Monica Kohler
Research Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
A.B., Harvard University, 1988; Ph.D., Caltech, 1995. Assistant Research Engineer, University of California (Los Angeles), 1998-2011. Visiting Associate, Caltech, 2007-11; Lecturer, 2009, 2012, 2013; Research Assistant Professor, 2011-17; Research Professor, 2018-.
Research interests: earthquake engineering, damage detection, seismic tomography, wave propagation, and real-time internet-of-things seismic arrays
Overview
Professor Kohler's research uses technological advances in sensor and internet-of-things developments to conduct real-time vibration monitoring of the ground, and mid-rise and high-rise buildings to study damage and failure events. She focuses on tomographic inverse methods and forward dynamic computations applied to observed and numerically simulated datasets due to earthquake, wind event, explosion, and human-generated vibration sources.
Publications
- Mohammed, Shako;Shams, Rashid et al. (2024) Usability of Community Seismic Network recordings for ground-motion modelingEarthquake Spectra
- Prieto, Germán A;Kohler, Monica D. (2024) Time-varying damping ratios and velocities in a high-rise during earthquakes and ambient vibrations from coda wave interferometryEarthquake Spectra
- Tepp, Gabrielle;Stubailo, Igor et al. (2024) Shake to the Beat: Exploring the Seismic Signals and Stadium Response of Concerts and Music FansSeismological Research Letters
- Vela, Viviana;Taciroglu, Ertugrul et al. (2023) Vertical System Identification of a 52-Story High-Rise Building Using Seismic Accelerations
- Abdelbarr, Mohamed H.;Kohler, Monica D. et al. (2023) Structural Identification of a 52-Story High-Rise in Downtown Los Angeles Based on Short-Term Wind Vibration MeasurementsJournal of Structural Engineering
- Kohler, Monica D.;Filippitzis, Filippos et al. (2022) Variations in Ground Motion Amplification in the Los Angeles Basin due to the 2019 M7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake: Implications for the Long-Period Response of Infrastructure
- Filippitzis, Filippos;Kohler, Monica D. et al. (2022) Sparse Bayesian learning for damage identification using nonlinear models: Application to weld fractures of steel-frame buildingsStructural Control and Health Monitoring
- Tamhidi, Aidin;Kuehn, Nicolas et al. (2022) Conditioned Simulation of Ground-Motion Time Series at Uninstrumented Sites Using Gaussian Process RegressionBulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Sumy, Danielle F.;McBride, Sara K. et al. (2021) Long-term ocean observing coupled with community engagement improves tsunami early warningOceanography
- Filippitzis, Filippos;Kohler, Monica D. et al. (2021) Ground motions in urban Los Angeles from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequenceEarthquake Spectra