Dynamics Committee

Past Dynamics Seminars

• Simulating the wave-induced response of structures using real-time hybrid physical-numerical simulation, Adaptive and deployable lightweight civil infrastructure (Joint Seminar)

  Simulating the wave-induced response of structures using real-time hybrid physical-numerical simulation
  Barbara G. Simpson, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering, Stanford University

  Adaptive and deployable lightweight civil infrastructure
  Ann Christine Sychterz, Ph.D., M.ASCE, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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• Innovative Monitoring through Operational Modal Analysis, Efficient computational strategies for the life-cycle optimization of nonlinear dynamical systems subject to random excitation (Joint Seminar)

  Innovative Monitoring through Operational Modal Analysis 
  Antonina Pirrotta, Ph.D.,F.EMI, M.ASCE, University of Palermo (UNIPA)

  Efficient computational strategies for the life-cycle optimization of nonlinear dynamical systems subject to random excitation
  Ketson Dos Santos, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

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• Instrumentation and Structural Monitoring of the First Two Offshore Windfarms in the US, In Situ Seismic Testing: Using Mobile Shaker Trucks to Perform Modal Identification of Large Structures (Joint Seminar)

  Title: Instrumentation and Structural Monitoring of the First Two Offshore Windfarms in the US
  Presenter: Babak Moaveni, Ph.D., Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University

  Title: In Situ Seismic Testing: Using Mobile Shaker Trucks to Perform Modal Identification of Large Structures
  Presenter: Rodrigo Sarlo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech

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• Full-scale experiments in a tall modern building, Nonlinear Model-Data Fusion for Post-Earthquake Assessment of Instrumented Buildings (Joint Seminar)

  Title: Full-scale experiments in a tall modern building
  Presenter: Maria Todorovska,  Professor, Tianjin University, Adjunct Research Professor, University of Southern California

  Title: Nonlinear Model-Data Fusion for Post-Earthquake Assessment of Instrumented Buildings
  Presenter: Milad Roohi, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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• Classical dynamics problems exhibiting surprising characteristics

  Presented by Prof. Eduardo Kausel
  Professor Emeritus
  MIT

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• State-parameter estimation and optimal input/output locations for monitoring of structural dynamic systems

  Presented by Dr. Suparno Mukhopadhyay
  Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
  IIT Kanpur

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• AI-augmented Imaging and Characterization of Complex Components

  Fatemeh Pourahmadian, Ph.D. University of Colorado Boulder 
  Juan Caicedo, Ph.D, University of South Carolina

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• Computationally efficient uncertainty propagation in structural dynamics for seismic vulnerability assessment

  Prof. Alexandros A. Taflanidis

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame

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Mentoring Program

The EMI Dynamics committee has kicked off a mentoring program for a pilot 1 year period. Interested mentors and mentees are invited to email the Committee Chair, Hamed Ebrahimian, to participate in the program.

The purpose of the program is to support young academics with possible questions or concerns regarding career evolution, as well as work/life balance, by pairing them with more experienced members of the committee for some one to one mentoring sessions. These sessions are envisioned as informal relaxed discussions. Please see the list of mentors below.

• Juan Caicedo, University of South Carolina

  Juan Caicedo, Professor, Department Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina
  Keywords: structural dynamics, model updating, structural health monitoring, earthquake engineering and structural control
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• Eleni Chatzi, ETH Zürich

  Eleni Chatzi, Associate Professor, Chair of Structural Mechanics, Institute of Structural Engineering, of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zürich
  Keywords: structural health monitoring, system identification, reduced order modeling, virtual sensing, hybrid modeling, monitoring-driven decision Support for predictive maintenance
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• Manolis Chatzis, Oxford University

  Manolis Chatzis, Associate Professor in Engineering Science, Oxford University
  Keywords: dynamic systems, earthquake engineering, system Identification and observability of nonlinear structural systems.
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• Babak Moaveni, Tufts University

  Babak Moaveni, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
  Keywords: structural health monitoring, uncertainty quantification, model updating
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• Alexandros Taflanidis, University of Notre Dame 

  Alexandros Taflanidis, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame
  Keywords: structural vulnerability assessment, reduced order modeling, computational statistics, structural control, Bayesian updating
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• Teng Wu, University of Buffalo, SUNY

