Dynamics Committee

Membership Eligibility

Applicants with less than 5 years of experience after Ph.D., should fulfill at least one out of the following three conditions:

• have presented at least one (1) abstract or organized at least one (1) minisymposium at one of the EMI annual conferences;
• have at least one (1) journal paper published, in print, or accepted for publication in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (JEM);
• have completed at least one (1) paper review for JEM within the last five (5) years.

Applicants with more than 5 years of experience after Ph.D., should fulfill at least two out of the following three conditions:

• have participated by presenting an abstract or organizing a mini-symposium in at least two (2) EMI annual conferences (including national or international conferences) within the last five (5) years;
• have at least one (1) journal paper published, in print, or accepted for publication on JEM within the last five (5) years;
• have completed at least one (1) paper review for JEM within the last five (5) years.

Further see our Operations Manual (PDF)

Leadership

• Eleni Chatzi, Ph.D., M.ASCE, Chair
• Hamed Ebrahimian, Ph.D., M.ASCE, Vice-Chair
• Manolis Chatzis, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, Secretary

Committee Past Chairs

• 2017–2020
  Michele Barbato, Ph.D., C.Eng, P.E., F.EMI, F.SEI, F.ASCE
  University of California, Davis
• 2014–2017
  Siu Kui (Ivan) Au, Ph.D., M.ASCE
  University of Liverpool
• 2012–2014
  Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Ph.D., M.ASCE
  University of Thessaly
• 2008–2012
  Lambros Katafygiotis, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
  Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
• 2007–2008
  Joel Conte, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
  University of California San Diego
• 2005–2007
  Raimondo Betti, Ph.D., M.ASCE
  Columbia University
• 1998–2005
  Nicos Makris, Ph.D., C.Eng., M.ASCE
  University of Central Florida

Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prizes

2021 Recipient

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."

Learn more about the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prizes.

2021 Annual Student Paper Competition Winners

First Place

Aikaterini Kyprioti
University of Notre Dame
Paper title: "Kriging Surrogate Modeling for Approximating EDP Distributions under Stochastic Ground Motion Excitations"

Second Place

Pu Ren
Northeastern University
Paper title: "PhyCRNet: Physics-informed Convolutional-Recurrent Network for Solving Spatiotemporal PDEs"

Second Place

Fernando Gomez
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paper title: "Topology optimization of tall buildings subjected to stochastic wind excitation"

Third Place

Ehsan Osloub
University at Buffalo
Paper title: "Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Electrical Conductors Interconnecting High-Voltage Substation Equipment"

2021 Competition Chair: Professor Manolis Chatzis, Ph.D., The University of Oxford, UK.

Panel of Judges

• Patrick Brewick, US Naval Research Laboratory
• Scott Harvey, the University of Oklahoma
• Suparno Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
• Milad Roohi, Colorado State University
• Jia-Hua (Java) Yang, Guangxi University

Special thanks to GeoSIG Ltd as the sponsor of the 1st prize of the 2021 EMI Dynamics Student Competition.

Previous Student Paper Competition Winners

• 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
• 2017 Winner - Ketson Roberto Maximiano dos Santos, Columbia University

EMI 2021 Symposia under the auspices of the Committee

• MS 210: Integration of Physics-based Models with Data for Identification, Monitoring, Estimation, and Uncertainty Quantification, organizers: Hamed Ebrahimian, Hae Young Noh, Babak Moaveni, Yang Wang
• MS 240: Safety Assessment of Aging Infrastructure: From Data to Decision, organizers: Suparno Mukhopadhyay, Adrian Brugger, Simos Gerasimidis, Raimondo Betti
• MS 244: Structural Identification and Damage detection, organizers: Eleni Chatzi, Costas Papadimitriou, Babak Moaveni
• MS 252: Recent Advances in Real-time Hybrid Simulation, organizers: Wei Song, Richard Christenson
• MS 256: Complex Dynamics and Vibration Control of Infrastructures Exposed to Single/Multiple Hazards, organizers: Chao Sun, Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Lin Chen, Sriram Narasimhan
• MS 263: Innovations and Advances in Passive, Active, and Semi-active Structural Control, organizers: Nick Wierschem, P. Scott Harvey
• MS 264: Emerging Advances in Wind Hazard Assessment and Mitigation, organizers: Teng Wu, Yanlin Guo
• MS 300: Recent advances in Performance-Based Engineering for Single and Multiple Hazards, organizers: Michele Barbato, Joel Conte
• MS 303: Characterizing Uncertainties in Response of Structures and Communities to Fire Hazard, organizers: Negar Elhami Khorasani, Jenny Sideri, Hamed Ebrahimian
• MS 309: Recent Advances in Stochastic Dynamics and Signal Processing Techniques, organizers: Apostolos Psaros, Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Antonina Pirrotta, Athanasios Pantelous
• MS 311: Advances in Computational Methods for Uncertainty Quantification and Robust/Performance-based Design of Structures and Systems Exposed to Natural and Man-made Hazards, organizers: Seymour Spence, Alexandros Taflanidis, Michael Shields
• MS 313: Advanced Analysis for Earthquake Engineering, organizers: Kevin Wong, Ting Lin, Steven McCabe

Other activities

Research Group Profile

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

Short Technical Article

• High Fidelity Modeling, Resilience Enhancement and Smart Sensing of Critical Infrastructure exposed to Multi-Hazard, Chao Sun, Ph.D., Louisiana State University

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

EMI Fellows

• 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

Conferences

• EMI International Conference 2021, hosted by Durham University (virtual)
  MS-83: Vibration-based Monitoring of Dynamic Systems
  Organizers: Manolis Chatzis, Eleni Chatzi, Vasileios Ntertimanis, Geert Lombaert
• IMAC 2021 Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics (virtual)
  Mini Symposium on Bayesian Type Filters for Real Time Identification
  Organizers: Saeed Eftekhar Azam, Vasilis Dertimanis, Eleni Chatzi Uncertainty Quantification & Propagation In Structural Dynamics Organizers: Babak Moaveni, Costas Papadimitriou
• 10th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure
  MS08:Bayesian methods for vibration-based SHM
  Organizers: Manolis Chatzis, Vasilis Dertimanis, Eleni Chatzi, Geert Lombaert, Costas Papadimitriou
  MS01 - Advanced sensor technologies and application for SHM of Civil Infrastructure
  Organizers: Ray Hoemsen, Hoon Sohn
• 4th International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering
  Mini Symposium on Uncertainty Quantification in Vibration based Monitoring and Structural Dynamics Simulations
  Organizers: Eleni Chatzi, Manolis Chatzis, Vasilis Dertimanis, Geert Lombaert, Costas Papadimitriou