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Mohammad Ali
Lecturer; Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1987. Transportation Engineer for CALTRANS.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — mmali@usc.edu
Arzhang Alimoradi
Lecturer, Ph.D., Earthquake Engineering, The University of Memphis, 2004 Senior Research Engineer, Earthquake Engineering, Nonlinear Response, Numerical Methods and Optimization
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — alimorad@usc.edu
James C. Anderson
Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1969. Computer-aided design of structures, earthquake resistant design, nonlinear dynamic response analysis and testing of large scale structural components.
KAP 234B — (213) 740-8660 — jamesa@usc.edu
Arul Arangan
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — arangan@usc.edu
Mihran Agbabian
Retired Faculty, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. Founding President and President Emeritus of the American University of Armenia.
Hamid Bahadori
Lecturer; M.S.C.E., California State Univ., Long Beach; Masters of Public Administration, California State Univ., Fullerton. Registered: Professional Civil Engineer and Professional Traffic Engineer, Professional Traffic Operations Engineer.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — hbahador@usc.edu
Jean-Pierre Bardet
Professor (and immediate past Chair), Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1984. Experimental and theoretical soil mechanics, numerical methods in geomechanics, and geotechnical engineering.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0609 — bardet@usc.edu
Murty Bavisetty
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — mbaviset@usc.edu
Burcin Becerik-Gerber
Assistant Professor; Doctor of Design, Harvard University, 2006. Innovative information technologies for construction engineering and management, building information management, sustainable construction projects, computer aided fabrication and construction
KAP 224C — (213) 740-4383— becerik@usc.edu
Jose Borrero
Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2001. Tsunami hazards, field surveys and submarine landslides
BHE B12 — (213) 740-5129 — jborrero@usc.edu
Raphael Bostic
Associate Professor and Director, Master of Real Estate Development Program; Ph.D., Stanford, 1995.
RGL 326 — (213) 740-1220 — bostic@usc.edu
Gregg Brandow
Professor of Engineering Practice; Ph.D., Stanford. Dr. Brandow is a specialist in both earthquake engineering and computer analysis and application of numerical methods to solutions of complex structural problems.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-1040 — brandow@usc.edu
John P. Caffrey
Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1987. Structural control, mechanical design and manufacturing, and experimental mechanics.
KAP 268 — (213) 740-3979 — jcaffrey@usc.edu
George V. Chilingar, Retired
Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1956. Environmental aspects of oil and gas production, petrophysical properties of rocks, drilling fluids, surface and subsurface operations in petroleum production, subsidence due to the fluid withdrawal, testing and storage of petroleum products.
KAP 224C — (213) 740-4383 — gchiling@usc.edu
John Cowles
Lecturer.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 — cowlesiv@usc.edu
David Crain
Lecturer; Ph.D., University of Southern California
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — crain@usc.edu
Mark Ditko
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — ditko@usc.edu
Al Dorman
Architect. MSCE, USC. Founding chairman of AECOM Technology Corporation, a global company responsible for large-scale public works projects. Dorman is the only person to become both a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and an honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE). He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the winner of the ASCE Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Leadership. He is the inspiration for the Al Dorman Lectures Series hosted by the Department.
Daniel Duran
Lecturer; Ph.D., Information Technology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1977
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office —
Martin Eskijian
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — eskijian@usc.edu
David J. Gerber
USC School of Architecture
WAH 316 — (213) 740-2723 — dgerber@usc.edu
Roger Ghanem - Gordon S. Marshall Professor of Engineering Technology
Professor; Ph.D., Rice University, 1989. Probabilistic modeling and computational stochastic mechanics, quantitative models for the propagation of uncertainty in physical systems and structural dynamics.
KAP 254C — (213) 740-9528 — ghanem@usc.edu
Paul Giorgio
Lecturer; M.S., University of Southern California. Professor Giorgio is an experienced project manager in the residential and commercial building industry.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — giorgio@usc.edu
Marc S. Glasser
Lecturer; BARCH, University of Southern California, 1971; MBA, UCLA, 1979. construction management, pre-development services, planning, scheduling and project control in a variety of commercial projects (office, retail, healthcare, industrial) and public works projects (schools, university, court houses, correctional facilities, aviation, and utility).
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — glasser@usc.edu
Ronald C. Henry
Professor; Ph.D., Oregon Graduate Center, 1977. Environmental engineering with a focus on air pollution.
KAP 224E — (213) 740-0596 — rhenry@usc.edu
Lance Hill
Lecturer; M.S., Mechanical Engineering
KAP B28 — (213) 740-0599 — lhill@usc.edu
Sanja Ivanovic
Lecturer; Ph.D., University of Southern California. Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — ivanovic@usc.edu
Carl Jablonski
Lecturer; M.A., Cal State, Fullerton. Construction Management
KAP 230D — (213) 740-0567 — cjablons@usc.edu
Brian Jackson
Lecturer in Policy, Planning, and Development
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office —
Randa Jarjour
Lecturer; Ph.D., Brooklyn Polytechnic University. Construction Management.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — jarjour@usc.edu
Erik A. Johnson
Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 1997. Structural control, structural dynamics, system identification, and computational stochastic dynamics, semi-active damping strategies for structural systems, evolutionary algorithms for efficient simulation of stochastic dynamical systems.
