News

2023

8/2023 –  We are excited to welcome Aleem Ullah Cheema as a new Ph.D. student at the SiRIUS lab! Aleem holds a M.Sc. in Structural Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, and a B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from the National University of Science and Technology in Pakistan.  

8/2023 - Ph.D. student Saeid Ghasemi presented a conference abstract authored by Dr. Milad Roohi, Dr. Richard L. Wood, and Dr. David Roueche at the Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and Reduction Symposium (THWARTS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The title of presentation was "Harnessing Post-Disaster Data for Refined Tornado Damage Predictions in Community Resilience Models"

8/2023 – Ph.D. Student Saied Ghasemi and Dr. Roohi received travel grants to attend the Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and Reduction Symposium (THWARTS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

8/2023 – Ph.D. Student Saied Ghasemi and Dr. Roohi received travel grants to attend the Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and Reduction Symposium (THWARTS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

7/2023 – Dr. Roohi participated in the NSF RAPID Facility Intensive Equipment Training Workshop at the University of Washington, Seattle

6/2023 – Dr. Roohi served as organization member of Future of Building Industry (FoBI) workshop with a focus on Smart Resilient Communities, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Omaha, NE (2023) 

6/2023 – Dr. Roohi chair two sessions at Canadian Conference - Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2023, UBC, Vancouver, CA (2023) 

6/2023 – Dr. Roohi served as a panel Member of the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response & Management, University of Nebraska–Omaha (2023)

6/2023 – Dr. Roohi received the Clemson University's Glenn Department of Civil Engineering and Wood Utilization + Design Institute Travel Grant to attend Timber Engineering Design Faculty Development Workshop

5/2023 – Dr. Roohi received UNL Research Development Fellows Program (RDFP) Award from the Prem S. Paul New Faculty Scholar Award Fund

3/2023 – Dr. Roohi was selected as the Recipient of 2022 Joyce R. Jeffries New Faculty Scholar Awards from the Office of Research and Economic Development, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

3/2023 – Dr. Roohi was selected as one of the few applicants to attend SEI-NIST Computational Wind Engineering Workshop, ASCE Headquarters

2/2023 – Dr. Roohi attended the NHERI UF Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Workshop at the University of Florida 

1/2023 – Dr. Roohi was recognized for Excellence in Teaching during the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Reception

1/2023 – Ph.D. student Saeid Ghasemi received travel award to attend 2023 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, April 11-14.

2022

9/2022 – Dr. Roohi was selected as one of six University of Nebraska College of Engineering Research Fellows

4/2022 – Dr. Roohi attended the NIST Semi-Annual Meeting at Colorado State University. The meeting was focused on the advancement and integration of the NIST-funded IN-CORE platform for risk-informed community resilience planning through validated tools that integrate physical, social, and economic data and models.

4/2022 – Dr. Roohi had the pleasure of delivering a guest lecture in the Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering graduate class instructed by Prof. John van de Lindt at Colorado State University.

2/2022 – Dr. Roohi attended the ASCE 2022 Lifelines Conference at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and presented our research in the Resilience Modeling of the Built Environment and Social/Economics Impacts session.

1/2022 – Dr. Roohi served as a Technical Reviewer of the Risk/Loss Modeling, Planning, and Response and Building Structures Tracks at the 12th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT.

2021

9/2021 – Dr. Roohi presented at the 17WCEE Special Session titled “Framework for Infrastructure Systems Resilience: Overview and Illustrative Applications in Japan and U.S.” held on September 30, 2021.

8/2021 – Our recent paper titled “Multi-dimensional Resilience Modeling and Planning for Interdependent Infrastructure Systems” is accepted for publication at 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE).

5/2021 – Dr. Roohi presented at the Engineering Mechanics Institute (#EMI2021) Conference, held at Columbia University (Session: https://lnkd.in/eWS5thm). Here is a link to our abstract: https://lnkd.in/ecnA5Fk. The title of my presentation was “Urban-scale Seismic Modeling for Resilience-Informed Decision-Making: The Role of Data and Information Availability“.

