Dr. Lynett > CV
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Curriculum Vitae
Download my comprehensive CV for a printable version with full detail. The following provides an on-line summary.
Education
- Ph.D., Cornell University, Civil & Environ. Eng. 2002
- M.E., Cornell University, Civil & Envirn. Eng.1998
- B.S., Cornell University, Civil & Envirn. Eng. 1997
Appointments
- Professor, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, 2014-present
- Associate Professor, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, 2011-2014
- Visiting Researcher, Program in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Princeton University, 2010-2011
- Associate Professor, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2008-2011
- Assistant Professor, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2002-2008
- Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 1998-2002
Honors and Awards
- Mentoring Award for Graduate Students, USC, 2018
- Outstanding Civil Engineerin Research, ASCE-Los Angeles, 2016
- Outstanding Civil Engineering Advisor, ASCE-Los Angeles, 2016
- Walter L Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, ASCE, 2013
- John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair in Civil Engineering, USC, 2011
- Guggenheim Fellow, Natural Sciences, 2010
- Department of the Army Commander's Award for Public Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2008
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering Award for Excellence, 2008
- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering inaugural Recipient of Excellence in Research Award, 2007
- Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Select Young Faculty Award, 2006
- Best Graduate Student Paper Award, given annually by the Offshore, Ocean and Arctic Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002
Professional Societies
Member: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute (COPRI) | Association of Coastal Engineers (ACE) | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) | Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) |The Tsunami Society |International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) | American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Research Projects
Visit my Research pages for details.
Publications
Visit my Publications or Google Scholar pages for a comprehensive listing.
Scholarly Activities and Contributions
- COULWAVE and pCOULWAVE Boussinesq Wave Models. COULWAVE is a Boussinesq-type wave model used for coastal and ocean wave propagation. See the pCOULWAVE page to download the source code, examples, and users manual.
- Post-Disaster Field Surveys. Lynett was a member of the 2005 International Tsunami Survey Team to Sri Lanka and the 2005 Hurricane Katrina Coastal Impacts Survey Team sponsored by ASCE, as well as many more recent surveys. For more information, see Photos in the Research section.
- Ph.D. Thesis. A Multi-Layer Approach to Modeling Generation, Propagation, and Interaction of Water Waves. Supervisor, Dr. P. L.-F. Liu, 2002.
- M.E. Thesis. Evaluation of the Lake Source Cooling Intake System. Supervisor, M. Weber-Shirk, 1998.
Professional Consulting
I have served as a consultant for Moffat & Nichol, Taylor Engineering, and a number of other firms.
Teaching and Courses
Visit my Teaching pages for a description of my teaching activities.
Students Supervised
The Research Group page summarizes my supervising activities.
Peer-Review Activities
I serve as a reviewer for manuscripts and proposals for (among others): Journal of Engineering Mechanics | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering | Coastal Engineering | Ocean Engineering | JGR-Oceans | Journal of Computational Physics | International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids | Pure and Applied Geophysics | U.S. National Science Foundation | Sea Grant