Postdoctoral Researchers

Qiuling Yang

Qiuling Yang received the PhD. degree in control science and engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2021. From 2018 to 2020, She was a visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include computer vision with application to construction safety, reinforcement learning, and optimization.

PhD Students

Mostafa Hassan

Mostafa has been immersed in Mechanical engineering for over a decade now. Having received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 2013 and 2019, respectively, he worked concurrently as a research and teaching assistant with the Department of Mechanical Design and Production in Cairo University’s Faculty of Engineering. In 2019, he was promoted to Lecturer Assistant at the same institution. He finished his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, focusing on key research areas that include biomechanics, computer vision with application to Scoliosis, and deep learning.

Hao Xie

Hao Xie received his bachelor’s degree in city underground space engineering and his master’s degree in civil engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2017 and 2020, respectively. He is currently a PhD student in structural engineering at the University of Alberta. His interest includes building structural design automation.

Sida Ai

Sida Ai received his bachelor degree in Civil Engineering form Xiangtan University, China. Then, he obtained his master degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering form Central South University, China. Now he is a PhD student in Structure Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Qipei Mei with the support of China Scholarship Council and University of Alberta. His future research area is the application of artificial intelligence in health monitoring.

MSc Students

Samia Zakir Sarothi

I was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I completed my undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) with structure as major and geo-tech as minor. After graduation, I joined as a lecturer in a private university of my country. Also, I started my M.Sc. in Civil and Structural engineering at BUET in 2018. My M.Sc. thesis is focused on experimental study of self-driven screw connection under tensile loading. My research interest is mainly focused on experimental and numerical study of steel connection under various loading condition. Also, I have experience in application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in steel joint design. At my last work place, Military Institute of Science and Technology (Dhaka, Bangladesh), I got an opportunity to work on the application of machine learning (ML) on double shear bolted joints. I really enjoyed working with the machine learning techniques and hopefully in future I can get more such chances

Mohammad Aqib

Mohammad Aqib was born in Kheri town, India. He has done diploma in Civil Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University. In order to get a deeper insight and to broaden the knowledge of Civil Engineering, he got himself enrolled in Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University. In 2022 he received his bachelor's degree with GPA of 3.611/4. It was his enthusiasm for research work that led to two publications during his undergrad. Currently, he is pursuing MSc in Building Engineering from the University of Alberta.

Muhammad Adil

Muhammad Adil is an MSc Civil Engineering student at the University of Alberta. He joined the SITE Research group in May 2023, to focus on Mobile Robotics in Construction research. Mr. Adil completed his Bachelor's in Civil Engineering at the University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan, in August 2022, where his thesis was about the Applications of AI in Civil Engineering.

Mohammed Al-Duais

I received my BSc in Civil Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. with a CGPA of 3.7/4.0 with a second distinction. During my undergraduate studies, I took courses focusing on structural engineering such as steel design 1, reinforced concrete design 1, and reinforced concrete design 2.I learned HTML, python, and C++ as I am very passionate about programming. Currently, my focus is machine learning and its applications in civil engineering.

Yuchen Qian

Yuchen Qian received her bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the Northeast Petroleum University in June 2021 and enrolled in the MEng program at the University of Alberta in September 2021. Then, she transferred to an MSc student in Structural Engineering at the University of Alberta.

Zahra Hassani

Zahra Hassani was an MSc student in Structural Engineering. She received her Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Razi University in Iran. She conducted research on the application of data-driven methods on structural health monitoring.

Farshid Heshmati

Farshid Heshmati started his second master's degree in structural engineering in Sep 2022 at the University of Alberta. He defended his previous master's degree in construction engineering in Dec 2021 and accomplished his bachelor's degree years ago. He has his professional experience in the oil and gas industry for ten years. As a pipeline engineer, he designed gas stations (PCS, LBV, Launcher and Receiver Stations), Cross sections and Project lines, Iso-metric drawings, Pipeline Hydrostatic Calculations for gas pipeline projects, such as 67 km of Iran-Turkey IGAT9, and 136 km of Iran_Iraq IGAT6. His research activities three years ago resulted in two journal papers in the field of pipeline design(LBV, PCS, luncher and Receiver).

Undergraduate Students

Isaac Joffe (USRA, DRA)

Isaac Joffe is a BSc student in Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, having just completed his third year of studies. After completing an internship in the construction industry, he joined the Smart Infrastructure TEchnologies (SITE) lab in September 2022 to complete a Dean’s Research Award project. Following this, he earned an Undergraduate Student Research Award from NSERC to continue pursuing his projects in Summer 2023. His research areas include the application of computer vision and other artificial intelligence techniques to structural generation, optimization, and analysis.

Yi Zhu (DRA)

Yi Zhu was an undergraduate student in Civil Engineering at the University of Alberta. She was a DRA researcher in SITE in 2021. Her project was about the flexural design of reinforced concrete beams using a neural network.

Atishay Jain (Mitacs GRI)

Atishay Jain, a resident of Delhi, is an accomplished undergraduate student currently pursuing a dual degree program (B.Tech + M.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur). He has completed several programming projects and maintained an impressive CGPA of 9.15 out of 10 throughout his academic journey. Alongside his academic commitments, Atishay has secured a research internship at the University of Alberta under the guidance of Professor Qipei Mei. In this role, he will be contributing to the Structual Health Monitoring Project, leveraging his programming skills.

Alex Gutierrez (Mitacs GRI)

Alex is an undergraduate student from Queretaro, Mexico who started his bachelor degree in Robotics Engineering at Arizona State University in 2021 and is expected to graduate in 2025. He will be working in the AR project to improve the safety and productivity in construction sites. He has experience in Coding in Matlab, Symulink, Arduino, and design in Solidworks.