Detailed Curriculum Vita

Abbreviated Summary of Curriculum Vita

Consulting Experience - CV

 

General Information	Academic and Professional Service	Awards and Honors	Publications
Teaching Activities		Citations in Popular Media	Invited Lectures
Sponsored Projects	Mentoring Students and Visiting Scholars	Current Positions of Past Students and Visitors	Summary of Academic Activities

 

ADDRESS:

UNIVERSITY OFFICE ADDRESS: 135 Ketter Hall, S.U.N.Y/ Buffalo, NY 14260, Tel: (716)-645­2839;  Fax: (716)- 645­3733
HOME/OFFICE ADDRESS: 12 Troy View Lane, Williamsville, NY 14221, Tel: (716) 632­2056
E-Mail:  reinhorn@buffalo.edu

EDUCATION:

• Doctor of Science in Civil Engineering, (Ph.D.) 1978; Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Haifa, Israel; Thesis: Static and Dynamic Torsional Coupling in Tall Building Structures.
• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, (B.Sc.) 1968; Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Haifa, Israel; Major: Structural Engineering.
• Bachelor - Gymnasium Diploma - 1963; "Alex I. Cuza" High School - Bucharest, Romania

LICENSES:

• Professional Engineer - PE - New York State - since1982 
• Professional Engineer - PE - Israel - since 1969

SPECIAL TRAINING:

Operation of Seismic Simulation Systems - MTS, Minneapolis, MN - 1982
Experimental Methods in Earthquake Engineering - University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - 1983

PERSONAL:

B.10/23/1945 Bucharest, Romania; Married (1968):
Spouse:        Ms. Tova A Reinhorn, BS, MS, MLS, Chemical Engineer, Soil Chemist and Librarian
Son:             Michael Reinhorn, MD, General Surgeon & Bio-Engineer
Son:             Gad A Reinhorn, BS, MS, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineer

LANGUAGES:

Fluent: English, Hebrew, Romanian, Proficient: French 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY - ACADEMIC

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO - THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Buffalo, NY, USA, Clifford C. Furnas Eminent Professor,  2002- 2013., Professor 1990-2002.; Department Chairman,  1996-1999; Associate Professor 1986-1990; Assistant Professor 1981-1986; Visiting Assistant Professor 1979-1981

TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Haifa, Israel, Visiting Professor - Lady Davis Fellowship, 1999-2000; Visiting Professor, University of Pavia, Italy, Fall 1999, Visiting Professor - Theresa Paley Manson Fellowship 1991; Lecturer - Equivalent of Assistant Professor 1978-1979; Instructor (Part - Time) 1975-1978; Teaching Assistant (Part-Time) 1973-1975

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY - PROFESSIONAL

• OFFICE OF J. FRUCHTBAUM, Buffalo, NY 1980-1986; Consulting - Structural Engineer (Part-Time); 
• PRIVATE PRACTICE, Reinhorn Consulting, Haifa, Israel -Structural Engineer 1973-1979;
• MILSTEIN-ZINGER CONSULTING ENGINEERS, Tel - Aviv, Israel-Structural Engineer- 1972-1973; 
• CORPS OF ENGINEERS - ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES, Haifa, Israel 1968-1972 Design Engineer and Project Manager (Acting Captain)

SPECIAL RECENT ASSIGNMENTS

• Member of Presidential Review Board (PRB) at University at Buffalo (2005-2007)

• Chairman, International Advisory Board Ben-Guirion University, Program in Structural Engineering (2005-2007)

• Chairman, Decanal Review Committee - School of Informatics, University at Buffalo (2005-2006)

• Member Board of Directors, George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Inc (NEESinc) (2003-2005, Reelected 2005-2008)

• Chairman, Data Sharing and Archiving Committee, NEESinc.(2003-2005)

• Member of Executive Committee of Multidisciplinary Center for Eartquake Engineering Research (1996-2007)

• Director, Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory, University at Buffalo/CSEE (2000-2007)

• Senior Associate Editor, Earthquake Spectra, Journal of EERI (2001-2006)

• Chairman, Technical Program Committee, 7th US National Conference in Earthquake Engineering, (1999-2002).