  Teng Wu, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering,  School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Buffalo, The State University of New York
  Keywords: wind engineering, transportation infrastructure resilience, hurricane hazards, structural aerodynamics, climate change
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• Xiang Yuan Zheng, Tsinghua University

  Xiang Yuan Zheng, Professor,& Tsinghua University
  Keywords: spectral analysis, stochastic vibration, non-Gaussian processes
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Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prizes

• 2024

  Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, , Ph.D., C.Eng, M.ASCE, Columbia University

  Dr. Kougioumtzoglou is recognized for "for seminal contributions to the field of stochastic engineering dynamics, and for pioneering Wiener path integral methods for determining the response of diverse nonlinear systems/structures subjected to a variety of stochastic excitations."

• 2021

  Alexandros A. Taflanidis, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, University of Notre Dame

  Dr. Taflanidis is recognized for "enhancing the resilience of communities to natural hazards such as hurricanes and earthquakes through decision-support tools and comprehensive risk assessment frameworks that leverage the integration of advanced statistical computing and machine learning methods."

• 2020

  Michele Barbato, Ph.D., C.Eng.
  Eleni Chatzi, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE

• 2011

  Ertugrul Taciroglu, Ph.D., M.ASCE

Student Paper Competition Winners 

• 2024

  First Place
  Jia-Xin Zhu
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  "Equivalent formulation and EM technique for Bayesian two-stage structural system identification with model error"

  Second Place
  Anna Arcaro
  University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  "Detection and localization of internal damage in sealed spent nuclear fuel canisters using a multi-task convolutional neural network (CNN)"

  Reviewers:

  • Vasileios Fragkoulis
  • Ketson Dos Santos
  • Aikaterini Kyprioti
  • Kalil Erazo
  • Elonora Tronci
  • Zhilu Lai
  • Salvatore Sessa
  • Ann Sychter
  • Patrick Brewick

  Panel of Judges:

  • Vasileios Fragkoulis
  • Ketson Dos Santos
  • Aikaterini Kyprioti
  • Kalil Erazo
  • Elonora Tronci
  • Ann Sychter
  • Patrick Brewick

  Special thanks to the sponsors of the three prizes for the competition for this year for a total of 1500 $: Geosig, MTS and Thornton Tomasetti:

   

    

• 2023

  First Place: Kiran Daniel Bacsa
  Singapore-ETH Centre
  Paper Title: "Structural Dynamics Learning using a Supervised Variational Auto-Encoder"
  
  Second Place: Yiwen Dong
  Stanford University
  Paper Title: "Understanding Gait Biomechanics through Structural Dynamics: Foot-Floor Contact Modeling using Footstep-induced Floor Vibrations"
  
  Third Place: Ilias Mavromatis
  Columbia University
  Paper Title: "Efficient Wiener path integral most probable path determination based on extrapolation"
  
  2023 COMPETITION CHAIR
  Professor Manolis Chatzis, Ph.D., The University of Oxford, UK
  
  

  Special thanks to the sponsors of the three prizes for the competition for this year for a total of 1000 $: Geosig and MTS.
  

• 2022

  First Place: Kostas Kalfas
  Southern Methodist University
  Paper title: "Estimation of the design parameters of pressurized sand dampers from experiments"

  Second Place: Daniz Teymouri
  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  Paper title: "Data-Driven Reduced-Order Modeling and Response Reconstruction through A Bayesian Expectation-Maximization (BEM) Framework"

  Third Place: Maria Katsidoniotaki
  Columbia University
  Paper title: "Data-driven parsimonious modeling and analysis of dynamic cerebral autoregulation via diffusion maps"

  2022 COMPETITION CHAIR

  Finals: Professor Manolis Chatzis, Ph.D., The University of Oxford, UK
  Qualifying round: Professor Patrick Brewick, Ph.D, Notre Dame University, US

  REVIEWERS

  Patrick Brewick, Suparno Mukhopadhyay, Milad Roohi, Zhiming Zhang, Vahid Jahangiri, Java Yang, Elnaz Seylabi, Xiang Yuan Zheng, Ann Sychtetz, Wei Song, and Scott Harvey

  PANEL OF JUDGES FOR FINALS

  • Patrick Brewick, Notre Dame University

  • Scott Harvey, University of Oklahoma

  • Ann Sychterz, UIUC

  • Wei Song, University of Alabama

  Special thanks to the sponsors of the three prizes for the competition for this year for a total of 1000 $: Geosig and MTS.
  

