Honors, Awards and Memberships

Received EERI Outstanding Research Paper Award for the publication of the paper "Earthquakes, Records and Nonlinear Responses" in Earthquake Spectra (1998).

Awarded by Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC) for excellence in innovations for Tall Building Initiative by PEER.

Member of the following professional organizations

• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)

• Seismological Society of America (SSA)

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).