Congratulations to Zhuoqi Tao on passing the Ph.D. preliminary exam last week! Zhuoqi’s research on steel moment resisting frames with spines and force-limiting connections for enhanced seismic performance is partially funded by the National Science Foundation.

Congratulations to Ahmed Ibrahim for defending his Ph.D. dissertation last week! Ahmed’s doctoral research, Automated Inspection and Assessment of Damaged Steel Girders Using Computer Vision and Machine Learning, was supervised by Ahmed Elbanna, Larry Fahnestock and Jim LaFave. Ahmed’s research was part of the project Strength and Serviceability of Damaged Steel Girders, which is funded by the Illinois Center for Transportation.

Ahmed Ibrahim with doctoral committee (Jim LaFave, Ahmed Elbanna, Larry Fahnestock and Mohamad Alipour) after defense.