Amjad J. Aref

Amjad J. Aref is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. His research focuses on Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, and Mechanical Intelligence through computational and applied mechanics. He has contributed significantly to the study of metamaterials and seismic isolation for civil infrastructure.

• Education: PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997)
• MS in Civil Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (1991)
• BS in Civil Engineering from Birzeit University (1987)

His work explores the intersection of applied mechanics and computational modeling, addressing challenges in blast resistance, seismic collapse evaluation, and elastic wave propagation. Recent publications emphasize reconfigurable neuromorphic metasurfaces and nonreciprocal wave steering for mechanical computing. He has also investigated fatigue performance of FRP-concrete systems and seismic rehabilitation of pipelines.

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