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Mark Austin Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Phone : (301)-405-6627 FAX : (301)-405-6707 E-mail : austin@isr.umd.edu

August 1993 to present

• University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
  Associate Professor
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering .
    Joint and affiliate appointments with the Institute for Systems Research .
    Affiliate appointment with Interdisciplinary Program of Applied Mathematics.
  • Graduate Director for Master of Science in Systems Engineering Program .
  • Associate Director, Systems Engineering and Integration Laboratory .
  • Member, Advanced Information Technology Laboratory .

August 1987 to July 1993

• University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
  Assistant Professor
  • Joint appointments in Department of Civil Engineering and Systems Research Center.

June 1993 to May 1995

• Hughes Information Technology Systems, Landover, Maryland.
  Scientist/Engineer
  • Formulated Education Program for NASA's Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS) Program.

December 1985 to July 1987

• University of California , Berkeley, California
  Research Engineer, Department of Civil Engineering
  • Conducted research on Computer-Aided Design of Earthquake Resistant Structures.

• Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of California , Berkeley in 1985.
• M.S. in Structural Engineering from the University of California , Berkeley in 1982.
• B.E. (First Class Honors) from University of Canterbury , New Zealand in 1980.

• Chairman, Applications Forum Working Group, International Council of Systems Engineering
• Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
• Member, Association of Computing Machinery
• Member, New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineering

• Selberg S. and Austin M.A. , Toward an Evolutionary System of Systems Architecture, Eighteenth Annual International Symposium of The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 15-19, 2008 ( pdf ).
• Johnson J. and Austin M.A., A Process Modeling Framework for Formal Validation of Panama Canal System Operations, Eighteenth Annual International Symposium of The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 15-19, 2008 ( pdf ).
• Fogarty K. and Austin M.A. , Systems Modeling and Traceability Applications of the Higraph Formalism , Systems Engineering: The Journal of the International Council on Systems Engineering, Published Online, August 5, 2008.
• Austin M.A. and Raley C. , Design Platform Methodology for Augmented Cognition, Chapter 8 of Augmented Cognition: A Practitioner's Guide , pp. 196-221, Edited by Dylan D. Schmorrow and Kay M. Stanney, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, P.O. Box 1369, Santa Monica, CA 90406-1369, September 2008, p. 280.
• Selberg S. and Austin M.A. , Backbone Infrastructures for Sustainable System-of-Systems Management, Sixth Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research , Los Angeles, April 4-6, 2008.
• Austin M.A., Mayank V., and Shmunis N., Ontology-Based Validation of Connectivity Relationships in a Home Theater System, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 21, No. 10, October 2006, pp. 1111-1125.
• Austin M.A., Mayank V., and Shmunis N. , PaladinRM: Graph-Based Visualization of Requirements Organized for Team-Based Design, Systems Engineering: The Journal of the International Council on Systems Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 129-145.
• Austin M.A. , Toward Platform Architectures for Modular Cognitive Cockpits, Ist International Conference on Augmented Cognition , Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, July 26, 2005.
• Mayank V. and Austin M.A. , Ontology-Enabled Validation of System Architectures, Fourteenth Annual International Symposium of The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) , Toulouse, France, June 20-24, 2004.
• Selberg S.A. and Austin M.A. , Requirements Engineering and the Semantic Web, ISR Technical Report 2003-20, University of Maryland, College Park, MD., May 2003, (p. 62). Formats Available: Acrobat pdf (15,332 KB)
• Austin M.A., Baras J.S., and Kositsyna N.I. , Combined Research and Curriculum Development in Information-Centric Systems Engineering, Twelth Annual International Symposium of The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) , Las Vegas, USA, July, 2002.
• Austin M.A., Web-Based Systems Engineering Application Profiles, Eighth Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) , Vancouver, Canada, July 26-30, 1998. Formats Available: Postscript (compressed) (328 KB)

