Institute: Department of Civil Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Professor
Country/Region: USA
Period: 2026/4/6- 2026/7/2
Theme: Seismic Design and Performance Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings
Host: Koichi KUSUNOKI
Introduction: John W. Wallace is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined UCLA in 1996 and has authored or co-authored over 115 peer-reviewed technical papers. He started his academic career at Clarkson University in 1989.
John has been a voting member of ACI Committee 318 since 2014 and 318 Subcommittee H – Seismic Provisions since 1995; he was the Chair of 318H for the 2025 code cycle. He is also a voting member of ACI Committee 374 – Performance-Based Seismic Design of Buildings and ACI Committee 369 – Seismic Repair and Rehabilitation and 369S – Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit Code.
He is an ACI Fellow (2000) and he received the ACI Authur J. Boase Award in 2020, the ACI Mete A. Sozen Award for Excellence in Structural Research in 2025, and the ACI Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award in 2026. He is also a Fellow (2015) and Life Member (2025) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
His research contributions focus on assessing the behavior of structures subjected to earthquake and wind loading, laboratory and field testing of structural components and systems, and developing and validating models for structural analysis and design. His research accomplishments address both design of new bridges and buildings, evaluation, retrofit, and repair of existing buildings, and use of sensor networks on existing buildings. He is member and Past-President of the Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council.
Dr. Wallace received a BS Magna Cum Laude (1982) in Civil Engineering from the University of Vermont and MS (1984) and PhD (1989) in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of UC Berkeley Civil Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni.

Fiscal Year: 2026