Biographical Sketch

Biographical Sketch

Kamran M. Nemati is an Associate Professor in Construction Management/Civil Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle.

He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in December 1994, where he was also a post-doctoral research fellow until August 1998. His Ph.D. thesis entitled: "Generation and Interaction of Compressive Stress-Induced Microcracks in Concrete". His other graduate degrees are: Master of Science in civil engineering (Environmental Engineering); Master of Engineering in civil engineering (Geotechnical and Construction Engineering); and Master of City and Regional Planning (Urban Transportation Planning).

He was a visiting research fellow at the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine in London, England in 1992-93, and at Aalborg University in Denmark in 1996. During 2005-2007 academic years he was a visiting professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, followed by a JSPS (Japan Society of the Promotion of Science) fellowship at the Building Material Engineering Laboratory at the University of Tokyo.

Kamran is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), fellow of the American Concrete institute (ACI), a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in California and several other states, and has more than twenty years of consulting engineering experience mostly with AECOM (then ICF Kaiser Engineers, Inc.) and Testing Engineers, Inc. in Oakland California.

Honors and Awards

• Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

• Fellow, American Concrete Institute (ACI)

• Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

• Delegation Leader, Civil engineering delegation to the People's Republic of China to visit the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, 1999.

• Associate Editor for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Materials Journal.

• Dean's Faculty Development Award, University of Washington, 2003.

• Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Washington, 2005.

• Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarly Work, University of Washington, 2007.

• Invited Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; June 2005 - March 2006.

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Overseas Fellow, The University of Tokyo, Japan; April - December 2006.

• NSF (National Science Foundation) Delegate to the USA-Brazil Workshop on Applied Mechanics, August 12 - 24, 2002.

• ICF Kaiser Engineers, Inc. Graduate School Scholarship Award, 1990 - 1994.

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