Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow – Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, Colorado State University (2021)
• Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering – University of Vermont (2019)
• M.Sc., Civil and Environmental Engineering – University of Tehran (2014)
• B.Sc., Civil and Environmental Engineering – K. N. Toosi University of Technology (2011)

Academic and Professional Appointments:

• Assistant Professor, Durham School of Architectural Engineering & Construction, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2022–Present)
• Senior Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (2024–Present)
• Associate Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University (2024 - 2025)
• Community Resilience Specialist, Project IN-CORE, Community Initiatives (2024–Present)
• Senior Scientist, Aon, Reinsurance Solutions, Impact Forecasting Catastrophe Modeling Center of Excellence, Chicago, IL (2021–2022)
• Research Affiliate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University (2021–2023)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, NIST Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, Colorado State University (2019–2021)
• Graduate Research Assistant, Structural Monitoring, Diagnostics & Prognostics Lab, University of Vermont (2015–2019)
• Graduate Research Assistant, Center of Numerical Methods in Engineering (CNME), University of Tehran (2011–2015)

Research, Education, and Outreach at SiRIUS Lab

• Visit our Smart Resilient Infrastructure and Urban Systems (SiRIUS) Lab website for more on our research, education, and outreach initiatives.

Research Interests

The Smart Resilient Infrastructure and Urban Systems (SiRIUS) Lab investigates how data, algorithms, computational models, and emerging technologies enhance the performance, monitoring, and resilience of civil infrastructure and urban systems exposed to deterioration, natural hazards, and climate change. This research is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Transportation Research Board's Airport Cooperative Research Program, NASA EPSCoR, U.S. Department of Transportation through the Mid-America Transportation Center, the Nebraska Department of Transportation, the Nebraska Research Initiative, UNL Grand Challenges, and Durham School Seed Grants.

Research interests encompass the following interconnected areas:

• Multi-hazard resilience and interdependent community systems, including co-creation of strategies for infrastructure networks and socio-technical systems.
• Structural dynamics, reliability, performance, and functional recovery under time-varying, stochastic, and multi-hazard loads.
• Sensing, data fusion, and Digital Twins for monitoring and managing the condition of cyber-physical infrastructure systems.
• Emerging technologies for smart, resilient cities, including IoT, GeoAI, edge computing, computer vision, and virtual/extended reality.
• Artificial intelligence, probabilistic learning, and estimation applied to natural hazard analysis and infrastructure risk assessment.
• Design, testing, and assessment of next-generation resilient structural systems, with emphasis on performance-based and recovery-based engineering.
• Computational structural mechanics and nonlinear finite element analysis for modeling complex behavior of materials, components, and systems.

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Sina Naeimi, Ph.D. (2026–Present) — multi-hazard catastrophe risk modeling and regional damage, loss, and recovery analytics.
• Azam Abdollahi, Ph.D. (2026–Present) — uncertainty quantification, AI-aided engineering, and decision-making under uncertainty.
• Reza Filizadeh, Ph.D., P.E. (2025–Present) — probabilistic risk assessment and multi-hazard resilience modeling of infrastructure systems.

Doctoral Students and Alumni

• Pramodit Adhikari (2023–Present)— building resilient communities in the face of climate change.
• Saeid Ghasemi (2023–Present)— infrastructure and community resilience against earthquake hazards.
• Abdallah Al-Zu'bi (2022–2025)— MEMS-based analog computing

M.Sc. Students and Alumni

• Mohammadali Nasrabadi (2025–2026)
• Aleem Ullah (2024–2025)

Recent Student Recognition

• Pramodit Adhikari: ASCE EMI ORC Student Competition Award (2026) and Structural Engineers Association of Nebraska Fellowship (2026–2027).
• Saeid Ghasemi: Chancellor's Graduate Research Grant (2025) and Graduate Research and Creative Activity Grant (2025).
• Geoffrey Sanderson: College of Engineering competition winner, UNL Student Research Days (2025); Mitacs Globalink Research Award (2025).
• Aleem Ullah: NSF travel support, NHERI Computational Academy, UT Austin (2024).

The SiRIUS Lab has hosted seven UNL UCARE undergraduate researchers since 2024.

