Prof. George Deodatis

Professor Deodatis received his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece in 1982. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Columbia University, received in 1984 and 1987 respectively. He started his academic career at Princeton University in 1988 where he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor and eventually Associate Professor (with tenure). He moved to Columbia University in 2002 where he served as Associate Professor and Professor (both with tenure). He is currently the Santiago and Robertina Calatrava Family Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics.

His research interests are in the area of probabilistic methods in civil engineering and engineering mechanics where he has contributed in developing theories and methodologies for simulation of stochastic processes and fields to model uncertain earthquake/wind/wave loads and material/soil properties, reliability and safety analysis of structures, stochastic mechanics, stochastic finite element analysis, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, random vibrations, and risk assessment and management of civil infrastructure systems subjected to natural and technological hazards.

He has written over one hundred twenty technical papers published in journals and conference proceedings. In recognition of his scholarly contributions in the field, he has received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR) Junior Research Prize, and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Walter Huber Research Prize. He has served as the Chair of the ASCE Probabilistic Methods Committee and as the Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics and is the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. He is the Chair of the IASSAR Umbrella Committee on Stochastic Methods in Structural Engineering. He has served in the scientific and/or organizing committee of numerous national and international technical conferences.