Welcome to the web site for Professor Jack Baker's research group at Stanford University. Our research focuses on the use of probabilistic and statistical tools for modeling the reliability of infrastructure systems and other elements of the built environment. We have investigated probabilistic modeling of highway traffic flows, seismic loads on spatially distributed infrastructure systems, characterization of earthquake ground motions, and reliability of nuclear power plants and nuclear waste repositories.
Dr. Baker joined the Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), where he was a visiting researcher in the Department of Structural Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Stanford University, where he also earned M.S. degrees in Statistics and Structural Engineering. During his PhD, he also spent time as a visiting researcher at Nagoya University in Japan. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics/physics from Whitman College. He has industry experience in seismic hazard assessment, ground motion selection, probabilistic risk assessment, and modeling of catastrophe losses for insurance companies. His awards include the Shah Family Innovation Prize from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
4/10/2012: Lynne Burks was awarded a travel fellowship to attend the 2012 EERI Annual Meeting in Memphis. She presented a poster on her research, "Prediction and structural response of fling step in near fault ground motions."
3/27/2012: Jack Baker spoke at an invited panel session on "Multi-scale Characterization and Modeling of Heterogeneous Soils" at the 2012 Geocongress in Oakland.
1/27/2012: Congratulations to Ting Lin for receiving an award for her research showcase at the Stanford Opportunity Job Fair reception.