Teaching Interests

• MECH 223 Engineering Statics (Fall 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• AREN 851 Masonry and Timber Design (Fall 2024, 2025)
• CIVE 459/859 Reliability of Structures (Spring 2023, 2025)
• AREN 4940/8940 Infrastructure and Community Resilience (Spring 2024, 2026) — developed
• ENGR 491/891 Improvisation Skills for The Complete Engineer (J-Term 2024) — co-taught

Honors and Awards

Research & Scholarship Recognition

• IABSE People and Paper Award (2025): Awarded by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, Zurich, for outstanding international achievement in research and innovation in bridge and structural engineering.
• ASCE Editor's Choice Recognition (2025): Journal of Structural Engineering, for "Hospital Network Resilience in Hatay Following the 2023 Cascading Earthquakes in Türkiye."
• ASCE Structural Health Monitoring Recognition (2022): Honored for contributions to dissipated hysteretic energy reconstruction, Journal of Engineering Mechanics; spotlighted in ASCE's SHM collection.
• Honorable Mention / Certificate of Distinction (2025): EOS OpenSees Research & Innovation Awards, Eurasian OpenSees Association, presented at the EOS Conference, EPFL Lausanne.
• Featured Lab Profile (2026): SiRIUS Lab highlighted in the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Dynamics Committee eNewsletter.
• Research Development Fellow (2023): Prem S. Paul New Faculty Scholar Award Fund.
• UNL College of Engineering Research Fellow (2022): Selected as one of six fellows across the college.
• Joyce R. Jeffries New Faculty Scholar Award (2022): UNL Office of Research & Innovation.

National Leadership, Expert Panels & Competitive Programs

• NSF Letter of Appreciation for Panel Service (2026): Directorate for Geosciences.
• Housner Leadership Training Certificate Program (2026–2027): Selected for the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute cohort.
• Learning From Earthquakes Travel Study Program (2026): Selected as 1 of 26 participants nationally for EERI/NCREE post-earthquake reconnaissance training, Taipei, Taiwan.
• NSF I-Corps Teams Program (2026): Selected for the national Fall cohort to advance ResiCore, a practitioner-facing community resilience risk platform.
• Invited Participant (2026): ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division Vision and Roadmap Workshop, Reston, VA.
• UNL Collaboration Accelerator (2026–2027): Selected for the inaugural cohort of the Office of Research and Innovation's team-science capacity-building program.
• Empowering Community Resilience Award (2026): National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (National VOAD), sponsored by Walmart.
• National R&D Roadmap Contributor (2025): One of 48 experts nationwide selected for the U.S. Workshop on Multidimensional Digital Twins in the Built Environment to co-develop the five-year national roadmap.
• Invited U.S. Delegate (2025): Inaugural NSF–NIED (Japan) Research Collaboration Meeting on natural hazards engineering, Miki City, Japan.
• NSF TIP Directorate Invited Discussant (2024): "Multi-Hazards Decision Support Tools," alongside leadership from OSTP, DHS S&T, and FEMA.
• NSF CMMI Panel Fellow (2023): Game Changer Academies program.

Teaching & Educational Innovation

• College of Engineering Teaching Fellow (2025): Recognized for instructional innovation.
• Systems Thinking Faculty Fellow (2025, Phase I; 2026–2027, Phase II): USDA Higher Education Challenge program, "Strengthening Faculty for Teaching the Next Generation of Wicked Problem Solvers."
• Excellence in Teaching Recognition (2023, 2025): UNL College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Reception.

Selected Travel & Collaboration Grants

• NHERI Computational Symposium Travel Support (2026): NHERI SimCenter, UC Berkeley.
• REES 2026 Travel Award: AREMA Foundation, Railway Engineering Education Symposium.
• 13NCEE Participation Grant (2026): Ashraf Habibullah/CSI grant, EERI.
• NSF U.S.–Japan Research Collaboration Award (2024): Inaugural NHERI–NIED/E-Defense meeting, Japan.
• NSF Primary Travel Award (2024): Natural Hazards Research Summit.
• NSF NHERI Summer Institute Travel Award (2025).

Research Funding Record

Externally Funded Research

• NSF POSE Phase II. Co-PI (2026–2028). NSF Award 2550227. $1,500,000 collaborative award, Colorado State University lead.
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. PI (2026–2027). $449,931.
• Federal Railroad Administration. Co-PI (2025–2027). University of South Carolina lead; $1,220,693 collaborative award.
• NSF EPSCoR Research Fellows. Co-PI and UNL Host (2025–2027). Montana Technological University lead. $224,000.
• Nebraska Department of Transportation. Co-PI (2023–2027). $200,877.
• Mid-America Transportation Center, U.S. Department of Transportation. PI (2024–2026). $68,000.
• NSF CIVIC-PG Track A. Co-PI (2024–2025). NSF Award 2431053; $75,000.
• Center for Cooperative Media, Montclair State University. Co-PI (2025–2027). $15,000.
• NASA EPSCoR. PI (2024–2025). University of Nebraska Omaha; $6,000.
• National Institute of Standards and Technology. Professional Research Experience Program (2024–2025). 

