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Roger Ghanem is a Professor at the University of Southern California in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Rice University, awarded in 1989, and a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Rice University and American University of Beirut, respectively. His research interests primarily focus on probabilistic modeling, computational stochastic mechanics, and quantitative models for the propagation of uncertainty in physical systems. Ghanem has made significant contributions to the fields of structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, including the identification and control of dynamical systems and probabilistic multi-scale modeling. He has been recognized as a fellow of several prestigious organizations, including the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).
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