Professor, School of Civil and Construction Engineering — Research Interests: Performance-based earthquake engineering, nonlinear structural analysis, structural reliability, and risk analysis, structural dynamics, multi-hazard loss estimation, assessment of the robustness and resilient design of building and bridge structures (reinforced concrete, steel, and timber), high-throughput computing, virtual reality modeling of engineering structures.

Endowed Chair Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering — Research Interests: Dr. van de Lindt’s research program has sought to improve the built environment and the social and economic institutions that infrastructure supports perform to the level expected, and sought after, by the public. This has been primarily through projects focusing on hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes and floods. Van de Lindt led both the NEESWood and NEES-Soft project teams between 2005-2013 which consisted of two-story, four-story, and six-story shake table tests on the worlds largest shake tables, has conducted numerous field studies following hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and tsunamis around the world, and now serves as Vice Chair of ASCE’s Executive Committee for the Infrastructure Resilience Division.

Assistant Professor, School of Architectural Engineering — Research Interests: Building structural designs with a focus on conceptual design, sustainable design, structural and multi-objective optimization, computational design tools, and applications of data science to building design.

Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering — Research Interests: Dr. Simpson uses advanced computational and experimental methods to characterize structural response. Her aim is to develop innovative structural systems that improve building performance and reduce the effects of natural hazards on the built environment. Research areas include resilient design and retrofit of building structures, performance-based earthquake engineering, and next-generation computational modeling, optimization, and simulation.

Professor, Department of Wood Science and Engineering — Research Interests: Building Connections Building Lifecycle Analysis Green Building Materials Renewable Materials Product Development Structural Engineering Wood-based Composites My research interest and focus lies in achieving sustainability in society, especially in the built environment by using intelligent and integrated design process, and developing renewable material based green products. My specific interests are – Green building materials; Sustainable built environment; Product development for efficient use of renewable materials; Life cycle analysis.