Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

• Associate Professor (with tenure), Columbia University, 2020-current ​
• UPS Foundation Visiting Professor, Stanford University, 2022-2023
• Assistant Professor, Columbia University. 2014-2020
• Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, 2013-2014
• Postdoctoral Appointee, Sandia National Laboratories, 2011-2013
• Visiting Scholar, California Institute of Technology, 2010-2011

• Engineering Mechanics Institute
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• International Society of Porous Media
• Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
• American Geophysical Union
• Sigma Xi the scientific research society
• California Lambda Chapter, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
• Golden Key International Honor Society

• ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2023
• IACM John Argyris Award, International Association for Computational Mechanics, 2020
• NSF CAREER award, National Science Foundation, 2019
• ASCE EMI da Vinci Award, Engineering Mechanics Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018
• Zienkiewicz Numerical Methods in Engineering Prize, Institution of Civil Engineers, 2017
• AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2016
• Dresden Junior Fellowship, Technische Universität Dresden, 2016
• ARO Young Investigator Program Award, Army Research Office, 2015
• Caterpillar Best Paper Prize, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014

• Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, 2011
• M.A., Civil Engineering, Princeton University, 2008
• M.Sc., Civil Engineering (Geomechanics), Stanford University, 2007
• B.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2005

• Columbia University’s Associate Director, National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems, 2017 - Present
• Renwick Professor of Civil Engineering, Columbia University, 2012 - Present
• Director, Sensing, Monitoring, and Robotics Laboratory, Columbia University, 2012 - Present
• Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Irvine, 2011 - 2012
• Endowed Chair in the Center for Diversity in Engineering Education, University of California, Irvine, 2009 - 2011
• Founding Director, Center for Advanced Monitoring and Damage Inspection, University of California, Irvine, 2007 - 2011
• Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, University of California, Irvine, 1992 - 2011

• American Society of Civil Engineers

• CAREER Award by National Science Foundation (NSF) (1995)
• The Alfred Noble Prize jointly by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), and Western Society of Engineers (WSE) (1995)
• The Collingwood Prize by ASCE (1995)
• Outstanding Achievement Award by Chinese Consulate General (1996)
• Charles Pankow Finalist Award for Innovation by ASCE-CERF (1997)
• Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize for innovative, interdisciplinary and practical research on sensing, monitoring and controlling dynamic response of civil engineering systems subjected to earthquake and wind loads, awarded by ASCE (1999)
• Outstanding Research Award by CEE Department, University of California, Irvine (2000)
• Outstanding Alumni Award by University of Electro-Communications, Japan (2001)
• Top Researcher on Wearable Sensors by MIT Technology Review (2004)
• Best Presentation Award by Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan (2006)
• Bridge Doctor, a special feature in NBC Nightly News (2007)
• The Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award by HSSoE, University of California, Irvine (2007)
• Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (2008)
• 20 Women to Watch, OC Metro Business Magazine (2008)
• Best Paper Award for “Robust Joint Torque Estimation and High-Speed Calibration for EMG Sensor Suits” published in Transactions of Society of Instrument and Control Engineers in 2006 by Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan (2008)
• Appointed Endowed Chair in Center for Diversity in Engineering Education by University of California, Irvine (2009)
• Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research by University of California, Irvine (2009)
• Appointed Chancellor’s Professor by University of California, Irvine (2011)
• Best Paper Award for the paper “Microwave Non-Destructive Evaluation of Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete Structures” that Best Advances the State-of-the-Art in Antenna Measurements by the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Rome, Italy (2011)
• Top 20 Civil Engineering Professors by Online Engineering Programs (2016)

• Consultant – Skanska Inc. – New York, MAY 2014 – Present
• Consultant – HAKS – New York, FEB 2017 – Present
• Consultant – Dentons – New York, JAN 2016 – AUG 2016
• Advisor – STV Inc. – New York, JAN 2012 – MAY 2012
• Global Real Estate Developer – JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York, MAY – AUG 2008 

