People

Faculty

PhD Students

Francisco Humire

  • PhD Student
  • Expected: 2021
Francisco received his Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering (2011) and Master's degree in Geotechnical Engineering (2013) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. During his Master's he studied how to improve the reliability of geophysical surveys for seismic soil classification...

Maya El Kortbawi

  • PhD Student
  • Expected: 2021
Maya earned her Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Lebanese American University (LAU) in 2013. After graduation, she worked on a research project studying earthquake-induced landslides in Lebanon...

Renmin Pretell

  • PhD Student
  • Expected: 2022
Renmin earned his B.Sc. in civil engineering from the National University of Engineering (UNI) in Peru (2012). From 2013 to 2017, Renmin worked for Golder Associates in the Lima (Peru) and Denver (CO) offices, mainly focused on geotechnics applied to mining projects. Renmin joined the University of California, Davis, in 2017...

Masters Students

James Heins

  • Master's Student
  • Expected: 2021
James earned his Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (2017). After graduating he worked as a Civil Engineer I at King Civil Engineering in Yorba Linda...

Brian Morales

  • Master's Student
  • Expected: 2020
Brian was born and raised in the Bay Area and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering in 2018...

Rachel Reardon

  • Master's Student
  • Expected: 2021
Rachel is a current Master’s student studying the monotonic and cyclic response of well-graded coarse-grained soils. She earned her Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from San Diego State University...