Dr. Sifat Muin

Biography

Sifat Muin is a Research Assistant Professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California. He earned his Doctorate in Civil Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018, after completing his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Civil Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and UC Berkeley, respectively. Prior to joining USC, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center. Dr. Muin is an active member of the Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) network and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). His research focuses on structural health monitoring (SHM), specifically in response-based damage detection using machine learning, the development of SHM sensors, and disaster resiliency modeling. His overarching goal is to develop a holistic post-disaster monitoring recovery system that studies the data collected on structural and human components of a community to improve city resiliency. Dr. Muin's interests encompass structural health monitoring, earthquake engineering, response of long period structures, machine learning, data-driven community resilience, and disaster reconnaissance, as well as the development of feasible SHM sensors.

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