 Professor and Chair Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Lehigh University 117 ATLSS Drive, Imbt Labs Phone: (610)758-6943
Education The Baha’i Institute for Higher Education, Iran; Civil Engineering, B.S. 1995 San Jose State University, CA; Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.S. 2000 University of California, Berkeley; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 2008 Dissertation: “Statistical Approach to Structural Monitoring Using Scalable Wireless Sensor Networks” PhD Minors: Statistics, Signal Processing Graduate Advisor: Professor Gregory Fenves Appointments Chairperson; Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2020-present Professor; Lehigh University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2021-present Director of Graduate Programs; Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2017-2020 Associate Professor; Lehigh University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2014-2021 Assistant Professor; Lehigh University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008-2014 Post Doctoral Fellow; University of California, Berkeley, 2008 Graduate Student Researcher/Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 2000-2008 Structural Design Engineer; Rutherford & Chekene, Consulting Engineers, San Francisco, 1999– 2001 Structural Design Engineer; Iran High-rise Structures, Consulting Engineers, Tehran, Iran, 1996–1998 Research Interests Smart Cities; Structural Health Monitoring; Wireless Sensor Networks; Mobile Sensing; Damage Detection; System Identification and Signal Processing; Probabilistic Methods in Civil Engineering and Structural Reliability; |