Honors & AWARDS

(Last Updated on October, 2018)

• • Kolodzey Travel Grant, October 2018

Farid was selected as one the few PhD students to receive Kolodzey travel grant for his upcoming presentation on “Evaluation of Seismic Resilience of Highway Bridge Networks: An Agent-Based Modeling Framework” at 2019 Structures Congress, Orlando, Florida. With funds provided by the late Charles Kolodzey (MS 1946), this competitive award provides an opportunity for PhD students in the department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering of The University of Texas at Austin to attend technical conferences, make oral and poster presentations about their research, and to develop a network of colleagues at other universities.

• • Early Career Professional Award, February 2018

Farid was selected as one of the few PhD students to receive Early Career Professional Fund through generous support from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Pankow Foundation, and EERI. This fund includes registration and travel grants for the 11th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (11NCEE) scheduled for June 25-29, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA. He will have an oral presentation on the full paper titled “Should Engineers be Concerned about the Vulnerability of Highway Bridges to Potentially-Induced Seismic Hazards?”

• • Invited Lecturer, October 2017

Farid was an invited lecturer to the EERI seminars at the University of Texas at Austin. His talk are about addressing one specific question which is: Should engineers be concerned about seismic vulnerability of bridges in Texas?

• • Professional Development Award, The University of Texas at Austin, December 2017

Professional Development Award provides support for a few graduate students with outstanding academic background to attend major professional meetings or conferences at which they present an original paper based on their research. Mr. Khosravikia is selected for this award because of his outstanding presentation on Risk-based Assessment of Texas Bridges to Natural and Induced Seismic Hazards at 2017 ASCE Congress on Technical Advancement, Duluth, MN, USA, September 10-13.

• • Four-Year Graduate Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2016

It is a four-year fellowship that is given to only a few graduate students with outstanding academic background. This payment, which is around $9,000 per year, is in addition to my stipend as a graduate research assistant at University of Texas at Austin.

• • Graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Master’s Program at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, September 2015

Ranked 1st amongst MSc student of Structural and Earthquake Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology with GPA of 18.56/20.0.

• • Two-Year Level-One Scholarship, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2015

Farid was selected and awarded as one of the graduate students of National Elites Foundation of Iran. It is one of the most prestigious awards that anyone can get during his or her educational life in Iran. Less than 1% of graduate students can get this award.

• • Ranked 13th in the Iranian Nationwide M.Sc. Entrance Exam for graduate school in Civil Engineering, 2013