Anne S. Kiremidjian is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. From 1987 to 2002 she served as the Director and Co-Director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University.  Dr Kiremidjian received her B.S. degree from Columbia University in Civil Engineering and her M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford University in Structural Engineering.  Professor Kiremidjian has been on the faculty at Stanford since 1978 where she teaches courses in structural analysis, earthquake engineering, probabilistic methods and structural reliability analysis.  Her research over the years has focused on stochastic modeling of earthquake events, site hazard characterization, ground motion modeling, earthquake damage and loss estimation, structural damage modeling, risk analysis of transportation systems, reliability analysis of industrial systems, and damage detection algorithms.  Currently she is working on the development of distributed remote sensing systems for structural damage monitoring using micro-electro-mechanical sensors, embedded diagnostic algorithms and advanced wireless communications technologies. In 1997 she and two of her colleagues were granted a US patent for the method and concept of wireless structural health monitoring (US Patent No. 6,292,108).

Professor Kiremidjian has receiver the School of Engineering Distinguished Advisor Award, Stanford University, June 1989, the National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women, 1991-1995, the Society of Women Engineers Distinguished Educator Award, 1992, the American Society of Civil Engineer, the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Distinguished Service Award, August 11, 1995, the Extraordinary Achievement Award from Applied Technology Council in 1998 and Best Paper Award with Dimitris Pachakis at International Workshop on Harbour, Maritime & Multimodal Logistics Modelling and Simulation, Bergeggi Italy, 3-5 October 2002, and on August 11, 2003 the C. Martin Duke Award for Excellence in Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Research from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Dr. Kiremidjian has more than 150 publications that include journals papers, technical reports, and refereed conference proceeding papers. She has been an invited, keynote and distinguished lecturer at major national and international meetings and makes frequent presentations at seminars and other professional gatherings.