Ph.D. Students

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Shaghayegh Abtahi

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Office: ICE 6-361

 

Email:abtahi1@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2017 - now, Ph.D. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2014 - 2016, M.Sc., Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

  • 2010 - 2016, B.Sc., Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

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Research Interests:

  • Structural reliability and risk analysis

  • Uncertainty quantification

  • Stochastic modeling of structural deterioration

  • System identification

  • Damage detection

  • Soil-Structure Interaction

  • Structural dynamics

  • Earthquake Engineering

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Thesis Project:

  • Probabilistic seismic performance assessment and retrofit of deteriorated reinforced concrete structures (read more)

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Jiadaren (Jack) Liu

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Office: ICE 6-361

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Email: jiadaren@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2018 - now, Ph.D. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2015 - 2018, M.Sc., Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, China

  • 2011 - 2015, B.Sc., Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, China

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Research Interests:

  • Bridge strucutres

  • Nonlinear structural analysis

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Thesis Project:

  • Probabilistic capacity assessment of bridge girders with deterioration

 

Odin Guzman Sanchez

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Office: ICE 6-361

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Email: guzmansa@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2017 - now, Ph.D. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2008-2011, M.Sc., Department of Civil Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico

  • 1996-2001, B.Sc., Department of Civil Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico  

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Research Interests:

  • Masonry structures

  • Structural reliability  

  • Earthquake engineering

  • Structural dynamics

  • Structural design for industrial facilities 

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Thesis Project (co-supervised with Dr. Carlos Cruz Noguez):

  • Reliability-based analysis of slender masonry walls

M.Sc. Students

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Liying Huang (Graduated)

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Office: 6-362

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Email: lhuang1@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2018 - 2020, M.Sc. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2017 - 2018, M.Eng. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2013 - 2017, B.Sc., Department of Civil Engineering, Shenyang Agricultural University, China

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Research Interests:

  • Fiber beam-column element

  • Finite element modeling

  • Shear-critical beams

  • Reliability

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Thesis Project:

  • Finite element-based parametric and probabilistic analysis of structural deterioration in pre-stressed concrete bridge girders (thesis) 

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Michael Manarin (Graduated)

 

Office: NREF 5-033

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Email: manarin@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2017 - 2019, M.Sc. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2012 - 2017, B.Eng.M., Department of Civil Engineering, McMaster University, Canada

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Research Interests:

  • Lateral-torsional buckling (LTB)

  • Singly-symmetric girders

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Thesis Project (co-supervised with Dr. Robert Driver):

  • Lateral-torsional buckling moment gradient factor for singly-symmetric girders

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Yueying Li

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Office: 

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Email: yueying@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2018 - now, M.Sc. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2017 - 2018, M.Eng. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

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Research Interests:

  • Pipelines

  • Gaussian process regression

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Thesis Project (co-supervised with Dr. Samer Adeeb):

  • Statistical analytical models for strain analysis of dented pipelines  

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Zhenning Liu

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Office: ICE 6-361

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Email: zliu6@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2018 - now, M.Sc. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2017 - 2018, M.Eng. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2013 - 2017, B.Sc., Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

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Research Interests:​

  • Finite element modeling

  • Nonlinear system identification

  • Bayesian analysis

  • Kalman filter

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Thesis Project:

  • Bayesian nonlinear finite element model updating for bridge columns with bond-slip and rebar buckling using experimental and simulated data 

Durlabh Bartaula

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Office: ICE 6-244

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Email: bartaula@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2018 - now, M.Sc. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2011 - 2015, B.Eng., Department of Civil Engineering, Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal

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Research Interests:

  • Structural health monitoring

  • Reliability analysis and uncertainty quantification

  • Machine learning

  • Bayesian analysis

  • Hybrid prognostics

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Thesis Project:

  • TBD

Zeyad Nabil Shaban

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Office: N/A

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Email: zieadm@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2018 - now, M.Sc. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  •  2004 - 2018, B.Sc., Structural Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.

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Research Interests:

  • Finite element modeling

  • Masonry walls

  • Probabilistic analysis

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Thesis Project:

  • N/A

M.Eng. Students

Jiaqi Liang (Graduated)

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Office: N/A

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Email: zliu6@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2018 - 2020, M.Eng. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2017 - 2018, M.Sc. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2013 - 2017, B.Sc., Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

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Research Interests:​

  • Machine learning

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Thesis Project:

  • Inelastic lateral-distortional buckling capacity assessment of steel I-beams using machine learning

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Bowen Zeng

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Office: N/A

 

Email: bzeng1@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2019 - now, Ph.D. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2017 - 2019, M.Sc., Department of Bridge and Tunnel Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), Chengdu, China

  • 2010 - 2016, B.Sc., Department of Tunnel and Underground Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Central South University (CSU), Changsha, China

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Research Interests:

  • Masonry structures

  • Computational mechanics

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Ahmed K. Abdelmoety

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Office: ICE 6-361

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Email: abdelmoe@ualberta.ca

Education: 

  • 2019 - now, Ph.D. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2012 - 2017, M.Sc., Department of Civil Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt

  • 2007 - 2012, B.Sc., Department of Civil Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt

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Research Interests:

  • Computational Mechanics

  • Structural Reliability

  • Boundary Element Method

  • Finite Element Method

  • Isogeometric Analysis

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Thesis Project (co-supervised by Dr. Samer Adeeb):

  • N/A

 

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 Wanyan Liu

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Office: N/A

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Email: wanyan@ualberta.ca 

Education: 

  • 2019 - now, M.Sc. student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

  • 2015 - 2018, M.Sc. student, Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

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Research Interests:​

  • Finite element modeling

  • Bayesian analysis

  • Masonry structures

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Thesis Project:

  • N/A

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