Dr. Kianoosh Hatami, Ph.D., P.Eng., M. ASCE

Associate 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: http://www.ou.edu/coe/cees/audience/faculty.html

Professional Preparation

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

• Ph.D., Structural Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

• M.Sc., Hydraulic Structures, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

• B.Sc., Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran

Research Interests

• Sensor-Enabled Geosynthetics (SEG)

• Unsaturated soil-geosynthetic interfaces

• Reinforcement applications of geosynthetics in geotechnical and transportation engineering

• Seismic analysis and design of reinforced-soil retaining walls and foundations

• Fluid-structure interaction and seismic analysis of dams

• Soil-structure interaction problems

• Seismic retrofitting and response reduction of structures

Recent Awards

• College of Engineering & Michael F. Price College of Business Alumni Teaching Awards (2007, 2008 & 2009 - Award available during 2007-2009 only), University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

• 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)

• PI Research Investment Program Award (2007), University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

• Junior Faculty Research Program Awards (2005 & 2007), University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

• College of Engineering Cross-Disciplinary Seed Funding Awards (2006 & 2009), University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

• Faculty Senate Development Awards (2005 & 2006), University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

Funding

• National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Oklahoma Transportation Center (OTC)

• Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT)

Students' Achievements

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

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

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

  • Alan Witthoeft (2006)

  • Ted Huynh (2006)

  • Matthew Long (2007) - The Oklahoma Daily (05/01/07)

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

  • Oliver Li (HRAP 2010)

• First Runner-up in 2006 ASCE GeoChallenge Competition - University of Missouri-Columbia, May 2006

  • (CEES - OU Team): Alan Witthoeft; Jason Giebler; Ivy Lau; Kunal Shah

• First 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

Selected Academic Service Activities

• National Committees:

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

  • Member - Geosynthetics (Geo-Institute), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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

                  A List of ASTM Geotechnical Engineering Standards

• Editorial Board of Scholarly Journals:

  • Member: Geotextiles and Geomembranes Journal

  • Associate Editor: ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics

• Technical Session Organizer and Chair/Co-Chair:

  • Geo-Frontiers 2011, Dallas, Texas, March 13-16

  • 90^th Annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 23-27, 2011

  • GeoAmericas 2008, The First Pan American Geosynthetics Conference and Exhibition, Cancun, Mexico, March 2-5

  • Student Paper Competition: North American Geosynthetics Society (NAGS)-Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 14-16, 2005

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

• Technical Reviewer:

• ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

• ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics

• ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering

• ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics

• Canadian Geotechnical Journal

• Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

• Computers and Geotechnics

• Geosynthetics International

• Geotextiles & Geomembranes

• Transportation Research Record

• Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

• Soils and Foundations

• International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

• Iranian Journal of Science and Technology

• Specialty Conferences

Memberships & Affiliations

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

• Geo-Institute

• Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)

• North American Geosynthetics Society (NAGS)

• International Geosynthetics Society (IGS)

• Chi Epsilon Honor Society (Ce)

• ASTM International (ASTM)

• United States Society on Dams (USSD)

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

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

• Society of Research Administrators International (SRA)

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