Jack Baker
William Alden Campbell And Martha Campbell Professor Of Engineering at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolJack Baker is the William Alden Campbell and Martha Campbell Professor of Engineering and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, specializing in probabilistic and statistical methods for quantifying disaster risk and resilience. He has pioneered risk analysis for spatially distributed systems, advanced characterization of earthquake ground motions, and developed simulation tools for post-disaster recovery, bridging theory, policy, and practice. Author of the textbook Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis and Editor-in-Chief of Earthquake Spectra, he leads the Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative and co-founded the Haselton Baker Risk Group to translate research into engineering and insurance solutions. His work combines deep academic rigor—Ph.D. in Structural Engineering and an M.S. in Statistics from Stanford—with practical industry experience at RMS and international research fellowships. Recognized with major awards across seismology and civil engineering, he is noted for integrating statistical thinking into structural engineering in ways that reshape how cities plan for and recover from disasters. Based in Palo Alto, he balances foundational research, teaching excellence, and entrepreneurial impact in resilience science.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics/Physics, B.A., Mathematics/Physics at Whitman CollegePh.D., Structural Engineering, Ph.D., Structural Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (19)
motion-model10
earthquake10
spectrum10
geodesy10
tilt10
matlab9
python9
orbital-mechanics9
risk-assessment8
risk-analysis8
textbook7
hazard7
jack5
javascript2
collaboration2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bakerjw/spatialCorrelationEstimation
Dec 2019 - Apr 2022
Matlab scripts to estimate spatial correlation and quantify estimation uncertainty
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 2 years 4 months
matlab
bakerjw/NGAW2_correlations
Jun 2016 - Mar 2022
Compute IM correlations from NGA-West2 ground motion data
Contributions:2 releases, 23 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 10 months
sentinel-1pythoncorrelationsmotionnga
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