Ertugrul Taciroglu
Ertugrul Taciroglu is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. His research develops computational methods for assessing and reducing the risk that natural hazards pose to the built environment at regional scales.
He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his B.S. from Istanbul Technical University. He is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of ASCE OPEN: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering, a Fellow of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute, and a recipient of the ASCE Walter Huber Research Prize and the NSF CAREER Award.
Research Team
Earthquake
Viviana Vela
Ph.D. Candidate
Seismic instrumentation and resilience assessment of tall buildings
Zafer Yilmaz
Ph.D. Candidate
Methods for regional rapid post-earthquake damage assessment
Yiwen Liang
Ph.D. Candidate
Physics-based regional ground motion simulation and soil-structure interaction
Abdelrahman Taha
Postdoctoral Scholar
Seismic design and assessment of buried structures
Sinem Guntepe
Visiting Ph.D. Student · Istanbul Technical University
Life-cycle cost–benefit analysis of seismic protective and retrofit systems
Ebru Kalkan Okur
Visiting Professor · Karadeniz Technical University
Seismic safety of dams
Wind
Mohammad Askari
Ph.D. Candidate
Hurricane risk and loss assessment at regional scales
Jijiu Liu
Visiting Ph.D. Student · Tongji University
Non-stationary wind force input identification for cable-stayed bridges
Fire
Riyaaz Uddin Shaik
Affiliate Researcher
Wildland fuels, and fire ignition risk and spread modeling
Reese Meister
Undergraduate Intern
Procedural fuel modeling
Cross-cutting
Melis Fidansoy
Ph.D. Candidate (co-advised with S. Narasimhan)
Urban natural hazard risk assessment with hyperlocal modeling
Sultan Aldakhil
Ph.D. Candidate
Material point methods for stability and runout analysis of vegetated slopes
Kuan Yuan
Visiting Ph.D. Student · National Taiwan University
Computer vision–based techniques for automated bridge inspection
Farid Ghahari
Research Scientist (part-time)
Structural health and performance monitoring
Fatih Yesevi Okur
Visiting Professor · Karadeniz Technical University
Structural health and performance monitoring
Alumni
Twenty-four doctoral graduates and twelve postdoctoral researchers since 2006, now working across academia, national laboratories, public agencies, and industry.