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Dr. Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at New Mexico Tech. He has received his Ph.D. and postdoc from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Arvin’s research in the area of Acoustic-based and Vision-based Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructures, as well as mechanical and aerospace structures. Dr. Arvin is highly specialized in the areas of wave propagation, machine learning, data analysis, signal processing, uncertainty quantification, and computer vision. His fundamental contribution to this field includes mathematical formulation for analytical modeling and data analysis of acoustic wave propagation in structures that facilitates the diagnosis and characterization of structural defects. In addition, Dr. Arvin has developed reliable monitoring systems for airplanes, prestressed bridges, containment structures, concrete buildings, and pipelines. The results of Dr. Arvin’s research has published in more than 19 highly cited journal papers and more than 24 conference articles. He has also filed one provisional patent application. His scholarly efforts have had a quantifiable impact on the field and been cited more than 530 times so far. Such efforts have also been recognized by several prestigious awards, including the Fellowship Award of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT). Moreover, Dr. Arvin has served more than 155 times as a reviewer on several top-tier journals. Arvin has a keen passion for teaching and has been recognized for his outstanding teaching performance. In addition to scholarly activities, he has served as the vice-chair of the ASNT 2020 Research Symposium and has been conference session chair and program organizer at multiple conferences. Dr. Arvin is a distinguished alumnus of Sharif University for obtaining his Bachelor’s degree with the highest honors and an active member of several professional societies, including ASNT, SPIE, ASCE, and AISC

Mr. Hamed Momeni is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering - Intelligent Energetic Systems at New Mexico Tech. His research studies focus on high-dimensional data analytics for monitoring different processes from the material level to the system level. The applications of his work are in various fields like nondestructive evaluation, structural health monitoring, and community resilience. He is currently working on developing a data-driven anomaly detection framework. He earned his B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from Sharif University in 2016 and his M.Sc. degree from the University at Buffalo in Structural Engineering in 2020.

Mr. Pedram Bazrafshan is a PhD student at New Mexico Tech, Mechanical Engineering Department. He started his studies in Jan 2022. Currently, Pedram is working on a concrete crack quantification project. The purpose of the project is to present brand-new features for Structural Health Monitoring and Nondestructive Evaluation of the concrete structures.