Shamim N. Pakzad, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Center for Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS)
Lehigh University
117 ATLSS Drive, Imbt Labs
Bethlehem, PA 18015
phone: 610-758-6978;  fax: 610-758-5553
email: pakzad@lehigh.edu

Education

B.S. Civil Engineering, The Baha’i Institute for Higher Education, Iran, Tehran, 1995
M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, 2000
Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of California, Berkeley, 2008
Postdoctoral Appointment in Structural Engineering, The University of California Berkeley, 2008

Research and Scholarship

Dr. Pakzad research interests include Structural Health Monitoring, Wireless Sensor Networks, Damage Detection, System Identification and Signal Processing, Probabilistic Methods in Civil Engineering and Structural Reliability, Random Vibrations and Structural Dynamics, and Structural Monitoring of Large Infrastructures and Bridges.

Publications

Pakzad, S.N., Fenves, G.L., Kim, S., Culler, D.E. (2008), “Design and Implementation of Scalable Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Monitoring”, ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Engineering, March 2008.

Pakzad, S.N., Fenves, G.L. (2008), “Statistical Analysis of Vibration Properties of a Suspension Bridge Using Spatially Dense Wireless Sensor Network”, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, In Press, August 2008.

Conference Proceedings

Pakzad, S.N., Fenves, G.L. (2008). “Statistical Approach for Evaluation of Identified Vibration Properties of a Long-span Bridge Using a Wireless Sensor Network”, US-Korea Workshop on Bio-inspired Sensor Technology & Infrastructure Monitoring, Jeju Island, Korea

Fenves, G.L, Pakzad, S.N. (2008). “Scalable Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Monitoring”, 5th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering, CUE, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
Kim, S., Pakzad, S., Culler, D., Demmel, J., Fenves, G., Glaser, S., Turon, M. (2007). “Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructures Using Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN).

Kim, S., Pakzad, S.N., Culler, D., Demmel, J., Fenves, G.L., Glaser, S., Turon, M. (2006). “Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring”, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Boulder, Colorado. (SenSys '06).

Pakzad, S.N., Kim, S., Fenves, G.L., Glaser, S.D., Culler, D.E. and Demmel, J.W. (2005). “Multi-purpose Wireless Accelerometers for Civil Infrastructure Monitoring”, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM 2005), Stanford, CA.

Fenves, G.L., Pakzad, S.N. (2005), “Distributed Sensor Applications for Civil Infrastructure Monitoring”, Proceedings of the China-U.S. Workshop on the Smart Structures and Smart Systems, Jinan, China.
Pakzad, S.N. and Fenves, G.L. (2004). “Structural Health Monitoring Applications Using MEMS Sensor Networks ”, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Structural Control, Columbia University, New York, 47-56.

Technical Reports

Pakzad, S. (2008). “Statistical Approach to Structural Monitoring Using Scalable Wireless Sensor Networks”, Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.

Kim, S., Pakzad, S.N., Culler, D., Demmel, J., Fenves, G.L., Glaser, S., Turon, M. (2006). “Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructures Using Wireless Sensor Networks”, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley. Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2006-121