Farshid Vahedifard, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE

Office: 3061 Richard A. Rula Engineering & Science Complex
farshid@cee.msstate.edu
P 662.325.0902

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Delaware, 2011.
• Graduate Certificate, Geographical Information Science (GIS), University of Delaware, 2011.
• MCE, Civil Engineering, University of Delaware, 2009.
• M.Sc., Civil Engineering, Bu-Ali Sina University, 2005.
• B.Sc., Civil Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, 2001.

• Geotechnical engineering
• Resilience of geotechnical infrastructure under a changing climate
• Analytical and numerical  methods in geomechanics
• Multi-physics processes (thermo-hydro-mechanical) in variably saturated soils and fracture rocks
• Energy Geomechanics
• Carbon capture, storage and utilization
• Remote sensing applications in geosystem assessment (e.g., levees and dams)
• Terramechanics and off-road mobility modeling
• Embankment dams and levees
• Reinforced slopes and MSE walls

• Geotechnical engineering
• Soil mechanics
• Foundation engineering
• Unsaturated soil mechanics
• Soil behavior
• Slope stability and seepage analysis

I am looking for motivated graduate students, preferably Ph.D. students, to join my research group. If you have background and/or are interested in any of the above-listed areas of research, feel free to contact me.

• Member: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); American Geophysical Union (AGU); Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER); United States Society on Dams (USSD); United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and Research (USUCGER).
• Committee Member: ASCE Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate, ASCE GI Committee on Unsaturated Soils, ASCE GI Committee on Embankments, Dams and Slopes.
• Reviewer for several journals including: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering; Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering; Geotechnical Testing Journal; Journal of Testing and Evaluation; Soils and Foundations; Geotextiles and Geomembranes; Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering; Engineering Geology; Computer and Geotechnics; Landslides.

• MS ASCE Engineer of the Year Award, 2019
• 2016 Editor’s Choice, Journal of Terramechanics
• 2016 FLC Interagency Partnership Award as a member of SMAP Early Adopter Program, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, January 2016.
• 2012 Best Practical Paper Award, ASTM Committee D-18 on Soil and Rock, ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal.
• ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013.