Day 1

Strong, Brian

Director and Chief Resilience Officer, Office of Resilience and Capital Planning. Brian Strong is responsible for the City’s ten-year Capital Plan, its Capital Budget, and the implementation of the Resilient SF strategic vision.

Stojadinović, Božidar

Prof. Stojadinović is the Chair of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich.

Scott, Michael

Professor, OSU. Prof. Scott's research interests include nonlinear structural analysis and dynamics, structural response, object-oriented software design, and fluid-structure interaction.

Shantz, Tom

Research Engineer, Caltrans. Tom Shantz is a senior research engineer for Caltrans, Division of Research, Innovation, and System Information.

Saiidi, M. Saiid

Foundation Professor, UNR. Prof. Saiidi is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, Director of Center for Advanced Technology in Bridges and Infrastructure.

Rodgers, Arthur

Seismologist, LLNL. Arthur Rodgers' research insterests include computational seismology, earthquake and explosion ground motion simulation, seismoacoustics, explosion yield estimation.

Ryan, Keri

Associate Professor, UNR. Associate Professor, UNR. Prof. Ryan specializes in earthquake engineering and protective systems for high seismic performance, with application to buildings and bridges.

Owen, Susan

Susan Owen, NASA ARIA Project for Natural Hazards. Dr. Owen's research interests include improving GPS data analysis techniques to study the earthquake cycle and volcano deformation.

Mosalam, Khalid

Professor, UCB, PEER Director. Prof. Mosalam is currently Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley, Core-PI of TBSI & SinBerBEST, and PEER Director.

Mitrani-Reiser, Judith

Director, EERI. Judith Mitrani-Reiser (M. EERI, 2001) is the Director of the Disaster and Failure Studies Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).