Associate, Coastal Systems Resilience Discipline Lead, CDM Smith
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
2:00 to 3:20 pm
Virtual
Building Resilience for Coastal Communities
Fall 2026 CIV Seminar Series: Nina Kshetry
Founder and President; Ensaras, Inc.
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
2:00 to 3:20 pm
211 Frey Hall
Beyond the Model: Scaling Applied AI for Water and Resource Recovery
Fall 2026 CIV Seminar Series: Speaker TBA
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
2:00 to 3:20 pm
211 Frey Hall
CIV Grad Pumpkin Carving Social
Friday, October 23, 2026 *CHANGED: from 10/16 to 10/23*
1:30 to 3:00 pm
Lobby and Front Lawn, old Computer Science
Carve a pumpkin as a team, decorate mini-pumpkins. Lunch provided.
*Open to CIV Grad Students only. Invitations sent via email*
Fall 2026 CIV Seminar Series: Eleonora Tronci
Assistant Professor, Tandon School of Engineering, NYU
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
2:00 to 3:20 pm
211 Frey Hall
Topic: Structures
Fall 2026 CIV Seminar Series: SeyedAlireza Mirghafouri
PhD Candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, SBU
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
2:00 to 3:20 pm
211 Frey Hall
Coupled Flow–Soil–Structure Interaction under Tsunami-Like Bores
Fall 2026 CIV Seminar Series: Joseph Chow
Professor, Tandon School of Engineering, NYU
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
2:00 to 3:20 pm
211 Frey Hall
Evaluating Emerging Mobility Technologies for a Sustainable Built Environment
Fall 2026 CIV Seminar Series: Guanyu Huang
Assistant Professor; Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine; SBU
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
2:00 to 3:20 pm
211 Frey Hall
Application of Satellite Remote Sensing for Air Quality Management
Fall 2026 CIV Seminar Series: Hongrui Yu
GE Vernova
Tuesday, November 24, 2026
2:00 to 3:20 pm
211 Frey Hall
Topic: Robotics for Construction
Fall 2026 CIV Seminar Series: Arindam Banerjee
Paul B. Reinhold Endowed Professor and Department Chair, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering
and Applied Science, Lehigh University
Tuesday, December 1, 2026
2:00 to 3:20 pm
211 Frey Hall
Turbulence by Design - From Controlled Flows to Turbine Wakes
Past Events
Fall 2026 CIV Seminar Series - Tuesday, September 15 | "Nonlinear Mechanics and Design of Morphing Structures with Discrete Elastic Rods", Asifur Rahman, Postdoctoral Associate
Fall 2026 CIV Seminar Series - Tuesday, September 8 | "Seismic Response of Precast Concrete Pendulum Unbonded Post-Tensioned Shear Walls", Darla-Ena Boyer, PhD candidate
Fall 2026 CIV Seminar Series - Tuesday, September 1 | "A Novel Digital Twin Framework for Structural Health Monitoring", Erkan Öterkuş, PhD
CIV Graduate Orientation - Friday, August 28
Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Thursday, July 30 | Nonlinear Mechanics and Design of Morphing Structures with Discrete Elastic Rods, Asifur Rahman, PhD candidate
2026 CIV Department Commencement Ceremony and Reception - Thursday, May 21
2026 CIV MS Project Presentation Day - Monday, May 11
2026 Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities (URECA) Celebration and Vertically
Integrated Projects (VIP) Showcase - Tuesday, May 5
Engineering Design Showcase - Tuesday, April 28
2026 CIV Graduate Student Symposium - Friday, April 3
CIV Accelerated BE/MS Program Info Session - Monday, March 30
Chat & Chew with CIV - Monday, March 23
Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Monday, December 15 |Numerical and Experimental Explorations on Load-bearing Kirigami Metamaterials and
Structures, Imtiar Jalal Niloy, PhD candidate
Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Monday, December 8 | Multi-Modal Intelligence for Multi-Hazard Response and Urban Resilience, Chenguang Wang, PhD candidate
Doctoral Dissertation Defense - Friday, December 5 | Multitask, Weakly-Supervised, and Gaze-Guided Deep Learning Methods for Automating
Structural Inspection, Chenyu Zhang, PhD candidate
Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, December 1 | Human-centered Agent-based Modeling for Multi-hazard Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities, Haizhong Wang, PhD
Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, November 24 | "Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Debris Entrainment, Transport and Impact
under Dam-break-induced Rapid Flow on a Varying Bathymetry", Mohammadreza Aliyari, PhD student
Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, November 17 | Interfaces in Motion: From Porous Media to Walking Droplets, Bauyrzhan Primkulov, PhD
CIV Undergraduate Meet & Greet - Wednesday, November 12
Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, November 10 | "Auto Insurance in the Age of Connected and Automated Vehicles", Daniel Vignon, PhD
Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, November 3 | "Enabling construction robot learning from multi-modal demonstrations", Zhengbo Zou, PhD
Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, October 27 | "Disaster Resilience-focused Applications in Transportation", Eren Erman Özgüven, PhD
Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, October 20 | "Toward Scientifically Consistent and Generalizable Geohazard Modeling through Physics-Informed
Machine Learning", Te Pei, PhD
CIV Grad Pumpkin Carving Social - Friday, October 17
Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, October 6 | "Inverse Learning and Intervention of Transportation Network Equilibrium", Zhichen Liu, PhD
CIV Freshman/Sophomore Ice Cream Social - Monday, September 29
Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, September 29 | "Large-Eddy Simulation of Tidal Currents in Portsmouth Harbor: Implications for Turbine
Array Design", Meriç Aksen, PhD student
Fall 2025 CIV Seminar Series - Monday, September 15 | "Toward a Driving Scene Foundation Model: Acquiring and Accumulating Knowledge from
Diverse Datasets", Ke Li, PhD student