Internally Funded Research

• University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative / Nebraska Research Initiative. PI (2026–2027). $100,000.
• UNL Grand Challenges Catalyst. PI (2024–2026). $75,000.
• UNL Grand Challenges Catalyst. Co-PI (2024–2026). $74,906.
• UNL Durham School Seed Grant. PI (2025–2026). $50,000.
• UNL Durham School Seed Grant. PI (2023–2025). $50,000.
• UNL Durham School Seed Grant. Co-PI (2023–2025). $50,000.

Other Research Support

• National Quantum Laboratory, University of Maryland. IonQ Quantum Processing Unit access credits (2026), $20,000 in-kind computational credits.

Professional Service & Leadership  

Editorial

• Associate Editor, The Monitor, Society for Civil Structural Health Monitoring (2026–2028)

Leadership Roles

• Chair, ASCE Objective Resilience Committee, Engineering Mechanics Institute (2025–Present)
• Chair, Construction Technical Committee, ASCE Nebraska Section (2025–Present)
• Young Regional Representative (USA), International Association on Multidisciplinary Resilience (IAMDR) (2025-Present)
• Leadership Team Member, Special Project: Enhancing the Role of Structural Engineers in Catastrophe Modeling, ASCE (2025–Present)
• Faculty Advisor, EERI Student Chapter, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (re-established the chapter, 2024–Present)
• Faculty Advisor, AREMA Student Chapter, University of Nebraska–Omaha (2025–Present)

Technical Committees & National Roles

• Technical Committee Member, Task 1.8, Performance & Requirements Committee, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) (2020–Present)
• Committee Member, North American Alliance of Hazards & Disaster Research Institutes (NAAHDRI) (2022–Present)
• Member, International Society of Catastrophe Managers (ISCM) (2021–Present)
• Member, ASCE SEI Technical Council on Life-Cycle Performance, Safety, Reliability & Risk of Structural Systems (TG2) (2024–Present)
• Member, ASCE EMI Probabilistic Methods Committee (2024–Present)
• Member, ASCE EMI Objective Resilience Committee (2023–Present)
• Member, ASCE EMI Dynamics Committee (2020–Present)
• Member, ASCE EMI Structural Health Monitoring & Control Committee (2019–Present)
• ASCE Wind Speed Estimation Committee

Public and Community Service

• Member, Report Card Team, first Nebraska State Infrastructure Report Card, ASCE Nebraska Section (2026–Present). Volunteer team researching and writing the state's first infrastructure report card across dams, roads, bridges, drinking water, and wastewater.
• Co-Investigator and Academic Partner, UNL–City of Lincoln Research Partnership (2025–2026), facilitated by the MetroLab Network.
• Community resilience partnership with Salt Lake City, Utah using the IN-CORE platform: co-led unreinforced masonry vulnerability assessment and retrofit decision support for the Fix the Bricks program, supporting more than 160 completed retrofits and informing roughly 400 additional planned retrofits.
• Mentor, ASCE Future Cities Program (2024–2025), K-12 STEM outreach.

Conference Organization

• Special Session Organizer and Moderator, 13th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (13NCEE), Portland, OR (2026): "Translating AI and Analytics into Multi-Sector Action for Earthquake and Multi-Hazard Resilience."
• Organizing Committee Member, NHERI Computational Symposium, UC Berkeley (2026); Session Chair, Regional Risk and Resilience.
• Topic Chair and Program Committee Member, ASCE AEI/IRD 2026 Conference, San Antonio, TX: machine learning and AI applications, lifeline systems, and complex systems/interdependencies.
• Mini-Symposium Organizer, ASCE EMI 2026 International Conference, Boulder, CO.
• Organizer and Chair, 8th EMI Objective Resilience Student Paper-Presentation Competition, ASCE EMI 2026.
• Symposium Organizer, "From Data to Decisions: Adaptation Tools for Practitioners and Communities," 7th National Adaptation Forum, Pittsburgh, PA (2026).
• Host and Organizer, EMI Objective Resilience Lecture Series (2026), in partnership with the Durham School Distinguished Lecture; over 150 attendees.
• Session Organizer, ICOSSAR 2025, University of Southern California: two sessions on multi-hazard resilience quantification of community systems; over 140 attendees.
• Mini-Symposium Organizer, COMPDYN 2025, Rhodes, Greece.
• Special Session Organizing Chair, IABMAS 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Organizing Chair, ASCE EMI/PMC 2024 Conference, Chicago, IL.
• Lead Organizer and Co-Chair, Future of Building Industry (FoBI) Workshop, UNL (2023, 2025).

