Dr. Jorge Macedo’s Laboratory

Group

Principal Investigator

Dr. Jorge Macedo

Dr. Jorge Macedo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received B.S. (2007) and M.S. (2013) degrees from the Peruvian National University of Engineering and M.S. (2014) and Ph.D. (2017) degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, all majoring in civil engineering. He practiced as a consulting engineer for six years (2008-2013) and holds PE licenses in California and Peru. Dr. Macedo’s main research areas are geotechnical earthquake engineering, performance-based & risk engineering applied to multi-hazards, and mining geotechnics. His research aims to make geotechnical infrastructure systems and cities more resilient against natural and man-made hazards, saving lives, and reducing economic losses. Dr. Macedo’s Ph.D. research was presented as the prestigious 6thISSMGE Ishihara Lecture, and his current research has been featured in Science magazine. He is also the founder of the TAILENG center that investigates mine tailings.  

Ph.D. Students

Bokkisa Srinivas Vivek

Ph.D. student, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Expected Ph.D. graduation: Fall 2024

M.Phil. in Civil Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong), 2019

B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Guwahati, India), 2017

Topics of interest: dynamic soil behavior, earthquake engineering, geomechanics, granular mechanics, Discrete Element Method

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Chenying Liu

Ph.D. Candidate, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Expected Ph.D. graduation: Summer 2023

Pursuing a M.Sc. in Computational Science and Engineering

M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 2019

B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2017

Topics of interest: seismic hazard and risk, ground motion models, probabilistic programming, Bayesian generative models, machine learning

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Cody Arnold

Ph.D. Student, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Expected Ph.D. graduation: Fall 2024

Pursuing a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019

Topics of interest: Mine Tailings, Experimental Testing, In-Situ Testing, Soil Microstructure, Intermediate Materials

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José M. Torres

Ph. D. student, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Expected Ph. D. graduation: Fall 2023

M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), 2016

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil (Guayaquil, Ecuador), 2011

Topics of interest:  slope stability, soil liquefaction, in-situ testing, geotechnical asset management, remote sensing, smart cities

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Lina-María Pua

Ph.D. student, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Expected Ph.D. graduation: Summer 2024

M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia), 2019

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia), 2017

B.Sc. in Geosciences, Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia), 2017

Topics of interest: Variability and uncertainty quantification in geotechnical engineering, soils dynamics

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Luis Vergaray

Ph.D(c), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Expected Ph.D. graduation: Summer 2023

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, National University of Engineering (Lima, Peru), 2016

Topics of interest: Mine tailings, soil liquefaction, soil dynamics and earthquake engineering

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Renzo S Cornejo Tejada

Ph.D. student, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Expected Ph.D. graduation: Fall 2024.

Pursuing a BSc in Civil Engineering, National University of Engineering (Lima, Peru), 2017

Topics of interest: Earthquake engineering, mine tailings, liquefaction, Numerical modeling, Finite Differences Method, Material Point Method

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Masters Students

Amrita Mohanty

M.Sc. student, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Expected M.Sc. graduation: December 2022

Pursuing a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering (Geosystems Engineering)

B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, College of Engineering & Technology, Bhubaneswar (India), 2020

Topics of interest: Mechanical response of fine grained soils to cyclic loading, triaxial testing on coarse and fine grained soils, cyclic shear response of silty soil materials, soil liquefaction potential of silty soils.

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Past Students

Maria Jose Ferreyros BSc. currently at PLW Waterworks

Qiwei Mao Msc.
currently at Geocomp

Venkataraman Ramesh Msc.
currently at BCG engineering