Honors
*** I have joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Assistant Research Professor. Information about my work is now available on my UIUC webpage here, and I can be contacted at alipour@illinois.edu
Young Professionals Award, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). [coverage].
2020
Annual Research Excellence Award, in recognition of superior research performance by a graduate student, Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, UVA
2019
O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) [coverage]
2018
First Place and Audience Choice, 5th Annual Three-Minute Thesis Competition, 2017, "The Citizen Engineer: Crowd-Sourced Data Analytics". University of Virginia [Coverage]
2018
Regional Finalist, Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, Fayetteville, AR.
2018
Double Hoos Research Award, Amount: $8,500, Project: “SensCam: Developing Next Generation Camera-Based Sensors for Health Monitoring of Critical Infrastructure”. [news coverage] and UVA Today article.
2018
Best Paper Nominee, International Conference on SHM of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII-8).
2018
Scholarship Recipient, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Richmond Scholarship.
2017
Annual Travel Grant Award, Department of Civil Engineering, UVA, 2017.
2017
