ROSS B. COROTIS, PE, NAE
Denver Business Challenge Professor of Engineering

a. Professional Preparation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 	Civil Engineering			S.B. 1967
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 	Civil Engineering 			S.M. 1968
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Civil Engineering (Structural Mech.)	Ph.D. 1971

b. Appointments.
The University of Colorado at Boulder:  
Denver Business Challenge Professor of Engineering, 2001 -
Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering, 1994 -  
Dean, College of Engineering and Applied Science, 1994 - 2001
The Johns Hopkins University:  
Associate Dean, 1990 ‑ 1994
Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor, 1982 - 1994 
Founding Chair of Civil Engineering, 1983 ‑ 1990 
Professor of Civil Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering, 1981 - 1982 
Northwestern University:  
Professor, 1979 ‑ 1981 
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, 1975 ‑ 1979 
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, 1971 ‑ 1974

c. Publications.
(i) Five most closely related to the proposed project:
"Design of Timber Structures for Natural Hazards," R. Corotis, SWST‑WFPL‑NSF Conference on Structural Use of Wood in Adverse Environments, May 1978, Vancouver, pp. 27.1‑27.53.  

"Wood Damage Accumulation by Stochastic Load Models," R. Corotis and D. Sheehan, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 112, No. 11, November 1986, pp. 2404‑2415. 

"Limit State Sensitivity of Structural Frames Subjected to Cyclic Forces," T. Wang, R. Corotis and B. Ellingwood, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. ll6, No. l0, October 1990, pp. 2824-2841.   

"Dominant Failure Modes for Structures with Stochastic Load Processes," W. Wang, R. Corotis and M.R. Ramirez, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 121, No. 11, November 1995, pp. 1252-1260.

 “Determining Reliable Design Loads for Natural Phenomena,” R. Corotis and A. Dougherty, Natural Hazards Review, ASCE, Vol. 5, No. 1, February, 2004, in press.

(ii) Five additional publications:
"Wind-Induced Response of Structurally Asymmetric High-Rise Buildings," M. Islam, B. Ellingwood and R. Corotis, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 118, No. 1, January 1992, pp. 207-222.

"Stochastic Optimization Models for Structural Reliability Analysis," J. Zimmerman, J.H. Ellis and R. Corotis, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 119, No. 1, January 1993, pp. 223-239.

“Seismic Rehabilitation of Frame Structures Using the Pseudo Distortion Method,” P. Makode, R. Corotis and M. Ramirez, Structural Engineers World Congress, July 1998, San Francisco, CD Rom.

“Optimal Life-Cycle Costing with Partial Observability,” M. Jiang, R. Corotis and J.H. Ellis, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, ASCE, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2000, pp. 56-66.

“Extreme Value Theory and Mixed Distributions - Applications,” A. Dougherty, R. Corotis and L. Schwartz, Applications of Statistics and Probability ICASP 8, R. Melchers and M. Stewart, Editors, Balkema, Rotterdam, 2000, pp. 27-33.

d. Synergistic Activities.
1.  Past Chair of the Task Committee on Live Loads of Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures (formerly ANSI A58, now ASCE 7).
2.  Past Chair of the ASCE committees: Safety of Buildings, Technical Administrative Committee on Structural Safety and Reliability, and Committee on Probabilistic Methods; as well as the ACI Committee on Structural Safety.
3.  Editor of the journal Structural Safety for ten volumes.
4.  Member of the National Research Council Board on Assessment of NIST (vice-chair of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory Panel), steering committee member of the Natural Disasters Roundtable, and Affiliate Member of the Multihazard Mitigation Council.
5.  Creation of the Discovery Learning Initiative while Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Development of program plans with faculty committees, advisory councils, university and state officials; as well as fund-raising to build the Discovery Learning Center, which is dedicated to me.  Recognition by NAS for congruence with the Boyer Commission report.

e. Collaborators & Other Affiliations.
(i) Collaborators.
Anne Dougherty, University of Colorado
J. Hugh Ellis, The Johns Hopkins University
Mingxiang Jiang, The Caterpillar Company
		Prafulla Makode, Student in Yale University Law School
		Martin Ramirez, private industry
		Leda Schwartz, private industry
	(ii) Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors.
		C. Allin Cornell, Stanford University
		Erik Vanmarcke, Princeton University
	(iii) Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor.
		None within the past five years.
		Total of 40 graduate advisees (19 master’s, 21 doctoral)