DISASTER RESEARCH CENTER

BIOGRAPHY

Thrust(s): Buildings
Institution: University of California – Los Angeles

Dr. Taciroglu earned a BS degree in 1993 from Istanbul Technical University, and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1995, and 1998, respectively. After a stint at the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (UIUC) as a postdoctoral research associate, he joined the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at UCLA in 2001 where he is currently the department chair. His research interests span the disciplines of theoretical & applied mechanics, and structural & geotechnical earthquake engineering. He is conducting projects on regional performance-based risk assessment of civil infrastructure, structural health and performance monitoring, soil-structure interaction, and simulation of structural response under extreme loads. Dr. Taciroglu is the recipient of a 2006 National Science Foundation CAREER award, and the 2011 Walter Huber Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He was elected to become a Fellow of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) in 2015, and serves on the EMI Board of Governors. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including EERI Earthquake Spectra, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, and Structural Control & Health Monitoring. He became the inaugural chief editor of ASCE Open: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering in 2022.

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