Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Award in Education ASCE, 2017
Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, 2016
Publications
Nozhati, Saeed; Sarkale, Yugandhar; Ellingwood, Bruce; Chong, Edwin; Mahmoud, Hussam. "An approximate dynamic programming approach to food security of communities following hazard" Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP13), May, 2019.
Nozhati, Saeed; Sarkale, Yugandhar; Ellingwood, Bruce; Chong, Edwin; Mahmoud, Hussam. "Near-optimal planning using approximate dynamic programming to enhance post-hazard community resilience management" Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 181, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2019, pp. 116--126.
Memari, Mehrdad; Mahmoud, Hussam; Ellingwood, Bruce. "Stability of Steel Columns Subjected to Earthquake and Fire Loads" JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING, vol. 144, no.1, 2018.
Sarkale, Yugandhar; Nozhati, Saeed; Chong, Edwin; Ellingwood, Bruce; Mahmoud, Hussam. "Solving Markov decision processes for network-level post-hazard recovery via simulation optimization and rollout" Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2018), August, 2018, pp. 906--912.
Nozhati, Saeed; Sarkale, Yugandhar; Ellingwood, Bruce; Chong, Edwin; Mahmoud, Hussam. "A modified approximate dynamic programming algorithm for community-level food security following disasters" Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2018), June, 2018.
Cutler, Harvey; Ellingwood, Bruce; van de Lindt, John; Peacock, Walter; Gardoni, Paolo; Wang, Nayu. "“The Centerville Virtual Community: a fully integrated decision model of interacting physical and social infrastructure systems,”" The Journal of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructures Taylor Francis, Volume 1, Issue 3-4, 2016, pp. 95-107.
Chulahwat, Akshat; Mahmoud, Hussam; Ellingwood, Bruce; Kuligowski, E; Butler, K; Bryner, N. "A Probabilistic Cellular Automata Model for Capturing Propagation of Wildfires by Convection and Embers" International Journal of Wildland Fire, .
Memari, Mehrdad; Mahmoud, Hussam; Ellingwood, Bruce. "Flexibility-Based Formulation for Assessing the Response of Steel Columns Subjected to Earthquake and Fire loadings" Journal of Structural Engineering, .
Mahmoud, Hussam; Ellingwood, Bruce; Turbert, Collin; Memari, Mehrdad. "Response of Steel Reduced Beam Section Connections Exposed to Fire" JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING, vol. 142, no.1, 2016.
Memari, Mehrdad; Mahmoud, Hussam; Ellingwood, Bruce. "Post-earthquake fire performance of moment resisting frames with reduced beam section connections" JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTIONAL STEEL RESEARCH, vol. 103, 2014, pp. 215-229.