• 2021

  Winner: Aikaterini Kyprioti, University of Notre Dame
  Runner Ups: Pu Ren, Northeastern University, Fernando Gomez UIUC and Eshan Osloub University at Buffalo

• 2020

  Winner: Jonathon Fagert, Carnegie Mellon University / Stanford University
  Runner Ups: Shaopeng Li, University at Buffalo and Mariyam Amir, the Pennsylvania State University
  

• 2019

  Winner: Mostafa Mirshekari, Carnegie Mellon University
  Runner Ups: Maria Katsidoniotaki, Columbia University and Herta Montoya, Purdue University

• 2018

  Winners: Mostafa Mirshekari, Carnegie Mellon University & Ioannis Petromichelakis, Columbia University

EMI Symposia under the auspices of the Committee

• 2024

  • MS0102: Geometries & design: Opportunities for sustainable construction Chairs(s): Ann Sychterz and Mija Hubler
  • MS0109: Modeling of materials with interfaces and scales using physics-based and machine-learning methods Chairs(s): Ravindra Duddu and Xiang Zhang
  • MS0113: Advances and applications of elasticity within applied mechanics Chairs(s): Fatemeh Pourahmadian and John Charles Brigham
  • MS0203: Recent advances in hybrid simulation and real-time hybrid simulation Chairs(s): Wei Song and Richard Christenson
  • MS0210: Assessing human-infrastructure interactions and their performance Chairs(s): Haeyoung Noh
  • MS0303: Innovations and advances in passive, active, and semi-active structural control Chairs(s): Nicholas Wierschem and Scott Harvey
  • MS0305: Structural identification and damage detection Chairs(s): Babak Moaveni, Eleni Chatzi, Manolis Chatzis
  • MS0307: Recent advances in mechanical energy harvesting and its applications in structural health monitoring and control Chairs(s): Mohsen Amjadian and Chao Sun
  • MS0308: Advances in vibration and structural control Chairs(s): Aly Mousaad Aly and Sardar Malek
  • MS0309: Leveraging structural sensing and monitoring for informed decision-making, mitigation, and post-event management Chairs(s): Milad Roohi and Saeed Eftekharazam and Kalil Erazo and Doeun Choe and Eleonora Tronci
  • MS0312: Seismic isolation: Theoretical advancements, experimental insights, and innovative applications Chairs(s): Dimitrios Konstantinidis and Michalis Vassiliou
  • MS0313: Complex dynamics and vibration control of infrastructure exposed to single/multiple hazards Chairs(s): Chao Sun and Mariantonieta Soto and Lin Chen
  • MS0701: Advanced analysis for earthquake engineering Chairs(s): Kevin Wong
  • MS0702: Understanding and managing the wildfire problem Chairs(s): Professor Hussam Mahmoud and Professor Hamed Ebrahimian
  • MS0703: Tropical cyclone induced winds, surge-wave, flooding and impacts on infrastructure systems Chairs(s): Chao Sun and Guirong Yan and Celalettin Ozdemir
  • MS0704: Advances in modeling wind and its effects on the built environment Chairs(s): Marco Giometto and Teng Wu, Marco Giometto, Catherine Gorle
  • MS0705: Advancements in wind engineering: From atmospheric boundary-layer processes to resilient built environments Chairs(s): Aly Mousaad Aly
  • MS0804: Data-driven approaches to engineering mechanics Chairs(s): Fatemeh Pourahmadian and Tom Seidl and John Brigham and Evgueni Filipov and Alessandro Fascetti
  • MS0805: Machine learning and its applications in civil and mechanical engineering Chairs(s): Aly Mousaad Aly
  • MS0901: Computational methods for stochastic engineering dynamics Chairs(s): Antonina Pirrota, Ketson dos Santos
  • MS1001: Computational statistics for natural hazards engineering: Advances in uncertainty quantification, surrogate modeling, and dimension reduction for performance-based design of structures and systems Chairs(s): Alexandros Taflanidis
  • MS1003: Surrogate modeling for uncertainty quantification, optimization, and statistical inference in engineering applications Chairs(s): Alexandros Taflanidis
  • MS1007: Integration of physics-based models with data for identification, monitoring, estimation, and uncertainty quantification Chairs(s): Hamed Ebrahimian, Babak Moaveni, Yang Wang, Haeyoung Noh
  • MS1008: Infrastructure assessment automation with robotics, deep learning and digital twins Chairs(s): Wei Song
  • MS1101: Towards resilient coastlines: Advancements and new approaches Chairs(s): Teng Wu, Aikaterini P. Kyprioti
  • MS1102: Objective resilience: Harnessing emerging technologies for enhancing infrastructure and community resilience Chairs(s): Milad Roohi and ZhiQiang Chenv
  • MS1104: Resilience of coastal structures, systems, and community subjected to hazards Chairs(s): William Hughes and Katerina Kyprioti
  • MS1105: Civil infrastructure in a changing climate: From nonstationary risk assessment to developing adaptation strategies Chairs(s): Eun Cha and Abdollah Shafieezadeh and Michele Barbato and Alex Taflanidis
  • MS1108: Towards resilient communities: Improvements in natural hazard risk assessment using data-driven methods Chairs(s): Jize Zhang and Aikaterini Kyprioti
  • MS1114: Advances in regional hazard modeling and risk assessment Chairs(s): Alexandros Taflanidis, Sang-ri Yi

