Education

• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, 2014
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Control Systems), University of Southern California, 2010
• M.Sc. in Structural Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2007
• B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2005

Academic positions

• Spring 2017 - Present: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
• Fall 2014 - Spring 2017: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Depratment of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Academic Services

• Peer Reviewer
  • AIAA Journal
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Engineering Computations
  • Engineering Optimization
  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
  • International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (JCAM)
  • Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
  • Materials - MDPI
  • Mathematical Reviews (American Mathematical Society Journal)
  • Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
  • Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
  • Thin-Walled Structures
• Minisymposium Organizer
  • Probabilistic Mechanics: Advances in Efficient Computational Methods for Probabilistic Analysis and Design, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, June 4-7, 2017, San Diego.
  • Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Stochastic Analysis, Control and Optimization of Structures and Infrastructure Systems, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, May 2020, Columbia University, NYC (postponed to May 25-28, 2021 due to Covid-19).
  • Robust and Verifiable Data-Driven Analysis and Design Using Machine Learning, 16th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 25-29, 2021, Chicago, IL.
  • Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification for Materials Design, 15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 31- August 5, 2022, Yokohama, Japan.