Ronald Y. S. Pak

Title: Professor
Group: Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics
Office: ECOT 423
Phone: 303-492-8613
E-mail: pak@colorado.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (1985)
  • M.S., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (1980)
  • B.E., McMaster University, Canada (1979)

Honors and Distinctions:

  • NSF Presidential Young Investigator
  • Association of Professional Engineers Gold Medal, Ontario, Canada
  • Editorial Board, ASCE Journal of Engineering
  • MechanicsCUREE University representative

Professional Affiliations:

  • American Society of Civil Engineers

Interests:

Dynamic soil-structure interaction, elasticity, wave propagation, soil and structural dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, foundations, pavements, geomechanics, constitutive modeling, poroelasticity, boundary element methods, finite element methods, experimental modeling