Enrique López Droguett

Enrique López Droguett Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of Maryland M.S. University of Maryland M.S. Federal University of Bahia B.S. Federal University of Bahia

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Dr. Enrique López Droguett is a Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. He is also an Associate Editor for both the Journal of Risk and Reliability, and the International Journal of Reliability and Safety. Also, he serves in the Board of Directors of the International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (IAPSAM). Prof. López Droguett conducts research on Bayesian inference and artificial intelligence supported digital twins and prognostics and health management based on physics informed deep learning for reliability, risk, and safety assessment of structural and mechanical systems. His most recent focus has been on quantum computing and quantum machine learning for developing solutions for risk and reliability quantification and energy efficiency of complex systems, particularly those involved in renewable energy production. He has led many major studies on these topics for a broad range of industries, including oil and gas, nuclear energy, defense, civil aviation, mining, renewable and hydro energy production and distribution networks. Prof. López Droguett has authored more than 250 papers in archival journals and conference proceedings.

Yousef Bozorgnia

Yousef Bozorgnia Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Berekeley M.S. University of California, Berkeley B.S. Sharif University of Technology

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Dr. Yousef Bozorgnia is Professor at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UCLA. Dr. Bozorgnia’s expertise includes earthquake engineering and ground motion hazard, with emphasis on multidisciplinary aspects of earthquake science and engineering. He has extensively published scientific papers on earthquake ground motion models, seismic hazard analysis, and structural earthquake engineering. Dr. Bozorgnia has developed earthquake ground motion models that are used worldwide for seismic analysis and design of buildings, bridges, dams, infrastructure and critical facilities. Bozorgnia received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and was the Executive Director (2009-2016) and the Associate Director (2004-2009) of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), a multi-university research center. Dr. Bozorgnia is a licensed Professional Civil Engineer (PE) in the State of California, has been a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) since 1998, and is currently the Associate Editor of journal Earthquake Spectra, a scientific journal dedicated to earthquake engineering.

Scott Brandenberg

Scott Brandenberg Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Davis M.S. University of California, Davis B.S. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Professor Brandenberg's research interests are geotechnical earthquake engineering, geophysical imaging, data acquisition and signal processing, and numerical analysis. His current research projects are: (1) developing fragility functions for bridges in liquefied and laterally spreading ground, (2) developing design guidelines for pile foundations in liquefied ground, (3) evaluation of the seismic levee deformation by destructive cyclic field testing, (4) centrifuge modeling of the large-strain site response behavior of soft clays, (5) CPT-based ultrasonic imaging of jet grout columns, and (6) developing correlations between shear wave velocity and penetration resistance at Caltrans bridge sites.

Milos D. Ercegovac

Milos D. Ercegovac Professor Computer Science Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign M.S. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign B.S. University of Belgrade

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Professor Ercegovac specializes in research and teaching in digital arithmetic, digital design, and computer system architecture. His recent research is in the areas of approximate arithmetic, composite algorithms, complex arithmetic, design for low power and arithmetic in application-specific architectures.

Christina Fragouli

Christina Fragouli Professor Electrical And Computer Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles B.S. National Technical University of Athens

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Dr. Christina Fragouli is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. She directs the Algorithmic Research in Network Information Flow (ARNI) which performs research in areas such as network coding, algorithms for networking, wireless networks and network security

Nasr M. Ghoniem

Nasr M. Ghoniem Professor Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison M.S. McMaster University B.S. Alexandria University

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Professor Ghoniem's areas of interest are: Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Material Degradation in Severe Environments (e.g., Nuclear, Fusion, Rocket Engines, etc.); Plasma and Laser Processing; Materials Non-equilibrium, Pattern formation and Instability Phenomena; Radiation Interaction with Materials (neutrons, electrons, particles, laser and photons).

Subramanian S. Iyer

Subramanian S. Iyer Professor Electrical Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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Dr. Iyer is Distinguished Professor and Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair at UCLA's Electrical Engineering Department. His research and teaching interest include: System Scaling Technology, advanced packaging and 3D integration, technologies and techniques for the memory subsystem integration and neuromorphic computing. His pioneering development of embedded dynamic random access memory (eDRAM) has boosted the power of computer processors for applications ranging from high-end servers to gaming consoles and personal electronics.

Alex Hall

Alex Hall Professor Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

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Alex Hall is a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and an expert in climate change. Hall, an atmospheric physicist and a member of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, specializes in regional climates, global climate change and climate modeling.

Jennifer A. Jay

Jennifer A. Jay Professor Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Our approach involves integrating field, experimental, and geochemical modeling work to understand the environmental fate and transport of microbial and chemical pollution and nutrients. We are currently working in several areas: 1) We are characterizing how sediments in coastal creeks can provide the ecosystem service of reducing the impact of microbial pollution on water quality.

