Professors

• 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
• Jean-Pierre Bardet, Professor and Chair; Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1984
  Experimental and theoretical soil mechanics, computational geomechanics, earthquake engineering, and geotechnical engineering.
  KAP 210 — (213) 740-0609 — bardet@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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
  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
• 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
• Constantinos Sioutas, Professor, Doctor of Science, Harvard, 1994
  Technologies for measuring physicochemical characteristics of air pollutants, toxic properties, and novel technologies for reducing the emissions of air pollutants.
  KAP 216C — (213) 740-6134 — sioutas@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
• 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.OHE 430K — (213) 740-0495 — fudwadia@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
• 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
• 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

Associate Professor

• Erik A. Johnson, Associate Professor, 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

Assistant Professor

•  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

Research Professors

• 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  — shino@uci.edu
• Craig Taylor, Research Professor, Ph.D., Illinois
  Risk assessment and uncertainty analysis.
  KAP 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office   — craigtay@usc.edu
• Maria I. Todorovska, Research Professor, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1988
  Earthquake engineering, engineering seismology, soil-structure interaction, passive isolation, 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
• 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

Research Associate Professor 

• 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 — nigbor@usc.edu

Research Assistant Professors 

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Michael Geller, Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2003
  Freeway aerosols, particle density and fractals, emission characteristics.
• 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
• 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 234A — (213) 821-2905 — hdle@usc.edu
• Katharine Moore, Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2005
  The use of physical and chemical characterization of ambient aerosol particles data to better understand the role of aerosols in atmospheric processes from new particle formation to the role of fogs in the fate of atmospheric species and their ultimate impacts on both people and the environment.
  RTH 414 — (213) 821-5960 — katharim@usc.edu
• Andrea Polidori,, Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers, 2005
  His research focuses on characterizing the properties, the composition and the mechanisms of formation of the carbonaceous fraction of PM2.5 in both indoor and outdoor environments.
  BHE 213M — (213) 740-0999 —
• Jennifer Swift, Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Bogazici University, 1995
  GIS, IMS and database for  boreholes, environmental studies,habitat and watershed management, and earthquake vulnerability and risk analysis. KAP 444 B — (213) 821-2193 — jswiftusc.edu

Senior Lecturer

• Henry M. Koffman, 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
• Dana Sherman, Esq., Senior Lecturer, JD, Loyola Univ. School of Law, 1979; MBA Claremont Graduate Univ., 1979; USC Master of Business Taxation, 1982; Harvard Univ., Master of Public Administration, 1992
  OHE 530G—(213) 740-4131 —  danasher@usc.edu

Retired

• George V. Chilingar, 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 210 — (213) 740-0603 main office— gchiling@usc.edu