Finished! Looks like this project is out of data at the moment!
More than 2,000 volunteers registered for our projects!! And the number keeps increasing. Thank you so much, volunteers!
Building Part 1 is complete with retirement=2 !!!! Building Part 2 is paused and under re-organization. Building Part 2 - Simplified is done with retirement=1! Now the second round is online. Please go to TALK/Announcements to check planned changes, your opinions are important!
The Team
Dr. Sanjay Govindjee is the Principal Investigator and co-Director of the National Science Foundation NHERI SimCenter at UC Berkeley, which is the hub of the BRAILS project.
Dr. Govindjee is also a Professor of Civil Engineering and the Horace, Dorothy, and Katherine Johnson Endowed Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1993-2006, 2008-present). His main interests are in theoretical and computational mechanics with an emphasis on micro-mechanics, shape memory alloys, and elastomers. Prior to joining Berkeley he worked as an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1991-1993) in Livermore, California. He was also Professor of Mechanics at ETH Zürich (2006-2008) in Zürich, Switzerland.
Dr. Charles Wang is the creator and architect of the BRAILS project.
He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at SimCenter. His research interest includes: computational mechanics and its application in geo-systems, data-driven constitutive modeling of material plasticity, uncertainty quantification in numerical simulations. He also uses machine learning / deep learning to solve problems in natural hazard engineering.
Advisory Board
Dr. Kincho Law is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
Dr. Law's research interest is in the application of advanced computing principles and techniques for structural engineering analysis and design. His research interests include computational mechanics, numerical methods, and analysis and simulation of large-scale systems using distributed workstations and high performance parallel computers.
Dr. Stella Yu is a Visiting Lecturer with the Computer Science Division of EECS and the Vision Science Program at UC Berkeley, and she is also affiliated faculty with the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Yu is interested in understanding visual perception from multiple perspectives: human vision, computer vision, robotic vision, and artistic vision.
Dr. Frank McKenna is the Chief Technology Officer of NHERI SimCenter.
Dr. Ertugrul Taciroglu is a professor and chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at UCLA.
His research interests are in theoretical and applied mechanics, and structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering. He is currently leading projects studying soil/structure interaction, performance-based seismic assessments, and simulations of structural responses under extreme loads.
Dr. Satish Rao is a member of the NHERI SimCenter Leadership Team. Dr. Rao is a Professor at EECS, University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include Design and analysis of algorithms, Combinatorial optimization, etc.
