Awards

Research recognition across the reliability community.

IASSAR awards recognize sustained and early-career contributions to structural safety, risk, reliability, and related fields.

Distinguished Service Award

Distinguished Service Award recipients.

The DOCX identifies the Distinguished Service Award as a new IASSAR award established at ICOSSAR 2025.

Distinguished Service Award recipients.
Year	Location	Recipients
2025	Los Angeles, USA	Dan M. Frangopol (Lehigh University, USA): Inaugural recipient, recognized for contributions to structural reliability, risk-informed life-cycle assessment, and international collaboration in structural safety research.

Distinguished Research Award

Distinguished Research Award recipients.

This award was referred to as the IASSAR Senior Research Prize prior to 2017.

Distinguished Research Award recipients.
Year	Location	Recipients
1993	Innsbruck, Austria	M.D. Grigoriu (Cornell University, USA): Modeling of non-Gaussian processes and the analysis of systems subjected thereto Y.K. Lin (1923-2024) (Florida Atlantic University, USA): Advancement of methods of nonlinear stochastic dynamics A.H.S. Ang (1930-2024) (University of California, Irvine, USA): Development of methods for structural systems reliability V.V. Bolotin (1926-2008) (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia): Advancement of the field of stochastic fracture mechanics and fatigue M. Hoshiya (1937-2008) (Tokyo City University, Japan): Extension and practical applications of the Kalman filtering technique F. Kozin (1930-1990): Advancement of the field of systems identification; Posthumous
1997	Kyoto, Japan	W.V. Wedig (1938-2025) (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany): Development of computational techniques for stochastic stability problems P.D. Spanos (Rice University, USA): Advancement of stochastic mechanics methods for nonlinear complex structural systems Y.K. Wen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA): Advancement of reliability-based design and safety evaluation of structural systems H. Itagaki (Yokohama National University, Japan): Development of Bayesian inspection procedure for fatigue sensitive structures H.G. Natke (1933-2002) (University of Hannover, Germany): Development of system identification techniques, notably frequency response methods
2000		M. Shinozuka (1930-2018) (University of Southern California, USA): Life achievement
2001	Newport Beach, USA	L.A. Bergman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA): Computational stochastic mechanics C. Soize (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France): Stochastic dynamics D.M. Frangopol (Lehigh University, USA): System reliability and optimization C.H. Loh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan): System identification H. Ishikawa (Kagawa University, Japan): Reliability education
2005	Rome, Italy	J.L. Beck (California Institute of Technology, USA): Computational stochastic mechanics M. Di Paola (University of Palermo, Italy): Stochastic dynamics R.B. Corotis (University of Colorado Boulder, USA): System reliability and optimization K. Sobczyk (1939-2017) (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland): Stochastic fatigue, fracture and damage T. Sato (Kyoto University, Japan): System identification
2009	Osaka, Japan	B.R. Ellingwood (Colorado State University, USA): Risk analysis in decision making R. Ghanem (University of Southern California, USA): Computational methods in stochastic mechanics T. Vrouwenvelder (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands): Eurocode on accidental actions
2013	New York, USA	A. Der Kiureghian (University of California, Berkeley, USA) A. Kareem (University of Notre Dame, USA)
2017	Vienna, Austria	A. Naess (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) M. Ghosn (City College of New York, USA)
2022	Shanghai, China	S. Mahadevan (Vanderbilt University, USA) M. Mignolet (Arizona State University, USA) G. Muscolino (University of Messina, Italy)
2025	Los Angeles, USA	Ser-Tong Quek (National University of Singapore): Pioneering contributions to structural reliability, health monitoring, and damage detection. George Deodatis (Columbia University, USA): Seminal research in stochastic structural dynamics and spectral representation methods.

Early Achievement Research Award

Early Achievement Research Award recipients.

This award was referred to as the IASSAR Junior Research Prize prior to 2017.

Early Achievement Research Award recipients.
Year	Location	Recipients
1993	Innsbruck, Austria	T. Takada (Ohsaki Research Institute, Japan): Industrial application of stochastic finite element methods C.G. Bucher (1956-2023) (University of Innsbruck, Austria): Applying stochastic stability theories to practical engineering structures K.W. Breitung (1952-2024) (Technical University of Munich, Germany): Advancement of analytical procedures to calculate structural reliability by using asymptotic analysis B.F. Spencer Jr (University of Notre Dame, USA): Stochastic modeling of fatigue crack growth R. Ghanem (University at Buffalo, USA): Application of recursive system identification techniques in civil engineering
1997	Kyoto, Japan	G. Deodatis (Princeton University, USA): Development of stochastic finite element methods based on variability response functions R.C. Zhang (Colorado School of Mines, USA): Solution of seismic wave propagation through stochastic media H. Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan): Theoretical development of stochastic crack propagation models I. Yoshida (Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan): Development of inverse analysis methods in system identification
2001	Newport Beach, USA	S.J. Dyke (Purdue University, USA): Computational stochastic mechanics M. Vasta (University of Palermo, Italy): Stochastic dynamics A. Zerva (Drexel University, USA): System reliability and optimization S. Rahman (University of Iowa, USA): Stochastic fatigue, fracture and damage L.S. Katafygiotis (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China): System identification
2005	Rome, Italy	S.K. Au (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): Computational stochastic mechanics C.A. Schenk (University of Innsbruck, Austria): Stochastic dynamics L. Graham-Brady (Johns Hopkins University, USA): Stochastic fatigue, fracture and damage E.A. Johnson (University of Southern California, USA): System identification
2009	Osaka, Japan	J.H. Song (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA): System reliability based design optimization J.S. Kong (Wonkwang University, South Korea): Reliability based life cycle cost analysis
2013	New York, USA	D. Straub (Technical University of Munich, Germany) J.W. Baker (Stanford University, USA)
2017	Vienna, Austria	J.B. Chen (Tongji University, China) L. Dueñas-Osorio (Rice University, USA) K. Goda (University of Bristol, UK)
2022	Shanghai, China	J. Zhang (Tongji University, China) J.L. Le (University of Minnesota, USA) I. Papaioannou (Technical University of Munich, Germany) I. Tien (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
2025	Los Angeles, USA	Michael D. Shields (Johns Hopkins University, USA): Advanced sampling methods and machine learning in uncertainty quantification. Matteo Broggi (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany): Efficient modeling and uncertainty quantification for stochastic structural analysis. Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou (Columbia University, USA): Analytical Wiener path integral techniques for nonlinear oscillator response. You Dong (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China): Applications of probabilistic methods to infrastructure systems.