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Babak Moaveni
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Education
| 2007 |
Ph.D., Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego
(UCSD). Thesis: System and Damage Identification of Civil Structures. Thesis advisor:
Professor Joel P. Conte |
| 2001 |
M.S., Earthquake Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Thesis: Study of Stress and Strain
Distributions in Steel Beam to Column Scissors Connections. Thesis advisor: Professor Hassan Moghaddam |
| 1999 |
B.S., Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran |
Research Interests
Structural health monitoring, system and damage identification of civil structures,
experimental modal analysis, signal processing, finite element analysis and finite
element model updating, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, structural
reliability and risk analysis, uncertainty quantification, verification and
validation of computational models.
Awards
OGSR - UCSD Structural Department funding for presentation of the paper "Uncertainty Analysis of Damage
Identification Results Based on Finite Element Model Updating Method" at the International Conference on Modal
Analysis (IMAC-XXVI), Orlando, USA, February 2008.
OGSR - UCSD Structural Department funding for presentation of the paper "Uncertainty Analysis
of Modal Parameters Obtained from Three System Identification Methods" at the International
Conference on Modal Analysis (IMAC-XXV), Orlando, USA, February 2007.
Professional Experiences
Research Engineer, MaXentric Technologies LLC, San Diego, CA (January
- June 2008).
Prepared and submitted SBIR/STTR solicitations, and collaborated on the
existing research projects in the company.
Design Engineer, Jameh Technique Co., Tehran, Iran (1999 - 2001).
Designed steel and R/C structures in high seismic zones in Iran.
Professional Memberships
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM)
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