Masoud Ghandehari
New York University
Associate Professor, Tandon School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Urban Engineering. Associated Professor, Center for Urban Science and Progress
Address: 15 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, New York 11201, USA
email: masoud@nyu.edu
Ph.D. Northwestern University, Civil & Environmental Eng
M.S. McGill University, Civil Engineering
B.S. Columbia University, Civil Eng. & Applied Mechanics
My research activities are focused on sensing, instrumentation, data acquisition and modeling, with applications to civil cyber-physical infrastructure. This work is directed toward a fundamental understanding of the health and performance of the built environment, as well as the interdependencies across human, natural, and physical systems. The foundation of my current work was the development of optical sensing and their application to infrastructure health and performance, with an emphasis on the quantitative assessment of infrastructure materials, at both micro and meso-scales. That work has evolved to instrumentation and modeling at the macro scale, where I work on the quantitative analysis of the built environment at the city scale, studying the dynamics of human habitation on the sustainability and livability of the built environment including exposure to extreme conditions. I am interested in multidisciplinary research, developing taxonomies to define system interdependencies, and data platforms to address complex interdependent phenomena in cities across its systems and dimensions. I enjoy teaching and field work. I have been successful in disseminating academic research through collaborations with the industry and government sectors while gaining experience in direct applications of urban research. The approach to what one may call urban physics in the macro scale has fundamental similarities with the micro and meso scale material science, but the urban application (approximately 5 spatial orders of magnitude larger) introduces new challenges with potentially ground-breaking possibilities. I expect this will contribute to advancements in the field of urban systems engineering.
