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'''Armen Der Kiureghian''' ({{lang-hy|Արմէն Տէր-Կիւրեղեան}}, October 4, 1947), is an Iranian-born [[Armenian-American]] academic,
== Biography ==
Armen Der Kiureghian was born in Isfahan in the family of prominent Armenian painter [[Sumbat Der Kiureghian]]. He received his [[B.S.]] and [[M.S.]] in [[Civil Engineering]] from the [[University of Tehran]], [[Iran]], and his [[Ph.D.]] in [[Structural Engineering]] from the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] in 1975. In 1978 he joined the faculty at the [[University of California at Berkeley]], where in 1978-1981 he was as [[Assistant Professor]], and continued to be an [[Associate Professor]] (1981-1985), Professor (1985), Vice Chair (1990-1993) and Chair (1997-2001) of the Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials Program and as Vice Chair for Instruction in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Since July 1999, he has held the Taisei Chair in Civil Engineering in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/derkiureghian/biography|title=BIOGRAPHY Faculty {{!}} Civil and Environmental Engineering|website=www.ce.berkeley.edu|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref>
After the [[Spitak earthquake]] of 1988 in Armenia, Der Kiureghian played a leading role in establishing the [[American University of Armenia]] in [[Yerevan]] as an affiliate of the University of California. He served as the founding Dean of the College of Engineering (1991-2007) and as Interim Provost (2011-2012) of AUA concurrently with his position at Berkeley. He has also served as the founding Director of the Engineering Research Center of AUA (1991-2004), a has been founding member of the Board of Trustees of AUA. He served as interim president of the university since the departure of President Bruce Boghosian in July [[2014]]. In January, Dr. Armen Der Kiureghian has accepted the position of president of AUA.<ref name="armweekly"/> In May [[2019]], he passed the baton to Dr. [[Karin Markides]].<ref name="AUA Newsroom 2021"/>
Armen Der Kiureghian's teaching and research interests are in the areas of structural reliability, [[risk analysis]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mae.cee.illinois.edu/Symposium/|title=Events {{!}} MAE Center|website=mae.cee.illinois.edu|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref> 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 300 publications, including more than 110 in archival journals and book chapters.
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