• Member of Organizing Committee, 7th US Conference on Earthquake Engineering (1999-2002)

• Corresponding Member of Technical Subcommitte 2 (by invitation) for development of the 2000 NEHRP Provisions for Seismic Regulations for New Buildings Structures, Building Seismic Safety Council, Washinghton, DC., since 1993.

• Member of NCHRP 12-49 Project Team - Comprehensive Specifications for the Seismic Design of Bridges - Revised LRFD Specifications (Seismic provisions) - 1998-1999

• Member of AD-HOC Committee of the Israeli Council of Higher Education for examination of new programs on Civil Engineering in Israeli Universities, 1998-2002

• Steering Committee 12ECEE (2001-2002)

PRIVATE CONSULTING - REINHORN CONSULTING ENGINEERS (Selected customers)

SAC - SEAOC, ATC, CUREe Joint Venture, San Francisco, CA, 1997-1999;  JOHN A. MARTIN & Associates, Los Angeles, CA 1993-pres;  BASE ISOLATION CONSULTANTS, San Francisco, CA 1993;  ANDCO ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES, Inc., Amherst, NY 1993;   LE MESSURIER & Associates, Boston, MA 1992-1993; FLEMING Corp., San Francisco/Los Angeles, CA 1990-1994; WALTER P. MOORE & Associates, Houston, TX; 1991-1992;  DAMES & MOORE, Los Angeles, CA 1989-1990;  T. SULLIVAN/WEST VALLEY NUCLEAR DUMP, Buffalo, NY 1987-1993;  WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CO., Bloomington, IN 1986-1987;  WALT DISNEY WORLD CO., Lake Buena Vista, FL 1985-1986;  WATSON, BOWMAN AND ACME, INC., Buffalo, NY; 1984-1985;  WESTWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., Buffalo, NY 1983-1986;  WSF INDUSTRIES, INC., Buffalo, NY 1981-1992;  NIAGARA MACHINE AND TOOLS WORKS, Ltd., Buffalo, NY 1972-1979;  MESCO FORMWORKS AND CONSTRUCTION TOOLS, Haifa, Israel 1981-1992;  INTERNATIONAL FERROCEMENT INFORMATION CENTER, AIT, Bangkok, Thailand 1981-1982;  PENNSYLVANIA PLASTICS PRODUCTS, Eldred, PA 1981-1982

PATENTS:

• "Press Brake Deflection Compensation Structure", United States Patent Number 4,586,361, May 6, 1986 (w/G.M. Trautman)
• "Diagnostic Techniques for Momentarily Operating Machineries" Patent Number 4,980,844, December 15, 1990 (w/V. Demjanenko, A. Soom, Y. Lee, T.T. Soong and D. Benenson)

AWARDS AND HONORS:

