Structural and Seismic Specialty Engineer with 20 years of broad experience in performing structural analysis and design for various types of structures including nuclear power facilities, steel and prefabricated concrete industrial facilities, towers, steel platforms. Experienced seismic soil-structure interaction (SSI) analysis, design of nuclear power plant Seismic Category - I structures, and evaluation and retrofit design of nuclear facilities.
Research Engineer with over 8 years of interdisciplinary research experience in the fields of experimental mechanics, structural diagnostics, earthquake, and structural engineering. Applied system identification, estimation, detection, signal processing and statistical techniques to solve challenging problems in structural health monitoring and seismic engineering. Expert in model-based testing, Kalman filtering theory, and applications for state and parameter estimation problems.
Worked closely with US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and US Department of Energy (DOE) standards for nuclear facilities, including NUREG 0800, NRC Regulatory Guides, ASCE 4, ASCE 43, ACI 349, ACI 318.