George Deodatis
Professor
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department
Columbia University
United States of America
Biography
"Professor Deodatis received his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece in 1982. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Columbia University, received in 1984 and 1987 respectively. He started his academic career at Princeton University in 1988 where he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor and eventually Associate Professor (with tenure). He moved to Columbia University in 2002 where he served as Associate Professor and Professor. Since 2007, he holds the Santiago and Robertina Calatrava Family Endowed Chair at the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. He is currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. His research interests are in the area of probabilistic methods in civil engineering and engineering mechanics where he has contributed in developing theories and methodologies for simulation of stochastic processes and fields to model uncertain earthquake/wind/wave loads and material/soil properties, reliability and safety analysis of structures, stochastic mechanics, stochastic finite element analysis, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, random vibrations, and risk assessment and management of civil infrastructure systems subjected to natural and technological hazards"
Research Interest
Probabilistic mechanics, risk and reliability, uncertainty quantification, hazards analysis
Publications
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Cherkasy V, Shao X, Mulier F, Vapnik V(1999) Model complexity control for regression using VC generalization bounds, IEEE transactions on Neural Networks 10.
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"Shinozuka M, Deodatis G (1988). ARMA Model for Two-Dimensional Processes,†J Eng Mech 114: 499-519"
