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Join us at the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference (EMI/PMC 2024)—the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) premier annual mechanics conference. This conference will be hosted by The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois, with organization led by Professors Paolo Gardoni and Arif Masud.

Conference Co-Chairs

Paolo Gardoni
Paolo Gardoni, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Alfredo H. Ang Family Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Arif Masud
Arif Masud, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE
John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

Local Organizing Committee

Abdollah Shafieezadeh
Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering
Ohio State University

Ahmed Elbanna
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Alex Teflanidis
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
University of Notre Dame

Alice Alipour
Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Iowa State University

Ann Sychterz
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Arun Prakash
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Purdue University

Ashan Kareem
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
University of Notre Dame

Do-Eun Choe
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
New Mexico State University

Gaofeng Jia
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Colorado State University

Gianluca Cusatis
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northwestern University

Gongkang Fu
Professor
Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology

Hadi Meidani
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Hector Gomez
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University

Iwona M Jasiuk
Professor
Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Jinhui Yan
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Mohamad Alipour
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Nicos Makris
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Southern Methodist University

Nishant Garg
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Oscar Lopes-Pamies
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Philippe Geubelle
Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Qindan Huang
Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Marquette University

Ramez M. Hajj
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Seymour Spence
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan

Shelly Zhang
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Sheng-Wei Chi
Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Chicago

About the Engineering Mechanics Institute

The Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) was created on October 1, 2007 to serve the engineering community through the development and application of engineering mechanics by anticipating and adapting to new challenges that will face tomorrow's engineers, and to provide a home not only for those involved in the traditional disciplines but also for those involved with emerging areas of mechanics.

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