Conference Chair

Prof. Hussam Mahmoud

Colorado State University, USA

Biography:

Dr. Hussam Mahmoud is the George T. Abell Professor of Infrastructure in the Department of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU). He is the Director of the Structural Laboratory at CSU and was the former Academic Advisor for the ASCE Student Chapter. Before arriving at CSU, Dr. Mahmoud was the manager of the NEES Earthquake Laboratory at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign (UIUC) where he oversaw and conducted various large-scale hybrid simulations. Before joining UIUC, he was a research scientist at Lehigh University where he managed and led various projects pertaining to the assessment and repair of civil infrastructure through laboratory testing and structural health monitoring. Dr. Mahmoud has directly procured ~$8.87M in external research funding ($6.45M as PI, 0.7M as Co-PI, $1.7M as Senior Personnel) out of a total of ~$48.55M in externally funded research. Dr. Mahmoud publishes the results of his research in broad impacts journals such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Nature-Scientific Reports, Nature-Palgrave Communications, Royal Society Open Science, AGU Earth’s Future, and PLOS ONE. In addition, Dr. Mahmoud publishes in the most highly regarded journals of his field, such as Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Structural Safety, Reliability Engineering, and System Safety, among others.