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19 June 26: Tayo Opabola gives a lecture on Sustainable Build Back Better to emergency management experts from Global South.
16 June 26: Our paper on Climate-Informed, Nonstationary Multihazard Design Load Characterization for Performance-Based Evaluation of Coastal Structures is in production in ASCE Natural Hazards Review. Co-author: Yiming Jia and Prof. Amir Aghakouchak (UC Irvine).
12 June 26: Tayo Opabola receives award from the Society of Hellman Fellows.
1 June 26: Our paper on Seismic Performance Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls with Lap Splices is published in ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering. Co-author: Héctor García Matamoros (PhD Student, UC Berkeley, USA).
1 Apr 26: PhD student, Hector Garcia Matamoros, receives the 2026-2027 Stewart C. Watson Memorial Scholarship.
31 March 26: PhD student, Hector Garcia Matamoros, presents research on Advancing Performance-based Seismic Retrofit Design of RC Structures at the 2026 Spring ACI Convention in Chicago.
31 March 26: Tayo Opabola convenes the ACI 369-341 Joint session on seismic repair/retrofit/strengthening of reinforced concrete structures at the 2026 Spring ACI Convention in Chicago.
23 Sept 25: Tayo Opabola presents seminar on Functionality Loss Assessment of Petrochemical Facilities to at Tongji University.
19 July 25: Our paper on Simulating operational disruption in petrochemical facilities under natural hazard impact is published in Journal of Reliability Engineering & System Safety. Co-author: Randy Oliva (University College London, United Kingdom).
27 May 25: Our paper on Interpretable machine learning insights into wildfire damage drivers in California, USA is published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Co-author: Yiming Jia (Post-doctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley, USA).
11 Apr 25: PhD Student Héctor García Matamoros is the 2025 American Concrete Institute (ACI) Presidents' Fellow.
1 Apr 25: Our paper on Nonlinear Modeling Parameters for Reinforced Concrete Columns Retrofitted with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Jackets is published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Co-author: Héctor García Matamoros (PhD Student, UC Berkeley, USA).
11 Mar 25: Our paper on Seismic design of concrete structures for damage control wins the 2024 Best Research Award from Earthquake Spectra.
08 May 24: Our paper on Seismic design of concrete structures for damage control is published in Earthquake Spectra. Co-authors: Ken Elwood (University of Auckland, New Zealand).
11 Apr 24: Tayo Opabola receives the 2023 Shah Family Innovation Prize at the 2024 EERI Annual Meeting in Seattle, USA.
30 Jan 24: Tayo Opabola has been awarded the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Tier 1 Young Professional Grant to participate in the 2024 SEI Congress.
23 Jan 24: Our paper on a Bayesian approach for estimating the post-earthquake recovery trajectories of electric power systems in Japan is published in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. Co-authors: Yuki Handa and Carmine Galasso (both from University College London, UK).
16 Jan 24: Tayo Opabola's Spring Semester class on Reinforced Concrete Structures Design at University of California, Berkeley starts today.
15 Jan 24: Our paper on informing disaster-risk management policies for education infrastructure using scenario-based recovery analyses is published in Nature Communications. Co-author: Carmine Galasso (University College London, UK).
01 Jan 24: Tayo Opabola joins University of California, Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
14 Nov 23: Tayo Opabola is awarded the 2023 Shah Family Innovation Prize by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, in recognition of his significant contributions to earthquake engineering research and practice, supported by expertise in engineering mechanics, experimentation and community resilience.
10 Nov 23: Our paper on Seismic fragility of reinforced concrete buildings with hollow-core flooring systems is published in Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. Co-authors: Tom Francis, Tim Sullivan (both from University of Canterbury, NZ and Ken Elwood (University of Auckland, NZ).
15 Oct 23: Our paper on a probabilistic framework for post-disaster recovery modeling of buildings and electric power networks in developing countries is published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety. Co-author: Carmine Galasso (University College London, UK).