Current Doctoral Students

• Max Chen  Civil Systems Program
  Intelligent Sensor Motes for Vertical Seismic Arrays

• Mario Magliocco  Civil Systems Program
  Transparent Earth Observatory at the DUSEL Site

• Branko Kerkez  Civil Systems Program
  Wireless Sensor Networks and the Water Balance in the Sierras

• Greg Mclaskey  Civil Systems Program 
  Waveform Analysis of Acoustic Emission and Sensor Development
  

•  Iris Tien  Civil Systems Program 
  Quantification of the Diagnosis of Neuropathologies

Current Guest Researcher

• Tommi Parkkila, VTT, Ohlu, Finland

Former Students

• Laurie Gaskins Baise, Ph.D  Associate Professor, Tufts University
  University of California, December 2001
  Effects of Local Geological Structure on Earthquake Response

• Jianye (James) Ching, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University
  University of California, December 2002; Housner research feollow, CalTech, 2004
  Application of System Identification to a Variety of Civil Engineering Dynamic systems

• Dom Galic, Ph.D. 
  University of California, May, 2008
  An Unconstrained Sliding Friction Model and an Application to the Folsom Dam

• MiKyong Hand, M.S., M.D.  Physician, Swedish Medical Center, Littleton, CO
  Colorado School of Mines, January, 1997 
  Active Imaging of Rock Fractures with Ultrasonic Diffraction and Seismic Migration

• Jeffrey R. Moore, Ph.D  Post-doctoral researcher, ETH, Zurich
  University of California, May, 2007
  The Streaming Potential Method Applied to Hydraulic Problems

• Albert To, Ph.D  Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburg
  University of California, September, 2005
  Multi-Scale Experimental Investigation of Sliding Friction

• Greg Weiss, M.S. Head of Production, DigitalWave Corp
  Colorado School of Mines, April 1996
  Development of an Embedded, Wideband Acoustic Emission Sensor

• Ying Zhang, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor, Georga Tech
  University of California, August 2006
  MEMS/NEMS Design Automation and Synthesis  (Major Field Advisor)
  

Past Guest Researchers

Prof. Eric Van Vleck  Mathematics, University of Kansas

Prof. Christian U. Grosse  Institute of Construction Materials, Universität Stuttgart

Keita Iwano, Kajima Corporation, Tokyo

Prof. Ni, Sheng-huoo  GeoEngineering,  National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Dr. Anne Tolman  Business and Process Management, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland