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Ishfaq Aziz
PhD Candidate
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hi, I am Ishfaq — a Ph.D. candidate at CEE, UIUC, working under the supervision of Prof. Mohamad Alipour (visit his website here.) My research interests lie in Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) of materials and structures, using Radar Sensing, Model Updating, and Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). I enjoy engaging in outdoor sports, including soccer, badminton, cricket, and swimming.
🎓 Education 🎓
🎓 Education 🎓
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | 2022-Present |
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Mohamad Alipour - Website.
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
M.Sc. in Civil Engineering (Structural), 2020.
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, 2017.
💼 Work experience 💼
💼 Work experience 💼
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Graduate Research Assistant (2022-Present)
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Fall 2024, Fall 2025, Fall 2026)
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering (Jan. 2021 – Present)
Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering (Oct. 2019 – Jan. 2021)
Lecturer, BUET-Japan Institute of Disaster Prevention and Urban Safety (Dec. 2017 – Oct. 2019)
🏅 Awards and Honors 🏅
🏅 Awards and Honors 🏅
Fellowships and Scholarships:
Fellowships and Scholarships:
ASCE O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering.
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). 2026-27. View News.
Mavis Future Faculty Fellow.
The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 2026-27. Link.
ASNT Foundation Fellowship.
American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT). 2025. News. LinkedIn Announcement.
Fiddler Innovation Fellowship.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). 2025. View News.
Other awards:
Other awards:
Graduate College Conference Presentation Award, University of Illinois Graduate College, 2025.
Travel grant, USACM Thematic Conference on Uncertainty Quantification for Machine Learning Integrated Physics Modeling (UQ-MLIP), Virginia, USA, 2024.
Travel grant, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Athens, Greece, 2024.
2nd place, Pecha Kucha research presentation, Midwest Smart Structures Colloquium, 2023.
Best paper award, International Conference on Disaster Risk Management, 2019.
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