Yanlin Guo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of Center for Sustainable and Intelligent Transportation Systems at Colorado State University (CSU). Her research expertise lies in the areas of mitigation of wind and compound (e.g., concurrent hurricane wind and surge) hazards in built environment, real-time structural health monitoring (SHM), data-and-physics integrated simulation and modeling of extreme winds and wind effects on structures, remote sensing using computer vision, system identification, and structural dynamics. These research topics embrace the advances in natural hazard engineering, modeling, monitoring, dynamics and data science to help evaluate the conditions of buildings, transportation and energy infrastructure, provide quick decision-making support regarding emergency response, maintenance or retrofitting, etc., and ultimately improve the life-long performance and resilience of structures subjected to both in-service loadings and multiple hazards. Dr. Guo completed her undergraduate studies in Civil Engineering at the Southeast University in Nanjing, China in 2007 and obtained her Master of Philosophy degree in Civil Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2010. Later she received her Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2015. Prior joining CSU, Dr. Guo worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Notre Dame.

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Student News and Awards

  • Seyed Pejman Fatehi won $5,000 Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship for project “Optimizing shapes of aerodynamic mitigators for solar trackers by leveraging machine learning.” – 2024
  • Graduate students Kimiya Yousefi Anarak and Mahmoud Said Elnahla received Jack E. Cermak Wind Engineering Graduate Fellowship from the Walter Scott College of Engineering at CSU. – 2023
  • Seyed Pejman Fatehi received Bob And Joan Meroney Scholarship from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at CSU. – 2023
  • Garrett Jankord received Shrake Culler Scholarship from the Walter Scott College of Engineering at CSU. – 2023
  • PhD students Yue Dong and Brandon J. Perry graduated. Congratulations, Yue and Brandon! -2023
  • Graduate student Kimia Yousefi Anarak won the 8th Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship. Kimia received a $5,000 Fellowship award to pursue research in building engineering design or technology. -2023
  • Graduate student Brandon J. Perry was awarded third place in an American Society of Civil Engineers student paper competition in the areas of structural health monitoring, system identification, smart materials and structures, and structural control. -2022
  • Graduate student Brandon J. Perry won the 6th Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship. Brandon received a $5,000 Fellowship award to pursue research in building engineering design or technology. -2021 
  • Graduate student Brandon J. Perry has been awarded the 28th Annual Outstanding Student of the Year Award by U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) for his work on improving bridge inspections with the assistance of unmanned aerial vehicles and machine learning techniques. -2019
  • Graduate student Brandon J. Perry has been selected to receive a $5,000 Walter Scott, Jr. Graduate Fellowship. -2019