Team

Our team conducts cross-disciplinary research to assess the risks to civil infrastructure due to natural hazards, with focus on quantifying the uncertainties associated with the impacts of extreme and rare events. Our team's expertise spans earthquake and wind engineering, computational modeling of hazards and infrastructure systems, probabilistic risk assessment, and machine learning methods.

Aman Karki

M.Sc. Student

Aman's research focuses on quantifying the uncertainty associated with estimating extreme limit states of structural components subjected to earthquake loading.

Melisa Natalia Herrera

Ph.D. Student

Melisa's research focuses on regional-scale seismic hazard and risk assessment using physics-based earthquake fault-rupture simulations.

Suraj Thapa

M.Sc. Student

Suraj's research focuses on regional-scale assessment of the vulnerability of electric power transmission infrastructure to extreme weather events.

Opportunities

PhD Student Recruitment

I am currently recruiting a PhD student to join the structural engineering group in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oklahoma State University in Spring 2026. The research project is at the intersection of earthquake engineering, regional-scale structural risk analysis, applied mathematics, and machine learning.

The minimum requirements of the position are:

- A Bachelor degree with focus on structural engineering

- Competency in Python

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Master's degree in structural or earthquake engineering

- Experience with scientific computing in Python

- Experience with probabilistic analysis or machine learning methods

To apply:

(1) submit an application to the OSU Civil and Environmental Engineering doctoral program. Applications must be submitted by October 1, 2025 to the graduate college: https://go.okstate.edu/graduate-academics/programs/doctoral/civil-engineering-phd.html

(2) Fill this form to indicate your interest in joining my group.

Please note:

- Candidates who did not submit a formal application to the graduate program of OSU will not be considered.

- Applications submitted via email will not be considered.