Peer Review and Panel Service

• 141 peer-reviewed records across 101 manuscripts (Web of Science Researcher Profile, February 2026), for journals including the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Natural Hazards Review, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, and Structural Control and Health Monitoring.
• NSF Proposal Review Panelist: Computer and Information Science and Engineering (2026), Geosciences (2026), RISE Division (2025), NSF–NIST (2023), and CMMI (2024).
• Proposal Reviewer, USDOT University Transportation Center (2024).

Professional  Membership

• Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (2015–Present)
• Member, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) (2015–Present)
• Member, International Association on Multidisciplinary Resilience (IAMDR) (2024–Present)

Selected Publications

More than 50 published or in-review scholarly works, including 15 journal articles in print or accepted, 4 under review, 5 book chapters, and 28 refereed conference papers. As of June 2026: 430 citations, h-index 11, i10-index 12 (Google Scholar).

Ph.D. Dissertation

Roohi, M. (2019). Performance-Based Seismic Monitoring of Instrumented Buildings. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Vermont, Graduate College Dissertations and Theses. 1140. [Link: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1140]

Book Chapters

1. Roohi, M., Ghasemi, S., & van de Lindt, J. W. (2026). Resilience Modeling for Community-Level Decision-Making. Accepted; in production.
2. Sedaghati, F., Roohi, M., Bastami, M., Abbasnejadfard, M., Motamed, H. (2026). Seismic Risk Application in Insurance. In M. Kowsari & B. Halldorsson (Eds.), Recent Advances in Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Assessment (Springer Nature).
3. Roohi, M., & Hernandez, E. M. (2026). Post-Seismic Structural Health Monitoring of Buildings. In V. Karbhari & F. Ansari (Eds.), Condition Monitoring and Structural Health Monitoring of Infrastructure Systems (Chapter 13, pp. 387–430). Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering. Invited contribution to the second edition. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-38315-1.00008-8
4. Roohi, M., Behnam, B., Farahani, S., Shojaeian, A. (2023). Seismic Multi-hazard Risk and Resilience Modeling of Networked Infrastructure Systems (Chapter 18). Automation in Construction Toward Resilience: Robotics, Smart Materials & Intelligent Systems, Taylor & Francis, London, UK.
5. Roohi, M., Hernandez, E. M., Rosowsky, D. (2019). Nonlinear Seismic Response Reconstruction in Minimally Instrumented Buildings Validation using NEESWood. Structural Health Monitoring 2019, Enabling Intelligent Life-cycle Health Management for Industry Internet of Things (NOT). [DOI: https://www.dpi-proceedings.com/index.php/shm2019/article/view/32390]

Under Review Journal Papers

• Palit, T., Ghasemi, S., González, A. D., & Roohi, M. A Chance-Constrained Optimization Framework for Addressing Bounded Risk Exposure in Building Retrofitting Decisions against Natural Hazards. Reliability Engineering & System Safety.
• Adhikari, P., Roohi, M., Wood, R. L., & Roueche, D. B. Assessing Predictive Accuracy of Tornado Resilience Models Through Post-event Reconnaissance Data Analysis. Natural Hazards Review.
• Hernandez, E. M., Adhikari, P., & Roohi, M. Redefining the Seismic Margin of Safety from Uniform Scaling to Minimum Perturbation. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics.

