2025 Presenters & Moderators

Reza Alam is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley.

Carmen Andrade is an M.S. Structural Engineering student at Stanford University.

Michele Barbato is a Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis, Director of the UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center, and Director of the CITRIS Climate Initiative.

Andre Barbosa is a Cecil and Sally Drinkward Professor in Structural Engineering at Oregon State University.

Yehuda Ben-Zion is the Director of the Statewide California Earthquake Center and a Professor of Earth Sciences at USC.

Yousef Bozorgnia is a Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCLA.

Scott Brandenberg is a Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCLA.

Henry V. Burton is an Associate Professor and the Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Paolo Calvi is an Associate Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington.

Gregory Deierlein is a Professor and Director of the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University, and he co-directs the NSF supported Computational Modeling and Simulation Center (SimCenter).

Matt DeJong is an Assistant Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Marc Eberhard is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington.

Hamed Ebrahimian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Michael Gollner is an Associate Professor and Deb Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Boris Jeremic is a Professor of Geotechnical and Structural engineering at the University of California, Davis and a Faculty Scientist at the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, LBNL.

Amarnath Kasalanati is the Associate Director at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) at UC Berkeley.

Mirna Kassem is a Civil and Environmental Engineer and a Ph.D. candidate in GeoSystems Engineering at UC Berkeley.

Jungho Kim is a postdoctoral researcher in Civil and Environmental Engineering working with Prof. Ziqi Wang.

Julia Lensing is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington.

Satish Manandhar is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Brett Mauer is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington.

Silvia Mazzoni is a Project Scientist at the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA and an Applications Specialist at DesignSafe.

David McCallen currently leads the Critical Infrastructure Initiative for the Energy Geosciences Division’s Resilient Energy, Water and Infrastructure Program Domain at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Khalid Mosalam is the Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering, Director of the PEER Center, and Associate Director for Earthquake Hazard of the StEER Network.

Ramin Motamed is a Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Eyitayo Opabola is an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley.

Alessandro Palermo is a Professor in Structural Engineering at UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering.

Floriana Petrone is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Evan Reis is Safehub’s Director of Science and Analytics.

Jorge Romero-Loyola is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at Oregon State University, specializing in structural and engineering.

Arda Sahin is a geotechnical earthquake engineer specializing in liquefaction analysis. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Geotechnical Engineering at UCLA.

Raja Sengupta is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jonathan P. Stewart is a Professor at the Samueli School of Engineering at UCLA.

Armin Stuedlein is a licensed professional engineer and Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University.

Abdelrahman Taha is a Research Assistant at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Rodrigo Tapia earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Santiago, Chile.

Chris Traina, Office of Earthquake Engineering, Analysis and Research at Caltrans.

Georgios Tsampras is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California San Diego.

Ziqi Wang is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Farzin Zareian is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, whose research focuses on Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE).