Presentations

  • Donrubin tornado modeling: A community outreach. Mr Ken Whitnall Residence, 2019. Invited.
  • Computational wind engineering and building science, Theakston Environmental Inc. 2019. Invited.
  • Synoptic and non-synoptic wind loading on buildings, Stephenson Engineering Inc. 2019. Invited.
  • How tall can we build using mass timber: A wind engineering perspective? Wood Rise2019 Conference, Building our cities for future generations, Quebec City, CA. 2019. Keynote.
  • Wind-resilient and sustainable architectural engineering, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI, 2019. Invited.
  • Climate-resilient and sustainable architectural engineering, Physics Colloquium, Western University, 2019. Invited.
  • AI-assisted climate resilient and sustainable architectural design, AI government summit, Re-work, Toronto, October 2018. Keynote.
  • Extreme wind resilient and sustainable buildings, Entuitive Inc. Toronto, CA. November 27, 2018. Invited.
  • Sustainable and climate-resilient architectural engineering. National Institute Standard and Technology (NIST), Structures Group/National windstorm Impact Reduction Program Seminar, Gaithersburg, MD. July 27, 2018. Invited.
  • Climate Conscious Building (Architectural) Engineering, School of Bridge Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. November 10, 2017. Invited.
  • Extreme-climate resilient and sustainable building engineering, Research Institute of Structural Engineering and Disaster Reduction,
    • Tongji University, Shanghai, China Shanghai, December 7, 2017. Invited.
  • Climate responsive architectural engineering, Rice University, TX, United states, 2017. Invited.
  • Computational and experimental wind engineering research. Science and Technology Information Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, August 2017. Invited.
  • Climate responsive building design. Ethiopian Construction Design and Supervision Works Corporation, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2017. Invited.
  • Computational/experimental wind engineering. Bahirdar University, School of Civil Engineering Seminar, Bahirdar, Ethiopia, 2017. Invited.
  • Tall building aerodynamics. Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, School of Civil Engineering Seminar, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2017. Invited.
  • Climate responsive climate design. Autodesk, Toronto. Ca. September 28, 2017. Invited.
  • Modeling of urban wind flow and its interaction with buildings and their components. SOSCIP Impact Conference, Toronto, Canada. May 9, 2017. Invited.
  • Pressure equalization on roof pavers. Wausau Tile Inc., Wausau. USA. 2016. Invited.
  • New computational & experimental modelling approaches to assess wind effects on the built-environment. Air Worldwide, Boston, MA. June 08, 2016. Invited.
  • Developing typhoon resilient communities through disaster mitigation and preparedness. Wind induced Disaster Risk Reduction workshop, IIT-Roorkee, Roorkee, India. 2016. Keynote.
Recent advances in Wind Engineering. FM Global, Boston. MA. June 7, 2016. Invited.
  • New computational & experimental modelling approaches to assess wind effects on the built-environment, Core Logic, Oakland, CA. November 22, 2016. Invited.
  • Experimental and computational evaluation of wind load on tall buildings. Stephenson Engineering Inc, Toronto, Canada. 2015. Invited.
  • Wind effect assessment: an experimental computational and approach “favorable and unfavorable side of wind”. 4th Annual Research symposium, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia. June 7, 2014. Keynote.
  • Wind effect modeling –state of the art, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Debre Brehane University, Debre Brehan, June 9, 2014. Invited.
  • Wind effects on buildings and other structures, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 12, 2014. Invited.
  • Multi-scale computational and experimental modeling of wind effects on civil infrastructure, Department of Disaster Mitigation and Management, IIT Roorkee, Nov 24, 2014. Invited.
  • Modeling of wind flow for sustainable and resilient design of buildings, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, India, 2014. Invited.
  • New “Full”-scale Wind and Wind-driven-rain Testing Approaches for Wind Damage Mitigation. 7th National Conference on Wind Engineering (NCWE 2014), Patiala, India, 21-22 November 2014. Keynote.
  • Wind Engineering to support resilient and sustainable design of buildings, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 21, 2014.
  • New multi-scale computational and experimental approach for assessing wind effect for sustainable and resilient design of buildings, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of British Colombia, Kelowna, BC, October 21, 2014. Invited.
  • New multi-scale modelling approaches to assess wind effects on buildings, The Centre for Critical Infrastructure, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. March 12, 2014. Invited.
  • Wind energy environment and engineering (WindEEE) dome- a large scale facility for tornado, downburst, and hurricane testing,
    • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. October 23, 2013. Invited.
  • Multi-scale experimental modeling of wind effects on the built-environment, WindEEE Scientific symposium, University of Western Ontario, London, ON. October 16, 2013. Invited.
  • Large-scale testing of structures for hurricane, tornado, and downburst, School of Bridge Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. June 13, 2013. Invited.
  • Multi-scale experimental and computational modeling of wind effects on the built-environment, School of Structural Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, June 3, 2013. Invited.
  • The resiliency of Energy Infrastructure for Extreme Wind, Wind Farm Underperformance and Partnerships Symposium, Texas Tech
    • University, Lubbock, TX, USA. March 26, 2012. Invited.
  • Large-scale and high wind speed testing facility for energy infrastructure, NSF workshop on wind energy turbulence, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico, Feb 24-25, 2010. Invited.
A multi-scale computational approach for enhancing the resiliency of a built environment to extreme winds sustainably, Computer Science
Combined CFD-WoW-BLWT Research efforts at FIU, Wall of Wind Workshop, Wall of Wind Workshop (attended by National Science Foundation, Florida Sea Grant College Program, Colorado State University, Louisiana State University, Texas Tech University, Miami Dade
  • Building Code Compliance Office, and several industry representatives), International Hurricane Research Center at Florida
    • International University, Miami, Florida, USA. January 2009. Invited.
  • Large-scale Wall of Wind testing for hurricane risk mitigation, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Wind Engineering and Fluids Laboratory (WEFL), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, March 10, 2008. Invited.
  • Wind effects on buildings: a computational and experimental approach, MAE center, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL, USA. Dec 11, 2008. Invited.
  • Wall of Wind: Full Scale Hurricane Testing Facility, Alan Davenport Wind Engineering Group, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. August 19, 2008. Invited.
  • Wind Load Evaluation - State of the art, Chi-Epsilon Meeting, Florida International University Chapter meeting, Miami, FL, USA. Nov 2007. Invited.
  • Wind load evaluation, Florida Building Commission: Hurricane Research Advisory Committee Meeting, Tampa, Florida, USA. August 2007. Invited.
  • Hurricane wind-driven test for secondary water barrier, Secondary Water Barrier Research Meeting, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. April 2008. Invited.
  • Wind Research Activity at Florida International University, Delegation from Building Code Compliance Office (BCCO) from Miami-Dade County, International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. October 2007. Invited.
  • Application of computational wind engineering: A practical perspective, Third National Conference in wind Engineering, January 2006. Keynote