Azin Ghaffary is an Urban Science Faculty Fellow at the Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) at NYU Tandon. Her research at CUSP is focused on understanding interactions between buildings in growing cities during strong wind events. Before, Azin was an Associate at Exponent Inc., where she worked on developing quantitative risk frameworks for electric assets and investigating construction defects in domestic and international arbitration projects. She obtained her PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno (2021), where she focused on advancing the nonlinear design of buildings under wind loads. Azin obtained her Master’s in Earthquake Engineering (2016) and Bachelor’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2011) from K.N.Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. She also worked as a structural engineer in Tehran, designing and conducting seismic assessments of berthing structures.
Education
University of Nevada Reno, 2021
Ph.D., Structural Engineering
K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2016
M.Sc., Earthquake Engineering
K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2011
B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professional experience
Associate at Exponent Inc., Buildings and Structures Practice, New York, 2021–2023
Structural Engineer at Pars Geometry Consultants (P.G.C), Tehran, Iran, 2016–2017
Awards
Graduate Dean’s merit scholarship, Fall 2020
NSF Primary Travel Award to join the Natural Hazards Research Summit on May 14th and 15th 2024, in College Park, MD
NSF Travel Award to the NHERI Summer Institute for Early-Career Faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio, June 12–14, 2024
Selected Publications
Ghaffary, Azin, and Mohamed A. Moustafa. "Uncertainty quantification and probabilistic performance-based assessment of nonlinear behavior of moment resisting frames under design and extreme wind loads." Journal of Building Engineering 68 (2023): 106173.
Ghaffary, Azin, and Mohamed A. Moustafa. "Performance-Based Assessment and Structural Response of 20-Story SAC Building under Wind Hazards through Collapse." Journal of Structural Engineering 147.3 (2020): 04020346.
Ghaffary, Azin, Elif Ecem Bas, and Mohamed A. Moustafa. "A hybrid simulation approach for aeroelastic wind tunnel testing: challenges and foundational work." International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering 4.1-3 (2020): 46-79.
Ghaffary, Azin, and Mohamed Moustafa. "Wind-induced response of buildings incorporating nonlinear fluid-structure interaction effects." 6th American Association for Wind Engineering Workshop (2021).
Ghaffary, Azin, and Mohamed A. Moustafa. "Synthesis of Repair Materials and Methods for Reinforced Concrete and Prestressed Bridge Girders." Materials 13.18 (2020): 4079.
Ghaffary, Azin, and Mohamed A. Moustafa. Synthesis of Repair Methods for RC Bridge Girders. Report No. ABC-UTC-2016-C2-UNR02-Final (2020).
Ghaffary, A., & Karami Mohammadi, R. (2019). Comprehensive nonlinear seismic performance assessment of MR damper controlled systems using virtual real‐time hybrid simulation. The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, e1606.
Ghaffary, A., & Karami Mohammadi, R. (2018). Framework for virtual hybrid simulation of TADAS frames using opensees and abaqus. Journal of Vibration and Control, 24(11), 2165-2179.
Mohammadi, R. K., Nasri, A., & Ghaffary, A. (2017). TADAS dampers in very large deformations. International Journal of Steel Structures, 17(2), 515-524.
Teaching Areas
Course Design and Instruction:
- Data Analytics of Urban Systems Failures
- Disaster Risk Analysis and Urban Systems Failures
Collaborative Teaching:
- CUSP Summer International School
- CUSP PhD Colloquium
Course Assistant Experience:
- Bridge Engineering I
- Computer-Assisted Problem Solving
- Engineering 100
- Structural Concrete Design II
- Nonlinear structural analysis