• 2015 ASCE Moisseiff Award
• 2011 ASCE/SEI/EMI/ Nathan M Newmark Medal
• 2007-SUNY- State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity
• 2006 UB - University at Buffalo Sustained Achievement Award
• 2005 NEES Outstanding Service Award - for development of NEES Data Sharing and Archiving
•  2005 ASCE/CERF Charles Pankow Award for Innovation- “Coupled Truss Walls with Damped Link Elements” (with WSF Cantor-Seinuk, with E.M. Romero (SA), with Taylor Devices Inc, with UB / SUNY) - with M.C. Constantinou
• 2002 Engineer of the Year Award, New York State Professional Engineering Society - NYSPE- (Buffalo Section);
• 1999 Lady Davis Fellowship/Technion-Israel Institute of Technology;
• 1998 AGC/Build San Diego Award for NCEER project of seismic protection of Naval Station Bldg. (1998) 
• 1995 Outstanding Achievements Award - Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council:  for outstanding contributions to the advancement of state-of-the-art in structural analysis techniques (awarded 1996); 
• 1995 Outstanding Journal Paper Award - Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council:  “Seismic Performance Analysis of a Multistory Steel Moment Frame Building Damaged During the 1994 Northridge Earthquake” (awarded 1996); 
• 1996 Honorable Mention Award of Seventh North American Masonry Conference - “Flexural Behavior of Unreinforced Masonry Shear Walls with Unbonded Reinforcement”;
• 1995 NYSPE / Buffalo Historical Society-Historical Achievement Award: "Active Control Implementation"; 
• 1992 Best Paper Award - 3rd World Congress on Joint Sealing and Bearing; 
• 1991 Lady Davis Fellowship/Theresa Palay Manson Lectureship/Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; 
• Listed in "Who Is Who in the World" Marquis Publication, (11~15 eds.); 
• Listed in "Who Is Who in the America" Marquis Publication, (46, ~ 50 eds.); 
• Listed in "Who Is Who in the East" Marquis Publication, (22 ~26 eds.); 
• 1991 Educator of the Year Award, NYSPE (1991); 
• 1983, 1984 ASCE Award for outstanding service (1983,1984); 
• 1967, 1968 Merit Scholarship - Technion, I.I.T. (1967,1968);  
• 1967, 1968 Dean's List - Technion, I.I.T. (1967,1968)

MEMEBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (ASCE) - Fellow (1981-pres.); Fellow Grade December 1, 1994; Past President Buffalo Section (1993-1994), [President Elect, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Director (Buffalo Section)](1988-1996); Chairman, Committee on Active Control/Engineering Computations (1991-1994); Member of National Committee of Dynamics/Engineering Mechanics Division (1989-1993); Chairman, Structures / Computer Committee, (Buffalo Section 1986-1990); Faculty Adviser, (Buffalo Section 1981-1984)
• EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE (EERI) Member (1986-pres.); Member EERI Committee on Experimental Research, 
• AMERICAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE (ACI) ­ Member (1982-pres); Member of Committees: ACI­449 Seismic Loadings, ACI­118 Use of Computers, 
• ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS IN ISRAEL (1969-1979)

REVIEWER:

• JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING of ASCE - Associate Editor (2000-present)
• NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION/ Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Program; 
• NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION/Engineering Initiation Awards; 
• AMERICAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE/Structural Journal; 
• AMERICAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE/Concrete International Journal; 
• AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS/Journal of Structural Engineering; 
• AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS/Journal of Engineering Mechanics; 
• ASME/Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurements and Control; 
• ASME/Journal of Vibration, Acoustics, Stress and Reliability in Design; 
• JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING ANALYSIS; JOURNAL OF OPTIMAL CONTROL - Applications and Methods; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE - Earthquake Spectra.

WORKSHOPS / SESSIONS CHAIRMAN:

