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Project Personnel

Principal Investigator (PI)

Amr S. Elnashai 
William J. and Elaine F. Hall Professor
Director of the Mid-America Earthquake Center
Director, NEES@UIUC Simulation Facility
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352
Phone: (217) 265-5497
Fax: (217) 265-8040
Email: aelnash@uiuc.edu
Personal website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/research/faculty/aelnash/

Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PIs)

Billie F. Spencer, Jr.        
Nathan M. Newmark Professor
Managing Director, NEES@UIUC Simulation Facility
2113 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352
Phone: (217) 333-8630
Fax: (443) 646-0675
Email: bfs@uiuc.edu
Laboratory website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/sstl/

Jerome F. Hajjar        
Professor and Narbey Khachaturian Faculty Scholar
IT Director, NEES@UIUC Simulation Facility
2129b Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory 
MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352
Phone: (217) 244-4027
Fax: (217) 265-8040
Email: jfhajjar@uiuc.edu
Personal website: http://www.cee.uiuc.edu/Faculty/jfhajjar.htm

Daniel A. Kuchma        
Assistant Professor
Operations Director, NEES@UIUC Simulation Facility
2114 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352
Phone: (217) 333-1571
Fax: (217) 265-8040
Email: kuchma@uiuc.edu
Personal website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/research/kuchma/

Staff

Greg Pluta      
Operations Manager
2142 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352
Phone: (217)
Fax: (217) 265-8040
Email:  gpluta@uiuc.edu

Michael Bletzinger
System Administrator
2142 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352
Phone: (217) 333-7522
Fax: (217) 265-8040
Email:  mbletzin@uiuc.edu  

Tim Prunkard      
Supervisor, Technical Services, CEE Shop
1135 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352
Phone: (217) 333-6913
Email: prunkard@uiuc.edu     

Grzegorz Banas      
Senior Research Engineer, Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory 
1120c Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352
Phone: (217) 333-5019
Email: gbanas@uiuc.edu

Deidre Bever      
Administrative Assistant
2129 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352
Phone: (217) 265-5426
Fax: (217) 265-8040
Email:  dbever@uiuc.edu