1. Robert Kayen is a civil engineer, geologist, and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
10 Facts About Robert Kayen
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Robert Kayen is a leading international expert in the fields of earthquake engineering, seismic soil liquefaction, and seismic displacement analysis of ground failures.
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Robert Kayen's works have been applied in earthquake engineering design of improved ground, building foundations, bridge abutments, lifeline, and environmental systems.
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Robert Kayen was born in New York, NY, United States in 1959.
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Robert Kayen joined the faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007, and the University of California, Berkeley in 2018.
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Robert Kayen previously served as a visiting professor at Kobe University, Japan.
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Robert Kayen has authored over four hundred journal articles, conference papers, and published studies in the fields of earthquake engineering, LIDAR geomatics, InSAR persistent scatterer-synthetic aperture radar interferometry, engineering geophysics, methane hydrate disassociation, and marine-engineering geology and marine-geotechnics.
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Robert Kayen received the NASA-Ames Honor Award in 2010 from NASA Ames Research Center for unique applications of the spectral analysis of surface waves and ground-penetrating RADAR.
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Robert Kayen has served on several editorial boards including the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Robert Kayen is an American rock climber who completed the first solo ascent of El Capitan's West Buttress in Yosemite National Park in 1982.