{"id":245,"date":"2014-09-10T19:05:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T19:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cee.engr.ucdavis.edu\/wilson\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2014-09-10T19:05:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T19:05:23","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wilson\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Geotechnical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, 1998<br \/>\n<i>Soil-Pile-Superstructure Interaction in Liquefying Sand and Soft Clay<\/i><\/li>\n<li>M.S.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Geotechnical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, 1994<\/li>\n<li>B.S.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1992<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Appointments<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2010 &#8211; present: Associate Director, Center for Geotechnical Modeling, and Academic Administrator, Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA.<\/li>\n<li>1997 &#8211; 2010: Manager, Center for Geotechnical Modeling, and Associate Project Scientist, Assistant Research Engineer \/ Academic Coordinator, Post-Graduate Research Engineer, Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA.<\/li>\n<li>1992 &#8211; 1997: Post-Graduate Research Engineer, Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA.<\/li>\n<li>1990 &#8211; 1992: Research Assistant, Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Most Effective Education, Outreach, and Training Activity 2008 \u2013 \u201cDemonstration Day at ASCE GEESD Conference.\u201d Recognizing NEES@UC Davis. Awarded by NEES at the 6th annual NEES meeting, June 2008, Portland, OR. (co-chair of activity)<\/li>\n<li>US Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship in Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA. (1994 and 1995)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Professional Societies<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>American Society of Civil Engineers (<a title=\"ASCE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asce.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ASCE<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (<a title=\"ISSMGE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.issmge.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISSMGE<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>ISSMGE <a title=\"TC104\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tc104.group.shef.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Technical Committee 104<\/a> \u201cPhysical Modelling in Geotechnics\u201d<\/li>\n<li>George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (<a title=\"NEES\" href=\"https:\/\/nees.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NEES<\/a>) Consortium<\/li>\n<li>Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (<a title=\"CUREE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.curee.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CUREE<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and Research (<a title=\"USUCGER\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usucger.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USUCGER<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Ph.D.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Geotechnical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, 1998 Soil-Pile-Superstructure Interaction in Liquefying Sand and Soft Clay M.S.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Geotechnical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, 1994 B.S.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1992 Appointments 2010 &#8211; present: Associate Director, Center for Geotechnical Modeling, and Academic Administrator, Civil &amp; \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wilson\/biography\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wilson\/biography\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}