Biography

Dr. Milad Roohi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction. Before joining UNL, he worked as a Senior Scientist at Aon (the world's largest reinsurance intermediary) in the Impact Forecasting Catastrophe Modeling R&D Center of Excellence. He completed his Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, headquartered at Colorado State University. Dr. Roohi holds his Ph.D. (2015-2019) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont, M.Sc. (2011-2014) in Earthquake Engineering from the University of Tehran, and B.Sc. (2007-2011) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology. He specializes in structural engineering and mechanics, risk and reliability engineering, control theory, and data science. His research investigates the interplay and connection between the multi-disciplinary data, algorithms, computational models, and emerging technologies to improve the design, assessment, and monitoring of interconnected civil infrastructure and urban systems. His research has been funded by US federal agencies (including NSF, NIST, and HUD) and Aon Service Corporation, and he has published/presented his research findings in leading journals (e.g., by ASCE, Wiley, Elsevier, and Springer), international conferences, and at the US institutions as an invited speaker. He is an active voting member of the ASCE Structural Control and Health Monitoring and ASCE Dynamics technical committees and a member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering's Task Group on Design Requirements for Infrastructure Resilience.