LoukasKallivokas

Bio
Loukas F. Kallivokas was born in Athens, Hellas. Following graduation from the National Technical University of Athens, he completed his military service in the Hellenic Navy (Hydrographic Service) and then joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a M.S. in civil engineering (1990) and a Ph.D. in computational mechanics (1995).

After completing his Ph.D., he held a joint postdoctoral appointment between the Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery Laboratory at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and a biomechanics laboratory at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA, where he worked on simulations of orthopaedic biomechanical problems. Loukas also held appointments as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering (1995-1997) and later as a visiting scientist in the School of Computer Science (1998-1999), both at Carnegie Mellon University.

In 1999, Loukas joined the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor. In 2003, he was the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award for research in full-waveform-driven site characterization. He is currently a professor and the holder of the Brunswick-Abernathy Regents Professorship in Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Engineering. His research interests are in computational engineering and sciences, with particular emphasis on wave mechanics and inverse problems. Application areas of interest include metamaterials design, subsurface imaging and site characterization, seismic motion and wave propagation modeling, soil- and fluid-structure interaction problems and non-destructive condition assessment of natural and engineered systems.

His most recent work focuses on wave-driven inverse medium, inverse scattering and inverse source problems. He is a member of various professional and scientific organizations, including AAM, ASCE, SIAM, USACM and HSTAM. From 2008 to 2011, he was the chair of the Computational Mechanics Committee of ASCE’s Engineering Mechanics Institute, and he currently serves as an associate editor for ASCE’s Journal of Engineering Mechanics.

Educational Qualifications
Ph.D., Computational Mechanics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995
M.S., Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1990
Diploma in Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1985

Select Awards & Honors

• U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics member
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mechanics member
• American Society of Civil Engineers member
• CAREER Award – National Science Foundation (2003)
• Allen Newell Medal for research excellence in the large-scale modeling of seismic motion (1998)

Related Websites
Kallivokas Research Group
Center for Transportation Research
Concrete Bridge Engineering Institute
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences

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