Dr. Milad Roohi has received a Certificate of Distinction from the Eurasian Association of OpenSees (EOS) as part of the 1st EOS OpenSees Research and Innovation Awards (2025). This inaugural international award recognizes outstanding research contributions that advance the OpenSees platform and its applications in structural and earthquake engineering.
Dr. Roohi was honored with the certificate of distinction for the Best Paper Award (Structural Engineering Applications category) for the paper:
Roohi, M., Hernandez, E. M., & Rosowsky, D. (2021).
“Reconstructing Element-by-Element Dissipated Hysteretic Energy in Instrumented Buildings: Application to the Van Nuys Hotel Testbed.”
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE.
https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0001864
The awarded work presents a physics-informed, model-data fusion framework for reconstructing element-level hysteretic energy dissipation in instrumented buildings using sparse sensing data. The methodology was demonstrated on the Van Nuys Hotel seismic testbed, offering new capabilities for post-earthquake damage inference, structural health monitoring, and functional recovery assessment—key challenges in modern resilience engineering.
The EOS Awards Committee—comprising faculty from Tsinghua University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Southampton, Roma Tre University, and Xiamen University, highlighted the paper’s strong combination of theoretical rigor, real-world validation, and relevance to the global OpenSees community.
This award marks an important milestone in the establishment of a long-term EOS initiative dedicated to recognizing impactful research, innovation, and open-source contributions centered on the OpenSees ecosystem.
Dr. Roohi has been invited to the Eurasian OpenSees (EOS) 2026 Conference, to be held at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) on July 5–7, 2026, where award recipients will be formally acknowledged. He has also been invited to participate in the EOS 2026 OpenSees Course at the University of Minho (Guimarães, Portugal), scheduled for May 5–8, 2026, with preparatory online sessions in late April.