• 2023

  • MS209: Advances in probabilistic and data assimilation approaches for assessment and mitigation of climatological hazards, by Michele Barbato, Alexandros Taflanidis, and Tracy Kijewski-Correa
  • MS613 - Scientific computing for regional risk assessment and performance/resiliency based design, by Seymour Spence, Alexandros Taflanidis, Andre Barbosa
  • MS 210: Integration of Physics-Based Models with Data for Identification, Monitoring, Estimation, and Uncertainty Quantification Hamed Ebrahimian, Hae Young Noh, Babak Moaveni, Yang Wang
  • MS606 - Wildfire Engineering: Research and practice in wildland and wildland-urban-interface, by Hamed Ebrahimian, Erica Fischer, Hussam Mahmoud, Negar Elhami-Khorasani
  • MS 202: Structural Identification and Damage Detection Eleni Chatzi, Babak Moaveni, Costas Papadimitriou
  • MS203 - Computational Methods for Stochastic Engineering Dynamics, by Ketson Dos Santos, Vasileios Fragkoulis, Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Antonina Pirrotta
  • MS609 - Geometries & Design: Opportunities for Sustainable Construction, by Ann Sychterz, Mija Hubler, Jiaolong Zhang
  • MS211 - Complex Dynamics and Vibration Control of Infrastructure Exposed to Single/Multiple Hazards, by Chao Sun, Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Lin Chen 
  • MS602 - Advanced Analysis for Earthquake Engineering: 7th Edition, by Steven McCabe, Ting Lin, Kevin Wong 
  • MS205 - Innovations and Advances in Passive, Active, and Semi-active Structural Control, by Nicholas Wierschem, P. Scott Harvey 
  • MS502 - New advances in tropical cyclone induced winds, surge-wave, and flooding, by Chao Sun, Grace Yan, Celalettin Ozdemir 
  • MS612 - Mechanics and Impacts of Wind-borne Debris, by David Roueche, Franklin Lombardo, Gregory Kopp, Nigel Kaye, Seymour Spence, Yanlin Guo 
  • MS608 - Analysis and Prediction of Wind Effects on the Built Environment, by Teng Wu, Catherine Gorle, Marco Giometto, Panneer Selvam 
  • MS207 - Recent Advances in Hybrid Simulation and Real-time Hybrid Simulation. Organizers: Wei Song, Richard Christenson

