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Welcome
Welcome
Welcome to the website of the Hazard Mitigation & Infrastructure Resilience (HMIR) lab directed by Dr. Yazhou (Tim) Xie in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at McGill University
The research at HMIR focuses on enhancing infrastructure resilience and sustainability using advanced modeling and smart protection. Specific areas of interest at HMIR include:
Soil-structure interaction, soil liquefaction
Innovative seismic design, smart material and device
Performance-based earthquake engineering
Statistical and machine learning
Risk, loss and resilience assessment
Multi-hazard, multi-objective optimization and decision making
Announcement
Announcement
Following scholarship opportunities are available for Ph.D. students, visiting scholars, and Postdoctoral Research Associates:
Visiting students and faculties are welcome to join HMIR any time.
News
News
04/30/2024 - Farzaneh received a B2X scholarship from FRQNT. Congrats, Farzaneh!
06/18/2023 - Postdoc and Ph.D. positions available. Check this:
04/29/2023 - Chunxiao, Sirui, Han received a B2X scholarship from FRQNT. Big Congrats to them!
06/02/2022 - Yihan received a B2X scholarship from FRQNT. Congrats, Yihan!
12/16/2021 - Farzaneh wins the TISED Doctoral Recruitment Award (DRA). Congrats, Farz!
07/18/2021 - One Ph.D. position is available in Winter 2022. Details are provided below:
04/30/2021 - Yihan received a B1X scholarship from FRQNT. Congrats, Yihan!
11/18/2020 - The HMIR lab is glad to receive the CFI-JELF Grant.
06/19/2020 - The HMIR lab is glad to receive the NSERC Discovery Grant, and is featured on MCGILLREPORTER
06/10/2020 - The HMIR lab is glad to have the machine learning review paper below among the Editors' Monthly Picks from Earthquake Spectra!
04/30/2020 - The HMIR lab is glad to have two papers among the top downloaded in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics!
04/30/2020 - The first generation of students are joining HMIR, welcome!
04/16/2020 - The HMIR lab is glad to receive an U10 service fund from Caltrans, which will be used to develop the Generation-2 Compatible Fragility Models for Bridge Approach-Fill Settlement for the USGS ShakeCast System.
01/03/2020 - The HMIR lab is moved to McGill Civil Engineering.
12/04/2019 - Tim Xie attended NHERI Wall of Wind Experimental Facility research planning workshop at Florida International University, Miami, FL.
07/31/2019 - Tim Xie attended O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory NHERI Experimental Facility and RAPID Facility Workshop at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
06/13/2019 - Tim Xie visited NHERI SimCenter at UC Berkeley, Richmond Field Station, CA.
05/26/2019 - Tim Xie visited Tongji University, China, to meet friends, colleagues, and professors.
05/15/2019 - Tim Xie was invited to give a seminar at Southeast University Civil Engineering School, China.
04/18/2019 - The HMIR lab starts at Rice University Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
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