Directory of All Faculty
Mohammad Ali
Lecturer; Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1987. Transportation Engineer for CALTRANS.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — mmali@usc.edu
James C. Anderson
Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1969. Computer-aided design of structures, earthquake resistant design, nonlinear dynamic response analysis and testing of large scale structural components.
KAP 234B — (213) 740-8660 — jamesa@usc.edu
Arul Arangan
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — arangan@usc.edu
Mihran Agbabian
Retired Faculty, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. Founding President and President Emeritus of the American University of Armenia.
Robert Ayer
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — ayer@usc.edu
Hamid Bahadori
Lecturer; M.S.C.E., California State Univ., Long Beach; Masters of Public Administration, California State Univ., Fullerton. Registered: Professional Civil Engineer and Professional Traffic Engineer, Professional Traffic Operations Engineer.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — hbahador@usc.edu
Jean-Pierre Bardet
Professor and Chair, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1984. Experimental and theoretical soil mechanics, numerical methods in geomechanics, and geotechnical engineering.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0609 — bardet@usc.edu
Murty Bavisetty
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — mbaviset@usc.edu
Burcin Becerik Gerber
Asistant Professor; Doctor of Design, Harvard University, 2006. Innovative information technologies for construction engineering and management, building information management, sustainable construction projects, computer aided fabrication and construction
KAP 224C — (213) 740-4383— becerik@usc.edu
Melvin Blevins
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — melvinbl@usc.edu
Jose Borrero
Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2001. Tsunami hazards, field surveys and submarine landslides
BHE B12 — (213) 740-5129 — jborrero@usc.edu
Raphael Bostic
Associate Professor and Director, Master of Real Estate Development Program; Ph.D., Stanford, 1995.
RGL 326 — (213) 740-1220 — bostic@usc.edu
Gregg Brandow
Adjunct Professor; Ph.D., Stanford. Dr. Brandow is a specialist in both earthquake engineering and computer analysis and application of numerical methods to solutions of complex structural problems.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — brandow@usc.edu
John P. Caffrey
Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1987. Structural control, mechanical design and manufacturing, and experimental mechanics.
KAP 268 — (213) 740-3979 — jcaffrey@usc.edu
George V. Chilingar, Retired
Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1956. Environmental aspects of oil and gas production, petrophysical properties of rocks, drilling fluids, surface and subsurface operations in petroleum production, subsidence due to the fluid withdrawal, testing and storage of petroleum products.
KAP 224C — (213) 740-4383 — gchiling@usc.edu
David Crain
Lecturer; Ph.D., University of Southern California
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — crain@usc.edu
Michael D’Antuono
Lecturer; M.A.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — dantuono@usc.edu
Joseph S. Devinny
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1975. Environmental impact of human activity on natural ecosystems, the problems of hazardous wastes, and biofiltration.
KAP 254A — (213) 740-0670 — devinny@usc.edu
Martin Eskijian
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — eskijian@usc.edu
Philip M. Fine
Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2002
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (909) 396-2239 — pmfine@usc.edu
Tom Foss
Lecturer; B.S.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — tfoss@usc.edu
Stuart Gabriel
Professor; Finance & Bus. Econ.; Lusk Chair and Director, Lusk Center for Real Estate, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981. Mortgage prepayment and default risk, urban housing and labor markets, population mobility and the quality-of-life, and rental housing market adjustment mechanisms.
RGL 331B — (213) 740-6523 — sgabriel@marshall.usc.edu
Michael Geller
Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2003. Freeway aerosols, particle density and fractals, emission characteristics.
RTH 415 — (213) 821-5961 — mgeller@usc.edu
Roger Ghanem
Professor; Ph.D., Rice University, 1989. Probabilistic modeling and computational stochastic mechanics, quantitative models for the propagation of uncertainty in physical systems and structural dynamics.
KAP 254C — (213) 740-9528 — ghanem@usc.edu
Paul Giorgio
Lecturer; M.S., University of Southern California. Professor Giorgio is an experienced project manager in the residential and commercial building industry.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — giorgio@usc.edu
Marc S. Glasser
Lecturer; BARCH, University of Southern California, 1971; MBA, UCLA, 1979. construction management, pre-development services, planning, scheduling and project control in a variety of commercial projects (office, retail, healthcare, industrial) and public works projects (schools, university, court houses, correctional facilities, aviation, and utility).
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — glasser@usc.edu
Jennifer Halstead
Lecturer; M.S. Civil Engineering [Construction Engineering and Management], USC. Over fourteen years in construction management, and twenty years in management, including owner's representative, equity representative, equity partner for start-up business, client and project managements, and field and project engineering.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — jhalstea@usc.edu
Ronald C. Henry
Professor; Ph.D., Oregon Graduate Center, 1977. Environmental engineering with a focus on air pollution.
