Group Members
Dr. Alipour has has established and maintained an active research group, which currently includes 8 graduate students and 6 undergraduate students. She has successfully graduated 8 Ph.D. students and 12 M.Sc. students to date. She has also supervised more than 25 undergraduate students and two visiting graduate students.
Postdoctoral and Graduate Students
Honors and Awards Received by Group Members
Postdoctoral and Graduate Students
Current
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Alumni
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Undergraduate Researchers
Current
| [51] Jordon Hill | NSF IRES Fellow |
| [50] Sydney Fisher | NSF REU |
| [49] Eric Oltjenbruns | NSF REU |
| [48] Chase Ryan | NSF REU |
| [47] Rahul Bhat | NSF REU |
| [46] Aron Prinsen | NSF REU |
Past
| [45] Reh Nga | Research Assistant |
| [44] Suho Kim | NSF IRES Fellow |
| [43] Sarah Mumm | NSF IRES Fellow |
| [42] Grant Ricker | Honors Student |
| [41] Eleanor Bollinger | Honors Student |
| [40] Eli Walters | NSF REU/Research Assistant |
| [39] Alexis Barrera | NSF IRES Fellow |
| [38] Dylan Osborne | NSF REU |
| [37] Erik Dralle | Honors Student |
| [36] Sophie Miller | Honors Student |
| [35] Mason Avery | Honors Student |
| [34] Ryan Flaskamp | Honors Student |
| [33] Alejandro Snchez | Honors Student |
| [32] Jose Moreno | NSF REU |
| [31] Dela Houssou | McNair Fellow/NSF IRES Fellow |
| [30] Josiah Crawford | NSF REU |
| [29] Quentin Tiscareno | NSF REU |
| [28] Paul Iman | Honors Student/NSF REU |
| [27] Shantal Rincon | APEX-E Program/Research Assistant |
| [26] Tiaunna Little | APEX-E Program/Research Assistant |
| [25] Abigail Van Rheenen | Honors Student |
| [24] Evan Braun | Research Assistant |
| [23] Erik Zeller | Honors Student |
| [22] Chase White | Honors Student |
| [21] Grant Weis | Honors Student |
| [20] Rebecca Wilson | Honors Student |
| [19] Melani Carollo | Research Assistant |
| [18] Saiji Li | Research Assistant |
| [17] Sammy Hussain | Research Assistant |
| [16] Kyle Hutchings | WESEP REU from Utah Valley University |
| [15] Glenna Lovig | Research Assistant |
| [14] Chao Ma | Research Assistant |
| [13] Colin Sullivan | Research Assistant |
| [12] Shuang Li | Research Assistant |
| [11] Qui Qui | Research Assistant |
| [10] Jonathan Martin | Research Assistant |
| [9] Ryan McNerney | Honors College Advisee |
| [8] Nicholas Cameron | Honors College Advisee |
| [7] John Jermyn | Honors College Advisee |
| [6] Mike McInnis | Honors College Advisee |
| [5] Zachary Bemis | Honors College Advisee |
| [4] John Klinga | Honors College Advisee |
| [3] Kevin Norton | Summer REU |
| [2] Richard Racz | Independent Research |
| [1] Steven AuYeung | Independent Research |
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Honors and Awards
2025: Pooria Mazaheri (Ph.D. Advisee), NSF NHERI SPARC Fellow, National Science Foundation (NSF)
2025: Muneer Qudaisat (Ph.D. Advisee), ASCE SEI Futures Fund Scholarship
2025: Pooria Mazaheri (Ph.D. Advisee), ASCE SEI Futures Fund Scholarship
2025: Mahtab Goudarzi (Ph.D. Advisee), ASCE SEI O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship
2025: Mahtab Goudarzi (Ph.D. Advisee), First Place in 13th CCEE Department’s Annual Poster Competition
2025: EERI Student Chapter, Outstanding K12 Outreach Event, ISU Engineering Student Council
2025: Bahareh Dokhaei (Ph.D. Advisee), Most Involved Club Member Award, ISU Engineering Student Council
2025: Mahtab Goudarzi (Ph.D. Advisee), Club Leader of the Year Award, ISU Engineering Student Council
2025: Mahtab Goudarzi (Ph.D. Advisee), ASCE SEI Futures Fund Student Scholarship
2025: Pooria Mazaheri (Ph.D. Advisee), INTERSECT Bootcamp Fellow, National Science Foundation (NSF)
2024: Bahareh Dokhaei (Ph.D. Advisee), ASCE SEI Futures Fund Scholarship
2024: Pooria Mazaheri (Ph.D. Advisee), ASCE SEI Futures Fund Scholarship
2024: Bahareh Dokhaei (Ph.D. advisee), Second Place in the 12th CCEE Department’s Annual Poster Competition
2024: Eleanor Bollinger (Undergraduate Advisee), Research Grant, ISU First-Year Honors Mentor Program
2023: Saransh Dikshit (Ph.D. Advisee), ISU Graduate College Research Excellence Award
2023: Saransh Dikshit (Ph.D. Advisee), ASCE SEI Futures Fund Scholarship
2022: Saransh Dikshit (Ph.D. Advisee), ISU Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award
2022: Li-Wei Tsai (Ph.D. Advisee), ISU Graduate College Research Excellence Award
2022: Saransh Dikshit (Ph.D. Advisee), Argonne National Lab Impact Award
2019: Michael Huntley (Undergraduate advisees), Summer Research Grant, ISU First-Year Honors Mentor Program
2019: Abigail Van Rheenen, Michael Huntley, and Paul Inman (Undergraduate advisees), Research Grant, ISU First-Year Honors Mentor Program
2018: Laura Micheli (Ph.D. advisee), First Place in the 8th CCEE Department’s Annual Poster Competition
2017: Alessandro Cancelli (Ph.D. advisee), Second Place in the 7th CCEE Department’s Annual Poster Competition
2017: Zhen (Rose) Cui (Ph.D. advisee), ISU Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award
2017: Laura Micheli (Ph.D. advisee), ISU COE Dean’s Scholar Award
2017: Ameh Fioklou (Ph.D. advisee), ISU Graduate College Research Excellence Award
2016: Zhen (Rose) Cui (Ph.D. advisee), ISU Graduate College Research Excellence Award
2016: Glenna Lovig (Undergraduate (and then M.S.) advisee), Fong Scholarship
2016: Chao Ma (Undergraduate advisee), Fong Scholarship
2016: Colin Sullivan (Undergraduate advisee), Fong Scholarship
2016: Colin Sullivan (Undergraduate advisee), MTC Undergraduate Research Scholarship
2015: Shuang Li (Undergraduate advisee), Fong Scholarship
2015: Ameh Fioklou (Ph.D. advisee), AGEP Fellowship
2015: Mark Furtado (M.S. advisee), National Science Foundation’s East Asia Summer Fellowship (NSF-EAPSI)
2013: Ryan McNerney (Undergraduate advisee), Commonwealth Honors College Research Assistant Fellowship