Best paper award, sponsored by Los Alamos Dynamics, in the discipline of Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification at the Society of Experimental Mechanics IMAC-XXXVIII conference (https://sem.org/imac) is awarded to Mukesh K. Ramancha, Ph.D. candidate working with Professor Joel P. Conte.

This research paper titled “Bayesian Nonlinear Finite Element Model Updating of a Full-Scale Bridge Column using Sequential Monte Carlo” is a collaborative effort of Mukesh K. Ramancha, Dr. Rodrigo Astroza, Prof. Joel P. Conte, Professor Jose I. Restrepo, and Professor Michael D. Todd.