Faculty, Researcher, & Students

Doeun (Do-Eun) Choe, Ph.D.,P.E.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Doeun Choe is the faculty who is leading our laboratory, Artificial Intelligence for Structural Safety, Risk, & Reliability (AISSRR). Her research expert area is Probabilistic Modeling, Structural Reliability, and Artificial Intelligence. She applies her skill wherever people needs a help.

Rui Zhang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Rui Zhang is our new postdoctoral researcher of our laboratory, who will join us Oct 2023. His research interest is Computational mechanics, smart sensing systems, structural health monitoring, and geotechnical design. He likes cooking food.

Khashayar Heydarpour
Graduate Student
Khashayar Heydarpour is a Ph.D. student who studies Structures in Civil Engineering. He is currently working on Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) project early detection of the mooring line failures using various deep learning techniques. Outside of lab he enjoys hiking and camping.

Raisul Islam Shohag
Graduate Student
Dr. Doeun Choe is the faculty who is leading our laboratory, Artificial Intelligence for Structural Safety, Risk, & Reliability (AISSRR). Her research expert area is Probabilistic Modeling, Structural Reliability, and Artificial Intelligence. She applies her skill wherever people needs a help.

Noah Coriz
Graduate Student
Noah is a graduate student in Civil Engineering department. He recently decide to learn Artificial Intelligence (AI) and apply to civil-structural engineering field. He will be working on NASA project working on additive manufacturing structures.

Randy Atencio
Graduate Student
Randy is a graduate student in Civil Engineering department. He recently decide to learn Artificial Intelligence (AI) and apply to civil-structural engineering field. He will be working on the structures resisting explosion/hypersonic weapon.

Jennifer Kuchle Ituarte
Graduate Student
Jennifer is a Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering who is working on Artificial Intelligence for monitoring defects in additive manufacturing. She is excited to learn Machine Learning and Deep Learning that will open up various new research applications. Outside of research she enjoy spending time with her 1 year or daughter.

Corwyn Shaughnessy-Spath
Undergraduate Student
Corwyn Shaughnessy-Spath is an undergraduate student worker studying Mechanical Engineering Technology. He is working on additive manufacturing, collecting sensing data for defect detection. One of his greatest joy is robotics. Outside of school, he enjoys watching Anime.

Ace & Sir
Desert Tortoise
Ace and Sir are our Desert Tortoise, who were born in Aug 2022 in Las Cruces, NM, when and where AISSRR was born. The photo is when they were 2 month old. They have been growing much last year jus like AISSRR. They, Ace & Sir together make a sound of AISSRR :).