Dr. Loukas Kallivokas

Biography

Loukas F. Kallivokas was born in Athens, Greece. He graduated from the National Technical University of Athens and completed military service in the Hellenic Navy's Hydrographic Service. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his M.S. in Civil Engineering in 1990 and Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics in 1995. Upon completing his Ph.D., he held a joint postdoctoral appointment in the Medical Robotics Computer Assisted Surgery Laboratory at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and the biomechanics laboratory at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA, focusing on simulations of orthopedic biomechanical problems. Loukas served as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering (1995-1997) and as a visiting scientist in the School of Computer Science (1998-1999) at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1999, he joined the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor. In 2003, he received the National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research on full-waveform-driven site characterization. He is currently a professor and holder of the Brunswick-Abernathy Regents Professorship in Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Engineering. His research interests include computational engineering sciences with a particular emphasis on wave mechanics and inverse problems, as well as applications in metamaterials design, subsurface imaging, seismic motion modeling, and soil-fluid-structure interaction problems.

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