Academia

 Dr. Kianoosh Hatami, PEng, FASCE

 Professor of Civil Engineering

 President's Associates Presidential Professor

 School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES)

 University of Oklahoma

 202 West Boyd Street, Room 334

 Norman, OK, 73019-1024, USA

 ( Phone: 405.325.3674

 Ê Fax: 405.325.4217

 *  Email: kianoosh@ou.edu

 URL: kianoosh-hatami.oucreate.com 

 Professional Preparation

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Geotechnical Engineering, RMC and Queen's University,
  Kingston, Ontario, Canada

• PhD, Structural Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

• MSc, Hydraulic Structures, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

• BSc, Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran

• Licensed Professional Engineer, Ontario, Canada

 Research Interests

• Geosynthetics

• Reinforced Soil Structures

• Earthquake Engineering

 Patents

• Sensor-Enabled Geosynthetic Material and Method of Making and Using the Same

  • U.S. Patent No. 7,975,556  (United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA)

  • U.S. Patent No. 8,752,438 (SPE Link)

  • Canadian Patent No. 2,766,486

  • European Patent No. EP 2389484

  • Chinese Patent No. ZL 201180071627.0

 Publications

      Research Impact

           Google Scholar Citations

           ResearchGate

           MSE Wall Research

 Web-Based Inventory of Selected GRS-IBS in the United States (GRS R US^© )

 Selected Awards/Recognitions

 National/International

• Honorable Mention Certificate (Runner-up) for Best Paper (2023), Geosynthetics International

• ASCE Fellow (2022), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

• Outstanding Engineering Graduate, Top 150 Engineering Alumni for Canada's 150^th Anniversary (2017), McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

  •   McMaster Engineering Photo Album

  •   CEES Blog

• Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights, NJ, USA

• Honorary Franklin Membership (2017), London Journals Press, Theale, UK

• Distinguished Honorary Member (NSCS) (2017), Washington, DC, USA

• ASCE/GI Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award (2012), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (Past Winners)

• Honorable Mention Certificate for Best Paper (2012), Geotextiles & Geomembranes

• Best Paper Award Nomination in Soil Mechanics Section (2008), by the TRB AFS70 Committee

• Casimir Gzowski Medal for the Best Refereed Technical Paper in 2005, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada

  •   Honors, Awards and Fellowships 2005-2006 Article

  •   IGS News Article (July 2006)    

 University of Oklahoma

• Presidential Professorship (2018)
• Regents' Award for Superior Research and Creative/Scholarly Activity (2017)
• Brandon H. Griffith Teaching Award Nomination (2013, 2014), College of Engineering
• College of Engineering & Michael F. Price College of Business Alumni Teaching Awards (2007, 2008 & 2009 - Award available during 2007-2009 only)

    Grants

• Ed Cline Faculty Development Award (2022)
• Faculty Investment Program Awards (2017, 2019, 2021, 2024)
• Faculty Challenge Grant Program Award (2011)
• PI Research Investment Program Award (2007)
• Junior Faculty Research Program Awards (2005 & 2007)
• College of Engineering Cross-Disciplinary Seed Funding Awards (2006, 2009, 2013)
• Faculty Senate Development Awards (2005, 2006)

 Funding

• National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Southern Plains Transportation Center (SPTC)

• Oklahoma Transportation Center (OkTC)

• Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT)

• CaNTeC

• OU (VPRP, GCoE)

• Industry Funding and Support

  • TenCate Geosynthetics

  • Tensar Corporation

  • Maccaferri USA

  • Synteen Technical Fabrics

  • Strata Systems

 Student Achievements

• NSF CAREER Award 2021 (Hessam Yazdani, Howard University)

• NSF Travel Grant 2015 (Hessam Yazdani)

• GSI Fellow 2019 - (Ridvan Doger)

• Winners of Oklahoma Transportation Research Day Student Poster Competition - OTRD 2015, Moore, OK (Theresa Ngo & Luis Pena, MSc Students - Joint 1^st place)

• Best Paper Award 2014 - 10^th Annual Conference in Computer Science, OU, Norman, OK (Hessam Yazdani)

• ASTM International Project Grant 2013 (Hessam Yazdani)

• Terracon Scholarship Recipients (Atefeh Fathi 2010; Jaime Granados Rueda 2011; Juan Pereira 2013; Theresa Ngo 2015; Luis Pena 2016; Emma Coggin 2018; Christian Schran 2020)

• Rory Victor Scholarship Recipients (Ridvan Doger 2018; Kirby Falcon 2020; Pouria Zare 2023)

• Winner of the DFI Student Paper Competition - 38^th Annual Conference of the Deep Foundations Institute, Phoenix, AZ, September 2013 (Hessam Yazdani)

• Third place for the GeoWall design paper in GeoChallenge 2012 Student Competition - GeoCongress 2012, Oakland, CA, March 2012 (Hessam Yazdani, Arash Hassanikhah, Carlos Chang, Juan Pereira)

