PhD Students – Past & Present

Zahra Heidary
Numerical Modeling of Wave Propagation in Large Scale Damaged Structures for Quantitative Acoustic Emission
Currently Senior Data Scientist at Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company
2010-2014

Hossain Saboonchi
A family of MEMS sensors for Structural Health Monitoring
Currently Director of Research, Contract and Application Group at Mistras Group Inc.
2011-2014

Zeynab Abbasi
Stress Quantification of Complexly Loaded Structural Components using Acoustoelasticity
Currently Senior Civil Engineer at Thornton Tomasetti
2013-2017

Minoo Kabir
Engineered Acoustic Emission Sensing in Metallic Structures by Phononic Crystals and MEMS Sensors
Currently Post-doc at Stanford University
2013-2018

Lu Zhang
Quantitative Acoustic Emission for Damage Detection in Complex Geometries
Currently Post-doc at UIC
2014-2018

Amir Mostavi
The Enhancement of Nonlinear Ultrasonic Testing to Detect Micro-structural Defects in Metals
Current Project Engineer at Skanska
2014-2018

Gorkem Okudan
Controlling the Dispersion Characteristics of Pipe-like Structures with Phononic Crystals
2017-2022

Tonghao Zhang
Data Driven Framework for Structural Health Monitoring of Concrete using Elastic Wave Method
2020-2024

Chenxi Xu
Structural Health Monitoring of Hollow Structures
2021-Present

Raguez Taha
Repairing Aged Steel Bridges using Additively Manufactured Metals
2022-Present