Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

Specific theoretical research themes include nonlinear stochastic dynamics and path integrals, fractional calculus modeling, computational stochastic mechanics, data-driven uncertainty quantification methodologies, and signal processing techniques. Additional research endeavors with diverse applications in structural, earthquake, marine and biomedical engineering include uncertainty modeling and propagation via joint time-frequency analysis tools such as wavelets, as well as analysis of high-dimensional and/or incomplete data via sparse representations and compressive sampling.

Prof. Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou received his five-year Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece (2007), and his M.Sc. (2009) and Ph.D. (2011) degrees in Civil Engineering from Rice University, TX, USA. He joined Columbia University in 2014, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics. He is the author of approximately 150 publications, including more than 80 technical papers in archival International Journals. Prof. Kougioumtzoglou was chosen in 2018 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to receive the prestigious CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence. He is also the 2014 European Association of Structural Dynamics (EASD) Junior Research Prize recipient “for his innovative influence on the field of nonlinear stochastic dynamics”. Prof. Kougioumtzoglou is an Associate Editor for the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems and an Editorial Board Member of the following Journals: Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, and International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. He is also a co-Editor of the Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering (Springer), and has served as a Guest Editor for several Special Issues in International Journals. Prof. Kougioumtzoglou has co-chaired the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2021 and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference 2021 (EMI 2021 / PMC 2021), and has served in the scientific and/or organizing committees of many international technical conferences. Prof. Kougioumtzoglou is a member both of the American Society of Civil Engineers (M.ASCE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (M.ASME), while he currently serves as a member of the ASCE EMI committees on Dynamics and on Probabilistic Methods. He is a Licensed Professional Civil Engineer in Greece, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK.