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Arghavan Louhghalam, PhD
Associate Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Contact
508-999-8491
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Education
| 2010 | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD | PhD in Civil Engineering |
| 2007 | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD | MS in Civil Engineering |
| 2002 | Tehran University, Tehran, Iran | MS in Earthquake Engineering |
| 2000 | Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran | BS in Civil Engineering |
Teaching
Programs
Programs
- Civil & Environmental Engineering MS
- Civil Engineering BS, BS/MS
- Engineering and Applied Science PhD
- Environmental Resources Engineering
Research
Research awards
- $ 79,964 awarded by Michelin North America, Inc | Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Near-Miss Traffic Vehicle Statistics from Crowdsourced Data Analytics: Phase I. Graph Representation of Telematics Data and Modeling
- $ 18,848 awarded by Dauphin Island Sea Lab for Mechanisms of Bioturbation and Ecosystem Engineering by Benthic Infauna
- $ 370,177 awarded by Office of Naval Research for UMassD MUST II: Enhanced Source Localization Using Optimally Designed Metamaterials and Advanced Machine Learning for Underwater Applications
Research
Research interests
- Quantitative Engineering Sustainability, Design, Development and Maintenance of Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
- Fracture Mechanics and Material Durability
- Risk and Reliability Assessment of High-Performance Structural Systems
- Dynamics and Random Vibrations
- Application of Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques to Civil Engineering Pro
Dr. Arghavan Louhghalam joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as an assistant professor. Prior to joining the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub@MIT). She holds a Ph.D. and a M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from the Johns Hopkins University, a M.S. in Earthquake Engineering from University of Tehran, and a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran.
Dr. Louhghalam’s research interests are mainly focused on interconnected areas of solid mechanics, material modeling and applied statistics with applications to the development of sustainable and resilient civil infrastructure. Her research on quantitative engineering sustainability aims at development of mechanics-based predictive tools to quantify the environmental impact of civil infrastructures and identify the key contributing factors to this footprint.