Ross B. Corotis

Education:

• S.B. Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
• S.M. Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968
• Ph.D. Civil Engineering (Structural Mechanics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971

Honors and Distinctions:​

• ASCE Shinozuka medal, 2023.
• Fellow, Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE, elected 2021
• American Society of Civil Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award in Education, 2019
• Charter Fellow, Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, elected 2013
• ASCE Distinguished Member, elected 2011
• Jefferson Science Fellow, U.S. Department of State, 2008-2013
• University of Colorado Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006
• International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability, Distinguished Research Prize, 2005
• CU Discovery Learning Center Dedication, 2002
• CU Boulder Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2000
• ASCE Maryland Outstanding Engrg Educator, 1992
• NSPE Baltimore Engineer of the Year, 1989
• ASCE Maryland Sect Civl Engineer of the Year, 1986
• ASCE Walter H. Huber Research Prize, 1984
• Northwestern Univ Tech Inst Teaching Award, 1977
• NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1967–1969

Professional Affiliations:

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• Civil Engineering Risk and Reliaibility Assocation
• Internatinoal Assoc for Bridge Management & Safety
• International Assoc for Struct. Safety and Reliab.
• National Institute of Building Sciences

Interests:

• Structural system reliability
• Probabilistic code formulation
• Societal trade-offs of risk
• Natural hazards and policy decision-making

Recent Publications:

1. Seites-Rundlett,William, Ross Corotis and Cristina Torres-Machi (2022). “Development of a Protocol for Engineering Applications of Evidence Theory,” ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, 8(3), September, DOI: 10.1061/AJRUA6.0001241.

2. Seites-Rundlett, William, Mohammad Z. Bashar, Cristina Torres-Machi and Ross Corotis (2022). “Combined Evidence Model to Enhance Pavement Condition Prediction from Highly Uncertain Sensor Data,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 217, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2021.108031.

3. Corotis, Ross, Craig Davis and Keith Porter (2022). “Community Resiliency Infrastructure and Sustainability Protocol,” Infrastructure Resilience Publication No. 5, Lifelines 2022, 767-777, ASCE, Reston, Virginia.

4. Corotis, Ross, Benjamin Corotis and Lindsay Corotis (2020). “STEM Retention: A Retrospective of Three Civil Engineers,”  Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, Invited Contributions to STEM, 21(3), 2020, 58-62.

5. Corotis, Ross, Holly Janowicz, Daniel Straub and Karl Breitung (2020). “Combinatorial Analysis for Probabilistic Assessment of Dependent Failures in Systems and Portfolios,” Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 61, July 1, 2020: ARTN 103066.

6. Seites-Rundlett, William, Elena Garcia, Alejandra Alvarez, Cristina Torres-Machi and Ross Corotis (2020). “Social Indicators to Inform Community Evacuation Modeling and Planning,”), ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, DOI: 10.1061/AJRUA6.0001069.

7. Arneson, Erin, Amy Javernick-Will, Matthew Hallowell and Ross Corotis (2020). “Predicting Post-Disaster Residential Housing Reconstruction Based on Market Resources,” ASCE Natural Hazards Review, 21(1), February.

8. Ballent, Wendy, Ross Corotis and Cristina Torres-Machi (2019). “Dempster Shafer Theory Applications in Post-Seismic Structural Damage and Social Vulnerability Assessment Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure,” Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, Taylor and Francis, Abingdon, United Kingdom, 11 March 2019, doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2019.1583488, 5(4).

9. Ballent, Wendy, Ross Corotis and Cristina Torres-Machi (2019). “Representing Uncertainty in Natural Hazard Risk Assessment with Dempster Shafer (Evidence) Theory,” Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, Taylor and Francis, Abingdon, United Kingdom, 10 January, doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2018.1542213, 4(4).

10. Corotis, Ross (2018). “Planning for Community Resilience under Climate Uncertainty,” Interdisciplinary Issues Related to Climate Change and its Impacts, Colleen Murphy, Paolo Gardoni and Robet McKim, Eds., Springer, Cham, Switzerland.