KAP 206B — (213) 740-0610 — johnsone@usc.edu
Mohsen Kargahi
Lecturer; Ph.D.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — mohsen@usc.edu
Carl Kim
Lecturer; M.E., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. Mr. Kim specializes in soil mechanics, forensic investigations, and geotechnical earthquake engineering.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — carlkim@usc.edu
Geraldine Knatz
Lecturer; Ph.D.,
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — knatz@usc.edu
Henry M. Koffman, P.E.
Professor of Engineering Practice, M.S. Stanford University, 1962. Director, Construction Management program; Registered Civil Engineer and Licensed Building Contractor.
KAP 222 — (213) 740-0556 — koffman@usc.edu
Zhiqing Kou, Postdoctoral Research Associate
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0561— zkou@usc.edu
Bruce Kuch
Professor of Engineering Practice; B.S., University of Arizona, Registered Civil Engineer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — kuch@usc.edu
John Kuprenas
Research Assistant Professor; D. Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1988. Construction productivity and quality, lean production, computer applications in construction, automated systems, process modeling, program management training, organizational development and human factors in construction.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — kuprenas@usc.edu
Matin Lackpour
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — lackpour@usc.edu
Jiin-Jen Lee
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1970. Director, USC Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research. Hydraulics, water resources engineering and coastal engineering.
KAP 200 — (213) 740-7865 — jjlee@usc.edu
Vincent W. Lee
Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1979. Seismic data processing, risk analysis, wave propagation and numerical methods.
KAP 230B — (213) 740-0568 — vlee@usc.edu
Hanh Dam Le-Griffin
Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Gifu University, Japan, 1995. Transportation engineering analysis, transportation modeling and application of GIS and TranCAD, cost-benefit analysis, freight logistics, Asia-Pacific Issues, port system optimization, public and private financing for marine port development, port capacities and performance characteristics.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — hdle@usc.edu
Henry (Xianghong) Liu
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — xianghol@usc.edu
Paul Liu
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — pil@usc.edu
James Lu
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — jameslu@usc.edu
Todd Lukesh
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — lukesh@usc.edu
Patrick Lynett
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Cornell University, 2002. Numerical and physical modeling of coastal processes; wind wave evolution from deep to shallow water; sediment transport in the coastal zone; wave interaction with permeable structures such as breakwaters; internal waves; wave energy.
KAP 224D - (213) 740-3133 fax - (213) 744-1426 - plynett@usc.edu
Jaime Mancera
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — jaimeman@usc.edu
Jeremy March
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — jmarch@usc.edu
Mike Markus
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — mmarkus@usc.edu
Leonard Marvin
Lecturer; AIA; M.A. and BS in ARCH, MBA, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — lenmarvi@usc.edu
Sami F. Masri
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1965. Analysis, control, and modeling of nonlinear dynamic systems.
KAP 206A — (213) 740-0602 — masri@usc.edu
Najmedin Meshkati
Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1983. Risk reduction of civil infrastructure systems; safety, reliability, and efficiency of complex, large-scale technological systems; environmentally sustainable development.
KAP 238 — (213) 740-8765 — meshkati@usc.edu
James E. Moore, II
Professor; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1986. Managing seismic risks associated with transportation networks, transportation systems analysis, discrete facility location, local area traffic control, and optimal control of congestible transportation networks.
GER 201 — (213) 740-0595 — jmoore@usc.edu
Farzad Naeim
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — naeim@usc.edu
Iraj Nasseri
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — inasseri@usc.edu
Dr. Navid Nastar, P.E.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
KAP 225 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — nastar@usc.edu
A. M. Niazy
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — niazy@usc.edu
Michael Nosbisch
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — nosbisch@usc.edu
Ali R. Nowroozi (also lectures in the Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering)
Lecturer — nowroozi@usc.edu
Andres Orlando, Postdoctoral Research Associate
KAP 130 — (213) 740-9165 —
Jacqueline Patterson
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — patte2@usc.edu
Dominick Pescarolo
Lecturer; B.S., Cal State Long Beach, 1970. Engineering and construction in the US and overseas, marine terminals, power plants, refineries, nuclear facilities, pipelines, infrastructure, including classified projects with the USAF.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — dpescaro@usc.edu
Massoud Pirbazari
Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1980. Treatment and removal of hazardous chemicals, mathematical modeling of biophysicochemical processes in water and wastewater treatment, and the development of biotechnology for pollution remediation.
KAP 260 — (213) 740-0592 — pirbazar@usc.edu
Ayubur Rahman
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — ayuburra@usc.edu
Rezvan Ramezani
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — rezvanra@usc.edu
Varadarajan Ravindran
Lecturer; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2006
BHE 213 — (213) 740-0590 — ravindra@email.usc.edu
Amy Rechenmacher
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2000. Strain localization, experimental imaging, constitutive behavior of soils, particulate mechanics, probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering, characterization of soil heterogeneity.
