Arghavan Louhghalam Research

Dr. Louhghalam receives the NSF CAREER award to develop a physics-based and data-driven framework for resilience analytics. Learn more here.

Professor Louhghalam and former UMassD student Meshkat Botshekan did an interview with Western Mass News. We talked about “Carbin” what it can do regarding estimating and monitoring road quality and  fuel consumption and environmental impact. For more information click here.

Professor Louhghalam along with Prof. Tootkaboni and former UMassD student Meshkat Botshekan have been featured in a story by The New York Times. The story describes the technology and the app “Carbin” based on the idea of citizen-enabled crowed-sourcing  for measuring and monitoring road quality and its associated fuel consumption and GHG emission. To read the article click here.

Prof. Louhghalam and Prof. Tootkaboni received a 3-year $224,000 award from National Science Foundation to develop a data-centric framework for resilience analytics of critical infrastructure under extreme climate events. This grant will support research on the theory and practice of resilience engineering via establishing an uncertainty-informed framework to characterize resilience of power systems subject to stochastic hazards such as hurricanes.

Prof. Louhghalam and Prof. Tootkaboni receive a $25,000 award to develop a system that uses measurements from drivers’ cell phones, crowd sourcing and mathematical models to estimate road surface conditions, excess fuel consumption and GHG emissions in realtime.

Prof. Louhghalam was one of the co-chairs of the EMI conference 2018 along with Prof. Tootkaboni from UMASS Dartmouth and Profs. Franz-Josef Ulm and Roland Pellenq from MIT. For more information see here.

Congratulations to Xuejing Wang and Meshkat Botshekan for wonderful presentations at the Engineering Mechanics Conference (EMI2018)

• X. Wang, M. Botshekan and A. Louhghalam, “Texture and Disorder: Impact on Fracture Properties of Porous Materials
• M. Botshekan and A. Louhghalam, “Vibrations of Periodically Supported Beams Subjected to Moving Loads: Application to Bridges and Railways
• M. Botshekan, M. Tootkaboni and A. Louhghalam, “Global Sensitivity of Roughness-Induced Pavement-Vehicle Interaction to Road Surface Parameters and Car Dynamic Characteristics

Prof. Louhghalam designed a workshop in an event organized by Society of Women Engineers (SWE) to introduce middle-school and high-schoolers to civil engineering. Special thanks to volunteers: Seyed Ardalan Nejat, Meshkat Botshekan, and Leili Javidannia for their help in organizing the sessions.

Xuejing Wang received distinguished doctoral fellowship. Congratulations Xuejing!

Prof. Louhghalam organized a workshop for the STEM4GIRLS on UMass Dartmouth campus where middle school students were introduced to the designing and building of bridges. Special thanks to Taylor Johansen for helping with the workshop.