Hussam Mahmoud

Hussam Mahmoud is the George T. Abell professor in infrastructure in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. He obtained his BSc and MSc in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota and his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research is focused on sustainable and resilient infrastructure and communities with emphasis on developing socio-physical models to capture recovery as influenced by human behavior and socio-economic policies. He is an international authority on infrastructure resilience and serves as an advisor to the World Bank and other agencies on such topic. He has authored over 250 publications and has given more than 140 presentations including 120 invited talks at different venues. He has chaired and served on numerous technical committees, including the ASCE Committee on Multi-hazard Mitigation. Mahmoud is a fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute and is the recipient of various awards, including the American Institute of Steel Construction early faculty career award, the American Iron and Steel Institute Robert J. Dexter Memorial Lecture award, and the Air Force summer faculty fellowship award. He has recently been selected by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine among the New Voices Cohort from across the U.S. He has been invited to various symposia by the U.S. National Academies, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. His research has received media coverage through citations and interviews in numerous venues, including Nature Climate Change, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Smithsonian Magazine, and CNN.