KAP 230C — (213) 740-3615 — arechenm@usc.edu
F. Edward Reynolds, Jr., P.E.
Lecturer; MBA, Harvard
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — freynold@usc.edu
Alex Sandu, P.E.
Lecturer; Ph.D., Univ. of Civil Engineering of Bucharist, Romania, 1998
Civil Engineer, Water Resources and Water Treatment
Project Management, Water Resources and Environment, Stormwater Quality, TMDL compliance, BMP design and implementation, WTP design, Construction management, pilot plant design. Project experience with state, municipal utilities and private clients.
Eric Shen
Lecturer; M.S. and B.S. University of California, Irvine.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — ericshen@usc.edu
Dana Sherman
Senior Lecturer; J.D., Loyola; M.P.A., Harvard.
OHE 530 — (213) 740-4131 — (213) 740-0567 — KAP 203 lecturer office — danasher@usc.edu
Constantinos Sioutas — Fred Champion Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor; Doctor of Science, Harvard, 1994. Developing technologies for measuring the physicochemical characteristics of air pollutants, determining their toxic properties, and developing novel technologies for reducing the emissions of air pollutants.
KAP 216C — (213) 740-6134 — sioutas@usc.edu
Lucio Soibelman
Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Massachusetts institute of Technology, 1998. Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Image Reasoning, Text Mining, Machine Learning, Multi-reasoning Mechanisms, sensors, sensor networks, and advanced infrastructure systems.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 — soibelman@usc.edu
Wonho Song
Lecturer; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2003.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — wonhoson@yahoo.com
John Stebbins
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — stebbins@usc.edu
Roger Stephenson
Lecturer; Ph.D.,
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — rogerste@usc.edu
Costas Synolakis
Professor; California Institute of Technology, 1985
Prediction of tsunami inundation and other co-seismic hazards, breaking waves, wave runup, hydrodynamic pressures on dams and two-phase flow.
KAP 206C— (213) 740-0613 — costas@usc.edu
Craig Taylor
Research Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Illinois. Risk assessment and uncertainty analysis.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — craigtay@usc.edu
James Tkach, P.E.
Lecturer; M. Eng., Construction Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Project manager, currently specializing in structural cast-in-place concrete.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — tkach@usc.edu
Maria I. Todorovska
Research Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1988. Earthquake engineering, applied mechanics, engineering seismology, soil-structure interaction, nonlinear soil-structure systems, passive isolation of structural vibrations, control of structural response, probabilistic assessment of losses from earthquakes, seismic hazard analysis, and strong ground motion.
KAP 216A — (213) 740-0616 — mtodorov@usc.edu
Mihailo D. Trifunac
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1969. Strong motion seismology, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, wave propagation, random vibrations and instrumentation and measurement.
KAP 216D — (213) 740-0570 — trifunac@usc.edu
Firdaus E. Udwadia
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1972. Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Eng. Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Information and Operations Management. Research Interests are in dynamics and control, mechanics and mathematics, collaborative engineering, engineering management, structural dynamics, system identification.
430K OHE — (213) 740-0495 — fudwadia@usc.edu
Russell Vakharia
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — RussVakharia@yahoo.com
A. Mazen Wahbeh
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — wahbeh@usc.edu
Chun-Ching "CC" Wang
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — ccwang@usc.edu
L. Carter Wellford
Professor; Ph.D., University of Alabama, Huntsville, 1975. Numerical methods in engineering, finite element methods for linear and nonlinear structural analysis.
KAP 234C — (213) 740-0607 — wellford@usc.edu
Dennis Williams
Research Professor; Ph.D., New Mexico Tech. Geohydrologic studies of groundwater resources.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — denniswi@usc.edu
Hung Leung "Doc" Wong
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1975. Numerical methods in engineering, wave propagation in solids and soil-structure interaction.
KAP 216B — (213) 740-0574 — hlwong@usc.edu
Yan Xiao
Professor; Ph.D., Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan), 1989. Reinforced and pre-stressed concrete, steel structures, composite or hybrid structures, earthquake-resistant design and properties of structural materials.
KAP 224B — (213) 740-6130 — yanxiao@usc.edu
Chia-Yu Yang, Postdoctoral Research Associate
BHE 213J — (213) 740-0593 — chiayuya@usc.edu
Fan Yang
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — fany@usc.edu
Xu Yang
Lecturer; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine. Transportation System Engineering.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — xuyang@usc.edu
Chia-Chen Johnson Yeh
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — chiayeh@usc.edu
Hsien-Yang Yeh
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — hyeh@usc.edu
Dongxiao "Don" Zhang
Research Professor (2011- ); Professor (2007-2011); Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1993 Stochastic uncertainty quantification for hydrology and petroleum reservoir simulations; multiscale modeling and simulation of flow in porous media; geological sequestration of carbon dioxide.
KAP 238A — (213) 740-0567 — donzhang@usc.edu
