Current Members

PhD students

• Rojyar Barhemat (Fall 2021 – present)

Research areas: reconfigurable modular structures; innotive structural design; intelligent optimization
Key achievements: Provost Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2022

• Sina Poorghasem (Fall 2021 – present)

Research areas: computer vision; machine learning; structural dynamics; system identification
Key achievements: Provost Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2021

• Indira Prasad (Spring 2023 – present)

Research areas: sustainable infrastructure; sustainability and life cycle assessment; urban cities and sustainable transportation; social life cycle assessment

• Seyed Amirhossein Moghaddas (Fall 2023 – present)

Research areas: artificial intelligence, concrete technology
Key achievements: Provost Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2023

• Jinxin Chen (Spring 2024 – present)

Research areas: artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, innovative structures
Key achievements: Provost Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2024

• Shengju Xie (Spring 2024 – present)

Research areas: artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, sensors
Key achievements: Provost Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2024

• Linzhi Li (Fall 2024 – present)

Research areas: artificial intelligence, metamaterials
Key achievements: Provost Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2024

• Yao Wang (Fall 2024 – present)

Research areas: artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, acoustics/ultrasonics
Key achievements: Provost Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2024

• Zhan Jiang (Fall 2024 – present)

Research areas: artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, digital twin
Key achievements: Provost Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2024

Former Members

PhD students

• Xiao Tan (Fall 2019 – Spring 2023)

Research areas: structural monitoring; fiber optic sensors
Dissertation: Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors for Multi-Cause Structural Health Monitoring of Pipelines
Key achievements:
Richard I. Hires Research Award, CEOE Department, Stevens, 2023, one awardee per year
Outstanding Students Abroad, Chinese Ministry of Education, 2022
Excellence Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2021
Provost Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2019
Best Poster Award, 21st Annual NJDOT Showcase Poster Competition, NJDOT, 2019
First Position after Graduation:
Associate Professor with Tenure, Hohai University, Nanjing, China

• Soroush Mahjoubi (Fall 2019 – Spring 2023)

Research areas: structural monitoring; machine learning; structural design; optimization; construction materials
Dissertation: Development and Applications of Machine Learning Approaches for Design and Monitoring of Civil Materials and Structures
Key achievements:
Paul Kaplan Award, Stevens, 2023, two awardees in 2023 university-wide
Stevens Excellence Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens, 2021
Richard I. Hires Research Award, CEOE Department, Stevens, 2022, one awardee per year
First Position after Graduation:
Postdoc, MIT, Boston, United States

• Yiming Liu (Fall 2020 – Spring 2024)

Research areas: structural health monitoring; machine learning; remote sensing; wireless sensors; computer vision; digital twin
Dissertation: Machine Learning-Empowered Smart Monitoring of Civil Structures and Materials
Key achievements:
Stevens Excellence Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens, 2023
Richard I. Hires Research Award, CEOE Department, Stevens, 2023, one awardee per year
First placement:
Postdoc, FHWA, Washington D.C., United States