CIVIL SYSTEMS

• Kaisar E. and Austin M.A., Synthesis and Validation of High-Level Behavior Models for Narrow Waterway Management Systems, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, September 2007, pp. 373-378.
• Kaisar E., Austin M.A., and Papadimitriou S., Formal Development and Evaluation of Narrow Passageway System Operations, European Transport/Transporti Europei , Vol. 34, December 2006, pp. 88-104.
• Kaisar E., Austin M.A., and Haghani A. , An Object-Oriented Approach for the Architecture Design of the Management of Narrow Passageways, International Workshop on Harbour, Maritime and Multinodal Logistics, Modeling and Simulation, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 16-18, 2004 ( pdf , 177 KB).
• Kaisar E., Austin M.A., Lagakos V., and Papadimitriou S. , Hierarchical Object-Oriented Models for Management of Narrow Passageways, European Research Studies Journal , Volume VI, Issue (3-4), 2004, pp. 95-108.
• Austin M.A. and Kaisar E. , Multi-Level Object-Based Modeling of Narrow Passageway Transportation Systems, 6th World MultiConference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics , July 14-18, Orlando, FL, 2002. Best Paper Award for section on Information Technology Applications in Transportation.
• Casey M.J. and Austin M.A., Semantic Web Methodologies for Spatial Decision Support, Proceedings of DSIAge2002: International Conference for Decision Support Systems in the Internet Age. July 3-7, 2002. Cork, Ireland. ( pdf , 449KB)
• Lagakos V., Kaisar E., and Austin M.A. , Object-based Models for Management of Narrow Passageways in Transportation Systems, Eleventh Annual International Symposium of The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) , Melbourne, Australia, July 1-5, 2001.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING AND DYNAMICS

• Sebastianelli R. and Austin M.A., Symbolic Analysis of Sub-Optimal Bang-Bang Control Mechanisms in Base Isolated Structures, Journal of Shock and Vibration , Vol. 16, No. 2, February 2009, pp. 195-211.
• Austin M.A., and Sebastianelli R., Phase Analysis of Actuator Response for Sub-Optimal Bang-Bang and Velocity Cancellation Control of Base Isolated Structures, Journal of Structural Control and Health Monitoring , Vol. 14, Issue 7, July 2007, pp. 1034-1061.
• Sebastianelli R. and Austin M.A., Energy Balance and Power Demand Assessment of Actuators in Base Isolated Structures supplemented with Modified Bang-Bang Control, Structural Engineering and Mechanics , Vol. 25, No. 5, March 2007, pp. 541-564.
• Austin M.A. and Lin W.J. , Energy-Balance Assessment of Isolated Structures, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 130, No. 3, March 2004, pp. 347-358.
• Austin M.A., Lin W.J., and Chen X.G., Structural Matrix Computations with Units, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering , ASCE, Vol. 14, No. 3, July 2000, pp. 174-182.
• Austin M.A. and Voon B.K. , Structural Optimization in a Distributed Computing Environment, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering , Vol. 107, September 1993, pp. 173-192.
• Austin M.A. , High Order Integration of Structural Dynamics Equations: Theory and Numerical Experiments,'' International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering , Vol. 36, July 1993, pp. 2107-2122.
• Austin M.A., Krishnaprasad P.S., and Wang L.S. , Almost Poisson Integration of Rigid Body Systems, Journal of Computational Physics , Volume 107, June, 1993, pp. 105-117.
• Austin M.A., Creighton S., and Albrecht P. , XBUILD : Preprocessor for Finite Element Analysis of Steel Bridges, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering , ASCE, January, 1993, pp. 54-70.
• Austin M.A. and Preston J. , Solid Modeling of RC Beams, Part 1 : Data Structures and Algorithms, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering , ASCE, October 1992, pp. 389-403.
• Preston J. and Austin M.A. , Solid Modeling of RC Beams, Part 2 : Computational Environment, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering , ASCE. October 1992, pp. 404-416.
• Austin M.A., Mahin S.A., and Pister K.S., CSTRUCT : Computer Environment for the Design of Steel Structures, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering , ASCE, July, 1989, pp. 209-227.
• Austin M.A., Pister K.S., and Mahin S.A. , "A Methodology for the Probabilistic Limit States Design of Earthquake-Resistant Structures," Journal of the Structural Division , ASCE, August 1987, pp. 1642-1659.
• Austin M.A., Pister K.S., and Mahin S.A. , "Probabilistic Limit States Design of Moment-Resistant Frames under Seismic Loading," Journal of the Structural Division , ASCE, August 1987, pp. 1660-1677.
• Austin M.A. and Pister K.S. , "Design of Friction-Braced Frames under Seismic Loading," Journal of the Structural Division , ASCE, December 1985, pp. 2751-2769.

