He obtained his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from University of California San Diego, M.S. in Earthquake Engineering and B.S in Civil Engineering both from Sharif University of Technology. His research interests include vibration-based structural health monitoring, system and damage identification of civil structures, experimental modal analysis, signal processing, finite element analysis and finite element model updating, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, uncertainty quantification, verification and validation of computational models. He is currently serving as the chair of Structural Health Monitoring and Control Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and as the associate editor for Structural Health Monitoring and Frontiers in Built Environment journals.