Dr. Francois Hemez

Dr. Hemez has over 10 years of experience in the development of Verification and Validation (V&V) and its application to structural dynamics and computational physics. His experience includes finite element model updating for both linear and nonlinear structural dynamics models. He has also worked extensively in the disciplines of code and calculation verification, sensitivity analysis, test-analysis correlation and uncertainty quantification. Dr. Hemez is currently a Technical Staff Member on the Methods and Verification Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Dr. Charles “Chuck” Farrar

Dr. Farrar has been a pioneer in the development of  SHM for a variety of engineering applications. He is currently the director of the Engineering Institute at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which focuses on developing SHM and model validation technology.