Installation of Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering

On November 2, 2022, UCLA’s Samueli School of Engineering celebrates Prof. Ali Mosleh as the holder of the Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering. Endowed chairs empower the school to recruit and retain faculty members of distinction whose work exemplifies UCLA’s mission of education, research and public service.

Dr. Ali Mosleh is a Distinguished University Professor. He is the Director of UCLA’s B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences. Previously he was the Nicole J. Kim Eminent Professor of Engineering and Director of the Center for Risk and Reliability at the University of Maryland. He conducts research on methods for probabilistic risk analysis and reliability of complex systems, holds several patents, and has authored or co-authored over 650 publications including books, guidebooks, and technical papers. Dr. Mosleh was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 and is a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, and the American Nuclear Society, recipient of several scientific achievement awards, including the American Nuclear Society Tommy Thompson Award. He has been technical advisor to numerous national and international organizations, including appointment by Presidents Bush and Obama to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. 

CSH 2022 Annual Symposium

UCLA Center for SMART Health presents “Using Data Science and Technology to Transform Healthcare” 2022 Annual Symposium on November 01, 2022 at UCLA’s Luskin Conference Center. This event is supported through funding from Hearst Health, the Neria and Manizheh Yomtoubian Endowed Chair in Cancer and Risk Sciences, and a gift in the memory of Mr. Ezatolah Barlova.

Prof. Yousef Bozorgnia Receives 2021 V. M. Watanabe Excellence in Research Award

UCLA Samueli School of Engineering Newsroom announced on Monday, May 17, 2021 that Prof. Yousef Bozorgnia receives the prestigious 2021 Watanabe Excellence in Research Award.

Prof. Bozorgnia is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCLA, and Director of the Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3), headquarters at the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences. Bozorgnia’s expertise includes earthquake engineering and seismic ground-motion hazard. His highly impactful research papers on seismic hazard analysis and structural earthquake engineering have been extensively published in peer-reviewed journals. Bozorgnia has been the principal investigator of the Next-Generation Attenuation (NGA) projects, a set of large multi-researcher and multi-institution projects with worldwide impacts on seismic hazard analysis and design. In addition, he is the principal investigator of numerous large multidisciplinary research projects at UCLA, including seismic risk analyses of natural gas and water infrastructure, seismic geohazard analysis of lifelines, earthquake analysis of smart cities and probabilistic fault-displacement hazard initiative. Bozorgnia received his B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UC Berkeley. He has been a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1998. In 2019, three U.S. scientific organizations — EERI, COSMOS and SSA — jointly awarded Bozorgnia with the prestigious Bruce Bolt Medal for his extensive contributions to seismic hazard analysis and earthquake engineering.

Full Article by UCLA Samueli Newsroom