Named among Top 20 Authors Worldwide on the Special Topic – Earthquakes for the period 1993-2003 (one of only two earthquake engineers) by the Institute of Scientific Information (http://esi-topics.com/earthquakes/).
Named among Top 1% Authors Worldwide in Engineering for the period 1995- by the Institute of Scientific Information (http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=ESI&Func=Frame ).
Kapitsa Gold Medal, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, 2004.
Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, 2004.
Fall 1986 Best Teaching Assistant Award in the Dept. of Civil Engr., Univ. of Southern California.

Employment

Univ. of Southern California, Dept. of Civil Engineering.

2005- Research Professor
1998-2005 Research Associate Professor
1992-1998 Research Assistant Professor
1989-1991 Research Associate
1984-1987 Research Assistant
1985-1987 Teaching Assistant

Univ. of Southern California, Dept. of Mathematics

1987-1988 Teaching Assistant

Membership in Professional Societies

Seismological Society of America (SSA), member, 1988-.

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), member, 1993-.

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member, 1998-.

Society for Industrial Applications of Mathematics (SIAM), member, 1998-.

Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET), life member, 1998-.

American Geophysical Union (AGU), member, 2006-.

Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems, 2000-.

American Association of University Women (AAUW), 1998-.

Wilson Associates (USC Alumni Group), 1997-.

Professional Service

Membership in Professional Committees and Journal Editorial Boards

Member of Editorial Board of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (Elsevier Sci.. J.), 2001-.

Member of Strong Motion Programs Board of Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS); 2002-.

Member of the Dynamics Committee, ASCE, Engineering Mechanics Division; 1996-.

Other Service to the Professional Community

Organized with M. Celebi and Japanese counterparts I. Okawa and M. Iiba Third U.S.-Japan (UJNR) Workshop on Soil-Structure Interaction, March 29-30, 2004, Menlo Park, CA.

Organized with home country counterpart J. Wood two sessions on Soil-Structure Interaction at 12^th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Oakland, New Zealand, January 31. – February 4., 2000.

Organized with R. Betti a session on Soil-Structure Interaction at 11^th ASCE Engineering Mechanics conferences, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 19-22 May, 1996.

Reviewer of proposals for NSF and USGS.

Reviewer of papers for: ASCE J. Eng. Mech., ASCE J. Geotech. and Geoenvir. Eng., Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., Earthq. Eng. & Struct. Dyn, Earthquake Spectra, Soil Dyn.& Earthq. Eng., Indian J. Earthq. Tech.

University Service (USC)

Provost's Committee on Academic Leadership and Advancement, member 2005/2006.

Academic Senate Committee on Non-Tenure Track Faculty, member 2005/2006, 2004/2005, 2003/2004, 2002/2003.

USC Ambassador, 2004-.

Mellon Mentoring Program Steering Committee, member 2003/2004.

School of Engineering Faculty Council Committee on Rights and Responsibilities of Research Faculty, member 2002/2003.

Academic Senate Committee in charge of producing a white paper on Non-Tenure Track Faculty, member 2001/2002.

Panellist of Research Faculty Forum, April 2002.

Hosted visit of 2001/2002 Provost Distinguished Visitor – Prof. Francisco Jose Sáchez-Sesma of the Mexico National Autonomous University (UNAM).

Civil Engineering Department Research Seminars Coordinator, 1998/1999 and 1999/2000.

Prepared and graded Engineering Mathematics problems for Civil Engineering Department Screening Examination.

Served on Qualifying Examination Committees.

Professional Interests

Research Interests

Interdisciplinary research synthesizing knowledge and technology from different branches of engineering, earth sciences, mathematics and social sciences, and aiming to solving advanced problems in earthquake engineering and engineering mechanics.

· Structural health monitoring.

· Wavelets and multiscale analysis.

· Seismic wave propagation in structures, soils and sedimentary deposits.

· Strong motion and Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis.

· Soil-structure interaction and Full-scale testing of structures.

· Seismic monitoring arrays, instrumentation, data processing and databases.

· Organization and mining of large sets of seismic monitoring and laboratory experiment data.

