Ronald Y. S. Pak
- Professor
- GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING & GEOMECHANICS
- ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Address
Office: ECOT 423
Education:
- Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (1985)
- M.S., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (1980)
- B.E., McMaster University, Canada (1979)
Honors and Distinctions:
- Editorial Board, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
- University Board of Directors, Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE)
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator
- Association of Professional Engineers Gold Medal, Ontario, Canada
Professional Affiliations:
- American Society of Civil Engineers
Interests:
Dynamic soil-structure interaction, elasticity, wave propagation, soil and structural dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, foundations, pavements, geomechanics, constitutive modeling, poroelasticity, boundary element methods, finite element methods, experimental modeling