Jiann-Wen “Woody” Ju

Jiann-Wen “Woody” Ju Professor Structural Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley M.S. University of California, Berkeley

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My current research interests concern mechanics of materials and constitutive modelings of advanced engineering materials. In particular, I am interested in micromechanical damage mechanics of brittle composites, micromechanics of random heterogeneous elastic and inelastic fibrous and particulate composites, continuum elastoplastic damage mechanics, plasticity and viscoplasticity theories and computational algorithms, advanced constitutive modeling of materials, nonlinear computational mechanics, nondestructive and destructive testing, durability, reliability, sulfate attack, and construction defects.

Xiaochun Li

Xiaochun Li Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Stanford University

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Professor Li is the Raytheon Chair in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department. His research interests are: scifacturing, interdisciplinary areas of innovative manufacturing and materials processing, solid freeform fabrication, nanoscience and nanotechnology, laser micro/nanomaterials processing, and process/system integration.

Ali Mosleh

Ali Mosleh Professor Reliability Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles M.S. University of California, Los Angeles B.S. Sharif University

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Dr. Ali Mosleh is Distinguished Professor and holder of the Evelyn Knight Chair in Engineering at the University of California in Los Angeles.  Prior to that he was the Nicole J. Kim Eminent Professor of Engineering and Director of the Center for Risk and Reliability at the University of Maryland.

Dr. Mosleh is also a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, and the American Nuclear Society, recipient of several scientific achievement awards, and consultant and technical advisor to numerous national and international organizations. In 2004 he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. He continued to serve on the board under President Obama until 2012.

Arash Naeim

Arash Naeim Professor David Geffen School Of Medicine M.D. University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. RAND Graduate School B.S. University of California, Los Angeles

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Dr. Arash Naeim, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine in both Divisions of Hematology-Oncology and Geriatric Medicine at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine. He is Associate Director for the Clinical Translational Science Institute, and Chief Medical Officer for Clinical Research for the UCLA Campus and Health System. His research interests included outcomes research, cost-effectiveness analysis, modeling of health and frailty, and clinical trial design. His focus of research for the majority of his publications and research grants has been in breast cancer and cancer in the elderly. He is the UCLA Principal Investigator for the Athena Breast Health Network and NIH grant that aims to use sensor technology and analytics to reduce risk, integrate innovative technology, and advance precision medicine.

Izhak Rubin

Izhak Rubin Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. Princeton University M.S. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology B.S. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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Dr. Rubin's research and teaching interests include communications/telecommunications, computer networks, multimedia IP networks, UAV/UGV-aided networks, integrated system and network management, C4ISR systems and networks, optical networks, network simulations and analysis.

Majid Sarrafzadeh

Majid Sarrafzadeh Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Professor Sarrafzadeh's research interests are: Wireless Health and Biomedical Devices, Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, and Data Analytics.

Frederic Paik Schoenberg

Frederic Paik Schoenberg Professor Statistics Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley B.S. Brown University

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Jason L. Speyer

Jason L. Speyer Professor Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Harvard University B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Dr. Speyer performs research on stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight control, and flight mechanics. Some of his projects include fault detection and identification for ground vehicles, autonomous formation flight, and management of air vehicles systems. 

Jonathan P. Stewart

Jonathan P. Stewart Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley M.S. University of California, Berkeley B.S. University of California, Berkeley

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Dr. Stewart's primary research interests are in geotechnical earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, with emphases on seismic soil-structure interaction, earthquake ground motion characterization, seismic ground failure, and the seismic performance of earth structures including structural fills and levee embankments. His research has involved: interpretation of earthquake strong motion data to gain insight into soil-structure interaction effects, characterize site effects, and to produce practical models for the prediction of ground motion intensity measures; cyclic field testing of earth structures and full-scale foundation components including shallow foundations, drilled shafts, and bridge abutment walls; advanced dynamic testing of soils in the laboratory; and case history studies of the seismic field performance of infrastructure in California, Taiwan, Turkey, Japan, Greece, Italy, and India. Results from his research group are widely utilized in engineering practice, including a 2012 NIST guidelines document for soil-structure interaction, ground motion prediction equations used for the USGS National Seismic Hazard Maps, ASCE-7 (for new structures), ASCE-41 (existing structures) and additional guidelines documents for landslide risk and tall building design.

Paulo Tabuada

Paulo Tabuada Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. Instituto Superior Técnico M.S. Instituto Superior Técnico B.S. Instituto Superior Técnico

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Paulo Tabuada's main research interests cover a range of topics which could be described as a modern systems theory. In particular, he is interested in modeling, analysis, and control of real-time, embedded, networked and distributed cyber-physical systems. Dr. Tabuada also directs the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory (CyPhyLab), which conducts research at the intersection of computation, communication, and control. 

Ertugrul Taciroglu

Ertugrul Taciroglu Professor and Chair Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign B.S. Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey

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Professor Taciroglu's research interests lie within the broad area of computational solid and structural mechanics. He is currently working on topology optimization of smart material systems, soil-structure interaction in deep and shallow foundation systems, wave propagation in continuous media, inverse problems—with various applications in system identification, structural health monitoring as well as surveillance—and simulation of structural response under extreme loadings such as explosions, and ballistic impact.