· Assessment of damage and losses from earthquakes.

· Passive isolation of structures.

· Specification of earthquake resistant design criteria for structures.

· Near-source tsunami modelling.

Teaching Interests

Undergraduate courses in Mechanics, Structures and Risk Analysis.

Graduate courses in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, Dynamics of Structures, Elasticity and Wave Propagation, Engineering Mathematics, and Probabilistic Methods.

Organize new courses in Digital Signal Processing, Estimation Theory, and Information Management for Civil Engineering students.

Promote education in Soil-Structure Interaction.

Professional Experience

Research Experience

· Includes analysis of the effects of propagating earthquake waves on long buildings (without major discontinuities, with stiff shear walls at the ends, with stiff central core and with soft first floor), analytical solutions, 1987; effects of propagating waves on semi-circular dam structures, analytical solution, 1986; probabilistic description of attenuation of earthquake intensities in the Balkan region for probabilistic seismic risk, 1986; diffraction of plane seismic waves from shallow circular alluvium valleys, or soil deposits, for incident plane SH-, P- and SV-waves, and surface Rayleigh-waves, analytical solutions, 1988; foundation-soil and building-foundation-soil interaction for in-plane wave excitation; influence of the embedment on the system damping, system frequency, and system response amplitudes during soil-structure interaction, 1989-1990; source mechanism of the 1987 Whittier-Narrows earthquake using near-field strong motion data, 1989; scattering of plane seismic waves from shallow spherical canyons, closed-form solutions, 1989; scattering of plane SH-, P- and SV-waves from two-dimensional canyons and valleys with irregular boundaries, 1990-1991; seismic hazard assessment, 1991-1992; probabilistic assessment of losses caused by earthquakes, 1991; passive isolation of buildings from strong earthquake ground motion: classical approach and innovative ideas, 1991-1992; energy transfer in buildings during building-foundation-soil interaction, 1992; generalization of seismic hazard assessment to peaks in responses of structures, 1993; frequency dependent duration of strong ground motion on the territory of former Yugoslavia, 1993; probabilistic seismic hazard assessment of ground motion: effects of source characteristics, attenuation with distance and local soil and geologic site conditions, 1993-1994; application of order statistics to functionals of strong ground motion, 1993-1994; 3-D soil-structure interaction for eccentric buildings, 1994; dynamic response of a solid waste deposit to earthquake wave motion, 1994; probabilistic modeling of liquefaction hazard in sands via energy and regression over observed data, 1994; analyses of strong ground motion during the Northridge, California, earthquake: distribution of peak acceleration, velocity, peak strain and PSV amplitudes, nonlinear soil response in relation to recorded peak accelerations, 1994-1996; analysis of damage during the Northridge, 1994, earthquake (red-tagged buildings, breaks in water pipes, fire outbreaks) in relation to recorded strong ground motion, 1996; probabilistic mapping of earthquake induced peak strains in soils and of liquefaction opportunity for specified exposure, 1995-1996; new developments in earthquake data processing: algorithms for instrument calibration and for correction of accelerograms recorded on film for misalignment and cross-axis sensitivity, 1995-1997; analyses of differential ground motion and effects on structures, 1995-; probabilistic hazard modeling of tsunami runup, 1997-; simulation of generation and propagation in the near-field of tsunami created by a source spreading with uniform velocity, 1997-; experimental analysis of response of full scale-structures to ambient noise and to strong earthquakes, 1997-; simulation of earthquake ground motion by explosions, 1998; identification of nonlinear soil-structure systems from recorded seismic response (Hilbert transform, Gabor transform and wavelet transform methods), 2000, 2003; interpretation of recorded earthquake response of buildings by wave propagation methods, 2000-; modeling and simulation of soil-structure interaction for structures on flexible foundations and with deformable structure-foundation and foundation-soil interfaces using wave expansion method, 2000-; modeling of generation and propagation in the near-field of tsunami created by submarine slides and slumps spreading with uniform velocity, with variable velocity, and with variable final uplift, 2001-2002; empirical estimation of maximum distance and minimum energy to initiate liquefaction in water saturated sands for probabilistic seismic hazard computations, 2002-2003; reoccurrence of damage zones—comparison of distribution of damage to buildings and to the water distribution system caused by the 1971 San Fernando and by the 1994 Northridge earthquakes, 2002-2003; exploration of the applicability and possible advantages of orthonormal wavelet bases representation of seismic vibration data—estimation of local and global aggregates and averages of energy, power, power spectrum density, cross-correlation, and cross-power spectrum density; dimensionality reduction and information granulation by thresholding and by lower resolution approximation and application to data mining, 2003; analysis of time and amplitude dependent variations of building frequencies during strong earthquake shaking for instrumented buildings in the Los Angeles area, estimated from recorded earthquake response, 2003-; probabilistic seismic hazard modeling of permanent displacement across earthquake faults for the transportation system, 2003-; structural health monitoring and damage detection using seismic monitoring arrays and wavelets, 2004; wave propagation and soil-structure interaction in poroelastic soils, 2005-; structural health monitoring and earthquake damage detection methodologies based on travel times analysis estimated from impulse response function, 2005-; multiresolution representation and approximation of strong ground motion database using wavelets, 2006-. soil-structure system identification from full-scale measurements, 2007-; rotational seismology, 2007-.