CHAIRMAN, Session on Numerical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, SES, 3rd Annual Meeting, Buffalo,   August 1986.;CHAIRMAN/ORGANIZER, Forum on Structural Applications of Protective Systems for Earthquake Hazard Mitigation, NCEER/SUNY, Buffalo, May 1987.; CHAIRMAN, Session on Seismic Behavior of Structural Systems, ASCE/EMD Specialty Conference, Buffalo, May 1987.; VICE-CHAIRMAN, Session on Hardware Innovations, Workshop on Seismic Computer Analysis and Design of Buildings with Interactive Graphics, NCEER/Cornell University, August, 1987; VICE-CHAIRMAN, Sessions on Structural Control and Isolations, ASME/Design Technology Conferences, 11th Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibrations and Noise, Boston, Sept. 1987; VICE-CHAIRMAN & PANELIST, 3rd Symposium of Seismic Shock and Vibration Isolation, ASME/PVP Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 1989; CHAIRMAN, Session of Workshop:  New Trends and Applications of Distributed Parameter Control Systems, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 7-12, 1989.;CHAIRMAN/Session Organizer, “Active Control of Structural Vibrations - Toward Applications”, 8th ASCE/Structures Congress, Baltimore, ME, April 1990; CHAIRMAN/Session on “Seismic Design of Structural Systems”, 4th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Palm Springs, CA, May 20-23, 1990; CHAIRMAN/Session Organizer, “Active and Passive Control of Structural Vibrations”, 9th ASCE/EMD Specialty Conference, Columbus, OH, May 1991; CHAIRMAN/Session Organizer, “Efficiency of Active Passive and Hybrid Control Systems for Seismic Protection, 9th ASCE/Structures Congress, Indianapolis, IN, May 1991; CHAIRMAN/Session Organizer, “Damage Risk in Design of Seismic Structures”, 9th ASCE/Structures Congress, Indianapolis, IN, May 1991; CHAIRMAN/Session Organizer, “Active Control of Space Structures”, IASS-CSCE/Congress of Space Structures, Toronto, Canada, July 1992; CO-CHAIRMAN/Organizer, Session on Structural Control, ASCE/Structures Congress 94, Atlanta, May 1994; CHAIRMAN, “Workshop on Damage Quantification and Performance Evaluation,” NCEER, San Francisco, Feb. 7-8, 1995; CHAIRMAN/Session Organizer, “Seismic Retrofit of Structures,” ASCE/Structures Congress 95, Boston, May 1995. CHAIRMAN/Session Organizer, “Probabilistic Methods in Structural Control,” EMD/ASCE/Structures Congress 96, Worcester, June, 1996; Session Chair, 4^th World Congress on Joint Sealing and Bearing Systems for Concrete Structures; MEMBER/International Scientific Advisory Committee of First International Symposium on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures 96, Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, 1996, Tessaloniki, Greece; SESSION CHAIRMAN/Workshop on Earthquake Engineering - Evaluation, Design, and Practice," Kefar HaMakabiah, Israel, March 97., INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, STESSA 2000- Behavior of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas, Aug. 22-24, 2000 Montreal CA; SESSION CHAIRMAN/12 World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand, SESSION (x2) CHAIRMAN at "Network For Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Grid Integration, Los Angeles, Nov. 2000, SESSION CHAIRMAN “2002 Structures Congress, INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, 2000.; ERES 2001- Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures, September 4-6, 2001, Malaga, Spain., INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, 12^th European Conference in Earthquake Engineering, London UK, September 2002, Chairman, Technical Program Committee, 7^th US National Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Boaton, MA (1999-2002), Member of Organizing Committee, 7^th US Conference on Earthquake Engineering (1999-2002), “Member International Scientific Committee”. - 12ECEE, 2002,  SESSION CHAIRMAN - MODERATOR – ASCE Structures Congress, Seattle May 2003, “Member International Advisory Committee” of STESSA 2003,  SESSION CHAIRMAN 13 World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, 2004, SESSION CHAIRMAN - MODERATOR – 1^st AESE, Nagoya Japan, Aug 2005,  SESSION CHAIRMAN - MODERATOR – 8^th US Nat’l Conf. in Earthq. Eng., San Francisco, May 2006, INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD, COMPDYN, Crete, Greece, 2007, 2009; etc.

SUMMARY OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

PUBLICATIONS:  8 Books and book chapters (co-authored), 133 archival journals papers; 58 papers in edited books; 2 sections in Codes and Standards; 4 Computer software ­ international distribution; 200 papers in conference proceedings; 65 (N)MCEER reports; 120 other technical reports

PRESENTATIONS: 95 invited lectures; 165 conference lectures with Proceedings; 40 Chaired conferences / sessions

GRANTS: 60 research (in excess of $15,000,000), 10 equipment / service (in excess of $27,000,000)  

COURSES TAUGHT: 9 Graduate; 11 Undergraduate

SUPERVISION: 27 Post Doctoral Fellows and Visiting Scholars, 24(39) Ph.D. completed; 35 (50) MS/ MEng completed;  45 Ph.D. Committees/Outside Reader (numbers in parentheses include co-supervision)