Prof. Arduino joined the geotechnical group in the University of Washington Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in 1997. His primary research interest are in computational geomechanics with emphasis in constitutive modeling of soils, finite element analysis, meshless techniques, soil structure interaction, and hazard analysis. Much of his current research is in the area of landslide and debris flow simulation, soil-structure interaction, and performance-based earthquake engineering. He has conducted research for the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, and the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT).