{"id":51,"date":"2025-01-12T19:26:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/ribslab\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2025-02-16T07:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T07:55:05","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/ribslab\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Team Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AHM Muntasir Billah, PhD, P.Eng.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postdoctoral Fellows: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Babak Ghods, PhD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shuai Zhao, PhD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Students<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ali Mohammadgholipour <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degree Sought:<\/strong> PhD. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Title:\u202f <\/strong>Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Low Cycle Fatigue Behavior of Ni-Ti SMA Rebar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jesika Rahman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degree Sought: <\/strong>PhD. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Title:<\/strong>\u202f Advancing Bridge Deck Condition Assessment and Maintenance Strategies in a Changing Climate through Physics-Based and Data-Driven Strategies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Debarshi Das<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degree Sought: <\/strong>PhD. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Title<\/strong>:\u202f Sustainable Bridge Foundations Using Helical Piles for Accelerated Bridge Construction<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Md. Shahjalal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degree Sought: <\/strong>PhD. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Title:<\/strong>\u202f Behavior and Design of Double-Headed FRP Studs for Bridge Slab-to-Precast Girder Connection<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shady Labib<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degree Sought: <\/strong>PhD. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Title:<\/strong>\u202f TBD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ishpreet Kapoor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degree Sought: <\/strong>MSc. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Title:<\/strong>\u202f Development of Refined Shear Design Provisions for End Panels in Stiffened Steel and Steel-Concrete Composite (SCC) Plate Girders<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shen Jiang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degree Sought: <\/strong>MSc. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Title:<\/strong>\u202f Seismic Behavior of Exposed Column Base Plate Connection Under Axial Compression and Bi-Directional Lateral Loading<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Deeptarka Roy <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degree Sought: <\/strong>MSc. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Title:<\/strong>\u202f Performance-Based Seismic Assessment of Bridge Piers by using Machine Learning Models<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tanvir Hassan Tusher<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degree Sought: <\/strong>MSc. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Title:<\/strong>\u202f Structural Performance Characterization of Thermal Breaks for Steel Column-to-Column Connections<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mamoona Rasheed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Degree Sought: <\/strong>MSc. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thesis Title:<\/strong>\u202f TBD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alumni:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Gholamreza Gholipour (former Post-doctoral Fellow) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: Post-doctoral fellow, UBC Okanagan, Canada <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Mostafa Badroddin (former Post-doctoral Fellow) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: Bridge Engineer, CALTRANS, California, USA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Vahid Aghaeidoost (former PhD Student) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: Post-doctoral fellow, McGill University, Canada <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Abu Chowdhury (former PhD Student) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: Post-doctoral fellow, UBC Okanagan, Canada <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mostansir Nayeem (former MSc Student) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: EIT, IBP, Edmonton, AB, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle Roller (former MSc Student) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: Project Engineer, GEI Consultants, ON, Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Borislav Todorov (former MSc Student) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: Project Coordinator, Edenshaw Developments, Mississauga, ON, Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asif Bin Kabir (former MSc Student) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: Assistant Professor, United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afraa Hasan (former MSc Student) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: Structural EIT, Architecttura Inc. Architects, Windsor, ON, Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palisa Arafin (former MSc Student) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: Bridge EIT, WSP, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesika Rahman (former MSc Student) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: PhD Student, University of Calgary, AB, Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mumtasir Nahar (former MSc Student) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: PhD Student, Texas A&M University, TX, USA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Md Mominul Islam Chowdhury (former MSc Student) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Position: Structural Engineer, Bangladesh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate Students:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imran Virk (NSERC USRA) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawood Sheronick (UCalgary PURE) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Hanna (UCalgary PURE) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina Chong (NSERC USRA) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vidyalakshmi Venkatramanan (former MITACS Globalink intern) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visiting Researchers:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Hosein Ghaffarzadeh (University of Tabriz, Iran) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehrdad Ebrahimi (University of Bologna, Italy) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fatin Nurhanani Sayuti (UTM, Malaysia) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Team Lead AHM Muntasir Billah, PhD, P.Eng. Associate Professor, Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering Postdoctoral Fellows:  Babak Ghods, PhD. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/ribslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/ribslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/ribslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/ribslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/ribslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/ribslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/ribslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/ribslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}