Seminars, Outreach & Media mentions:

• 2025 The First Symposium on Recent Advances in Fire and Life Safety. Sharjah International Fire Technology & Engineering Conference (SIFTEC 2025) Series, April 9-10, 2025, at the American University of Sharjah. Keynote speaker and training workshop on AI for firefighters.

• 2024 Flocode Podcast with James O'Reilly [Machine Learning in Structural Engineering] [link]

• 2024 Invited presentation at the 3rd International Conference on ACE (Architectural, Civil and Environmental) Forensic Engineering, Forensic Research Center for Infrastructure, Korea University. Title: Integrating Machine Learning into Building Codes: Establishing Equivalence through Causality and Intuition. [flyer]

• 2023 Invited presentation at the ACI Fall Convention in Boston, MA. Title: Big Data to Discovery: Advancing Concrete Material through Explainable and Causal AI.

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• 2023 Seminar at the 14th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science (Tsukuba, Japan). Title: Knowledge Discovery through Machine Learning. 

• Appeared on the Fire Science Show (October 2023) - Revolutionizing Civil Engineering Through AI (Ep. 121)

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• 2023 Seminar at Michigan State University (October 2023). Title: Machine Learning and Fire Design.

• 2023 SFPE Student Chapter at the University of Queensland. Title: Machine Learning: Verifying Domain Theories and Uncovering Hidden Knowledge. [flyer] [link]

• 2023 The 14th North American Masonry Conference, Omaha, NE. Title: Buildings, Robotics and AI: Future of AEC (with Prof. Javier Irizarry). [flyer] [link]

• 2023 Clemson University's Artificial Intelligence Symposium. Title: Causality, Engineering, Machine Learning, and Systems.

• 2023 May 2023 Middle Tennessee SFPE Chapter Meeting. Machine Learning and Causality for Fire Engineers. [link]

• 2023 at the ASCE Central PA chapter. Title:Machine Learning 101 for CEE: Navigating Data, Explainability & Causality. [flyer] [link]

• 2023 The 2nd International Conference on ACE (Architectural, Civil, and Environmental) Forensic Engineering, Korea University. Title, Beyond Machine Learning: Causality & Knowledge Discovery in structural engineering. [flyer]

• 2022 ASCE Convention. Title, Unboxing Machine Learning for Civil Engineers: From Data-driven to Explainability & Causality. [flyer]

• Paper: “Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Fire Engineering and Sciences.” Fire Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-020-01069-8. [Pre-print draft] Selected for Editor’s Choice [link] as well as Fire Science Reviews [link]

• Sustainability, Intelligence and Resilience Seminar series hosted by the School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology. March 31st, 2022. Title: Machine Learning in Structural Engineering: From Navigating the Realms of Data-driven Analysis to Explainability and Causal Knowledge Discovery.

• Paper: Demystifying Ten Big Ideas and Rules Every Fire Scientist Engineer Should Know About Blackbox, Whitebox Causal Artificial Intelligence (featured at DeepAI)

• Appeared on the Fire Science Show - Easy entry into the world of AI in fire (Ep. 28)

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• 2021 Inducted into Elsevier's 2% Science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators

• AISC Engineering Journal. Steel Structures Research Update. Vol 58, 2021 [link] [journal]

• 2021 ASCE Convention. Title, "Modernizing Civil Engineering through Machine Intelligence".

• The Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Buffalo. CSEE Seminar - Title, "Demystifying The Blackbox: A Glimpse into the Potential of Machine Learning in Advancing Knowledge Discovery in Civil Engineering Systems. [link] [flyer]

• Thar Talk Series: AI and Beyond (an international series sponsored by the IIT system). Title, "Hiding in Plain Sight: The Role of Machine Learning in Modernizing Civil Engineering" [link]

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• ACI Featured Session: The Concrete Industry in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

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• Appeared on the Civil Engineering Vibes Podcast (Ep. 38)

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• Featured at the Journal of Fire Technology

• Featured at BLDG Blog by Geoff Manaugh

• Interviewed by “Big 10” TV network to highlight my research contributions at Michigan State University. 

• Appeared on Michigan State University College of Engineering “President’s Book” as well as “Big 10” TV network and "Spartan Engineer".

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