5/2021 – Dr. Roohi served as a judge for the ASCE Dynamics Committee Student Paper Competition in the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2021), Columbia University, NY.

5/2021 – Dr. Roohi served as a judge for the ASCE Structural Control and Health Monitoring Committee Student Paper Competition in the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2021), Columbia University, NY.

3/2021 – Dr. Roohi joined Aon as a Senior Scientist in the Impact Forecasting R&D Center of Excellence in their Chicago office.

3/2021 – Dr. Roohi delivered an invited talk on “Smart Resilient Cities: The Role of Resilience Modeling and Structural Monitoring” in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame.

3/2021 – Our abstract is published as part of the ASCE Lifelines Conference 2021-2022 Abstract Book (Link).

3/2021 – Dr. Roohi delivered an invited seminar talk in the Mechanical Engineering Department Graduate/Faculty Seminar at New Mexico Tech. Thanks to Prof. Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou and Prof. Mostafa Hassanalian for the invitation.

3/2021 – Our invited journal article is published in the Structure and Infrastructure Engineering journal of Taylor & Francis. The paper appeared as part of a Special Issue on Risk-, Resilience-, and Sustainability-informed Assessment and Management of Infrastructure.

1/2021 – Dr. Roohi accepted an invitation to serve as a Committee Member of Planning, Foresight and Risk Analysis Program of ISCRAM2021 (The 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management), Virginia Tech, VA, USA.

2020

11/2020 – Dr. Roohi presented our recent work on “Integrating the NIST Community Resilience Planning Playbook with IN-CORE” at the NIST Center of Excellence Virtual Semi-annual Meeting (VSAM).

10/2020 – Our paper entitled “Reconstructing Element-by-Element Dissipated Hysteretic Energy in Instrumented Buildings: Application to the Van Nuys Hotel Testbed” is published in ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics. The paper is available here.

10/2020 – Dr. Roohi delivered an invited seminar talk at the University of Vermont. Thanks to Prof. Eric M. Hernandez for the invitation.

10/2020 – Dr. Roohi was selected as a Member of Task Group 1.8 Design Requirements for Infrastructure Resilience Committee of International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE).

8/2020 – ASCE/IRD UCLA Lifelines 2021 Conference Technical Program Committee accepted our abstract entitled “Quantifying the relationship between interdependent infrastructure data availability and estimation accuracy of community resilience metrics“. 

7/2020 – Our recent paper was published in the Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP). Here is a link to the paper.

7/2020 – Dr. Roohi served as a moderator in the 2020 Researchers Meeting held by the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. Here is a link to the session.

7/2020 – Our recent paper was published in the Springer’s Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring and will appear in a Special Issue entitled “SHM for informed management of civil structures and infrastructures” guest edited by Prof. Maria Pina Limongelli. Here is a link to the paper.

4/2020 – Our recent paper was published in the Frontiers in Built Environment. Here is a link to the paper.

4/2020 – Great spending the evening with ASCE/SEI Wood Committee members during our Virtual Meeting!

1/2020 – Dr. Roohi joined the EMI Dynamics committee as a voting member.

2019

11/2019 – We held a Kick-off meeting in Denver to get Balloon-style CLT building seismic performance factors into US design codes with collaborators

11/2019 – Dinner with colleagues after NIST-CoE semi-annual meeting.

11/2019 – Dr. Roohi attended the NIST-CoE semi-annual meeting at Washington DC.

10/2019 – Dr. Roohi had an amazing visit to the University of New Mexico and delivered an invited talk about my research in structural health monitoring and community resilience. Thanks to Prof. Moreu for the invitation.

9/2019 – Dr. Roohi presented my joint work with Dr. Eric Hernandez and Dr. David Rosowsky on nonlinear state estimation applied to post-earthquake assessment of instrumented buildings at the 12th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM) held at Stanford University.

8/2019 – Dr. Roohi accepted a Postdoctoral Fellow position at the NIST Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, headquartered at Colorado State University.