People


Faculty

Raimondo Betti
Professor
640 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-6388
Email: betti@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Structural Dynamics, Earthquake Engineering, Soil-Structure Interaction, Dynamic Control of Structure.


Bruno A. Boley
Professor
634 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-2044
Fax: +1 212-854-6267
Email: boley@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Structural Mechanics, High-Temperature Behavior of Solids and Structure, Heat Conduction in Solids, Melting and Solidification, Microstructure of Solids.


Nicola Chiara
Assistant Professor
614 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-3543
Email: chiara@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Infrastructure Finance, Risk and Decision Analysis Under Uncertainty, Stochastic/Econometric Models, Asset Management.


Patricia J. Culligan
Professor
626 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-3154
Email: culligan@civil.columbia.edu

Office hours: Wednesday 10am-2pm

Research Areas:

Geo-environmental engineering, geotechnical centrifuge modeling, porous media flow and transport.


Gautam Dasgupta
Professor
620 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-3102
Fax: +1 212-854-6267
Email: dasgupta@civil.columbia.edu

Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 8-9 am; Thursday 3-4 pm

Research Areas:

Computation Mechanics, Wave Propagation, Stochastic Analysis, Bioengineering Growth, Defect-Free Finite Elements, Symbolic Computation.


George Deodatis
Santiago and Robertina Calatrava Family Professor
630 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-9728
Fax: +1 212-854-6267
Email: deodatis@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Probabilistic mechanics, risk and reliability, earthquake engineering, hazards analysis.


Morton B. Friedman
Professor, Vice Dean
510 SW Mudd Dean's Office, Mail Code: 4714

Phone: +1 212-854-2986
Fax: +1 212-864-0104
Email: friedman@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Mathematics, System Analysis, Parallel Processing Algorithms, Probability and Statistics.


Upmanu Lall
Interim Chair and Professor
840 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4711

Phone: +1 212-854-8905 +1 845-680-4421
Fax: +1 212-854-7081
Email: lall@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Hydro-climate modeling, Spatial data analysis and visualization, Time series analysis and forecasting, Bayes Networks for Process Modeling and Decision Making, Risk and reliability, Water Resource Management using Climate Information.


Hoe I. Ling
Professor
632 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-1203
Email: ling@civil.columbia.edu

Office hours: Thursday 1-3 pm

Research Areas:

Geotechnical Engineering, Geosynthetics, Centrifuge Modeling, Soil Behavior, Seismic Performance.


Richard W. Longman
Professor
232 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4703

Phone: +1 212-854-2959
Email: longman@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Mechanics, Dynamics, Active Control.


Christian Meyer
Professor
610 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-3428
Fax: +1 212-854-6267
Email: meyer@civil.columbia.edu

Office hours: Monday 1-4 pm

Research Areas:

Structural Analysis and Design, Earthquake Engineering, Concrete Structures, Concrete Technology.


Andrew W. Smyth
Associate Professor
636 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-3369
Fax: +1 212-854-6267
Email: smyth@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Structural Dynamics, Structural Health Monitoring and Control, Nonlinear System Identification, Random Vibrations.


John E. Taylor
Assistant Professor
618 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-1182
Email: taylor@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Project Network Dynamics, Simulation and Robust Design, Examination of Technological Change, Globalization and Green Building as Project Network Perturbations.


Rene B. Testa
Professor
638 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-6383
Fax: +1 212-854-6267
Email: testa@civil.columbia.edu

Office hours: Tuesday, Wednesday 1-2:30 pm (open door other times)

Research Areas:

Structural Materials, Fatigue, Fracture, Field Testing, Failure Analysis, Damage Mechanics.


Haim Waisman
Assistant Professor
610 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-851-0408
Email: waisman@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Computational Solid Mechanics, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, Composite Materials, Shear band formation due to impact and blast loads, Extended Finite Element and Levelset methods, Multiscale and Multigrid methods, atomistic simulations.


Huiming Yin
Assistant Professor
634 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-3143
Email: yin@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Sustainable Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Modern Building Materials, Solid Mechanics, Micromechanics, Structural Control and Health Monitoring.



Faculty Emeritus

Frank Dimaggio
Carleton Professor Emeritus Civil Engineering
616 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-3751
Fax: +1 212-854-6267
Email: dimaggio@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Structural Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Constitutive Equations for Soils.


Atle Gjelsvik
Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering
605 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-1583
Fax: +1 212-854-6267
Email: gjelsvik@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Structural Mechanics, Structural Analysis and Design, Structural Stability.


Fletcher H. (Bud) Griffis
Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering
605 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-1583
Fax: +1 212-854-6267
Email: griffis@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Construction Engineering, Bid Strategies, Construction Cost and Scheduling, Stochastic Processes.


Robert D. Stoll
Special Research Scientist, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering
Instrument Lab, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Phone: +1 845-365-8392
Fax: +1 845-359-6940
Email: stoll@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:


Rimas Vaicaitis
Renwick Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering
624 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4709

Phone: +1 212-854-2396
Fax: +1 212-854-6267
Email: vaicaitis@civil.columbia.edu

Research Areas:

Random Vibrations, Structural Dynamics, Structural Acoustics, Fatigue.