Associate Professor
University of South Carolina
Dimitris Rizos is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) and the Associate Chair of the department. He is also the coordinator of the Railway Engineering Initiative and the Railway Infrastructure Testing Laboratory at UofSC. In this capacity he has developed the railway engineering curriculum, established sponsored research, and is the Director of the Graduate Certificate in Railway Engineering. He has over thirty years of experience in computational and experimental structural mechanics, structural dynamics, and soil-structure interaction and directs sponsored research relevant to the railway and highway infrastructure with emphasis on remote sensing and smart monitoring of track and structures; railway dynamics; train-track interaction; and analysis and design of freight, passenger, and high-speed railway structures (bridges, tunnels, and track). He is the current chair of the ASCE TDI Rail Transportation Committee. His involvement with the professional community includes membership in organizing committees of conferences, seminars and workshops; membership in ASCE, TRB, and AREMA committees; and has served as the general chair of the Joint Rail Conference JRC 2016. He received a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of South Carolina.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM ET