Refereed Journal Papers

1. Zannat, N. T., Sen Gupta, H., Ghasemi, S., Nicholson, C. D., Cutler, H., González, A. D., & Roohi, M. (2026). Integrating ML-Based Reverse Engineering of CGE Models with Optimization for Enhancing Community Resilience. Natural Hazards Review (ASCE). Accepted.
2. Ghasemi, S., Roohi, M., Sanderson, D., Sediek, O., & van de Lindt, J. W. (2026). Integrated Data Imputation of National Inventories for Bridging Information Gaps and Outcome Risk Uncertainty in Community Resilience Modeling. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 106077. [DOI]
3. Cheraghzade, M., Deniz, D., & Roohi, M. (2025). Hospital Network Resilience in Hatay Following the 2023 Cascading Earthquakes in Türkiye: A Year-Long Investigation. Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE) [IF: 4.1; DOI]
4. Roohi, M., Ghasemi, S., Sediek, O., Jeon, H., van de Lindt, J. W., Shields, M., Hamide, S., Cutler, H. (2024). Multi-Disciplinary Seismic Resilience Modeling and Community Engagement for Developing Mitigation Policies. Resilient Cities and Structures. [IF: : 4.83; DOI]
5. Sediek, O. A., Roohi, M., and van de Lindt, J. W. (2024). A Genetic Algorithm Framework for Seismic Retrofit of Building Portfolios to Enhance Community Resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 104570. [Impact Factor: 5; DOI]
6. Sediek, O., Roohi, M., and van de Lindt, J. W. (2024). A Decision Support Methodology for Seismic Design Requirements of Buildings to Achieve Community-level Resilience Metrics. ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering. [Impact Factor: 3.084; DOI]
7. Makhoul, N., Roohi, M., van de Lindt, J. W., Sousa, H., Oliveira Santos, L., Argyroudis, S., Barbosa, A., Derras, B., Gardoni, P., Sung Lee, J., Mitoulis, S., Moffett, B., Navarro, C., Padgett, J., Rincon, R., Schmidt, F., Shaban, N., Stefanidou, S., Tubaldi, E., Xenidis, Y., Zmigrodzki. (2024). Seismic resilience modelling of interdependent built environment for integrating SHM and emerging technologies in decision-making.  Structural Engineering International. [Impact Factor: 1.292; DOI]
8. Farahani, S., Shojaeian, A., Behnam, B., Roohi, M. (2023). Probabilistic Seismic Multi-hazard Risk and Restoration Modeling for Resilience-informed Decision Making in Railway Networks. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. [Impact Factor: 3.94; DOI]
9. Cheraghzade, M., Roohi, M. (2022). Deep learning for seismic structural monitoring by accounting for mechanics-based model uncertainty. Journal of Building Engineering, 104837.  [Impact Factor: 7.144; DOI]
10. Roohi, M., Erazo, K., Rosowsky, D., Hernandez, E. M. (2021). An extended model-based observer for state estimation in nonlinear hysteretic structural systems. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 146, 107015. [Impact Factor: 8.934; DOI]
11. 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, 147(1), 04020141. [Impact Factor: 2.895; DOI]
12. Roohi, M., van de Lindt, J. W., Rosenheim, N., Hu, Y., Cutler, H. (2020). Implication of building inventory accuracy on physical and socio-economic resilience metrics for informed decision-making in natural hazards. Structure and infrastructure engineering, 17(4), 534-554. [Impact Factor: 3.659; DOI]
13. Roohi, M., Hernandez, E. M. (2020). Performance-based post-earthquake decision making for instrumented buildings. Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, 10(5), 775-792. [Impact Factor: 3.338; DOI]
14. Anajafi, H., Poursadr, K., Roohi, M., Santini-Bell, E. (2020). Effectiveness of seismic isolation for long-period structures subject to far-field and near-field excitations. Frontiers in Built Environment, 6, 24. [DOI]
15. Roohi, M., Hernandez, E. M., Rosowsky, D. (2019). Nonlinear seismic response reconstruction and performance assessment of instrumented wood-frame buildings—Validation using NEESWood Capstone full-scale tests. Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 26(9), e2373. [Impact Factor: 6.058; DOI]
16. Roohi, M., Hernandez, E., Rosowsky, D. (2018). Estimation of element-by-element demand-to-capacity ratios in instrumented SMRF buildings using measured seismic response. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 47(12), 2561-2578. [Impact Factor: 4.060; DOI]

