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Team Members
Team Members
Faculty
Faculty
Prof. Salvatore Salamone, Ph.D / CV
Email: salamone@utexas.edu
BIO: Dr. Salamone is a Professor, and holder of the Phil M. Ferguson Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Civil Engineering, in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE), at University of Texas (UT) at Austin. Before joining UT, he was a faculty member at University at Buffalo (SUNY), and a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received his PhD from the Universita’ degli studi di Palermo, in Italy. Salamone’s current research interests include structural health monitoring (SHM), non-destructive evaluation (NDE), ultrasonic sensing methods for smart structures, wave propagation in solids, digital signal processing and pattern recognition. Dr. Salamone knowledge of SHM/NDE approaches have granted him research with several agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the US Airforce, the Department of Energy (DOE), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Federal Rail Administration (FRA), the Pipeline Hazard Management Safety Administration (PHMSA), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and National Institutes of Health (NIH), Texas Department of Transportation, the University Transportation Research Center 2, the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, ExxonMobil and Chevron. He has published over 150 referred journal articles and conference publications. He is an elected Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT). He received several awards, including the SHM Person of the Year (2022), the Department Teaching Award (2019), the ASNT Fellowship Research Award (2018, 2023), the Achenbach Medal (2014) and the ASNT Faculty Grant Award (2011). He is serving in several technical committee including, the ASCE Structural Health Monitoring and Control, and ASME Ultrasonics for Mechanical Systems. Dr. Salamone serves as Associate Editor in several journals, including the Structural Health Monitoring: an international journal, and ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering.
Post-doctoral researchers
Post-doctoral researchers
Dr. Evgeny Podnos
Email: zhenya@utexas.edu
Ph.D. Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, 1999
M.S. Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
B.S. Mechanics and Controls, Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (now Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University), 1992
Dr. Shivashankar Peruvazhuthi
Email: shivashankar@utexas.edu
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (2018)
M.S. in in Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (2012)
B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2009)
Dr. Sean Byunghyun Kim
Email: bkim@utexas.edu
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Seoul, South Korea (2023)
M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Seoul, South Korea (2019)
B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Seoul, South Korea (2017
Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Mr. Ashish Kumar (Ph.D student)
Email: ashishkumar@utexas.edu
M.S. in Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2025)
B.Tech in Civil Engineering (2021)
Mr. Shouchen Zhang (PhD student)
Email: zhangsch@utexas.edu
M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2024)
B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Macau (2022)
Mr. Nathan Wilson (PhD student)
Email: nwilson@utexas.edu
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2022)
B.S. in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Roger Williams University (2019)
Mr. Tony (Guan-Wei), Lee (Ph.D. student)
Email: guanwei.lee@austin.utexas.edu
BS: National Taiwan University (2011-2015)
MS: Georgia Institute of Technology (2016-2017)
Mr. Konstantinos Sitaropoulos (Ph.D. student)
Email: sitaropoulos@utexas.edu
BS: National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2016)
MS: The University of Texas at Austin (2020)
Mr. Junghoon Sohn (Ph.D. student)
Email: jsohn@utexas.edu
B.S. in Architectural Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea (2018)
M.S. in Architectural Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea (2020)
Mr. Mir Mohammad Shamszadeh (Ph.D. student)
Email: mm.shamszadeh@utexas.edu
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (2019)
M.Sc. in Earthquake Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (2022)
Mr. Jinghang Weng (Ph.D. student)
Email: jhweng@utexas.edu
B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China (2021)
M.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China (2024)
Alumni and past visitors
Alumni and past visitors
Dr. Bryan German Pantoja Rosero (Postdoc 06/2024-06/2025, University of Texas at Austin)
Ms. Angela Whittle (M.S. 2024, University of Texas at Austin)
Dr. Stylianos Livadiotis (Ph.D. 2022, University of Texas at Austin)
Current position: Associate II, WJE
Dr. Korkut Kaynardag (Ph.D. 2023, University of Texas at Austin)
Dr. Chi Yang (Ph.D. 2023, University of Texas at Austin)
Mr. John Weber (M.S. 2022, University of Texas at Austin)
Dr. Brennan Dubuc, (Ph.D. 2020, University of Texas at Austin)
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin
Ms. Melanie B Schneider, (M.S. 2020, University of Texas at Austin)
Current position: Researcher - Sandia National Lab
Dr. Apostolos Athanasiou, (Ph.D. 2020, University of Texas at Austin)
Current position: Senior Engineer at Thornton Tomasetti Inc
Dr. Arvin EbrahimKhanlou, (Ph.D. 2018, University of Texas at Austin)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Drexel University
Mr. Deyuan Zhang, (B.S. 2018, University of Texas at Austin)
Mr. Giuseppe Battaglia (PhD student, from University of Palermo, Italy)
Ms. Marina C Nakajima, M.S. 2017 at the University of Texas at Austin
Mr. Marco Munoz, undergraduate research assistant, CAEE Department at UT, (05/2016–12/2016).
Ms. Caitlyn Kallus, undergraduate research assistant, CAEE Department at UT, (09/2016–12/2016).
Mr. Sivateja Ponnuru, undergraduate research assistant, ECE Department at UT, (09/2016–12/2016).
Xinran Li, visiting scholar from Tianjin University, China, (01/2017– 06/2017).
Current position: M.S. Student, Columbia University
Marco Manconi, M.S. 2017 from Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, (03/2016– 11/2016).
Alessandro Musumeci, M.S. 2017 from Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, (04/2016– 12/2016).
Mr. Ehsan Dehghanniri, (Ph.D. 2014, at the University at Buffalo)
Current position: Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Mr. Alireza Farhidzadeh, (Ph.D. 2014, at the University at Buffalo)
Current position: Ultrasonic Research Scientist, MISTRAS, INC.
Mr. Moses Matovu, (Ph.D. 2015, at the University at Buffalo)
Current position: Lecture at Makerere University, Uganda
Mr. Jan Dokonal, (M.S. 2015, at University at Buffalo)
Mr. Tresor Mavinga, (B.S. 2014, undergraduate research assistant at University at Buffalo)
Dr. Marianna Ercolino, visiting scholar from University of Naples, Italy, (06/2014–12/2015).
Current position: Senior Lecture, University of Greenwich, UK
Stefano Pescetelli, visiting scholar from Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, (10/2012–03/2013).
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