KAP 224E — (213) 740-0596 — rhenry@usc.edu
Lance Hill
Lecturer; M.S., Mechanical Engineering
KAP B28 — (213) 740-0599 — lhill@usc.edu
Sanja Ivanovic
Lecturer; Ph.D., University of Southern California. Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — ivanovic@usc.edu
Carl Jablonski
Lecturer; M.A., Cal State, Fullerton. Construction Management
KAP 230D — (213) 740-0567 — cjablons@usc.edu
Brian Jackson
Lecturer in Policy, Planning, and Development
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office —
Randa Jarjour
Lecturer; Ph.D., Brooklyn Polytechnic University. Construction Management.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — jarjour@usc.edu
Erik A. Johnson
Associate Professor and Associate Chair; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 1997. Structural control, structural dynamics, system identification, and computational stochastic dynamics, semi-active damping strategies for structural systems, evolutionary algorithms for efficient simulation of stochastic dynamical systems.
KAP 206C — (213) 740-0610 — johnsone@usc.edu
Carl Kim
Lecturer; M.E., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. Mr. Kim specializes in soil mechanics, forensic investigations, and geotechnical earthquake engineering.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office —
Geraldine Knatz
Lecturer; Ph.D.,
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — knatz@usc.edu
Henry M. Koffman, P.E.
Senior Lecturer, M.S. Stanford University, 1962. Director, Construction Management program; Registered Civil Engineer and Licensed Building Contractor.
KAP 222 — (213) 740-0556 — koffman@usc.edu
Bruce Kuch
Lecturer; B.S., University of Arizona, Registered Civil Engineer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — kuch@usc.edu
John Kuprenas
Research Assistant Professor; D. Engineering., University of California, Berkeley, 1988. Construction productivity and quality, lean production, computer applications in construction, automated systems, process modeling, program management training, organizational development and human factors in construction.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — kuprenas@usc.edu
Jiin-Jen Lee
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1970. Director, USC Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research. Hydraulics, water resources engineering and coastal engineering.
KAP 200 — (213) 740-7865 — jjlee@usc.edu
Vincent W. Lee
Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1979. Seismic data processing, risk analysis, wave propagation and numerical methods.
KAP 230B — (213) 740-0568 — vlee@usc.edu
Hanh Dam Le-Griffin
Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Gifu University, Japan, 1995. Transportation engineering analysis, transportation modeling and application of GIS and TranCAD , cost-benefit analysis, freight logistics, Asia-Pacific Issues, port system optimization, public and private financing for marine port development, port capacities and performance characteristics.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — hdle@usc.edu
Sean Leonard
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — seanl@usc.edu
Henry (Xianghong) Liu
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — xianghol@usc.edu
Paul Liu
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — pil@usc.edu
Sarah Loyola
Lecturer; B.S., University of Southern California
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — suw@usc.edu
James Lu
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — jameslu@usc.edu
Todd Lukesh
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office —
Jaime Mancera
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — jaimeman@usc.edu
Jeremy March
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — jmarch@usc.edu
Mike Markus
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — mmarkus@usc.edu
Geoffrey R. Martin
Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1965, Geotechnical aspects of earthquake engineering, soil behavior under cyclic loading, liquefaction, response of earth structures and seismic design of foundations.
KAP 238B — (213) 740-9124 — geomar@usc.edu
Leonard Marvin
Lecturer; AIA; M.A. and BS in ARCH, MBA, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — lenmarvi@usc.edu
Sami F. Masri
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1965. Analysis, control, and modeling of nonlinear dynamic systems.
KAP 206A — (213) 740-0602 — masri@usc.edu
Najmedin Meshkati
Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1983. Risk reduction of civil infrastructure systems; safety, reliability, and efficiency of complex, large-scale technological systems; environmentally sustainable development.
KAP 224D — (213) 740-8765 — meshkati@usc.edu
James E. Moore, II
Professor; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1986. Managing seismic risks associated with transportation networks, transportation systems analysis, discrete facility location, local area traffic control, and optimal control of congestible transportation networks.
GER 201 — (213) 740-0595 — jmoore@usc.edu
Vincent Moretti
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — vmoretti@usc.edu
Iraj Nasseri
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — inasseri@usc.edu
Dr. Navid Nastar, P.E.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — nastar@usc.edu
A. M. Niazy
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — niazy@usc.edu
Robert L. Nigbor
Research Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1989.
Earthquake Engineering, structural dynamics, geophysical and seismological measurements, structural health monitoring.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — nigbor@usc.edu
Michael Nosbisch
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — nosbisch@usc.edu
Dominick Pescarolo
Lecturer; B.S., Cal State Long Beach, 1970. engineering and construction in the US and overseas, marine terminals, power plants, refineries, nuclear facilities, pipelines, infrastructure, including classified projects with the USAF.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — dpescaro@usc.edu
Massoud Pirbazari
Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1980. Treatment and removal of hazardous chemicals, mathematical modeling of biophysicochemical processes in water and wastewater treatment, and the development of biotechnology for pollution remediation.
KAP 260 — (213) 740-0592 — pirbazar@usc.edu
Ayubur Rahman
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — ayuburra@usc.edu
Varadarajan Ravindran
Lecturer; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2006
BHE 213 — (213) 740-0590 — ravindra@email.usc.edu
Amy Rechenmacher
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2000. Strain localization, experimental imaging, constitutive behavior of soils, particulate mechanics, probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering, characterization of soil heterogeneity.