Refereed Conference Papers

1. Nishu, M. A., Huang, C., Roohi, M., & Zhong, X. (2025). Interpretable Dual-Stream Learning for Local Wind Hazard Prediction in Vulnerable Communities. Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, October 22–25, 2025.
2. van de Lindt, J., Kruse, J., Roohi, M., & Sediek, O. (2024). Deaggregating Community-Level Socio-Economic Goals to Individual Building Seismic Performance. 18th U.S.-Japan-New Zealand Workshop on the Improvement of Structural Engineering and Resilience, San Diego, CA, December 2–4, 2024.
3. Ghasemi, S., & Roohi, M. (2024). A Multi-Dimensional Methodology for Assessing the Seismic Functional Recovery of Bridge Networks. 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (18WCEE), Milan, Italy, June 30–July 5, 2024.
4. Jeon, H., Roohi, M., Sediek, O., Shields, M., Cutler, H., & van de Lindt, J. (2024). Integrating Economic with Stochastic Engineering Models to Evaluate Earthquake Mitigation Strategies in Salt Lake City, Utah. Economic Association International (WEAI) 99th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, June 29–July 3, 2024.
5. Ullah, A., Roohi, M. (2024). Model Class and Parameter Selection for Bayesian Filtering with Application to a Modular Active Spring-Damper System: Round-Robin Challenge. Proceedings of the IMAC-XLII, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Series, Orlando, FL, 2024.
6. Roohi, M., Cheraghzade, M. (2023). Optimal Sensor Placement and Probabilistic Engineering Demand Parameter Reconstruction for Seismic Monitoring and Risk Modeling. Canadian Conference - Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2023, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 25-30, 2023.
7. Roohi, M., Hernandez, E. M., Rosowsky, D. (2023).  Nonlinear Model-Data Fusion with Minimal Sensing for Performance-Based Seismic Monitoring of Instrumented Buildings. 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, (ICASP14), Dublin, Ireland, July 9-13, 2023.
8. Roohi, M., Nguyen, T., van de Lindt, J., Shields, M., Cutler, H., Jeon, H. (2023). Multi-Disciplinary Resilience Modeling for Developing Mitigation Policies in Seismic-prone Communities: Application to Salt Lake City, Utah. 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, (ICASP14), Dublin, Ireland, July 9-13, 2023.
9. Shields, M., Cutler, H., Jeon, H., Roohi, M., Nguyen, T., van de Lindt, J. (2023). Integrating Stochastic Engineering with Economic Models to Evaluate Earthquake Mitigation Strategies in Salt Lake City, Utah. 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), Dublin, Ireland, July 9-13, 2023.
10. Roohi, M., Hernandez, E. M., Rosowsky, D. (2023). Dissipated Hysteretic Energy Reconstruction for High-resolution Seismic Monitoring of Instrumented Buildings. Eighth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2023), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, July 2-6, 2023.
11. Roohi, M., Li, J., van de Lindt, J. (2023). Integrating Life-Cycle Analysis into Civil Infrastructure Resilience Decision Making: Illustrative Application to Seismic Resilience Modeling of US Communities. Eighth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2023), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, July 2-6, 2023.
12. Bahmani, P., Hayes, B., van de Lindt, J., Koliou, M., Line, P., Roohi, M. (2023). Seismic Performance of Balloon-framed Mass Timber Multi-family Buildings. World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE), Oslo, Norway, 2023.
13. Cheraghzade, M., Roohi, M. (2023). Incorporating Uncertainty in Mechanics-based Synthetic Data Generation for Deep Learning-based Structural
    Monitoring. Proceedings of the IMAC-XLI, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Series, Austin, TX, 2023.
14. Roohi, M., Li, J., van de Lindt, J. (2022). Seismic Functionality Analysis of Interdependent Buildings and Electric Power Systems. 12th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (12NCE), Salt Lake City, UT, June 27-July 1, 2022.
15. Roohi, M., van de Lindt, J., Rosenheim, N., Cutler, H.  (2019). Multi-dimensional Resilience Modeling and Planning for Interdependent Infrastructure Systems. 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE), Sendai, Japan, Sep 27 - Oct 2, 2021.
16. Roohi, M., Hernandez, E. M., Rosowsky, D.  (2019). Nonlinear Seismic Response Reconstruction in Minimally Instrumented Buildings- Validation using NEESWood Capstone Full-Scale Tests. 12th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM), Stanford University, Stanford, California, Sep. 10-12, 2019.
17. Roohi, M., Hernandez, E. M., Rosowsky, D. (2018). Element-by-element Seismic Damage Diagnosis & Prognosis in Minimally Instrumented Wood-frame Buildings. ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA, May 29-June 1, 2018.
18. Roohi, M., Hernandez, E. M., Rosowsky, D. (2017). Element-by-Element Demand-to-Capacity Ratio Estimation from SMRF Building Seismic Records. 7th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Eng. Structures (EVACES), University of California, San Diego, California, July 12-14, 2017.

