Dr. Hussam N. Mahmoud

George T. Abell Professor in Infrastructure and Director, Structural Laboratory

The Socio-Physical and Hazard-Integrated Environment (SoPHIE) Research Group

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

About Dr. Hussam Mahmoud

Dr. Mahmoud's current research group is focused on establishing Socio-Physical and Hazard-Integrated Environments (SoPHIE) under the theme of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, focusing on establishing new frameworks for functionality recovery, performance-based design, and life-cycle analysis for the built environment and communities subjected to natural disasters and deterioration with considerations to climate change.


Dr. Mahmoud's research program has three major thrusts including - 1) assessing community resilience, 2) quantifying building response and life-cycle cost to extreme single and multiple hazards, and 3) evaluating, repairing, and estimating life-cycle cost of deteriorated infrastructure.


Research Thrust Areas

Recent News:

Dr. Mahmoud presented at the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt on Predicting Survivability of the Built Environment in Wildfires https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTKfYR2eNo4&list=PLBcZ22cUY9RJc1scZLmb8SdZezq3IM00i&index=180

Recent News:

Dr. Mahmoud invited by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Embassy of Sweden to a Luncheon in Honor of the 2022 American Nobel Laureates

Recent News:

Dr. Mahmoud represented the U.S. National Academies at the G7 Summitt on One Health, Organized by the Royal Society of Canada https://rsc-src.ca/en/events/g7-research-summit-one-health

Recent News:

Dr. Mahmoud selected as co-chair of Cohort 2 of the National Academies New Voices https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/new-voices-in-sciences-engineering-and-medicine

Student News:

Dr. Mahmoud selected as fellow of the First U.S.-Africa National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Symposium, Nairobi, Kenya

Recent News:

Dr. Mahmoud selected as member of the organizing committee and representative of the NASEM New Voices for The Triennial Conference of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Worldwide Meeting of the Young Academies https://www.interacademies.org/event/triennial-conference-interacademy-partnership-iap-and-worldwide-meeting-young-academies

Recent News:

Dr. Mahmoud selected to chair the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) workshop on Benefits, Applications, and Opportunities of Natural Infrastructure, organized by the Resilient America Program at NASEM, Athens, GA https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/benefits-applications-and-opportunities-of-natural-infrastructure-a-workshop

Recent News:

Dr. Mahmoud published a paper with his student Emad Hassan on Orchestrating Performance of Healthcare Networks subjected to the Compound events of Natural Disasters and Pandemic https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21581-x

Recent News:

Dr. Mahmoud published a paper on Barriers to Gauging Built Environment Climate Vulnerability https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0742-z

Student News:

Dr. Mehrdad Memari just accepted a position as a senior research scientist with American International Group (AIG). Congraaaaaaaaaaats Mehrdad...!

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