis Title: An Intrinsic Approach to Structural Design

Department of Civil Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Date of Completion: December, 1986.

(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Simon-Meyer, LLC, South Carolina)

 

 

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Current Post-Doctoral Researchers

 

Dr. Julia Ekstrom, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

Former Post-Doctoral Researchers

 

Dr. Jiayi Pan

 (Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Tsinghua University)

 

Dr. Jun Peng

 (Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Google Inc.)

 

Dr. Hyun Woo Park
(Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Dong-A University)

 

Dr. Chuck Han

 (Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Cadalytic Inc.)

 

Dr. Renate Fruchter

 (Current and Most Recently Known Coordinate: Stanford University)