Name

Yalda Saadat

Year in Program

4th

Advisor 

Dr. Bilal Ayyub

Research Interests

Network Analysis, Recovery Analysis, Resilience of Supply Chains, Resilience and Reliability Assessment, Sustainable Design and Renewable Energy, Risk Assessment and Resilience of Infrastructure and Urban systems.

Dissertation Topic

Enhancing Resilience of Complex Networks: Washington D.C. Urban Rail Transit as a Case Study

Name

Foad Karimian

Year in Program

4th year

Advisor 

Professor Modarres

Research Interests

Fatigue damage analysis, Non-destructive testing, Data analysis, Machine Learning, Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation 

Dissertation Topic

Thermodynamic and information entropy-based prediction and detection of fatigue failures in metallic and composite materials using acoustic emission and digital image correlation

Name

Andrés Ruiz-Tagle

Year in Program

2^nd Year

Advisor 

Dr. Katrina Groth

Research Interests

Causal models for engineering risk assessment; Bayesian Networks for intervention and counterfactual analysis in engineering systems.

What drew you to engineering?

Name

Azin Al Kajbaf

Year in Program

Third-year Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering in area of Disaster Resilience

Advisor

Dr. Michelle (Shelby) Bensi

Research Interests

Application of Machine Learning Methods in Hazard Assessment; Storm Surge Modeling and Prediction; Precipitation Frequency Analysis; Risk and Uncertainty Assessment

Dissertation Topic

Investigation of Uncertainty in Coastal and Precipitation Hazard Assessment

Name

Hamed Ghaedi

Year in Program

Fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Disaster Resilience

Advisor

Dr. Allison Reilly

Research Interests

Infrastructure System Performance and Resilience; Multi-Hazard Risk Analysis; Climate Change Adaptation; Interdependent Infrastructures; and Machine Learning

Dissertation Topic

Name

Ramin Moradi

Year in Program

3rd Year

Advisor

Dr. Katrina Groth

Research Interests

Complex engineering systems risk and reliability analysis, relevant methods and techniques, and application of cutting-edge deep learning methods in systems reliability analysis

Dissertation Topic

Systematic Integration of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) and Prognostics and Health Management (PHM)

Name

Joy Shen

Year in Program

1st Year

Advisor

Dr. Mohammad Modarres

Research Interests

PRA of nuclear power plants, nuclear energy, radiation physics

Thesis Topic

Multi-unit reactor interdependencies for external flooding

What drew you to engineering?

Name

Greg Lancaster

Year in Program

4th year

Advisor

Professor Jeffrey Herrmann

Research Interests

• Medical device reliability and risk analysis
• Modeling and simulation of system reliability and performance in medical devices and emergency healthcare

Dissertation Topic

Modeling and Simulation of Novel Medical Response Systems for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

What drew you to engineering?

Name

Somayeh Mohammadi

Year in Program

Second year

Advisor

Dr. Michelle (Shelby) Bensi

Research Interests

Probabilistic flood hazard assessment

Resilience, risk and vulnerability of systems

Analysis of extreme events caused by climate change

Application of machine learning methods to predict and find trends for disasters on a global scale

Dissertation Topic