Consulting Experience

Has served as a consultant to government agencies, oil industry, land developers, consulting firms, and law firms on strong ground motion, seismic hazard assessment, and strong motion data processing.

Other Selected Professional Experience

Principal Investigator of the Los Angeles and Vicinity Strong Motion Network (1986-).

Archiving and data processing of accelerograms recorded in the U.S. (Los Angeles Strong Motion Network, National Strong Motion Network, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power) and abroad (former Yugoslavia, Tadjikistan, India).

Teaching Experience

CE 525b Engineering Analysis (lecturer, USC)

CE 227 Statics and Strength of Materials (lecturer, USC)

CE 535a,b Earthquake Engineering (taught selected lectures, USC)

CE 227 Statics and Strength of Materials (teaching assistant, USC)

CE 228 Dynamics (teaching assistant, USC)

CE 525a,b Engineering Analysis (teaching assistant, USC)

MATH 125 Calculus I (teaching assistant, USC)

MATH 126 Calculus II (teaching assistant, USC)

MATH 226 Calculus III (teaching assistant, USC)

Short Course on `Seismic Risk in India', December, 12-14, New Delhi, India; organized by Indian Inst. of Technology, Kanpur, Continuing Education Program. Course convener Prof. V.K. Gupta. Delivered three lectures; lecture notes published in course proceedings.

Graduate Students Advised

Current: Fabian Rojas Barrales (Fulbright student)

Yousef Al Rjoub (Ph.D., 2007)

Joint with M.D. Trifunac: S.S. Ivanovic (Ph.D., 1998), T.-Y. Hao (Ph.D., 2002), V. Gicev and H.S. Kim (Ph.D., 2005), R. Taborda (M.S. 2005), Hadi Meidani (2006)

Postdoctoral Fellows Advised

Abdul Hayir (NATO Post Doctoral Fellow from Istanbul Technical Univ., 2000-2001).

T.-Y. Hao (2002-2004)

Computer Languages and Interpreters

Fortran, C++, Visual Basic, Matlab, S-Plus.

Foreign Languages

French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian and Macedonian (native).

Scientific Publications

Journal Papers

1. Trifunac, M.D., & M.I. Todorovska (1989). Attenuation of seismic intensity in Albania and Yugoslavia, Earthquake Engrg & Struct. Dynamics, 18 (5), 617-631.

2. Todorovska, M.I., & M.D. Trifunac (1989). Antiplane earthquake waves in long structures, J. Engrg Mech., ASCE, 115 (12), 2687-2708.

3. Todorovska, M.I., & V.W. Lee (1989). Seismic waves in buildings with shear walls or central core, J. Engrg Mech., ASCE, 115 (12), 2669-2686.

4. Todorovska, M.I., & M.D. Trifunac (1990). A note on the propagation of earthquake waves in buildings with soft first floor, J. Engrg Mech., ASCE, 116 (4), 892-900.