World Economic Forum – Expert Network
Smart City Works (Accelerator) – Advisory Board
CG/LA Inc. (www.cg-la.com) – Advisory Board
Columbia University Middle East Research Center – Faculty Steering Committee
AAAEA (www.aaaea-tristate.com) – Board of Trustees
AECOM Arabia Academy – Advisory Board
BADER for Entrepreneurship in Jordan – Review Committee
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) – Member
Jordanian Engineers Syndicate – Member 

• Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching Nominee; Finalist 11 from among 700 nominations and 5,000 faculty members, 2016.
• Columbia University, Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, School of Engineering, Columbia University, 2014.
• Arab American Association of Engineers and Architects Scholarship Award, Chicago, Illinois, 2009
• Arab American Association of Engineers and Architects Scholarship Award, Chicago, Illinois, 2008
• Teaching/Research Assistantship and Tuition Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005 to 2009 

• Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, January 2013 – Present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, July 2008 – December, 2012
• Civil Engineer, Transportation Laboratory, California Department of Transportation, October 2006 – July 2008
• Software Engineer, Risk Electronic Science & Technology Co. Ltd., China, October 1998 – July 1999

• American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
• Society of Engineering Science (SES)
• United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)
• The International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

• NSF Career Award, NSF CMMI - Structural Materials and Mechanics, “Energy in sustainable infrastructure – multi-scale/physical approach to a novel hybrid solar roofing panel”, 2010-2015.
• The Second Best Scientific Paper for 2012 in the International Journal "Road Materials and Pavement Design” - H.M. Yin, B. Lai, Viscoelastic modeling and characterization of zeolite modified asphalt binder considering phase transformation and air void interaction, Road Materials and Pavement Design, 13, 279-299, 2012. 

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• International Association of Structural Control and Monitoring

• Fellow, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute 2013
• ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, 2008
• National Science Foundation CAREER award, 2002

• Professor, Columbia University, July 2010 to present
• Chair, Smart Cities Center of the Data Science Institute, Columbia University, 2013 - present
• Director of Research, Robert A.W. Carleton Laboratory, Columbia University, 2013 - present
• Associate Professor, Columbia University, July 2003 to June 2010
• Assistant Professor, Columbia University, July 1998 to June 2003

• Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2016–2020
• Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2020–

• IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)                          
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS)

• Winner of International Data Corporation’s Smart Cities North America Awards, 2023
• Best Paper Award, ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp), 2022
• Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award (INFORMS), 2022
• Visiting research fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany, 2021-2023
• National Science Foundation, CAREER Award, 2020
• Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Award, 2020
• Transportation Data Analytics Contest Winner, Transportation Research Board (TRB), 2017
• Dafermos Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, TRB Network Modeling Committee, 2017
• Chan Wui & Yunyin Rising Star Workshop Fellowship for Early Career Professionals, TRB (only 6 fellows were selected internationally), 2016
• ITS SIG Outstanding Presentation Award, INFORMS, 2013

• PhD, Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• BS, Civil Engineering, Tongji University

• Lecturer in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2013-
• Principal Structural Engineer, General Electric-Hitachi Nuclear, 2023
• Principal Engineer, Power Engineers, Inc., 2013-2018
• Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering, the Cooper Union, 2014-2018
• Consulting Seismic Structural Engineer, URS Corporation (AECOM), 2010-2012
• Adjunct Professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics, Columbia University, 2008-2013
• Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1998-2018
• Principal Engineer, Burns and Roe, Inc., 1991-2010
• Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Manhattan College, 1987–1990

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• American Concrete Institute
• American Institute of Steel Construction

• PhD, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
• MS, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
• BS, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University

• Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2013 – Present

• American Concrete Institute (ACI)
• American Ceramics Society (ACerS)
• International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM)

• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2017
• Forbes’ 30 under 30: Science, 2015
• Cements Division Early Career Award, American Ceramics Society, 2022

• PhD, Civil Engineering, Northwestern University
• MS, Civil Engineering, Northwestern University
• BS, Civil Engineering, Columbia University