Dr. Hussam Mahmoud

Honors and Awards

2021 – Member of the Organizing Committee and Representative of the NAS New Voices of The Triennial Conference of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Worldwide Meeting of the Young Academies (Hosted by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Co-organized by IAP, GYA, NAS, RSC, the RSC College, and the NAS New Voices Program).
2021 – Member of the U.S. National Academies Second Cohort of the New Voices in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (SEM) to Engage a Broad and Diverse Network of Outstanding and Emerging Leaders working in SEM fields Across the U.S (total of 22 members) https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/new-voices-in-sciences-engineering-and-medicine.
2021 – George T. Abell Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Award, Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering, Colorado State University (https://www.engr.colostate.edu/ce/hussam-mahmoud-receives-wscoe-george-t-abell-outstanding-mid-career-faculty-award/).
2021 – Meroney Family Chi Epsilon Teaching Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University.
2021 – Hosted by the National Research Center of Egypt in a webinar titled “Successful Egyptians Abroad” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELAAoRCfMVM&ab_channel=Conferenceunit.
2021 – Honorary Member of the Conference Focus Unit (CFU) HUB, National Research Center of Egypt.
2021 – Best Paper Award, International Conference on Advances in Structural
2020 – Invited by the Royal Institute of International Affairs through the Chatham House’s Hoffmann Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy to two workshops on “Material Transitions: Working with Nature for Built Environments”.
2020 – Invited by the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering for an International Workshop to discuss Safer Complex Systems Programme (coordinated by Engineering X and founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Lloyd’s Register Foundation).
2020 – Selected by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to be a mentor for the COVID-19 “Jamming the Curve” Competition.
2020 – Selected by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering to be a mentor for the “COVID-19 Call for Action Team” Competition.
2020 – The Global Challenges Research Award from the School of Global Environmental Sustainability: Resilient Industry Supply Chains (RISC).
2020 – Editor Choice – Nature Scientific Report: Unraveling the Complexity of Wildland Urban Interface Fires.
2019 – Featured (Successful Egyptians Aboard) in Half a Page in Al-Ahram Newspaper, Ranked 1st Newspaper in Egypt.
2019 – U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering Summit on NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering Invitee, London (one of 20 invited out of more than 3000 Frontiers of Engineering Alumnus)
2019 – Fellow, U.S. National Academy of Science’s 2019 Arab-American National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Symposium, Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt: Symposium Co-Chair (Representing the U.S. Side)
2019 – Distinguished Lecture: Vulnerability of Communities to Extreme Events: System of Systems Approaches, College of Engineering, New Mexico State University
2019 – Invited Keynote: Advances in Computational Methods for the Assessment of Structures under Fires and Fire Following Earthquakes, 2nd International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering (NME2019), Beijing, China
2019 – Invited Keynote: Integrated Socio-Technical Frameworks for Sustainable and Resilient Interdependent Schools and Healthcare Systems Following Extreme Events, Egyptian National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
2019 – Fellowship provided by the U.S. National Academies: Seismic Resilience of Schools & Hospitals in Algeria
2018 – George T. Abell Professor of Infrastructure, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
2018 – Montfort Professor Nominee (one of the only two nominations submitted by the College of Engineering for CSU-wide Professorship)
2018 – Invited Keynote: Assessment of Community Vulnerability to Wildland Urban Interface Fires, 3rd Annual Resilience Colloquium – Challenges of Natural Stresses: Resilience Engineering for Natural and Built Environment, University of New Mexico
2018 – First Bell: American Society of Engineering Education: Innovative Approaches for Sustainable and Resilient Communities
2018 – New Voices in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (SEM) Identifying Outstanding Early-Career SEM Leaders by the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine
2018 – Fellow, U.S. National Academy of Science’s 2018 Arab-American National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Symposium, Kuwait, Kuwait: Organizing committee member – Co-chairing a session on Next Generation Buildings & Infrastructure
2018 – Invited to the Annual CSU 1870 Dinner to Present our Recent Research on Hurricane Impact Assessment, Fort Collins, CO
2017 – Invited Visiting Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2017 – Fellow, U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s 2017 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Shanghai, China
2017 – U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering Summit on NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering Invitee, Washington D.C.
2017 – Early Career Faculty Award, American Institute of Steel Construction
2016 – Fellow, U.S. National Academy of Science’s 2016 Arab-American National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Frontiers Symposium, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E
2016 – Outstanding Faculty Performance Award, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
2016 – U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Symposium Invitee on Exploring a New Vision for Center-Based Multidisciplinary Engineering Research, Keck Center, Washington D.C.
2015 – U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium, invited participant, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
2015 – Faculty Award for Excellence in Research , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
2014 – George T. Abell Outstanding Early-Career Faculty Award, College of Engineering, Colorado State University
2014 – Robert J. Dexter Memorial Lecture Award, The Steel Bridge Task Force of the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI) of AISI and the AASHTO
2014 – Air Force Faculty Fellow, Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, Air Force Institute of Technology Wright Paterson Laboratory
2014 – Participated in the Hybrid Simulation Task Force, NSF Travel Support
2013 – Participated in the NEES Quake Summit Workshop on Hybrid Simulations, NSF Travel Support
2013 – Participated in the US-Vietnam Workshop on Multiple Natural Hazards Assessment and Mitigation under , NSF Travel Award
2012 – NSF Travel Award, to participate in the Second US-PRC Young Researcher’s Forum in Harbin, China, NSF
2012 – ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, West Point Military Academy
2012 – Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Harbin, China
2011 – NSF Travel Award to attend a Two-day Workshop on Advances in Real-Time Hybrid Simulation, NSF
2010 – Best Presentation Award in recognition of Outstanding Contributions by a Young Researcher, 5th International Conference on Urban EQ Engr. & 7th International Conference on EQ Engr.
2009 – Tokyo Institute of Technology Travel Award, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2002 – The Claire and Simon Benson Award for Outstanding Performance, University of Minnesota
2002 – Graduated Magna Cum Laude, University of Minnesota
2001 – Minnesota Surveyors and Engineer Society Scholarship, University of Minnesota
2001 – James Grant Waits Scholarship, University of Minnesota
2001 – ASCE Scholarship, University of Minnesota
2001 – Outstanding Achievement Award, ASCE, University of Minnesota
2001 – Dean”s List, University of Minnesota
2001 – Chi-Epsilon Honor Society , University of Minnesota
2000 – Sommerfeld Scholarship, University of Minnesota
2000 – Ulland Scholarship, University of Minnesota
2000 – Dean”s List, University of Minnesota
2000 – Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, University of Minnesota
1999 – Dean”s List, University of Minnesota