Research Team

Bio:

• Ph.D. in structural engineering, Kyoto University, Japan. 

• Coordinator of the Structural Engineering Division at UTEC.

• Affiliated member of ASCE, EERI, and ASTM International.

• Part of the Advisory Board of International Association of Bridge Earthquake Engineering (IABEE).

• Part of the Peruvian Standardization Committees for building design: E090-Steel Structures and E032-Seismic Dissipators.

• Certified researcher in Peru, RENACYT-ProCiencia.

• Licensed structural engineer in Peru (+15 years of professional experience).

Research Interests

• Development  and design of innovative, resilient, durable, and sustainable Reinforced Concrete Structures.

• Numerical and experimental evaluation of Reinforced/ Precast Concrete Structures under extreme earthquakes.

• Machine Learning Applications in Earthquake Engineering.

• Machine Learning-based  damage assessment and monitoring of existing concrete structures. 

• Seismic performance of structures with advanced and/or recycled concrete materials.

Current Affiliation

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UTEC.

Contact

Email: lbedrinana@utec.edu.pe

ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5839-0636

Web page: https://cris.utec.edu.pe/es/persons/luis-bedri%C3%B1ana-mera

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.pe/citations?user=Zy24sT8AAAAJ&hl=es

Bio:

• Doctor in Civil Engineering, State University of Campinas, Brazil.

• Posdoctoral Fellow, State University of Maringa, Brazil.

• Professional experience in the design of reinforced concrete structures.

Research Interests

• Experimental evaluation of reinforced concrete structures.

• Mechanical characterization of advanced cement-based materials (SFRC, PFRC, UHPC).

• Nonlinear modeling of concrete structures.

• Behavior of composite structures composed of steel and concrete.

Current Affiliation

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UTEC.

Contact

Email: cbenedetty@utec.edu.pe

ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7885-0572 

Web Page: https://cris.utec.edu.pe/es/persons/carlos-alberto-benedetty-torres

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.pe/citations?user=5yEVQzcAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=sra

Bio:

• Doctor in astrophysics, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

• Master's degree, University of Heidelberg, Germany

• Project leader in the development of hardware and software in High Performance Computing (HPC) at various universities.

• Developer of algorithms for GPU (Graphic Processing Units), and hybrid systems (CPU+GPU).

Research Interests

• Hardware and Software Development for HPC.

• Development of algorithms for GPU and hybrid systems (CPU+GPU).

• Interdisciplinary high-performance computational models (HPC +  BigData). 

Current Affiliation

Professor, Computer Science, UTEC.

Contact

Email:  jfiestas@utec.edu.pe

ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4803-968X

Web page: https://cris.utec.edu.pe/es/persons/jose-fiestas-iquira