Education:

• B.Sc., Cairo University, Egypt (1977)
• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Princeton University (1984)

Awards:

• Thrust Area Leader, NSF Pacific Center for Earthquake Eng. Research (PEER), 2001-present
• Member, NSF Technical Coordination Committee for US-Japan Research Initiative, 1998-2002.
• Elected Member, USUCGER, 1998.
• Shamsher Prakash Award 1996.
• Lilly Teaching Fellow, July 1991 - June 1992.
• NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (PYI), 1990-1995.
• Academic Honors, Cairo University, 1973-1977.

Research Activities:

• Information Technologies in Structural Engineering
• Earthquake engineering
• Interpretation of recorded seismic response
• Non-destructive evaluation techniques
• Mitigation of seismic hazard in ground-foundation-structure systems

Other Related Experience (teaching, industrial, etc.):

• 1997-Present Professor, Dept. of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego
• 1996-1997 Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
• 1992-1996 Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 1991-1995 Technical Director, Rensselaer Geotechnical Centrifuge Research Center
• 1986-1992 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 1985-1986 Research Fellow and lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Principle Publications:

• Yang, Z., Lu, J., and Elgamal, A., (2004). "A Web-based Platform for Live Internet Computation of Seismic Ground Response," Advances in Engineering Software, Elsevier, Vol. 35, pp. 249-259.
• Elgamal, A., Lai, T., Gunturi, V., and Zeghal, M., (2004). "System Identification of Landfill Seismic Response," Journal of Earthquake Engineering©, Imperial College Press, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 545-566.
• Adalier, K., and Elgamal, A., (2004). “Mitigation of liquefaction and associated ground deformations by stone columns,” Journal of Engineering Geology, Engineering Geology, Vol. 72, Issues 3-4, Elsevier, pp. 275-291.
• Yang, Z., and Elgamal, A., (2003). "Application of Unconstrained Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis to Calibration of a Soil Constitutive Model," Intl. J. Numerical Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 27, No. 15, pp. 1277-1297.
• Yang, Z., Elgamal, A., and Parra, E., (2003). "A Computational Model for Liquefaction and Associated Shear Deformation," Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 129, No. 12.
• Elgamal, A., Yang, Z., Parra, E., and Ragheb, A., (2003). "Modeling of Cyclic Mobility in Saturated Cohesionless Soils," International Journal of Plasticity, Pergamon, Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol. 19, Issue 6, pp. 883-905.
• Adalier, K., and Elgamal, A.-W., (2002). "Seismic Response of Adjacent Dense and Loose SaturatedSand Columns," Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 115-127,.
• Elgamal, A., Yang, Z., and Parra, E., (2002). "Computational modeling of Cyclic Mobility and Post-Liquefaction Site Response," Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 22, Issue 4, pp. 259-271, June 2002.
• Yang, Z., and Elgamal, A., (2002). "Influence of Permeability on Liquefaction-Induced Shear Deformation," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 128, No. 7.
• Elgamal, A., Parra, E., Yang, Z., and Adalier, K., (2002). "Numerical Analysis of Embankment Foundation Liquefaction Countermeasures," Journal of Earthquake Engineering©, Imperial College Press, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 447-471.

Professional Memberships:

• American Society of Civil Engineers

Institutional and Professional Service:

• Member, Editorial Board, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2004-present
• Department Chair, UCSD Structural Engineering, 2003 - 2007
• Member, Scientific Committee, 3rd China-Japan-US Symposium on Structural Health Monitoring and Control, Dalian, China
• Member, Steering Committee, 5th Intl. Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, 2002-2004
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 1997-2003
• Member, Steering Committee, 4th Intl. Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, 1999-2001