Emad M. Hassan, PhD

Assistant Professor, Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering
Research investigator, Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies (CIES)

Research investigator, Center for Intelligent Infrastructure (CII)

327 Butler-Carlton Hall, 573-341-4553, emad.hassan@mst.edu

Biography

Dr. Emad Hassan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at Missouri S&T. Prior to joining Missouri S&T, he served as a research scientist at Colorado State University. He has been involved in various projects funded by national and international agencies. Dr. Hassan earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cairo University and completed his Ph.D. at Colorado State University. Before joining Academia, he worked as a structural design engineer in Cairo, Egypt, from 2012-2015.

Dr. Hassan’s research explores fundamental questions related to the impacts of natural hazards on the built environment, infrastructure resilience, and disaster mitigation. His work uses multiple methods, including experimental and analytical simulations, socio-technical models, network analysis, and machine learning.

Education

  • 2021 – Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
  • 2015 – M.S. in Structural Engineering, Cairo University
  • 2011 – B.S. in Civil Engineering, Cairo University

Research Interests

  • Infrastructure performance under extreme loadings
  • Natural hazard risk assessment and mitigation
  • Community resilience
  • Smart cities and data analytics