CURRICULUM VITAE OF JOEL P. CONTE

Personal Information:

Born: July 17, 1961 - Morges, Switzerland
Citizenship: Switzerland
Marital Status: Married, Four children

Education:

• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1990.
Dissertation: Influence of the Earthquake Ground Motion Process and Structural Properties on Response Characteristics of Simple Structures.
Advisors- Professors K.S. Pister and S. A. Mahin


• M.S. University of California, Berkeley, 1986.
  
  
• Diploma Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland, 1985.

Academic Experience:

• 2004-Present Professor of Structural Engineering, UCSD.
  
  
• 2003-Present Vice-Chair of Department of Structural Engineering, UCSD.
  
  
• 2001-2004 Associate Professor of Structural Engineering, UCSD.
  
  
• 1998-2001 Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, UCLA.
  
  
• 1996-1998 Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Rice University.
  
  
• 1990-1996 Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Rice University.
  
  
• 1986-1990 Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley.
  
  
• 1981-1984 Teaching Assistant, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland.
  
  

Professional Experience:

• 1998-present Independent Consultant: dynamic analysis of structures (sport arena, underground tank) for Englekirk & Sabol Consulting Engineers, Inc., Los Angeles, California.
  
  
• 1997 (Summer) Visiting Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Switzerland: Use of low-coherence interferometric fiber optic deformation sensors in health monitoring, non-destructive damage assessment, and active control of civil structures.
  
  
• 1996 Independent Consultant: reliability based design of tubulars for exploration and production wells for Shell Development Company.
  
  
• 1988-1989 Engineer Consultant, SSD, Inc., Berkeley, California.
  
  
• 1985-half year Research Engineer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland.
  
  
• 1983-Summer Engineering Intern, Rand Water Board, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  
  

Professional Honors And Awards:

• Member, Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society
  
  
• Nominated for the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize given to the top teacher among Assistant Professors at Rice (eleven finalists).
  
  
• Nominated for the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize given to the top teacher among Assistant Professors at Rice (four finalists).
  
  
• Professor of the Year Award, Civil Engineering Honor Society, Rice University, "in recognition of exemplary commitment to undergraduate teaching."
  
  
• Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation.
  
  
• Research Initiation Award, Engineering Foundation.
  
  
• Scholarship from the "Société Académique Vaudoise."
  
  
• Swiss National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
  
  
• Vaudoise Society of Civil Engineers and Architects Award.
  
  

Professional Registration:

• Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, License # 77414.
  
  

Professional Societies:

• Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
  
  
• Member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI).
  
  
• Member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE).
  
  
• Member of the International Association for Structural Control (IASC).
  
  
• Member of CUREe (California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering).
  
  

Professional Activities:

• ASCE, Engineering Mechanics Division, Committee on Probabilistic Methods (1994- present).
  
  
• ASCE, Engineering Mechanics Division, Committee on Dynamics (1995-present).
  
  
• ASCE, Structural Division, Committee on Reliability of Offshore Structures (1994-97).
  
  
• Reviewer, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Earthquake Spectra, Structural Engineering International, Microcomputers in Civil Engineering, ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics.
  
  
• Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Division.
  
  
• Reviewer, Plenum Publishing Corporation.
  
  
• Organizer and Co-Chair of a technical session on "System identification and Control" at the Seventh ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics & Structural Reliability, Worcester, Massachusetts, August, 1996.
  
  
• Co-Organizer and Co-Chair of a technical session on "Small Scale Seismic Simulators" at the 12th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Specialty Conference, San Diego, La Jolla, California, May 17-20, 1998.
  
  
• Organizer and Chair of a technical session on "Probabilistic Methods for Earthquake Dynamic Response" at the 13th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Specialty Conference, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, June 13-16, 1999.
  
  

Teaching:

• Undergraduate:
  
  
• Introduction to Civil and Architectural Design (Rice)
• Structural Analysis I (Rice)
• Structural Analysis II (Rice)
• Structural Dynamics Laboratory (UCLA)
  
  
• Graduate:
  
  
• Engineering Applications of Probability (Rice)
• Structural Reliability Theory and Applications (Rice, UCLA)
• Probabilistic Structural Dynamics (Rice, UCLA)
• Structural Response to Ground Motions (UCLA)
• Nonlinear Structural Analysis (UCLA)

Research Interests:

• Deterministic and probabilistic structural dynamics with applications in earthquake, offshore, wind, and aerospace engineering.
  
  
• Structural reliability analysis, probabilistic design, and risk analysis.
  
  
• Inelastic behavior of structures and nonlinear computational structural mechanics.
  
  
• Experimental structural dynamics and passive/active vibration control of structures.
  
  
• Modern experimental methods for investigating structural behavior and developing analytical models.
  
  
• Structural monitoring and condition assessment.
  
  
• Theoretical and experimental methods of nondestructive evaluation using advanced sensors and advanced analytical tools.
  
  
• Design, analysis, and behavior of innovative, high-performance structural systems.
  
  
• Integrating modeling, identification, analysis and design of uncertain nonlinear systems with application to large, complex structural systems.