Rate My Professor Hamed Ebrahimian

Hamed Ebrahimian is an Associate Professor and Simon Wong Faculty Scholar of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he joined as an Assistant Professor in July 2019. He earned his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2015, an M.Sc. in Engineering Sciences focusing on Dynamic Systems and Control from UC San Diego in 2013, an M.Sc. in Structural Engineering from Shiraz University in 2006, and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Shiraz University in 2004. Prior to his faculty position at UNR, Ebrahimian served as Senior Engineer at SC Solutions Inc. in Sunnyvale, California from November 2017 to May 2019 and as Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2017. He co-founded Enigvo, LLC in 2016 and held earlier roles including Graduate Student Researcher and Teaching Assistant at UC San Diego from 2010 to 2015, founding principal of Ebrahimian Structural Engineers in Shiraz, Iran from 2008 to 2009, Design Review Board Member for the Technical and Civil Deputy of Shiraz Municipality from 2008 to 2009, academic lecturer at Azad University in Iran from 2007 to 2008, freelance structural consultant in Shiraz from 2005 to 2008, and research assistant at Shiraz University from 2004 to 2006.

Ebrahimian's research focuses on system identification (linear and nonlinear) and uncertainty quantification, structural health monitoring, diagnosis, and prognosis, integration of computational models with sensory data for digital twins, Bayesian inference, model updating and inversion, stochastic filtering and data assimilation, nonlinear computational solid and structural mechanics, nonlinear mechanics of reinforced concrete, soil-structure interaction, large-scale experimental studies, multi-hazard analysis, design, and assessment of civil structures, disaster resilience, structural dynamics, and earthquake engineering. Key publications include "Nonlinear Finite Element Model Updating for Damage Identification of Civil Structures using Batch Bayesian Estimation" (Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2016), "Adaptive Kalman filters for nonlinear finite element model updating" (Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2020), and "Extended Kalman filter for material parameter estimation in nonlinear structural finite element models using direct differentiation method" (Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 2015). He has principalled projects funded by NSF LEAP-HI for wildfire risk management ($2,000,000, 2020–2025), USGS for soil-structure-interaction ($81,130, 2020–2021), DOE for offshore wind turbine digital twins, and U.S. DOT SBIR for bridge digital twins. Ebrahimian received the Nevada Regents’ Rising Researcher Award in 2024.