• Winners of ASCE/Geo-Institute Student Poster Competition - GeoFrontiers 2011, Dallas, TX, March 2011 (Atefeh Fathi, MSc Student - 1^st place, Tahsina Mahmood and Rouzbeh Ghabchi, PhD students - joint 3^rd place)

• OU Graduate College Fellow (2010-2014 Danial Esmaili)

• Winner of ASCE/Geo-Institute Student Paper Competition - GeoDenver 2007, Denver, CO, February 2007 (Alan Witthoeft, Undergraduate Research Assistant)

• Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (UReCA)

  • Conner Swalla (2024 UReCA Fellow)

• Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) - GCoE/Honors College - University of Oklahoma

  • Alan Witthoeft, Ted Huynh, Matthew Long - The Oklahoma Daily (05/01/07), Anna Jones, Daniel Graumann (2006-2021)

  • Jesse Berdis (Architectural Engineering) and Kyle Olson (Industrial Engineering) - (ID-UROP 2010)

  • Carlos Chang (Architectural Engineering) and Thai Dinh (Industrial Engineering) - (ID-UROP 2011)

  • Kendall Harper, Amy Crone, Peter George, Alexander Guerra, Seamus Hunt, Mitchell Gordon, Nate McMullen, Ty Pfeiffer, Chloe Sarfatis, Adella Kuster, Kim Serey Vuth Chea, Jessica Shepard, Javier Chavez Camargo, Jessica Winkler, Colt Startz (HERE 2012-2021)

  • Oliver Li, Christopher Barclay, Hiep Chuong, Michelle Basham, Michael Yuhas, Ben Johnson, Emma Bachman, Alexandra Liever, Javier Chavez Camargo, Mia Herschelman (HRAP 2010-2024)

• Runner-up in 2007 ASCE Geotechnical Competition - University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, April 2007

  • (CEES - OU Team): Alan Witthoeft, Ted Huynh, Karim Saadedine, Kunal Shah

• Runner-up in 2006 ASCE GeoChallenge Competition - University of Missouri-Columbia, May 2006
  • (CEES - OU Team): Alan Witthoeft, Jason Giebler, Ivy Lau, Kunal Shah

 Selected Academic Service Activities

• National Committees (Voting Member)

  • Transportation Research Board of the National Academies (TRB-AFS70)

  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE/GI-Geosynthetics)

  • American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM-D35)

• Editorial Board Member of Scholarly Journals

  • Geotextiles and Geomembranes

  • Geosynthetics International

  • International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering

  • ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics (Guest Editor)

• Specialty Conferences (Scientific Committee, Technical Session Chair/Co-Chair)

  • Geosynthetics Conference 2021, Kansas City, MO, February 2021

  • 2nd Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG), Sousse, Tunisia, November 2019

  • 11^th International Conference on Geosynthetics (11 ICG), Seoul, Korea, September 2018

  • ICBBM ECOGRAFI 2017, Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 2017

  • 6^th European Geosynthetics Congress (EuroGeo 6), Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2016

  • OkTC 3^rd Annual Summer Research Symposium, Oklahoma City, OK, August 2012

  • Geo-Frontiers 2011, Dallas, Texas, March 2011

  • 90^th Annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2011

  • Chief Judge at the ASCE 2010 Midwest Regional Student Competition, Norman, OK, April 2010

  • GeoAmericas 2008, The First Pan American Geosynthetics Conference and Exhibition, Cancun, Mexico, March 2008

  • Student Paper Competition: North American Geosynthetics Society (NAGS)-Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2005

  • First Canadian Young Geotechnical Engineers and Geoscientists Conference (CYGEGC), Quebec City, October 2004

• Technical Reviewer

  • ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics

  • ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics

  • ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

  • ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering

  • Canadian Geotechnical Journal

  • Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

  • Computers and Geotechnics

  • Geosynthetics International

  • Geotechnical and Geological Engineering

  • Geotechnical Testing Journal

  • Geotextiles & Geomembranes

  • Geotechnique

  • International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

  • International Journal of Computational Methods

  • Iranian Journal of Science and Technology

  • Scientia Iranica

  • Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

  • Soils and Foundations

  • Structural Engineering and Mechanics

  • Transportation Research Record

  • Specialty Conferences

 Memberships & Affiliations

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

• American Concrete Institute (ACI)

• ASTM International (ASTM)

• Chi Epsilon Honor Society (Ce)

• Geo-Institute

• International Geosynthetics Society (IGS)

• International Society for Soil Mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)

• National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS)

• North American Geosynthetics Society (NAGS)

• OU Felgar Society

• Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)

• Society of Research Administrators International (SRA)

• Tau Beta Pi Honor Society (ΤΒΠ)

• United States Society on Dams (USSD)

• United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and Research (USUCGER)

• Engineering Club of Oklahoma City

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