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Presentations given by students are prefixed with **.

"Financial Risk Assessment of Civil Infrastructures exposed to Multiple Hazards", NFEES Minisymposium on Earthquake Engineering, Tianjin Univeristy, China, virtual event, December 5, 2022
"Spatial and Statistical Characterization of P- and S-wave Velocities of Soils from Geophysical Measurements", PEER International Pacific Rim Forum on Regional-Scale Simulations of Earthquake Ground Motions and Infrastructure Response for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering, virtual event, June 16-17, 2021
**"Failure Prediction of a Lattice Steel Tower", CEATI International Inc, Montreal, QC, webinar, February 27, 2021; Presented by Alireza Kazemian
**"Multi-Hazard Financial Risk Assessment of a Bridge-Roadway-Levee System", 10th New York City Bridge Conference, New York Hilton Midtown, August 26-27, 2019; Presented by Alexandros Nikellis
**"Risk Assessment of a Bridge-Roadway-Levee System subjected to Multiple Hazards", ICONHIC 2019: 2nd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure, Chania, Greece, June 23-26, 2019; Presented by Alexandros Nikellis
**"Multi-hazard Risk Assessment of a Bridge-Roadway-Levee System considering Downtime Losses", EMI 2019, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, June 18-21, 2019; Presented by Alexandros Nikellis
"Performance-Based Engineering of Transportation Infrastructure considering Multiple Hazards", USDOT Region 2 University Transportation Center (UTC) Consortium Partners Meeting, Rutgers University, NJ, May 31, 2019
**"Multi-Hazard Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Steel Buildings with Special Moment Resisting Frames", Civil Engineering Seminar Series, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, October 5, 2018; Presented by Alexandros Nikellis
**"Multi-Hazard Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Steel Buildings with Special Moment Resisting Frames", 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, June 25-29, 2018; Presented by Alexandros Nikellis
**"Probabilistic Geotechnical Site Characterization from Geophysical Measurements Using Model-Data Fusion", 5th Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Conference, Austin, TX, June 10-13, 2018; Presented by Siddharth Parida
**"Multi-Hazard Performance-Based Design and Life-Cycle Cost Benefit Analysis of Steel Buildings with Special Moment Resisting Frames", EMI 2018, MIT, Boston, MA, May 29-June 1, 2018; Presented by Alexandros Nikellis
"Uncertainty Quantification in Earthquake Engineering through Stochastic Inverse and Forward Simulations", Civil Engineering Seminar Series, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, November 17, 2017
**"Towards Optimal Information Gain for Judicious Positioning of Sensors in Geophysical Tests", Geo-Risk 2017: Geotechnical Risk from Theory to Practice, Denver, CO, June 4-7, 2017; Presented by Siddharth Parida
"Stochastic Waveform Inversion for Probabilistic Geotechnical Site Characterization", Golder Associates Ltd., Vancouver, BC, November 18, 2016
"Stochastic Waveform Inversion for Probabilistic Geotechnical Site Characterization", 5th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterisation, Jupiters Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, September 5-9, 2016
"Stochastic Finite Element Simulation of Uncertain Seismic Wave Propagation through Uncertain Elastic-Plastic Soils", WCCM XII & APCOM VI, Seoul, Korea, July 24-29, 2016
"Uncertain Seismic Wave Propagation through Uncertain Soils", Idaho National Lab, Idaho Falls, ID, June 6, 2016
**"Stochastic Waveform Inversion for Probabilistic Geotechnical Site Characterization", EMI 2016/PMC 2016, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, May 22-25, 2016; Presented by Siddharth Parida
**"Uncertain Seismic Wave Propagation through Uncertain Elastic-Plastic Soil", EMI 2016/PMC 2016, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, May 22-25, 2016; Presented by Fangbo Wang
"Semi-Analytical Solution of Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov Equation in Probabilistic Elasto-Plasticity", EMI 2014, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, August 5-8, 2014
**"Multiaxial Probabilistic Elastic-Plastic Constitutive Simulations of Soils", 11th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability, Columbia University, New York, NY, June 16-20, 2013; Presented by Arezoo Sadrinezhad
"Geotechnical Simulations under Uncertainty", Department of Civil and Coastal Enineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, April 26, 2013
"Geotechnical Simulations under Uncertainty", Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Enineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, March 28, 2013
"Geotechnical Simulations under Uncertainty", Department of Civil and Environmental Enineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, March 25, 2013
**"Probabilistic Elastic-Plastic Constitutive Simulations of Geomaterials", Brown University, Providence, RI, March 15, 2013; Presented by Arezoo Sadrinezhad
"Effect of Uncertain Spatial Variability of Soils on Nonlinear Seismic Site Response Analysis", Geo-Congress 2012: State of the Art and Practice in Geotechnical Engineering, Oakland, CA, March 25-29, 2012
**"Triaxial Constitutive Response of Soils under Uncertainty", 2012 Joint Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute and 11th ASCE Joint Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, June 17-20, 2012; Presented by Arezoo Sadrinezhad
"Probabilistic Elasto-Plasticity and Hardening-Softening Response", 11th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Minneapolis, MN, July 25-28, 2011
"Geotechnical Simulations under Uncertainty", Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, January 28, 2011
"Forward and Inverse Stochastic Simulations in Geomechanics", 2009 International Foundation Congress and Equipment Expo, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2009
"Stochastic Simulations in Geomechanics", Construction, Geotechnical, and Structural Engineering Seminar Series, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 29, 2008
"Probabilistic Elasto-Plasticity and its Application in Finite Element Simulations of Stochastic Elastic-Plastic Boundary Value Problems", Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, October 11, 2007
"Computational Framework for Simulations of Stochastic Geomaterials", 9th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, CA, July 23-26, 2007
"Uncertain Soil Properties and Elastic-Plastic Simulations in Geomechanics", Geo-Denver 2007: New Peaks in Geotechnics, Denver, CO, February 18-21, 2007
"Stochastic Elastic-Plastic Modeling in Geomechanics", 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, CA, July 16-22, 2006
"Stochastic Elastic-Plastic Material Modeling", 15th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, June 25-30, 2006
"Modeling and Simulation of Stochastic Elastic-Plastic Material", Geosystems Engineering Seminar Series, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, April 12, 2006
"Probabilistic Elasto-Plastic Constitutive Integrator", 8th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Austin, TX, July 25-27, 2005
"Probabilistic Elasto-Plasticity", 2005 Joint ASCE/ASME/SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, Baton Rouge, LA, June 1-3, 2005
"Characterization and Modeling of Structural and Self-Monitoring Behavior of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Concrete", University of Houston, Houston, TX, May 12, 2003

Risk and Reliability Research Group
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