Assistant Professor

Bogazici Univ., Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute,

Department of Earthquake Engineering, 81220, Cengelkoy, Istanbul, Turkey

Tel. (+90).216.516 32 49

E-mail:skilic@boun.edu.tr

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• 1990-1997 Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
  Stanford University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering 
  John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center

• 1989-1990 M.S. in Civil Engineering
  University of California, Berkeley, Department of Civil Engineering
  Structural Engineering and Mechanics of Materials

• 1985-1989 B.S. in Civil Engineering
  Bogazici University, Department of Civil Engineering          

Summer 2004:  Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Purdue University
Computing Research Institute West Lafayette, Indiana

• 2004-present: Assistant Professor, Bogazici University
  Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute

• 2003: Senior Research Scientist, Purdue University
  Computing Research Institute West Lafayette, Indiana 

• 2002: Research Associate, Purdue University
  School of Civil Engineering

• 1997-2001: Assistant Professor, Bogazici University
  Department of Civil Engineering.

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Reston, Virginia.
• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), Oakland, California.
• Structural Eng. Assoc. of Northern California (SEAONC), San Francisco, California.
• International Committee on Industrial Chimneys (CICIND), Herts, England, U.K.
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

• Applied mechanics
• Structural engineering
• Seismic Engineering
• Dynamic response of steel and reinforced concrete structures
• Fluid-structure interaction, iterative solvers, parallel computing applications in solid mechanics.

• 2002:  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
  Simulation of the September 11 aircraft crash into the Pentagon building based on physical rules that govern the behavior of the aircraft and the reinforced concrete load carrying structure. Scientific model design of the simulation as part of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Computer Science and Civil Engineering researchers. Partial funding provided by the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office.
  Simulation web site: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/cmh/simulation

• 1990-1993:   Stanford University, Stanford, California
  United States National Science Foundation, Grant BCS-89-01665 entitled “P-Delta Effect and Frame Stability in Seismic Response and Code Design”. Ph.D. advisor: Professor Helmut Krawinkler.

• “An evaluation of the effect of the 17 August 1999 Marmara earthquake on two tall reinforced concrete chimneys”, Kilic, S. and Sozen, M., Structural Journal, American Concrete Institute (ACI), vol. 100, no.3, pp. 357-364, 2003.

• “Preconditioned iterative solvers for finite element analysis in solid mechanics”, Kilic, S., Saied, F., and Sameh, A., International Journal of Computers & Structures, invited paper for Special Issue on Preconditioning Methods, Elsevier, 2003.

• “Modeling the Slump Characteristics of the Hydrocarbon-Based Hybrid Rocket Fuels”, Kilic, S., Karabeyoglu A., Stevens, J., and Cantwell B., AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference, Huntsville, Alabama, 2003.

• "Integrating modeling, simulation, and visualization", Hoffmann, C., Popescu, V., Kilic, S., and Sozen, M., Computers in Science & Engineering, IEEE, January/February 2004, pp. 52-60.

• “Producing high-quality visualizations of large-scale simulations”, Popescu, V., Hoffmann, C., Kilic, S., and Sozen, M., Purdue University Computer Science Dept., Tech. Report 03-011, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2003.

• “Nonlinear response of the 115m Tupras refiner stack subjected to the 1999 Marmara earthquake”, Akinci, O. and Kilic, S., CICIND Report, International Committee on Industrial Chimneys (CICIND), vol. 18, no.2, pp 27-31, September 2002.

• "A preliminary analysis on the Tupras refinery stack collapse during the 17 August 1999 Marmara earthquake”, Kilic, S., Moncarz, P., and Noakowski, P., CICIND Report, International Committee on Industrial Chimneys, March 2001.

• “P-Delta effects in portal frames”, Kilic, S., and Krawinkler, H., 11^th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paris, France, September 1998.