
Professor and Chair
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Lehigh University
117 ATLSS Drive, Imbt Labs
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone: (610)758-6943
Email: Pakzad@lehigh.edu
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;
Random Vibrations and Structural Dynamics; and Structural Monitoring of Large Infrastructure and Bridges.
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