2026 Roger Ghanem: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	68	1182	1118	387	345	318	26258

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - SIAM Fellow For his seminal contributions to the mathematical foundations of uncertainty quantification methods.
2018 - Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2009 - THE BELYTSCHKO MEDAL For outstanding and sustained contributions to the development and dissemination of uncertainty quantification methods and their application to structural engineering

Overview

Roger Ghanem is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including engineering and computer science, with a focus on probabilistic and robust engineering design, model reduction and neural networks, and structural health monitoring techniques.

The primary domains of Ghanem's work include:

Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
Model Reduction and Neural Networks
Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
Wind and Air Flow Studies

Their research is often situated within the following subfields of study:

Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Artificial Intelligence
Civil and Structural Engineering
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Environmental Engineering

Frequent publication venues for Ghanem's research include:

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
arXiv (Cornell University)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Computational Mechanics

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Xiaoshu Zeng
Christian Soize
Ruda Zhang
Bora Gencturk
Zhiheng Wang

Selected recent publications by Roger Ghanem include:

"An extended polynomial chaos expansion for PDF characterization and variation with aleatory and epistemic uncertainties," 2021, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
"A functional global sensitivity measure and efficient reliability sensitivity analysis with respect to statistical parameters," 2022, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
"Probabilistic learning on manifolds constrained by nonlinear partial differential equations for small datasets," 2021, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
"Probabilistic learning and updating of a digital twin for composite material systems," 2020, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
"Projection pursuit adaptation on polynomial chaos expansions," 2022, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Over their career, Ghanem's contributions have been recognized by multiple awards, including:

SIAM Fellow (2019) for seminal contributions to the mathematical foundations of uncertainty quantification methods
Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) (2018)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2016)
THE BELYTSCHKO MEDAL (2009) for contributions to the development and dissemination of uncertainty quantification methods and their application to structural engineering

Best Publications

Stochastic Finite Elements: A Spectral Approach

Roger G. Ghanem;Pol D. Spanos

8416
Citations
Physical Systems with Random Uncertainties: Chaos Representations with Arbitrary Probability Measure

Christian Soize;Roger Ghanem

772
Citations
Stochastic Finite Element Expansion for Random Media

P. D. Spanos;Roger Ghanem

760
Citations
Numerical Challenges in the Use of Polynomial Chaos Representations for Stochastic Processes

Bert J. Debusschere;Habib N. Najm;Philippe P. Pébay;Omar M. Knio

621
Citations
Ingredients for a general purpose stochastic finite elements implementation

Roger Ghanem

574
Citations
Uncertainty propagation using Wiener-Haar expansions

O. P. Le Maître;O. M. Knio;H. N. Najm;R. G. Ghanem

574
Citations
Polynomial Chaos in Stochastic Finite Elements

Roger Ghanem;P. D. Spanos

555
Citations
A stochastic projection method for fluid flow. I: basic formulation

Olivier P. Le Maitre;Omar M. Kino;Habib N. Najm;Roger G. Ghanem

508
Citations
Handbook of Uncertainty Quantification

Roger Ghanem;David Higdon;Houman Owhadi

506
Citations
A stochastic projection method for fluid flow II.: random process

Olivier P. Le Maîetre;Matthew T. Reagan;Habib N. Najm;Roger G. Ghanem

457
Citations
Multi-resolution analysis of wiener-type uncertainty propagation schemes

O. P. Le Maître;H. N. Najm;R. G. Ghanem;O. M. Knio

442
Citations
Numerical solution of spectral stochastic finite element systems

Roger G. Ghanem;Robert M. Kruger

412
Citations
Uncertainty quantification in reacting-flow simulations through non-intrusive spectral projection

Matthew T. Reagan;Habib N. Najm;Roger G. Ghanem;Omar M. Knio

397
Citations
Structural-System Identification. I: Theory

Roger Ghanem;Masanobu Shinozuka

389
Citations
Spectral Stochastic Finite-Element Formulation for Reliability Analysis

Roger G. Ghanem;Pol D. Spanos

366
Citations
Stochastic Finite-Element Analysis of Seismic Soil-Structure Interaction

Dan M. Ghiocel;Roger G. Ghanem

290
Citations
Propagation of probabilistic uncertainty in complex physical systems using a stochastic finite element approach

Roger Ghanem;John Red-Horse

274
Citations
Stochastic Finite Elements with Multiple Random Non-Gaussian Properties

Roger Ghanem

269
Citations
Iterative solution of systems of linear equations arising in the context of stochastic finite elements

M. F. Pellissetti;R. G. Ghanem

263
Citations
Polynomial chaos decomposition for the simulation of non-gaussian nonstationary stochastic processes

Shigehiro Sakamoto;Roger Ghanem

261
Citations
A WAVELET-BASED APPROACH FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF LINEAR TIME-VARYING DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Roger Ghanem;Francesco Romeo

255
Citations