Role: Author

Armen Davoudian has an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University. His poems and translations from Persian appear in Poetry magazine, the Hopkins Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Swan Song, won the Frost Place Competition. Armen grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and lives in California.

Armen Der Kiureghian is Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering in the Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials Program of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1991, he has concurrently served as the founding Dean of Engineering and the Director of Engineering Research Center of the American University of Armenia (AUA), which is an affiliate of the University of California, located in Yerevan, Armenia. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the AUA Corporation. Der Kiureghian's teaching and research interests are in the areas of structural reliability, risk analysis, random vibrations and earthquake engineering. He has pioneered methods for safety and reliability assessment of complex structures and for stochastic seismic analysis of buildings, bridges and critical equipment. He has more than 230 publications, including 68 in archival journals.