• 2022

  • MS 101: The Next Frontiers in Natural Hazards Engineering: Advancing the Vision of Ahsan Kareem (by invitation only) Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Alexandros Taflanidis
  • MS 225: Integration of Physics-Based Models with Data for Identification, Monitoring, Estimation, and Uncertainty Quantification Hamed Ebrahimian, Hae Young Noh, Babak Moaveni, Yang Wang
  • MS 228: Mitigating Risks of Large-Scale Lithium-Ion Batteries as Energy Storage Systems or Electric Vehicles in Urban Environments Ali Ashrafi, Mahesh Bailakanavar
  • MS 301: Structural Identification and Damage Detection Eleni Chatzi, Babak Moaveni, Costas Papadimitriou
  • MS 305: Advances in Vibration and Control of Structures Aly Mousaad Aly, Milad Rezaee
  • MS 310: Computational Methods for Stochastic Engineering Dynamics Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Mircea Grigoriu, Antonina Pierrotta
  • MS 402: Geometries & Design: Opportunities for Sustainable Construction Jialong Zhang, Agathe Robisson, Ann Sychterz, Mija Hubler
  • MS 405: Inverse Problems – Theory and Applications Loukas Kallivokas, Bojan Guzina, Ertugrul Taciroglu
  • MS 503: Junction Flows, Local Scour Processes and Mitigation Strategies in Riverine and Coastal Environments Celso Castro Bolinaga, Aly Mousaad Aly, Panayiotis Diplas
  • MS 602 Complex Dynamics and Vibration Control of Infrastructure Exposed to Single/Multiple Hazards Chao Sun, Mariantonieta Soto, Lin Chen
  • MS 601: The Sixth Mini-Symposium on Advanced Analysis for Earthquake Engineering Ting Lin, Kevin Wong, Steven McCabe
  • MS 602 Complex Dynamics and Vibration Control of Infrastructure Exposed to Single/Multiple Hazards Chao Sun, Mariantonieta Soto, Lin Chen
  • MS 603: Innovations and Advances in Passive, Active, and Semi-Active Structural Control Nicholas Wierschem, P. Scott Harvey
  • MS 610: Recent Advances in Computational Modeling on Tropical Cyclone Induced Multi-Hazards Chao Sun, Ning Zhang, Celalettin Ozdemir
  • MS 611: Recent Advances in Experimental and Computational Wind Engineering Aly Mousaad Aly, R. Panneer Selvam
  • MS 701: Advances in Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence for Structural Health Monitoring and Inspections Vedhus Hoskere, Jian Li, Mohammad Jahanshahi, Fernando Moreu, Wei Song, Sriram Narasimhan
  • MS 705: Advances in Deep Learning-Based Infrastructure Assessment Zhilu Lai, Eleni Chatzi, Hae Young Noh, Satish Nagarajaiah
  • MS 706: AI Applications for Wind Engineering Teng Wu, Yanlin Guo, Gang Hu, Xiaowei Deng
  • MS 711: Recent Advances in Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Wei Song, Richard Christenson
  • MS 803: Soil Dynamics and Wave Propagation in Geostructures Loukas Kallivokas, Ertugrul Taciroglu, Bojan Guzina

Committee Activities

• Committee Members currently serving on the EMI Board of Governors

  • Michele Barbato, Ph.D., C.Eng, P.E., F.EMI, F.SEI, M.ASCE
  • Ertugrul Taciroglu, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE
  • Alexandros Angelos Taflanidis, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
  • Antonina Pirrotta, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE, Member
  • Raimondo Betti, Ph.D., M.ASCE , Member

• Fellows

  • 2023 Fellow Class – Babak Moaveni, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE
  • 2020 Fellow Class - Antonina Pirrotta, Ph.D., F.EMI, A.M.ASCE
  • 2019 Fellow Class - Michele Barbato, Ph.D., P.E., F.EMI, F.SEI, M.ASCE
  • 2018 Fellow Class - Joel P. Conte, Ph.D., P.E., F.EMI, M.ASCE

• Research Group Profile

  • Design of Resilient, Engineered, Autonomous, and Multifunctional (DREAM) Structures,
    Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Ph.D., University of Kentucky

• Short Technical Article

  • Bringing the Built Environment to Life via Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Game theory and its impact on Resilience, Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, Penn State
  • High Fidelity Modeling, Resilience Enhancement and Smart Sensing of Critical Infrastructure exposed to Multi-Hazard, Chao Sun, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, Louisiana State University