About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Before joining University of California, Berkeley, I was a Senior Research Fellow in Resilience Engineering in the Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Department at University College London, UK. I was also a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.  I received my PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. I earned my B.E. (Civil and Industrial Engineering) and M.S. (Structural Engineering) from the Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Russia.

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Over the last few years, I have worked on projects funded by the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI), European Commission, National Research Council Canada, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the World Bank. My professional and research project locations include Africa, Asia (Central and Southeast), Europe (Eastern and Western), North America (Canada and USA), and the Pacific. 

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Our vibrant group relies on the strength of interdisciplinary research to quantify and enhance community resilience. We constantly seek innovative approaches to inform disaster risk management and communicate risk to key stakeholders and the public.

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Our research projects span across large-scale experimental programs, nonlinear analysis of civil infrastructure, multihazard analysis, resilience quantification.