We had the pleasure of reuniting with our treasured alumni and collaborators, Yuqing Gao (Associate Professor at Tongji University) and Sifat Muin (Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California) at the PEER Annual Meeting on March 25-26, 2025. This meeting, hosted by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), featured research from several fields of earthquake engineering, particularly performance-based engineering and resilience in the context of various geohazards, fire, and tsunami.
From left to right: Claudio Perez (PhD. Candidate), Professor Mosalam, Professor Gao (STAIRLab ’20), Professor Muin (STAIRLab ’18), Chrystal Chern (Postdoctoral Fellow).
We enjoyed connecting with Professors Muin and Gao, discussing our recent research progress, and receiving their guidance on our academic journeys.
Prof Gao signs the recently published book, Artificial Intelligence in Vision-Based Structural Health Monitoring (Mosalam and Gao, 2024).
Doctoral students from the Mosalam and Wang labs of UC Berkeley’s SEMM (Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials) program gathered with Professor Gao over dinner.