5. Todorovska, M.I., & M.D. Trifunac (1990). A note on excitation of long structures by ground waves, J. Engrg Mech., ASCE 116 (4), 952-964.

6. Todorovska, M.I., & V.W. Lee (1990). A note on response of shallow circular valleys to Rayleigh waves: analytical approach, Earthquake Engrg & Engrg Vibration, 10 (1), 21-34.

7. Todorovska, M.I., & V.W. Lee (1991). Surface motion of circular alluvial valleys of variable depth for incident plane SH waves, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 10 (4), 192-200.

8. Todorovska, M.I., & V.W. Lee (1991). A note on scattering of Rayleigh waves by shallow circular canyons: analytical approach, Bull. Indian Soc. Earthquake Tech., Paper No. 306, 28 (2), 1-16.

9. Todorovska, M.I., & M.D. Trifunac (1992). The system damping, the system frequency and the system response peak amplitudes during in-plane building-soil interaction, Earthquake Engrg & Struct. Dynamics, 21 (2), 127-144.

10. Todorovska, M.I. (1992). Effect of the depth of the embedment on the system response during building-soil interaction, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 11 (2), 111-123.

11. Todorovska, M.I. (1993). In-plane foundation-soil interaction for embedded circular foundations, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 12 (5), 283-297 .

12. Todorovska, M.I. (1993). Effects of the wave passage and the embedment depth during building-soil interaction, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 12 (6), 343-355.

13. Todorovska, M.I., & M.D. Trifunac (1992). Effects of the base input rocking on the relative response of long buildings on embedded foundations, European Earthquake Engrg, Vol. VI-n.1, 36-46.

14. Jordanovski, L.R., M.I. Todorovska & M.D. Trifunac (1992). The total loss in a building exposed to earthquake hazard, Part I: the model, European Earthquake Engrg, Vol. VI-n.3, 14-25.

15. Jordanovski, L.R., M.I. Todorovska & M.D. Trifunac (1992). The total loss in a building exposed to earthquake hazard, Part II: a hypothetical example, European Earthquake Engrg, Vol. VI-n.3, 26-32.

16. Todorovska, M.I. (1994). Comparison of response spectrum amplitudes from earthquakes with lognormally and exponentially distributed return period, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 13 (2), 97-116.

17. Todorovska, M.I. (1994). Order statistics of functionals of strong ground motion for a class of renewal processes, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 13 (6), 399-405.

18. Todorovska, M.I. (1995). A note on distribution of amplitudes of peaks in structural response including uncertainties of the exciting ground motion and of the structural model, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 14 (3), 211-217.

19. Trifunac, M.D., M.I. Todorovska & S.S. Ivanovic (1994). A note on distribution of uncorrected peak ground accelerations during the Northridge, California, earthquake of 17 January, 1994, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 13 (3), 187-196.

20. Novikova, E.I., M.I. Todorovska & M.D. Trifunac (1994). Frequency dependent duration of strong earthquake ground motion on the territory of former Yugoslavia, Part I: magnitude models, European Earthquake Engrg, Vol. VIII-n.3, 11-25.

21. Novikova, E.I., M.I. Todorovska & M.D. Trifunac (1994). Frequency dependent duration of strong earthquake ground motion on the territory of former Yugoslavia, Part I: local intensity models, European Earthquake Engrg, Vol. VIII-n.3, 26-37.

22. Todorovska, M.I., & V.W. Lee (1995). A note on sensitivity of uniform probability spectra on modeling the fault geometry in areas with a shallow seismogenic zone, European Earthquake Engrg, Vol. IX-n.2, 14-22.

23. Scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey and the Southern California Earthquake Center (1994). (Direct contribution made by: L. Jones, K. Aki, D. Boore, M. Celebi, A. Donnelan, J. Hall R. Harris, E. Hauksson, T. Heaton, S. Hough, K. Hudnut, K. Hutton, M. Johnston, W. Joyner, H. Kanamori, G. Marshall, A. Michael, J. Mori, M. Murray, D. Ponti, P. Reasenberg, D. Schwartz, L. Seeber, A. Shakal, R. Simpson, H. Thio, J. Tinsley, M. Todorovska, M. Trifunac, D. Wald & M.L. Zobak.). The magnitude 6.7 Northridge, California, earthquake of 17 January 1994, Science, 226, 389-397.

