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Anne Setian Kiremidjian
Anne Setian Kiremidjian (1949), is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. Former chair of the board of directors of K2 Technologies, Inc., and Sensametrics, Inc.

Early Life
(Anne) Aghavny Hrant Setian was born in Sofia, Bulgaria of Armenian father, Hrant and Bulgarian mother ,Tzvetanka and immigrated to the United States in 1965. She, her parents, brother, Aram and grandmother, Aghavny initially settled in Forest Hills, New York. She moved to California in 1972 and has lived there since then.

Career
Anne Kiremidjian received BS in Physics from Queens College and BS in Civil Engineering from Columbia University in 1972. The same year she married Garo Kiremidjian and moved to California. From 1972-1977 she attended Stanford University where she received her MS and PhD degrees in Structural Engineering. After working for John A. Blume and Associates, a premiere structural engineering firm in San Francisco, she joined the faculty at Stanford University in 1978 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1985 and became a Professor in 1991. Anne Kiremidjian was appointed co-director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford in 1987 and then served as the director of the center from 1994 to 2004.

Anne Kiremidjian’s research is in earthquake hazard and risk assessment modeling and after the 1989 Loma Prieta, California earthquake, she focused much of her research on structural health monitoring. The Loma Prieta earthquake was the catalyst for initiating a research project on the development of wireless structural health monitoring system that lead to the implementation of the first wireless accelerometer (Patent No. 6292108). Her research currently marries seismic hazard and risk with structural damage diagnostics algorithms utilizing advanced statistical, artificial intelligence and machine learning methods. Based on her research in hazard and risk assessment, Anne Kiremidjian co-founded K2 Technologies, Inc. in 1994, a software company for building portfolio risk assessment for insurance and reinsurance companies, and later in 2004 co-founded Sensametrics, Inc., a structural health monitoring hardware and software company deploying wireless sensing and sensor network technologies.

During her career, Anne Kiremidjian has served in various capacities in professional organizations, at Stanford and other universities. The following is a partial list of services:


 * National Science Foundation, Committee of Visitors for the Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 1998, 2001
 * Member of the Committee on Assessing the Cost of Natural Disaster, Board on Natural Disasters, National Academy of Sciences 1997-1999
 * Member of the Research Board of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
 * Member of the Academic Research Council of the Civil Engineering Research Foundation
 * Probabilistic Methods Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers
 * Seismic Risk and Research Committees of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
 * Committee on Building Instrumentation, California Strong Motion Instrumentation Program, California Seismic Safety Commission
 * Committee on Stochastic Methods in Structural Engineering, International Association of Structural Safety and Reliability
 * Chairman, Executive Committee of the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers
 * Advisory Committee to the Biological and Critical Systems Division of National Science Foundation
 * Member of the Board of Directors, California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering, Treasurer
 * Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, National Center on Earthquake Engineering Research
 * Member of the Institutional Board and chair, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
 * Member of the National Research Council Committee on the Development of Long-Term Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), National Academy of Engineering, 2001-2004
 * Member of the External Advisory Board, Mid-America Research Center – 2003-2008
 * Member of the Board of Directors, Consortium of University for Research in Earthquake Engineering, 2003-2009, Treasurer.
 * Member of the Board of Trustees Committee on Building and Land Development, Stanford University, 2005-2007
 * Chair & Member of the Executive Council on Disaster Reduction and Mitigation (CDRM), ASCE, 2007-2014
 * Member of the University Committee on Graduate Studies – 2008-2012
 * Member of the National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee, National Institute for Standards and Technology, 2011-1015.
 * Member of the Structural Engineers Institute of ASCE Technical Council on Life-Cycle Performance, Safety, Reliability and Risk of Structural Systems, Task Group 2 Reliability-Based Performance Indicators for Structural Systems -2017-present
 * Chair of the Institutional Board of Directors of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Institute 2015-2020
 * Vice-President of the John A. Blume Foundation 2015-present.

Dr. Kiremidjian's general research interests are within the area of probabilistic methods in civil engineering with an emphasis on earthquake hazard and risk modeling, regional risk assessment, structural damage evaluation, and risk analysis of lifeline systems. The resilience of urban systems is currently being incorporated into these models utilizing large geological, seismological, infrastructure, social and economic data. Advanced analytical tools from stochastic modeling, machine learning and large data analytics are utilized to build these models. Another focus area of research is health monitoring for structural performance evaluation and damage diagnosis. This research entails the designs and implementation of wireless sensing systems and sensor networks, and the development of robust algorithms using data from these systems. Since 1973 she has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals, book chapters, technical reports and papers in conference proceedings. During that time, she has delivered more than 50 keynote and invited lectures. Dr. Kiremidjian teaches courses in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University on probabilistic methods in engineering, structural analysis, earthquake engineering, performance-based earthquake engineering, structural reliability, and decision analysis for civil and environmental engineers, and supervises doctoral students.

Awards

 * School of Engineering Distinguished Advisor Award, Stanford University, 6/1989
 * National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women, 1991-1995
 * Society for Women Engineers Distinguished Educator Award, 1992
 * American Society of Civil Engineer, Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering
 * Distinguished Service Award, 8/11/ 1995
 * Applied Technology Council, Award for Excellence in Loss Estimation, 7/1998
 * Best Paper Award - with Dimitris Pachakis, from Harbour, Maritime and Multimodal Logistics Modelling & Simulation, McLeod Institute of Simulation Science, Genoa, Italy, October 2002
 * The C. Martin Duke Award - American Society of Civil Engineer, For Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Lifeline Earthquake Engineering – 8/11/ 2003
 * Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineer, 2014
 * Lifetime Achievement Award, International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Sept. 2017
 * The John Fritz Medal, American Association of Engineering Societies, April 2018
 * Honorary Member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, March 2020

Personal Life
Anne Kiremidjian married to Garo Kiremidjian, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, in 1972. They have one child, Seta. She enjoys playing tennis, takes daily hikes and swims. Traveling around the world, going to the opera and the symphony, and listening to classical music are her favorite activities.

External Links:
https://profiles.stanford.edu/anne-kiremidjian

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