Recent Presentations

(+30 invited seminars/talks and +40 conference/workshop presentations)

Invited Talks and Seminars:

1. Roohi, M. (July 23, 2025). Invited Panelist. Panel Discussion: Engagement, Partnerships, Communication, and Resulting Policies. 7th Global Summit of GADRI, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
2. Roohi, M. (April 18, 2025). Invited Seminar.  Engineering Future Resilience through Co-Creation: Driven by Integrated Models, Multi-Source Data, and Community Engagement. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Civil Engineering for the Future Bi-weekly Webinar Series.
3. Roohi, M. (March 19, 2025). Invited Seminar.  Integrating Hybrid Model-Data Approaches to Enhance Functional Recovery and Resilience. McGill University, Special Seminar, Montreal, Canada.
4. Roohi, M. (January 16, 2025). Invited Seminar.  From Risk Reduction to Functional Recovery: A Comprehensive Multi-Disciplinary Framework for Seismic Resilience, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Carolinas Chapter.
5. Roohi, M. (2024). Invited Panelist. NIST Semi-Annual Meeting, Panel: IN-CORE Studio, Project IN-CORE & POSE 2024.
6. Roohi, M. (2024). Invited Panelist. Community Engagement: Lessons Learned. NIST Semi-Annual Meeting. 
7. Roohi, M. (2024). Invited Panelist. Regional Simulations to Support Risk Mitigation and Resilience Planning. Natural Hazards Research Summit, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
8. Roohi, M. (Dec 1, 2024). Invited Seminar. Innovating Natural Hazard Resilience Through Community Insights and Algorithmic Solutions. Pennsylvania State University, Department of Architectural Engineering.
9. Roohi, M. (Nov 22, 2024). Co-Creating Seismic Resilience by Integrating Multi-Disciplinary Algorithms with Community Data and Insights. University of Nevada, Reno, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Student Chapter. 
10. Roohi, M. (Oct 23, 2024). Data-Driven Multi-Dimensional Natural Hazard Resilience Quantification for Inform Risk Mitigation and Recovery Planning. University of South Carolina, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
11. Roohi, M. (July 2024). Invited Presentation. Seismic Retrofit Strategies for Salt Lake City, Utah. NIST Semi-Annual Meeting, Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning [Featured in INCORE's Newsletter: Link]
12. Roohi, M. (Sep 2024). Invited Technical Presentation.  Decision Support for Civil Infrastructure: Risk Mitigation and Community Resilience in the Face of Natural Hazards. ASCE Structural Technical Dinner/September Meeting, Omaha, NE 
13. Roohi, M. (Jun. 20, 2024). Invited Technical Presentation. Infrastructure and Community Resilience Modeling: Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE).  National Institute of Standards and Technology, Earthquake Engineering Group.
14. Roohi, M. (Jun. 6, 2024). Invited Seminar. Multi-Dimensional Resilience Measurement: The Interplay of Resilience Modeling and Structural Monitoring in Risk Mitigation and Recovery Planning. Lehigh University, Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience. 
15. Roohi, M. (Apr. 23, 2024). Invited Lecture. Multi-Disciplinary Seismic Resilience Modeling and Community Engagement for Developing Mitigation Policies, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) New England Chapter Lecture Series 
16. Roohi, M. (February 21, 2024). Invited Seminar. Nonlinear Model-Data Fusion for Post-Earthquake Assessment of Instrumented Buildings, ASCE Dynamic Committee Seminar Series. 
17. Roohi, M. (Feb. 14, 2024). Invited Seminar. Scaling Infrastructure Resilience Measurement by Integrating Performance-Based Monitoring and Multi-Disciplinary Resilience Modeling, Rice University, 2023-2024 Seminar Series, Department of Civil & Env. Engineering [Link to Event]
18. Roohi, M. (2023). Invited Panelist. System Reliability and Risk. SEI-NIST Computational Wind Engineering Workshop, Reston, VA.
19. Roohi, M. (2023). Invited Panelist. From Resilient Critical Infrastructures to a Resilient Society, ISCRAM 2023, Omaha, NE. 
20. Roohi, M. (Jun. 6, 2023). Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment: Data Sources and Support.  ASCE EMI Objective Resilience Committee, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
21. Roohi, M. (March 20 - 21, 2023). Minimal Sensing and Model-Data Fusion for Performance-based Seismic Monitoring of Instrumented Buildings, Round-Table Workshop On Leveraging Low-Cost Seismic Networks in Building Resilient Cities & Infrastructures, Taipei, Taiwan 
22. Roohi, M. (2022). Invited Panelist. The Role of Critical Facility Performance and Functional Recovery in Community Resilience. ASCE Convention 2022, Anaheim, CA.
23. Roohi, M. (Apr. 15, 2022). Invited Seminar. Smart Resilient Infrastructure and Urban Systems. University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA.
24. Roohi, M. (Apr. 11, 2022). Invited Seminar. Urban Scale Modeling and Monitoring for Resilience-Informed Decision-Making, New Mexico State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
25. Roohi, M. (Mar. 29, 2022). Invited Seminar. Smart Resilient Infrastructure and Urban Systems, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics, Boca Raton, FL.
26. Roohi, M. (Jun. 1, 2021). Invited Seminar. Smart Resilient Cities. San Diego State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, San Diego, CA.
27. Roohi, M. (Mar. 8, 2021). Invited Seminar.  Smart Resilient Communities: The Role of Resilience Modeling and Structural Monitoring. University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
28. Roohi, M. (Feb. 18, 2021). Invited Seminar. Enabling Smart + Resilient Cities: The Role of Community Resilience Modeling and SHM.  New Mexico Tech, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
29. Roohi, M. (Oct. 15, 2020). Invited Seminar. Community Resilience Modeling for Informed Decision-Making in Natural Hazards, University of Vermont, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
30. Roohi, M. (Oct 30, 2019). Invited Seminar. Performance-Based Seismic Monitoring of Instrumented Buildings, University of New Mexico, Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental, Albuquerque, NM.
31. Roohi, M. (Apr. 15, 2018). Invited Seminar. Post-Earthquake Assessment of Minimally Instrumented Buildings, Colorado State University, NIST Center of Excellence Seminar Series,Fort Collins, CO. 

