Announcements
May 2023: Faculty lead for international collaboration visit to HAN University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands), accompanied by three ECU undergraduate students.
May 2023: Elected to East Carolina University's Service-Learning Committee (3-year term) and Global Affairs Committee (1-year term).
March 2023: Appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor at Westfield State University as faculty lead for month-long study abroad to Prato, Italy.
November 2022: Planned, welcomed, and accompanied 30 members of HAN University of Applied Sciences visit to East Carolina University.
September 2022: Elected chair of the Global Affairs Committee for the Department of Construction Management at East Carolina University.
August 2022: Published an article titled "A review of international eco-industrial parks for implementation success in the United States" in the journal of City and Environment Interactions.
August 2022: Joined East Carolina University (ECU) as an Assistant Professor in the Construction Management department.
August 2022: Published an article with collaborators titled "Predicting Flood Damage Using the Flood Peak Ratio and Giovanni Flooded Fraction" in the journal PLOS One.
June 2022: Published an article titled "Planning for Temporary Housing through Multicriteria Decision Analysis" in the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.
March 2022: Attended the Faculty Retreat on Roofing by the Foundation of the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) at Arizona State University.
January 2022: Invited to review a journal article for City and Environment Interactions.
January 2022: Invited to review a journal article for the Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering.
November 2021: Co-mentored and attended the 2021 Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) student competition for region 1 in Albany, NY.
October 2021: Invited to review a journal article for City and Environment Interactions.
September 2021: Invited to review a journal article for the Journal of Infrastructure Systems.
September 2021: Invited to review a journal article for the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.
August 2021: Joined SUNY Alfred State College as an Assistant Professor of Construction Management in the Civil Engineering Technology department!
August 2021: Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation titled "Methods for Scenario Modeling of Post-Disaster Temporary Housing" at Vanderbilt University!
August 2021: Published an article titled "Temporary housing operations: A simulation-based inventory management approach using the newsvendor model" in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
July 2021: Completed the Autodesk Revit: Project Managers course with certificate.
June 2021: Vanderbilt University writes an article to spotlight my ongoing research using drone imagery for applications in disaster recovery.
May 2021: Completed the Autodesk Revit: Fundamentals for Structures course with certificate.
March 2021: Live interview with The Weather Channel on social equity in disaster relief and the role of drone imagery to evaluate recoveries over-time.
March 2021: Interviewed by the Nashville Public Radio (WPLN) for my project sponsored by The Curb Center at Vanderbilt University, which uses drone images to evaluate disaster recoveries over-time.
A portion of the interview and images are presented here and additional images were utilized on WPLN's website and on Twitter here and here.
December 2020: Published an article titled "A Review of Temporary Housing Management Modeling: Trends in Design Strategies, Optimization Models, and Decision-Making Methods" in a special issue of Sustainability on Sheltering and Housing Displaced Populations.
December 2020: Presented at the virtual annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA).
August 2020: Attended the NSF funded CONVERGE Publish Your Data! event and I am currently in the process of becoming a CONVERGE Data Ambassador.
July 2020: Invited to review a journal article for the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.
May 2020: Invited to review a journal article for the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
April 2020: Completed qualification examination at Vanderbilt University to earn candidacy.
April 2020: Invited to review a journal article for the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.
March 2020: Traveled with Dr. Hiba Baroud to Guatemala on a service trip funded by 100k in the Americas fellowship. In collaboration with Universidad del Valle de Guatemala we solved engineering dilemmas of a rural village.
March 2020: Received full travel grant for CONVERGE Publish Your Data! to become a CONVERGE Data Ambassador.
December 2019: Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) in Arlington, Virginia.
December 2019: Student mentee named Mohamed placed third for his final presentation on Temporary Housing Decision Analysis.
October 2019: Presented at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Seattle, Washington.
July 2019: Presented at the 44th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop in Broomfield, Colorado.
May 2019: Received the Curb Public Scholar Fellowship to analyze the phases of natural disaster recovery using photographs and drone imagery to drive policy decisions.
December 2018: Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
September 2018: Presented paper at PSAM14: Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management conference in Los Angeles, California.
May 2018: Completed comprehensive examination at Vanderbilt University.
August 2017: Joined the Civil Engineering department at Vanderbilt University as a PhD student under the guidance of Dr. Hiba Baroud.
October 2016: Presented at the Southern New England American Planning Association (SNEAPA) Conference.
May 2016: Manuscript published in a conference special issue on Integrating Data Science, Construction and Sustainability in Procedia Engineering.
May 2016: Presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, and Construction (ICSDEC).
May 2016: Presented at the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technologies (ISSST).
August 2016: Received the National Science Foundation's ASPIRE Scholarship with up to $5,000 scholarship funds and $2,000 development funds.