Experience

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  Cornell university

  Aug 2004 - May 2006

  • Assessed earthquake-induced ground rupture effects on critical underground lifeline through large-scale testing.• Developed numerical models to assist experimental design and data analysis. Engineering Economics and Management (CEE 323): An undergraduate course. Differential Equations (Math 293): An undergraduate course; one-on-one tutoring.

  • Undergraduate Researcher

    Jun 2005 - May 2006

  • Teaching Assistant

    Jan 2005 - May 2005

  • Academic Tutor

    Aug 2004 - Dec 2004
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  Leslie e. robertson associates

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2006

  Structural engineering intern

  • Worked on peer review, seismic upgrade, and new construction projects through various design phases.• Performed analysis and design of reinforced concrete, pre-stressed concrete and steel structures for various building types (e.g., residential, office, hotel, museum, and library) in geographically distributed locations (e.g., America, Asia, Europe).

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  Stanford university

  Sept 2007 - Dec 2012

  • Evaluated current practice and developed new tools for earthquake ground motion selection that links seismic hazard to structural response.• Extended probabilistic seismic hazard deaggregation to include ground motion prediction models.• Refined Conditional Spectrum (CS) computation by incorporating aleatory and epistemic uncertainties. • Performed extensive risk assessments using ground motion selection with different target response spectra on a variety of buildings.• Research expanded to probabilistic sea-level rise hazard analysis and multi-hazard contribution to dam failure. Show less

  • Lecturer

    Oct 2012 - Dec 2012

  • Research Assistant

    Sept 2007 - Sept 2012

  • Department TA Mentor

    Sept 2009 - Dec 2009

  • Teaching Assistant

    Sept 2007 - Dec 2007
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  Worldwatch institute

  Dec 2009 - Dec 2009

  Delegate, united nations climate change conference

  • Worked with Worldwatch Institute’s Copenhagen delegation under the Climate and Energy Program. • Followed international negotiations and non-governmental movements on mitigation, adaptation, financing, technology transfer, avoided deforestation, and capacity building.

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  Applied technology council

  Jun 2011 - Sept 2011

  Consultant

  • Worked with the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Consultants Joint Venture on Task Order 9, Improved Procedures for Selecting and Scaling Earthquake Ground Motions for Performing Response-History Analyses. • Investigated the choice of conditioning period when calculating the Conditional Spectrum, a tool with important potential applications to ground motion selection for performance-based engineering.

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  Blume earthquake engineering center

  Oct 2012 - Aug 2013

  Postdoctoral fellow

  Research Interests: Seismic performance of tall buildings, performance-based tsunami engineering, multi-hazard sustainability, interface between engineering and earth sciences

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  Marquette university

  Aug 2013 - Aug 2018

  Assistant professor

  Director of Multi-Hazard Sustainability (HazSus.org) Research Group. Instructor for Engineering Reliability and Performance-Based Engineering. Secretary of the Data, Metrics, & Tools (DMT) Committee with a dual role in the Buildings & Facilities Committee for the NIST Community Resilience Panel.

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  Texas tech university

  Sept 2018 - now

  Faculty

  Faculty Affiliate of the Climate Science Center and the National Wind Institute (NWI). 2024 EERI/COSMOS/SSA Bruce Bolt Medal Selection Committee Chair. Former Committee Chair on Advances in Information Technology and Board of Governors Level Committee Member on Confirmation & Update of Vision for the Future under the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute (SEI).