Segura, Rocio Lilen

Rocio L. Segura is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering at Santa Clara University. Prior to that, she obtained the Mitacs Industrial Postdoc Fellowship, to do her postdoc with Hydro-Quebec as an industrial partner. Her research focuses on the resilience of critical infrastructure, particularly dams and levees, against extreme events and climate change. She applies probabilistic methods to assess risks and promote infrastructure durability. Additionally, her work explores community resilience and climate justice, integrating built, natural, and social systems to address environmental challenges comprehensively.

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Sherbrooke University, Quebec, Canada, June 2019
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Del Comahue National University, Neuquen, Argentina, August 2013

• CENG 41: Statics
• CENG 135/135L: Reinforced concrete design
• CENG 236: Advanced reinforced concrete
• CENG 43L: Strength of Materials Lab
• CENG 220: Structural Dynamics
• CENG 288: Engineering Decision and Risk Analysis

• 2023 Severo Ochoa Mobility Programme grant. Short-term research visit to collaborate with CIMNE International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering’s research group on Machine Learning in Civil Engineering in Madrid, Spain.
• 2019-2022 MITACS - Accelerate industrial postdoc scholarship. 2019 Léonard de Vinci medal and Scholarship - La fondation, Sherbrooke University

1. 2024 de Almeida Torres Filho, R., Segura, R. and Paultre, P., Stability assessment of concrete gravity dams via multifidelity surrogate models, Advances in Civil Engineering, Special Issue: Smart Earthquake Engineering: Machine Learning for Seismic Risk Reduction (submitted).
2. 2024 Patra, B.K., Segura, R. and Bagchi, A., Modeling Variability in Seismic Analysis of Concrete Gravity Dams: A Parametric Analysis of Koyna and Pine Flat Dams, Infrastructures, Special issue: Advances in Dam Engineering of the 21st Century.
3. 2023 Segura, R., Miquel, B. and Paultre, P., Parameterized seismic fragility functions for gravity dams: An approach including the effect of updated model parameter knowledge, Canadian and Pacific conference of earthquake engineering. Vancouver, BC, Canada
4. 2023 de Almeida Torres Filho, R., Segura, R. and Paultre, P., Polynomial response surface-based transformation function for the performance improvement of low-fidelity models for gravity dams, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics.
5. 2022 Segura, R., Fréchette, V., Miquel, B. and Paultre, P., Dual layer metamodel-based safety assessment for rock wedge stability of a free-crested weir, Engineering Structures.
6. 2021 Segura, R., Padgett, J. E. and Paultre, P., Expected seismic performance of gravity dams using machine learning techniques, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering.
7. 2021 Segura, R., Miquel, B., Padgett, J. E. and Paultre, P., Accounting for uncertainties in safety assessment of concrete gravity dams: a probabilistic approach with sample optimization, Water journal.
8. 2020 Segura, R., Padgett, J. E. and Paultre, P., Meta-model based seismic fragility analysis of concrete gravity dams, Journal of structural engineering: Special Collection on Data Analytics in Structural Engineering.
9. 2020 Segura, R., Padgett, J. E. and Paultre, P., Fragility surfaces for efficient seismic assessment of gravity dams via surrogate modeling, 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering.
10. 2019 Segura, R., Bernier, C., Durand, C. and Paultre, P., Modeling and characterizing a concrete gravity dam for fragility analysis, Infrastructures, Special Issue: Advances in Dam Engineering.
11. 2019 Segura, R., Padgett, J. E. and Paultre, P., Polynomial Response Surface-Based Seismic Fragility Assessment of Concrete Gravity Dams, 12th Canadian conference on earthquake engineering.
12. 2019 Segura, R., Bernier, C., Monteiro, R. and Paultre, P., On the seismic fragility assessment of concrete gravity dams in eastern Canada, Earthquake Spectra.
13. 2018 Segura, R., Monteiro, R. and Paultre, P., Improved seismic fragility assessment of concrete gravity dams in eastern Canada, CDA 2018 Annual Conference.