报告题目：Building Resilient Emergency Management Systems: Integrating Adaptive Design, Advanced Technologies, and Sustainable Development
报告时间：2024年11月11日10:00
报告地点：阅江楼350
报告人：Nasim Uddin 教授
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专家简介：Dr. Nasim Uddin holds the position of Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). His expertise lies in the built environment and its interplay with physical infrastructure, climate readiness, resiliency, and disaster management. He is distinguished as one of the top 1 percent most-cited scientists and has received numerous awards, including the 2023 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2023, 2017 Dean's Excellence in Mentorship Award, 2000 Dean’s Excellent Faculty Award, J William Fulbright Scholar Award in 2007, Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) Project Impact Best Community Award in 2000. He also received many best paper awards including the 2019 Winter Stimulation “Best of Conference” Paper award. He was a finalist for the 2022 Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) with the University of British Columbia. He has secured over $15 million in external funding from various state and federal agencies, including 10 NSF funded projects. He has been a mentor to 5 postdocs, supervised over 20 PhD dissertations, and guided 37 master theses and projects. Additionally, he is the author of 7 books and has delivered over 25 keynote lectures worldwide. His leadership in research initiatives is extensive, ranging from local projects like "Birmingham 2020: Roadmap to a Model City," a Grand Challenge fifinalist that involved 32 faculty members from all UAB schools and colleges to state-wide efffforts such as the "Alabama Machine Learning Initiative in Sensing under Extreme Environments," which includes all seven engineering and science programs across the state of Alabama. On the national level, he has contributed to the University Transportation Center and secured funding from NSF programs like CPS, CMMI, CMS, and the Department of Defense. Globally, he has led a USA-UK-Ireland collaborative research project on "Bridge Infrastructure Health Management." Dr. Uddin currently holds positions as the Chair of the ASCE Walter Huber Civil Engineering Research Award Committee, Editor-In-Chief of the ASCE Natural Hazards Review Journal, and Chair of the Engineering Grant Review Panel for the Louisiana Board of Regents Research & Competitiveness program. He is also the founding research director of the UAB Sustainable Smart City Research Center. He has previously chaired the Executive Committee for the ASCE Council for Disaster Risk Management (now known as ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division) and organized the NSF Sponsored International Workshop on Disaster Risk Mitigation. Currently, he serves as the Technical Advisor, Training and Liaison for the Government of Bangladesh for the design and implementation of the World Bank Funded Urban Resilience for the Capital City Project. Dr. Uddin holds the distinction of being a Faculty Fulbright Scholar and ASCE Fellow.
管理工程学院
2024年11月9日