24. Trifunac, M.D., & M.I. Todorovska (1996). Nonlinear soil response - 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake, J. Geotech. Engrg, ASCE, 122 (9), 725-735.

25. Todorovska, M.I. (1996). Liquefaction hazard assessment via seismic wave energy and SPT values, European Earthquake Engrg, Vol. X-n.2, 24-37.

26. Todorovska, M.I., & M.D. Trifunac (1996). Seismic hazard model for peak strains in soils during strong earthquake shaking, Earthquake Engrg & Engrg Vibration, Vol. 16 supplement, 1-12.

27. Trifunac, M.D., M.I. Todorovska & S.S. Ivanovic (1996). Peak velocities and peak surface strains during the Northridge, California, earthquake of 17 January 1994, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 15 (5), 301-310.

28. Todorovska, M.I. & M.D. Trifunac (1996). Hazard mapping of normalized peak strain in soil during earthquakes: microzonation of a metropolitan area, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 15 (5), 321-329.

29. Trifunac, M.D., & M.I. Todorovska (1997). Response spectra for differential motion of columns, Earthquake Engrg & Struct. Dynamics, 26 (2), 251-268.

30. Trifunac, M.D., & M.I. Todorovska (1997). Northridge, California, earthquake of 1994: density of red-tagged buildings versus peak horizontal velocity and intensity of shaking, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 16 (3), 209-222.

31. Trifunac, M.D., & M.I. Todorovska (1997). Northridge, California, earthquake of 1994: density of pipe breaks and surface strains, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 16 (3), 193-207.

32. Todorovska, M.I., & M.D. Trifunac (1997). Distribution of pseudo spectral velocity during the Northridge, California, earthquake of 17 January, 1994, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 16 (3), 173-192.

33. Todorovska, M.I., & M.D. Trifunac (1997). Amplitudes, polarity and time of peaks of strong ground motion during the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 16 (4), 235-258.

34. Trifunac, M.D., & M.I. Todorovska (1997). Closure by the authors of discussion of `Nonlinear soil response - 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake' (September, 1996, Vol. 122, No. 9 by M.D. Trifunac and M.I. Todorovska, Paper 9798), J. Geotech. Engrg, ASCE, 123 (10), 989-990.

35. Trifunac, M.D., & M.I. Todorovska (1998). Nonlinear soil response as a natural passive isolation mechanism - the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 17 (1), 41-51.

36. Trifunac, M.D., & M.I. Todorovska (1998). The Northridge, California, earthquake of 1994: fire ignition by strong shaking, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 17(3), 165-175.

37. Trifunac, M.D., M.I. Todorovska & V.W. Lee (1998). The Rinaldi strong motion accelerogram of the Northridge, California, earthquake of 17 January, 1994, Earthquake Spectra, 14(1), 225-239.

38. Trifunac, M.D., & M.I. Todorovska (1998). Damage distribution during the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake in relation to generalized categories of surficial geology, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 17(4), 238-252.

39. Todorovska, M.I. (1998). Cross-axis sensitivity of accelerographs with pendulum like transducers: mathematical model and the inverse problem, Earthquake Engrg & Struct. Dynamics, 27, 1031-1051.

40. Todorovska, M.I., E.I. Novikova, M.D. Trifunac & S.S. Ivanovic (1998). Advanced sensitivity calibration of the Los Angeles Strong Motion Array, Earthquake Engrg & Struct. Dynamics, 27, 1053-1068.

41. Todorovska, M.I. & M.D. Trifunac (1998). Discussion of ' The role of earthquake hazard maps in loss estimation: a study of the Northridge earthquake', by R.B. Olshansky, Earthquake Spectra, 14(3), 557-563.

42. Todorovska, M.I. (1999). Base isolation by a soft first storey with inclined columns, J. of Engrg Mech., ASCE, 125(4), 448-457.