Engineer Engineering

SWAMINATHAN

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

****B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

1994M.S. (Civil Engineering) Rice University, USA

**** **.*. (Civil Engineering) California Institute of Technology, USA

APPOINTMENTS

2007-currentAssistant Professor,

California Institute of Technology

2006Consultant, Arup, Los Angeles

2004-2005Post-Doctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology

1999-2002Teaching Assistant, California Institute of Technology

1997-1999Project Engineer, Arup, Los Angeles

1996-1997Project Manager, Wong Hobach Lau, Los Angeles

1994-1995Project Engineer, Kulkarni Consultants, Metairie

1992-1994Teaching Assistant, Rice University

RESEARCH AREAS & PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE

1. Research areas: Rupture-to-rafters simulations of tall buildings and long-span bridges

under large earthquakes,

computational mechanics, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, and computational

seismology.

2. Professional practice experience: Includes design of high-rise buildings in Indonesia,

Taiwan and South Korea;

concept design of four mixed use towers (800ft 1200ft) in San Francisco; sub-structure

design for a casino in

New Orleans; design of Miller Park, a retractable-roof baseball stadium for the Milwaukee

Brewers; design of an

underwater aquarium in India; peer review of a six-story hospital design in Temecula for

OSHPD; and seismic

evaluation of a number of lowrise structures.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND LICENSES

1. Registered Structural Engineer (SE 4768), State of California.

2. Registered Professional Civil Engineer (CE 58540), State of California.

3. Member, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI).

4. Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

5. Member, Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).

6. Member, Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE).

HONORS AND AWARDS

1. One among 100 engineers, across all engineering fields, selected to participate in the

2010 US Frontiers of Engi-

neering Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering, to be held at the IBM Learning

Center, Armonk,

New York.

2. Invited to participate in an NSF-sponsored workshop, entitled Vision 2020: An Open

Space Technology (OST)

Workshop on the Future of Earthquake Engineering, with 70 participants from the fields

of structural, geotechnical,

geo-science, seismology, tsunami, social science, public policy, cyber-physical and

sustainability (2010).

3. Winner, Annual Graphics Competition, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI,

2009).

4. Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Structural Engineering (2009).

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5. Institute Fellowship, Caltech (October 2002 - September 2003).

6.

Robert T. & Pearl Knapp Fellowship, Caltech (October 2002 - September 2003

).

7. Harold-Hellwig Fellowship in Structural Engineering, Caltech (

September 1999 -

September 2002

).

8.

Research Fellowship, Science & Technology Center, Rice University (January 1994 - June

1994

).

9. Research Fellowship,

Civil Engineering Department, Rice University (August 1993 -

December 1993).

10. Offshore Engineering Research Scholarship, Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering,

ASME (1993).

INVITED PUBLICATIONS (PEER REVIEWED)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PROCEEDINGS

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

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4. Review panel, Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Program, National

Science Foundation,

2009.

5. Review panel, Hazard Mitigation and Structural Engineering (HMSE) Program, National

Science Foundation,

2010, 2008.

6. Consultant Reviewer, Loss Avoidance Study, Earthquake Methodology Report, Federal

Emergency Management

Agency (FEMA), 2010.

COURSES1. 2010-2011: AM151b Dynamics and Vibration.

2. 2009-2010: AM151b Dynamics and Vibration.

3. 2008-09: CE160abc Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (Restructured).

4. 2007-08: AM/CE151abc Dynamics and Vibration.

5. 2006-07 (Partial): CE160bc Structural and Earthquake Engineering.

GRANTS

1. Quantifying the Risk Posed to Tall Steel Frame Buildings in Southern California from

Earthquakes on the San

Andreas Fault, National Science Foundation (NSF), FY2009-2012.

2. Creating a FRAME3D model of a tall steel braced frame building for the PEER Tall

Building Initiative: A PEER-

SCEC collaboration, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Award, FY2009.

3. Numerical assessment methodology for the collapse potential of tall steel moment frame

buildings using end-to-end

simulations, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP), United States

Geological Survey (USGS),

FY2009. USGS highlighted this project in a recent press-release announcing the award of

NEHRP research grants

for FY2009 (http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2212&from=news side).

4. 1857-like M 7.9 San Andreas fault earthquake: Response of an 18-story steel braced

frame building at 636

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locations in southern California, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Award for

Project #08001, 2008.

5. SHAKEOUT 2008: Tall Steel Moment Frame Building Response, Shakeout Scenario Earthquake

Grant, Multi-

Hazards Demonstration Project in Southern California, United States Geological Survey

(USGS), 2007-2008.

COLLABORATORS

1. James L. Beck, California Institute of Technology.

2. Rob Graves, URS Corporation.

3. John F. Hall, California Institute of Technology.

4. Thomas H. Heaton, California Institute of Technology.

5. Ken Hudnut, US Geological Survey.

6. Chen Ji, University of California, Santa Barbara.

7. Hiroo Kanamori, California Institute of Technology.

8. Monica Kohler, University of California, Los Angeles, and California Institute of

Technology.

9. Dimitri Komatitsch, University of Pau, France.

10. Phil Maechling, University of Southern California.

11. Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Johns Hopkins University.

12. Morgan Page, US Geological Survey.

13. Keith Porter, University of Colorado, Boulder.

14. Ares Rosakis, California Institute of Technology.

15. Marco Stupazzini, Technical University of Milan.

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16. Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University.

MENTORING

Post Doctoral Scholars

1. Matthew Muto (2007-2009, now employed at Southern California Edison).

Graduate Students

1. Ramses Mourhatch (MS 2009, Ph.D. )

2. Hemanth Siriki (MS 2009, Ph.D. )

3. Arnar Bjorn Bjornsson (MS 2010, Ph.D. )

4. Swetha Veeraraghavan (MS 2010, Ph.D. )

5. Served as academic advisor to Surendra Somala (MS 2009), Shiyan Song (MS 2009), Mohsen

Chitsaz (MS 2008),

Gokcan Karakus (MS 2008), and Navneet Narayan (MS 2008).

Undergraduate Students

1. Sang Ha Shin (SURF 2009, Caltech, BS 2011).

2. Arnar Bjorn Bjornsson (SURF 2008, University of Iceland, BS 2009).

3. Camden Jansen (SURF 2007, Caltech, BS 2010).

4. Served as freshman advisor to Allison Saltzman (BS 2011), Adam Khan (BS 2012),

Benjamin Slawski (BS2012).

SERVICE

1. Seismology search committee, 2008-09

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