Ph.D. Students

Current Ph.D. Students

 

Haoyi Wang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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: McKinsey, Inc.)

 

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: Illinois Institute of Technology)

 

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: Muroran Institute of Technology, 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)