George Deodatis

Prof. George Deodatis (Visiting Researcher from abroad), full professor (with Tenure) at Columbia University, Diploma, 1982, Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens. Ph.D., 1987, Civil Engineering, Columbia University, Master of Science, 1984, Civil Engineering, Columbia University. He has long research, teaching and professional experience in advanced computational and stochastic methods in engineering science and applications. His research focuses at probabilistic mechanics, simulation of stochastic processes and fields to model uncertain earthquake/wind loads and material/soil properties, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, random vibrations, reliability and safety analysis of structures, stochastic finite element methods, risk assessment and risk management of civil infrastructure systems. He is Member in Editorial Boards of 4 Technical Journals, editor of 4 Special volumes in Journals and 2 conference proceedings. He is president of   the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (2009-today) and Chair of Umbrella Committee on Stochastic Methods in Structural Engineering (2007-today) and the sub-committee of Computational stochastic mechanics (2003-2007) in the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR). American Society of Civil Engineers Engineering Mechanics Division: Chair and Member of Control Group of the Probabilistic Methods Committee (2000 – 2002) and Member of Probabilistic Methods Committee (2005 – today), in the American Society of Civil Engineers Engineering Mechanics Division. He is the author of more than 80 peer reviewed journal papers, more than 90 peer reviewed conference papers and 2 books. His work is cited more than 1000 times with an h-index=19.

Key publications:

1.Shi, Y., Deodatis, G. and Betti, R. (2007). “Random Field-Based Approach for Strength Evaluation of Suspension Bridge Cables,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 133, No. 12, pp. 1690-1699.

2.Popescu, R., Deodatis, G. and Prevost, J.H. (2008). “Randomly Heterogeneous Soils Under Static and Dynamic Loads,” Reliability–Based Design in Geotechnical Engineering: Computations and Applications (Editor: K-K. Phoon), Taylor and Francis, Chapter 6, pp. 224-259.

3.Bocchini, P. and Deodatis, G. (2008). “Critical Review and Latest Developments of a Class of Simulation Algorithms for Strongly Non-Gaussian Random Fields,” Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 393-407.

4.Tantala, M., Nordenson, G., Deodatis, G. and Jacob, K. (2008). “Earthquake Loss Estimation for the New York City Metropolitan Area,” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 28, Nos. 10-11, pp. 812-835.

5.Franco, G., Green, R., Khazai, B., Smyth, A. and Deodatis, G. (2009). “Field Survey of Katrina Depth-Damage Relationships for New Orleans Homes,” accepted for publication in ASCE’s Natural Hazards Review.