Prior to joining NYA as the Director of Research and Development, Dr. Restrepo served as a Professor in the Department of Structural Engineering at UC San Diego.

Dr. Restrepo was the Principal Investigator for the Design and Construction of the NSF-funded Large High-Performance Shake Table (LHPOST), the world’s largest by various metrics.

He has also participated in the write up of PBSD guidelines and standards for Bridges (AASHTO) and Container Wharves (ASCE-COPRI) and has taught a PBSD graduate course (PEER TBI & LATBSDC) for the past twenty-two years.

Dr. Restrepo has been the recipient of the ACI Chester Paul Siess Award, PCI Charles C. Zollman and Martin Korn Awards, FHWA James Cooper Award, and the ASCE Charles Pankow and Alfred Noble Awards for his research.

PhD Civil Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

- Park & Market, San Diego, California
Thirty-seven story building
EOR: Glotman-Simpson, Vancouver, Canada
Structural PRP: John Hooper MKA (Industry) & Jose Restrepo (Academia)

- The Diegan, San Diego, California
37-story mixed-use tower
EOR: KorStrucutral, Vancouver, Canada
Structural PRP: Len Joseph TT (Industry) & Jose Restrepo (Academia)

- Front & A, San Diego, California
40-story mixed-use tower
EOR: Glotman Simpson, Vancouver, Canada
Structural PRP: Len Joseph TT (Industry) & Jose Restrepo (Academia)

- Columbia Tower, San Diego, California
Glotman Simpson, Vancouver, Canada
Structural PRP: John Hooper MKA (Industry) & Jose Restrepo (Academia)

- Rondo Energy, Taft, California
Seismic Isolated Facility
EOR: Edifica USA LLC, Irvine, California
Structural PRP: Michelle Chen (Industry) & Jose Restrepo (Academia)

- Market St Square, San Diego, California - Currently on hold
Forty-three story highly irregular building
EOR: KPFF San Diego
Structural PRP: Len Joseph TT (Industry) & Jose Restrepo (Academia)

- Alto Rio Building, Concepcion, Chile
Forensic Engineering 15-story building collapse study
World’s largest nonlinear model to date
Jose Restrepo, Team Leader

- Rajawala Tower (Four Seasons Hotel), Jakarta, Indonesia
Fifty-five story mixed-use tower
Jose Restrepo – Team leader for nonlinear response history analysis in support of PBSD

- Park Towers, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Twenty-seven & twenty-three story towers connected with long-span bridges
EOR: Leonardo Reyes Madera and Assoc, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Jose Restrepo, Peer reviewer

- Torres Noval, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Six 50-story towers and one 37-story tower
EOR: Leonardo Reyes Madera and Assoc, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Jose Restrepo, Peer reviewer

- Signature Tower, Jakarta, Indonesia – Currently on hold
111-story tower - The tallest tower in a seismic region
EOR: Gistama Intesemesta & Thornton Tomasetti
Jose Restrepo – Peer reviewer for nonlinear analysis

- Port Terminal 1 – Anchorage, Alaska
EOR: WSP
Jose Restrepo – Peer reviewer

- Licensed Civil Engineer – Colombia

- Fellow, American Concrete Institute (ACI)

- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

- Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC)

- Anti-Seismic Systems International Society (ASSISi)

- Voting Member, ASCE COPRI 64 Standard for the Seismic Design of Container Wharves

Restrepo, J.I., Park, R. and Buchanan, A.H., 1995. Tests on connections of earthquake resisting precast reinforced concrete perimeter frames of buildings. PCI journal, 40(4), pp.44-61.

Paulay, T. and Restrepo, J.I., 1998. Displacement and ductility compatibility in buildings with mixed structural systems. Bulletin of the New Zealand National Society for Earthquake Engineering, 11, pp.7-12.

Blandon, C.A., Restrepo, J.I., Kawamata, Y. and Ashford, S., 2013. Seismic performance of pile-supported wharves. Special Publication, 295, pp.1-16.

Chen, M.C., Pantoli, E., Wang, X., Astroza, R., Ebrahimian, H., Hutchinson, T.C., Conte, J.P., Restrepo, J.I., Marin, C., Walsh, K.D. and Bachman, R.E., 2016. Full-scale structural and nonstructural building system performance during earthquakes: Part I–specimen description, test protocol, and structural response. Earthquake Spectra, 32(2), pp.737-770.

Zhang, P., Restrepo, J.I., Conte, J.P. and Ou, J., 2017. Nonlinear finite element modeling and response analysis of the collapsed Alto Rio building in the 2010 Chile Maule earthquake. The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, 26(16), p.e1364.

Kurama, Y.C., Sritharan, S., Fleischman, R.B., Restrepo, J.I., Henry, R.S., Cleland, N.M., Ghosh, S.K. and Bonelli, P., 2018. Seismic-resistant precast concrete structures: State of the art. Journal of Structural Engineering, 144(4), p.03118001.

Chen, M.C., Restrepo, J.I., Blandon, C. and Velásquez, J.F., 2021. Performance-based seismic design framework for inertia-sensitive nonstructural components in base-isolated buildings. Journal of Building Engineering, 43, p.103073.

Godínez, S.E. and Restrepo, J.I., 2023. Stringer-panel model to support the seismic design and response verification of building diaphragms. Resilient Cities and Structures, 2(1), pp.46-67.
Murphy et al. 2023. Proposed AASHTO guidelines for performance-based seismic bridge design. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 83 p.

Richards, T.L., Suarez, S., Restrepo, J.I., Morrison, M.L. and Jaradat, O., 2022. Steel Pipe Pile Strain Limits for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Marine Structures. In Ports 2022 (pp. 767-776).