• BS, Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2000
• MS, Civil Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2003
• Ph D, Civil Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2006

Journal Articles

, 2026, "Nonlinear resonant ultrasound spectroscopy for profiling thermal damage gradients and monitoring post-fire recovery in concrete", Construction and Building Materials, 505, pp. 144811

, 2026, "Modeling the Contributions to Acoustic Nonlinearity from Complex Dislocation Networks Using 3D Dislocation Dynamics", Journal of Applied Physics, 139, (12)

, 2026, "Non-equilibrium dynamics in concrete: Effects of pump-induced conditioning on nonlinear coda wave interferometry parameters", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 159, (1), pp. 702-714

, 2026, "Nonlinear ultrasound to detect hydrogen embrittlement in Al2024", NDT&E International, pp. 103640

, 2026, "Acoustic signatures of fault reactivation and healing under hydrothermal conditions", Geophysical Journal International, 245, (1), pp. ggag042

, 2025, "Coherent and incoherent Rayleigh wave attenuation for discriminating microstructural effects of thermal damage from moisture conditions in concrete", NDT&E International, 156, pp. 103473

, 2025, "Rayleigh waves guided by elastic metasurfaces coupled to a resonant half-space", Journal of Sound and Vibration, pp. 119482

, 2025, "A transfer learning approach to the prediction of porosity in additively manufactured metallic components", NDT&E International, pp. 103531

, 2025, "Effect of novel riser design using 3D sand-printing on the defects and mechanical performance of a casting", Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 135, pp. 179-188

, 2025, "An Integrated Computational and Experimental Study of Vortex Chamber Performance for Reducing Entrapped Slag and Reoxidation Defects in Steel Castings", International Journal of Metalcasting, pp. 1-16

, 2025, "Controls of Temperature on Seismic Moment Released from Reactivated Faults", Tectonophysics, pp. 231062

, 2025, "Co-Evolution of Specific Stiffness and Permeability of Rock Fractures Offset in Shear", Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130, (5), pp. e2024JB030633

, 2025, "Evolution of frictional properties, permeability and elastic parameters due to surface roughness changes during fault maturation in laboratory shear experiments", Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL), 671, pp. 119684

, 2025, "Frequency bandgap enhancement in locally resonant metasurfaces for S0 Lamb wave mode using topology-optimized resonators", Journal of Applied Physics, 137, (4)

, 2025, "A physics-informed clustering approach for ultrasonics-based nondestructive evaluation", NDT&E International, 154, pp. 103531

, 2024, "Surface wave propagation control with locally resonant metasurfaces using topology-optimized resonators", Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 155, (5)

, 2024, "Partially embedded metabarriers to suppress surface waves in granular media", Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 156, (3), pp. 1594-1608

, 2024, "Physics informed neural network can retrieve rate and state friction parameters from acoustic monitoring of laboratory stick-slip experiments", Scientific Reports, 14, (1), pp. 24624

, 2024, "Validating a Physics-based Automatic Classification Scheme for Impact Echo Signals on Data Using a Concrete Slab with Known Defects", Transportation Research Record, 2678, (2), pp. 340-351

, 2024, "Optimal measurement point selection for resonant ultrasound spectroscopy of complex-shaped specimens using principal component analysis", NDT & E International, 141, pp. 103000

, 2024, "Role of Critical Stress in Quantifying the Magnitude of Fluid-Injection Triggered Earthquakes", Nature Communications, 15, (1)

, 2024, "Crustal Permeability Generated through Microearthquakes is Constrained by Seismic Moment", Nature Communications, 15, (1)

, 2024, "Quantification of the Uncertainty in Ultrasonic Wave Speed in Concrete: Application to Temperature Monitoring with Embedded Transducers", Sensors, 24, (17), pp. 5588

, 2024, "Resonant ultrasonic testing can quantitatively assess the micrUltrasonic Resonance Testing for Quantification of Porosity in Additively Manufactured AlSi10Mg Components with Simple and Complex Geometries", Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation (JONDE), 43, (2)

, 2024, "Relating hydro-mechanical and elastodynamic properties of dynamically-stressed tensile-fractured rock in relation to fracture aperture and contact area", Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth, 129, (8)

Conference Proceedings

, 2025, "Impact of moisture gradients on ultrasonic evaluation of concrete and mortar blocks subjected to thermal exposures"

, 2025, "Active-Passive Monitoring of Concrete under Uniaxial Pressure: Relating Acoustic Emission and Ultrasonic Velocity for Elastic Property Assessment"

, 2025, "Assessing Early-Stage Concrete Damage Using Thermal Modulation and Coda Wave Interferometry: Influence of Water-to-Cement Ratio"

, 2025, "Influence of Temperature on Permeability Evolution", pp. D032S039R008

, 2025, "Microstructure-informed simulation of wave propagation in fractured rock", pp. D022S019R010

, 2024, "Profiling the thermal damage gradient in concrete using linear and nonlinear ultrasonics", 270, (10)

, 2024, "Fluid injection rate controls on seismic moment", pp. D022S021R008

•   - May 2025, "A College-Wide Exchange on Integration of Generative AI Tools and Machine Learning in Engineering Courses," (Sponsor: Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence).