KAP 230C — (213) 740-3615 — arechenm@usc.edu
F. Edward Reynolds, Jr., P.E.
Lecturer; MBA, Harvard
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — freynolds@usc.edu
Dana Sherman
Senior Lecturer; J.D., Loyola; M.P.A., Harvard.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — danasher@usc.edu
Masanobu Shinozuka
Research Professor; Ph.D., Columbia University, 1960
Stochastic processes, structural dynamics, earthquake and wind engineering, structural and system reliability, risk assessment of lifeline systems, socio-economic impact of natural disaster, remote sensing and GIS, smart materials and structures, nondestructive evaluation.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — shino@usc.edu or shino@uci.edu
Constantinos Sioutas
Professor; Doctor of Science, Harvard, 1994. Developing technologies for measuring the physicochemical characteristics of air pollutants, determining their toxic properties, and developing novel technologies for reducing the emissions of air pollutants.
KAP 216C — (213) 740-6134 — sioutas@usc.edu
Wonho Song
Lecturer; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2003.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — wonhoson@yahoo.com
Roger Stephenson
Lecturer; Ph.D.,
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — rogerste@usc.edu
Jennifer Swift
Research Assistant Professor; Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey, 1995. GIS, IMS (Internet Mapping), and database programming, for geologic and geotechnical borehole projects, environmental studies such as recreational open space, habitat and watershed management, and earthquake vulnerability and risk analysis.
KAP 230A — (213) 740-6140 CE office; KAP 444B — (213) 821-2193 USC GIS Research Laboratory — jswift@usc.edu
Costas Synolakis
Professor; California Institute of Technology, 1985. Prediction of tsunami inundation and other co-seismic hazards, breaking waves, wave runup, hydrodynamic pressures on dams and two-phase flow.
BHE 12B — (213) 821-0880 — costas@usc.edu
Craig Taylor
Research Professor; Ph.D., Illinois. Risk assessment and uncertainty analysis.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — craigtay@usc.edu
James Tkach, P.E.
Lecturer; M. Eng., Construction Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Project manager, currently specializing in structural cast-in-place concrete.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — tkach@usc.edu
Maria I. Todorovska
Research Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1988. Earthquake engineering, applied mechanics, engineering seismology, soil-structure interaction, nonlinear soil-structure systems, passive isolation of structural vibrations, control of structural response, probabilistic assessment of losses from earthquakes, seismic hazard analysis, and strong ground motion.
KAP 216A — (213) 740-0616 — mtodorov@usc.edu
Mihailo D. Trifunac
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1969. Strong motion seismology, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, wave propagation, random vibrations and instrumentation and measurement.
KAP 216A — (213) 740-0570 — trifunac@usc.edu
Firdaus E. Udwadia
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1972. Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Eng. Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Information and Operations Management. Research Interests are in dynamics and control, mechanics and mathematics, collaborative engineering, engineering management, structural dynamics, system identification.
430K OHE — (213) 740-0495 — fudwadia@usc.edu
A. Mazen Wahbeh
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — wahbeh@usc.edu
Chun-Ching "CC" Wang
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — ccwang@usc.edu
L. Carter Wellford
Professor; Ph.D., University of Alabama, Huntsville, 1975. Numerical methods in engineering, finite element methods for linear and nonlinear structural analysis.
KAP 234C — (213) 740-0607 — wellford@usc.edu
Dennis Williams
Research Professor; Ph.D., New Mexico Tech. Geohydrologic studies of groundwater resources.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — denniswi@usc.edu
Mark Williams
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — mwilliam@usc.edu
Ray Wolfe
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — rwolfe@usc.edu
Hung Leung Wong
Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1975. Numerical methods in engineering, wave propagation in solids and soil-structure interaction.
KAP 216B — (213) 740-0574 — hlwong@usc.edu
Yan Xiao
Professor; Ph.D., Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan), 1989. Reinforced and pre-stressed concrete, steel structures, composite or hybrid structures, earthquake-resistant design and properties of structural materials.
KAP 224B — (213) 740-6130 — yanxiao@usc.edu
Fan Yang
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — fany@usc.edu
Xu Yang
Lecturer; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine. Transportation System Engineering.
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — xuyang@usc.edu
Chia-Chen Johnson Yeh
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — chiayeh@usc.edu
Hsien-Yang Yeh
Lecturer
KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office — (213) 740-0567 lecturer office — hyeh@usc.edu
Teh Fu “Dave” Yen
Professor; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1956. Environmental chemistry, fossil fuels, biochemical engineering, solid wastes, resource engineering and organic geochemistry.
KAP 224A — (213) 740-0586 — tfyen@usc.edu
Dongxiao "Don" Zhang
Professor; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1993
Stochastic uncertainty quantification for hydrology and petroleum reservoir simulations; multiscale modeling and simulation of flow in porous media; geological sequestration of carbon dioxide.
KAP 238B — (213) 740-0567 — donzhang@usc.edu
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