Research Interests
- Modeling and analysis of reinforced concrete, steel, steel-concrete, and wood-concrete composite structures;
- Modeling and analysis of reinforced concrete structures retrofitted with fiber reinforced polymers;
- Modeling and analysis of soil-foundation-structure interaction systems;
- Finite element methods for response and response sensitivity analyses of structural and geotechnical systems;
- Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics;
- Random vibration theory and stochastic process modeling;
- Computational reliability analysis of structural and geotechnical systems;
- Probabilistic methods and their application to earthquake/wind/hurricane engineering;
- Performance-Based Earthquake/Wind/Hurricane/Multihazard Engineering;
- Multihazard assessment and mitigation under current and changing climate conditions;
- Wildfire risk assessment and mitigation;
- Innovative use and valorization of waste and by-product materials for construction applications;
- Numerical optimization methods and their application to structural engineering problems, e.g., structural reliability, structural optimization, structural identification, and finite element model updating.