• January 2025 - December 2025, "Machine Learning Tools for Modern Engineering Solutions: development of an undergraduate course," (Sponsor: Leonhard Center (RFP for Grants for Entrepreneurial Mindset for Student Success (GEMSS))).

•   - May 2021, "Integrate a virtual laboratory environment in EMCH/MATSE 440," (Sponsor: Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence: Teaching Transformation & Innovation Grants).

• September 2018 - March 2019, "DOT SBIR Phase I Nondestructive Determination of Fracture Toughness for Pipeline Steels," (Sponsor: FBS Incorporated, GuidedWave / from US Department of Transportation).

• ELATES (Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science) Fellowship, 2024 - 2025

• PSEAS Teaching Award, The Penn State Engineering Alumni Society Outstanding Research Award, 2024 - 2025

• Fulbright Scholar Award (France), Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, September 2023 - February 2024

• PSEAS Research Award, The Penn State Engineering Alumni Society Outstanding Research Award, 2024

• Institute for Materials Science (IMS) Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, October 2021

• 1st Place Winner co-authored paper, 2020-2021 Long-Term Infrastructure Performance (LTIP) Student Data Analysis Contest (Bridge), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), December 2021

• ASNT Faculty Grant, American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), 2020

• ASNT Fellowship Award, American Society for Nondestructive Testing, 2019

• Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, July 2008 - August 2010

• Outstanding Performance Award 2007-2008 for Outstanding Performance in Securing External Funding, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, February 2008

• Best Research Paper Award, SAGEEP 2006 - Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, April 2006

• 2004 University Transportation Center (UTC) Outstanding Student of the Year Award, USDOT – US Department of Transportation, Washington, DC, January 2005

• Doctoral Research Fellowship, CAIT – Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, January 2005 - December 2005

• Honor Student (the 5th highest G.P.A. among 100+ students), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2000

• Finalist, National Mathematics Olympiad, Tehran, Iran, 1994

Service to Penn State:

• Academic Leadership and Support Work, Moderator, Co-facilitator of Mentoring Matters workshops (two sessions), February 2025

• Academic Leadership and Support Work, Moderator, Co-facilitator of AI Faculty Learning Community (FLC), February 2025

• Committee Work, Chairperson, ESM Strategic Planning, April 2024

• Committee Work, Committee Member, College Promotion and Tenure Committee, College Promotion and Tenure Committee, October 2024 - March 2026

• Committee Work, Committee Member, ESM/BME Data Science Search, September 2022 - January 2023

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Faculty (Opportunity Hire) Search Committee, 2021 - 2021

• Committee Work, Committee Member, ESM Department Head Search Committee, September 2021 - 2022

• Committee Work, Committee Member, ESM Strategic Planning, April 2020 - 2021

• Committee Work, Committee Member, CIES (The Consortium for Integrated Energy Systems) College Faculty Search Committee, October 2020 - March 2021

• Committee Work, Chairperson, Qualifying (Candidacy) Exam - Mechanics, August 2019 - December 2020

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Dean Schwartz Strategic Initiatives (2018-2019): Sensors, March 2019 - 2023

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Graduate Student Recruitment Admissions, August 2018

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Undergraduate Curriculum, August 2018 - 2023

• Committee Work, Committee Member, ESM Mentoring Committee, August 2018 - 2023

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Candidacy Exam, August 2018 - May 2019

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Teaching Evaluation, August 2017 - June 2018

• Committee Work, Committee Member, ESM Faculty Search Committee (Ultrasonics), September 2017 - December 2017

• Committee Work, Committee Member, CEE Faculty Search Committee (Structures), September 2014 - March 2015

• Other, Panelist, March 2020

• Assistance to Student Organizations, Judge, ESM Today, February 2021

• Other, Judge, March 2020

• Other, Judge, March 2021

• Other, Reviewer, April 2015

• Other, Judge, April 2015

• Assistance to Student Organizations, Judge, ESM Today, February 2019

• Assistance to Student Organizations, Judge, ESM Today, February 2018

• Other, Judge, March 2019

• Participation in Recruitment and Retention Activities, Representative, CoE Recruitment Graduate Open House, February 2019

• Other, Reviewer, July 2019

• Other, Judge, April 2018

• Other, Judge, April 2019

Service to External Organizations:

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Member of the scientific advisory committee; Session Chair, 2024 - September 2025

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Chairperson, Session Chair, 2024 - June 2025

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Member, ASNT Research Council Executive Committee, 2021

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Chairperson, RNDE Committee, 2021

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Member, ASNT Research Council, 2020

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Organizer, A session on "Spectral Analysis of Surface Waves for Pavement Evaluation", Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 2009 - January 2009

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, A session on "laboratory geophysics", American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2022

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, A session on "laboratory geophysics", American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2019

• Other, Other, Vice chairperson, ASNT - American Society for Nondestructive Testing, April 2019

• Other, Other, Vice chairperson, ASNT - American Society for Nondestructive Testing, November 2017

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, A session on “Laboratory Geophysics for Rock Characterization", ARMA 2019 -Annual US Rock Mechanics Symposium, June 2019

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, A session on "laboratory geophysics", American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2020

• Other, Organizer, Vice chairperson, ASNT - American Society for Nondestructive Testing, March 2021