FACULTY MASOUD SALEHI
MEHRDAD SASANI
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
PhD, Stanford University, 1979 ece.neu.edu/people/salehi-masoud
PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 2001 civ.neu.edu/people/sasani-mehrdad
Scholarship focus: error correcting codes; information theory; digital communications
Scholarship focus: progressive collapse of structures; earthquake engineering; structural resilience, integrity and reliability
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS K.-L. Huang, V.C. Gaudet, M. Salehi A Hybrid ARQ Scheme Using LDPC Codes with Stochastic Decoding, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 2015, 1-4 N. Yang, M. Salehi A Family of Orthogonal Full Rate Differential Space Time Block Code Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Baltimore, MD, October 6-8, 2014, 569-574 John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi Fundamentals of Communication Systems, Second Edition Pearson, 2014 K. Firouzbakht, G. Noubir, M. Salehi On the Performance of Adaptive Packetized Wireless Communication Links Under Jamming, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 13(7), 2014, 3481-3495 K.-L. Huang, V. Gaudet, M. Salehi Output Decisions for Stochastic LDPC Decoders, Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, New Jersey, 2014, 1-5 K. Firouzbakht, G. Noubir, M. Salehi Packetized Wireless Communication Under Jamming, a Constrained Bimatrix Game, Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2014, 740-745 K. Firouzbakht, G. Noubir, M. Salehi Quadratic Program Solution of Communication Links Under Jamming, Proceedings of the 48th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2014, 1011-1015 O. Vahabzadeh, M. Salehi A Novel Two-user Cooperation Scheme for Cooperative Communications Based on Protograph-based Low-density Parity-check (LDPC) Codes, Proceedings of the 47th annual conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 2013, 1-4 J.G. Proakis, M. Salehi, G. Bauch Contemporary Communication Systems Using Matlab, Third Edition Cengage Learning 2013
Honors and awards: Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers; Fellow, Structural Engineering Institute; National Science Foundation CAREER Award
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS J.A. Murray, E. Hecht, M. Sasani Modeling Bar Slip in Nonductile Reinforced Concrete Columns, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 04016085, 2016, 1-12 J.A. Murray, M. Sasani Near-collapse Response of Existing RC Building under Severe Pulse Type Ground Motion using Hybrid Simulation, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 45(7), 2016,1109–1127 L. Keyvani, M. Sasani Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Progressive Collapse Resistance of a Flat-slab Posttensioned Parking Garage, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 141(11), 2015 J.A. Murray, M. Sasani, X. Shao Hybrid Simulation for System-level Structural Response, Engineering Structures, 103, 2015, 228-238 S. Sagiroglu, M. Sasani Progressive Collapse Resisting Mechanisms of Reinforced Concrete Structures and Effects of Initial Damage Locations, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 140(3), 2014, 1-12 J.A. Murray, M. Sasani Seismic Shear-axial Failure of Reinforced Concrete Columns Versus System Level Structural Collapse, Journal of Engineering Failure Analysis, 32, 2013, 382-401 M. Sasani, S. Sagiroglu Gravity Load Redistribution and Progressive Collapse Resistance of a 20-story RC Structure Following Loss of an Interior Column, Structural Journal, ACI, 107(6), 2010, 636-644 M. Sasani, J. Kropelnicki Progressive Collapse Analysis of an RC Structure, The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, 17(4), 2008, 757-772
SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS NEESR: Near Collapse Performance of Existing RC Concrete Frame Buildings Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation RSB: A Decision and Design Framework for Multi-hazard Resilient and Sustainable Buildings Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
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