Ahmed Elkady

Dr. Ahmed Elkady is an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at the University of Southampton's Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Department of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on structural performance under seismic hazards with specialization in steel and composite structures. He leads the Infrastructure Research Group and actively supervises PhD students while developing innovative computational tools for structural analysis.

Elkady's research interests center on Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering, Collapse Risk and Loss Assessment of Steel and Composite Buildings, and Resilience-based design of Existing Structures. His work combines advanced numerical modeling with large-scale experimental testing to develop robust predictive models for structural behavior under extreme loading conditions. He has made significant contributions to the understanding of structural connections, particularly steel endplate and bolted connections.

His recent publications demonstrate a strong trend toward integrating machine learning with traditional structural engineering methods, particularly in modeling steel connections and predicting structural behavior. The research spans both fundamental mechanics and practical applications for seismic risk assessment, with several of his 2023-2025 publications focusing on data-driven approaches to structural analysis.

• Raymond C Reese Research Prize (2022)
• Multiple Outstanding Reviewer awards from ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering (2019-2020)
• First Place Award in NIST-ATC Blind Prediction Contest (2018)
• Alexander Graham Bell graduate scholarship from NSERC Canada (2014)
• Multiple best presentation awards at engineering conferences (2012-2015)

Elkady currently supervises three PhD students (Weiran Li, Zizhou Ding, and Aran Naserpour) and leads the EPSRC-funded project 'Seismic Resilience of Egypt's Built Environment: A GIS-Based Framework for Assessment and Mitigation.' He has also secured funding from Research England for the 'EGYGIS: GIS Mapping in Support of Egypt's Disaster Risk Management' project. His research has resulted in several open-source software tools including EaRL (Earthquake Risk, Loss & Lifecycle Assessment), FM-2D (Frame Modeler 2D), and SCRonED (Semi-Rigid Connections Experimental Database), which are widely used in the structural engineering community for performance-based earthquake engineering.