This summer, we have three new members joining our group.
Hamidreza Chaboki (Reza) starts his Ph.D. study this May. Reza has an MSc in Structural Engineering from the University of Birjand in Iran. His previous research experience is in reinforced concrete. His Ph.D. study will investigate the optimal design of timber concrete composite floor systems based on their structural and acoustical performance.
Weixian Lan (Kai) just finished her dual degree in both Math and Computer Science at UNBC. She is awarded the UNBC ISRA to develop a mobile application for field testing of mass timber floor vibration performance. The App will enable practicing engineers and designers to perform vibration tests and subjective evaluations of built mass timber floors, which will contribute to a database to support the vibration serviceability design of mass timber floors.
Arindam Mor is finishing his third-year study in Mechanical Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology in Indian. He is working as a Mitacs Global Intern virtually in our group. His project is to develop a Matlab-based program to post-process floor vibration test data and will explore machine learning for performance criteria pattern recogination.