Selected Conference Presentations

1. Roohi, M., Nguyen, T., Navarro, C., van de Lindt, J.. Seismic Resilience Modeling of Salt Lake County. IN-CORE Tech Meeting: Multi-disciplinary Community Resilience. Oct 18, 2022.
2. Roohi, M., van de Lindt, J., Li, J., Rosenheim, N., Cutler, H.. Multi-Disciplinary Seismic Resilience Modeling. ASCE Convention 2022, Anaheim, California, Oct 23-26, 2022.
3. Roohi, M., van de Lindt, J., Li, J., Gardoni, P., Rosenheim, N., Cutler, H.. Quantifying the Relationship between Interdependent Infrastructure Data Availability and Estimation Accuracy of Community Resilience Metrics. LifeLines 2021/2022, San Fernando Earthquake Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 7-10, 2021.
4. Roohi, M., van de Lindt, J.. Multi-Dimensional Resilience Modeling and Planning for Independent infrastructure systems. 17th World Conference in Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE), Special Session on Framework for Infrastructure Systems Resilience: Overview and Illustrative Applications in Japan and U.S., Sendai, Japan, October 1, 2021.
5. Roohi, M., Sedaghati, F.. Caribbean Earthquake Catastrophe Model Development. Aon Reinsurance Solutions Model Evaluation Meeting, July 26, 2021.
6. Roohi, M., van de Lindt, J., Li, J., Rosenheim, N., Cutler, H.. Urban-scale Seismic Modeling for Resilience-Informed Decision-Making: The Role of Data and Information Availability. Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI), Columbia University, NY, May 26-29, 2021.
7. Roohi, M., Clavin, C, Hamide, S.. Integrating the NIST Community Resilience Planning Playbook with IN-CORE. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Semi-Annual Meeting, Nov 5-6, 2020.
8. Roohi, M., van de Lindt, J., Koliou, M. Numerical Analysis for Collapse Assessment of Cross-Laminated Timber Buildings. CO-OP Research to Enable Mass Timber Multi-Family Housing Workshop, Denver, CO, Nov 21, 2019.
9. Roohi, M., Hernandez, E. M., Rosowsky, D.. Nonlinear Seismic Response Reconstruction in Minimally Instrumented Buildings- Validation using NEESWood Capstone Full-Scale Tests. ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, June 18-21, 2019.
10. Roohi, M., Hernandez, E. M., Rosowsky, D.. Element-by-element Seismic Damage Diagnosis & Prognosis in Minimally Instrumented Wood-frame Buildings. ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA, May 29-June 1, 2018.

Software and Platforms

• IN-CORE (Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment) — Core contributor since 2020. Open-source computational environment for multi-hazard community resilience analysis integrating physical, social, and economic systems. Developed and maintained modules for seismic resilience modeling, building inventory imputation, and community recovery analytics. https://incore.ncsa.illinois.edu/
• Community resilience testbeds developed for Salt Lake City, Utah; Memphis–Shelby County, Tennessee; Los Angeles County, California; and tornado-affected communities in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas.
• Aon Elements Catastrophe Modeling Platform (2021–2022) — Senior Scientist and Vulnerability Lead; loss engine modules and GEM vulnerability datasets under the OASIS standard.