Bio

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta. I am a Professional Engineer licensed in Alberta, British Columbia, and the State of Texas. I am also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a LEED Green Associate.

I have more than 25 years of combined academic and industry experience in structural engineering and construction in Canada and internationally. I lead the Advanced Resilient Infrastructure & Sustainable Engineering (ARISE) Research Team, where our research integrates experimental testing, numerical simulation, and analytical modelling to improve the performance, resilience, and sustainability of buildings and infrastructure.

My research interests include performance-based seismic design; performance assessment of steel, mass-timber, and hybrid structural systems; seismic energy-dissipation devices; evaluation of structural robustness and practical methods for mitigating progressive collapse; infrastructure assessment and rehabilitation; and sustainable and affordable modular construction.

My experimental work is conducted at the I.F. Morrison Structures Laboratory and includes full-scale testing of pipelines, steel and timber connections, structural components, and assemblies under extreme loading conditions. Our team also develops computational and machine-learning tools for structural design, performance assessment, system optimization, and the design automation of resilient and sustainable structural systems.

At the University of Alberta, I am an associate faculty member of the Advanced Research in Timber Systems (ARTS) Group and The Steel Centre. I contribute to the development of Canadian structural design standards and building-code provisions through my involvement with several CSA O86 technical task groups and other technical committees. I also collaborate with government agencies, municipalities, industry partners, and academic researchers to translate research findings into practical engineering solutions and advance the development of resilient, sustainable, and affordable infrastructure.

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Education

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Research Areas & Interests

• Performance-based seismic design and assessment of buildings and infrastructure
• Mass timber, steel, and hybrid structural components and systems
• Seismic performance and capacity-based design of timber and hybrid lateral load-resisting systems
• Structural robustness, disproportionate collapse, and performance under extreme loading
• Seismic energy-dissipation systems, structural fuses, and innovative connections
• Sustainable, affordable, and modular construction systems
• Infrastructure assessment, rehabilitation, and resilience, including pipeline systems
• Multi-hazard performance and resilience of structures and infrastructure
• Sustainability, life-cycle assessment, and low-carbon structural systems
• Machine learning, data analytics, optimization, and design automation
• Research-oriented software development for structural engineering

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Memberships

• Work Group “Mass timber panels” of CSA O86 "Engineering Design in Wood", since 2020
• P.Eng., Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)
• P.E., Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
• PMP, Project Management Institute
• LEED Green Associate, U.S. Green Building Council

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Teaching (Past 2 Years)

Winter 2026

• CIV E 479 - Structural Design III

Fall 2025

• CIV E 662 - Structural Timber Design

Winter 2025

• CIV E 374 - Structural Design I
• CIV E 479 - Structural Design III