Leadership and Staff
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Paolo Gardoni, Director
Professor and Co-director of the Societal Risk Management Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign began his appointment as director in September 2013. His research interests include reliability, risk and life cycle analysis; decision making under uncertainty; earthquake engineering; performance assessment of deteriorating systems; ethical, social, and legal dimensions of risk; policies for natural hazard mitigation and disaster recovery; and engineering ethics. Previously he was a faculty at Texas A&M University for eight years and a worked as a consultant for in the management consulting company ZS Associates. Learn more about Paolo Gardoni -
James M. LaFave, Deputy Director
Professor and CEE Excellence Faculty Scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign joined the faculty in 1999 after over four years of consulting engineering experience at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. in Princeton, NJ, and Sargent & Lundy Engineers in Chicago. His research interests include the experimental behavior and analytical modeling of structural connections and joints. This includes a number of applications considering multiple hazards like earthquake and wind. Learn more about James LaFave
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Youssef Hashash, Deputy Director
Professor and John Burkitt Webb Endowed Faculty Scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign joined the faculty in 1998 after working at the Geotechnical and Underground Engineering group at Parsons Brickerhoff in San Francisco, California since 1994. His research interests include deep excavations, earthquake engineering, numerical modeling, and soil-structure interaction. He is also involved in the use of visualization and virtual reality techniques in geotechnical engineering applications. Learn more about Youssef Hashash
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Amr S. Elnashai, Consultant
Head and William J. and Elaine F. Hall Endowed Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign joined the faculty in 2001 when he also served as the previous director of the MAE Center. Previously, he was a faculty at the Imperial College, University of London, UK. His research interests include multi-resolution distributed analytical simulations, network analysis, large-scale hybrid testing and field investigations of the response of complex networks and structures. Learn more about Amr S. Elnashai
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Roberto Guidotti, Information Technology Coordinator
Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, joined the MAE Center in 2013. His research interests include resilience of infrastructure subject to multiple hazards, reliability and risk analysis, decision making under uncertainties, structural safety, engineering seismology and seismic engineering, network interdependency, integrated urban water infrastructures, 3D physics-based models for seismic wave propagation.
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Do-Soo Moon, Information Technology Coordinator
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, joined the MAE Center in 2008. His research interests include analytical and experimental evaluation of structural performance under extreme loading, nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures, hazards assessment and mitigation, earthquake engineering, information technology in structural engineering research, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and structural reliability analysis.