Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2018
  • M.S., Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2018
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2014
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, 2012
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, 2010
Licenses & Certifications
  • Professional Engineer Civil, California, #95080
Professional Affiliations
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
  • The Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC)
Languages
  • Farsi

Dr. Shokrabadi specializes in probabilistic risk analysis for utility providers, evaluation of design and construction defects, investigation of structural failures for domestic and international arbitration disputes, research of building code requirements for accessibility to sites, facilities, buildings, and elements, seismic hazard recognition and mitigation, and nonlinear modeling and analysis of various structural systems.

Dr. Shokrabadi has investigated issues related to the design and construction of bridges, roads, subways and housing projects. He has developed risk analysis platforms for major utility providers to characterize the risk of wildfires along their network and their corresponding financial consequences. Dr. Shokrabadi has led numerous cause and origin damage assessments for single- and multi-family residential and light commercial structures, as well as accident investigations at the built environment including pedestrian trip and fall injury cases.

While earning his Ph.D., Dr. Shokrabadi developed a probabilistic framework that allows explicit consideration of aftershocks in seismic risk analysis. The proposed framework integrates heightened seismic hazard following a major mainshock event with the increased vulnerability due to mainshock damage.

Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Shokrabadi was a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California Los Angeles where he characterized seismic risk in tall structures located in the subduction zone of Pacific Northwest using 3-dimensional fully-nonlinear models of the core-wall buildings located in this region. Dr. Shokrabadi developed a platform for selecting ground motions for nonlinear response history analysis utilizing the latest findings in parallel computing. This novel approach allows more comprehensive selection of ground motion suites by reducing computational effort by a factor of up to 200.

Dr. Shokrabadi is involved in various professional associations including American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and The Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC).