Dr. Althaf Shajihan

Email

Primary Email: [email protected]

Phone/Fax

Primary Phone: 619-594-5419

Building/Location

Education - 100-J
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego, CA 92182

Bio

Dr. Althaf Shajihan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at San Diego State University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where his research focused on AI-enabled smart sensing for infrastructure assessment. He also holds an M.S. in Structural Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he received the Institute Silver Medal, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from NIT Calicut. His interdisciplinary research spans structural health monitoring, physics-informed machine learning, and vision-based infrastructure inspection for resilient smart cities.

Education

• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2025
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2024
• M.S. in Structural Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 2018
• B.S. in Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, India, 2016

Awards & Honors

• Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022–23
• International Liu Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship, US-China Earthquake Engineering Foundation, 2022
• Ravindar K. and Kavita Kinra Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2018–19
• Institute Silver Medal, awarded by the Prime Minister of India, IIT Bombay, 2018

Courses

• CIVE 421: Reinforced Concrete Design

Research

Areas of Specialization:
Structural Health Monitoring, Smart Sensing and IoT, Physics-Informed Neural Networks, Scientific Machine Learning, Machine Vision, Generative AI, Smart Cities, Digital Twins

Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vuTpwf0AAAAJ&hl=en