ENGINEERING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

• Austin M.A. , Matrix and Finite Element Stack Machines for Structural Engineering Computations with Units, Advances in Engineering Software, Elsevier, Vol. 37, No. 8, August 2006, pp. 544-559.
• Austin M.A. and Chancogne D., Introduction to Engineering Programming in C, MATLAB, and Java , John-Wiley and Sons , New York, p. 656. December, 1998.
• Lin W.J. and Austin M.A., Design of a Scripting Language for the Energy-Based Analysis of Nonlinear Structural Systems, I3th U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, University of Florida, Gainesville, June 21-26, 1998. Formats Available: Postscript (compressed) (273 KB)
• Chancogne D. and Austin M., Web Dieting -- Dynamic and Interactive Environment Tools for the Web , Sixth World Wide Web Conference , Stanford, California, April 1997, p. 11.
• Austin M.A., X.G. Chen, and W.J. Lin , ALADDIN : A Computational Toolkit for Interactive Engineering Matrix and Finite Element Analysis, Technical Report TR 95-74 , Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, August 1995.

• Austin M.A., Systems Engineering Challenges for Sensor-Based Supply Chains , Presentation to CELDi-Maryland Planning Meeting, University of Maryland, May 23, 2006.
• Austin M.A., Baras J.S., and Kositsyna N.I., Combined Research and Curriculum Development in Information-Centric Systems Engineering , Presented at INCOSE 2002, Las Vegas, July 31, 2002.
• Austin M.A., Baras J., Casey M., Kositsyna N., NSF-CRCD: Combined Research and Curriculum Development in Systems Engineering. Poster Presentation , Research Review Day, University of Maryland, March 1, 2002.
• Austin M.A. and Kositsyna N.I., Combined Research and Curriculum Development in Systems Engineering , Presented at General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY. November 5, 2001. Note. To see the Java-enabled components of this presentation, you will need a browser that supports Java 2 (e.g., Netscape 6 or MS Internet Explorer 5).
• Austin M.A., Enhancing Web-based Project Management with Java and XML , Presentation to ENCE 626 : Web-based Project Management, University of Maryland, November 14, 2001. Note. To see the Java-enabled components of this presentation, you will need a browser that supports Java 2 (e.g., Netscape 6 or MS Internet Explorer 5).

• Agilent Technology Foundation (2006)
• Invention of the Year Finalist, University of Maryland (2005)
• Best Paper Award. Information Technology Applications in Transportation, 6WMSCI (2002)
• NSF Research Initiation Award (1989-1991)
• Winiata Memorial Bursary (1985-1986)
• W.W. Van Arnesdale Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley (1982)
• Earle C. Anthony Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley (1981)
• New Zealand Senior University Scholarship (1980)
• Southland Savings Bank Scholarship (1978-1980)

• Internet Programming: HTML, Java, XML, RDF, and Ontologies.
• Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP.
• Development Platforms: Netbeans, Xcode 3 (just learning).
• Software Packages: LaTeX, TeX, MATLAB, Photoshop, and others.

• Available upon request

Last Modified: September 12, 2008
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