Umar Ahmad Noor
Incoming PhD candidate at University of Southern California
MS Structural Engineering, NUST, Pakistan
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“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs, from his Commencement Address at Stanford University, June 2005.
Hello! I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), starting in Fall 2026. I completed my M.S. in Structural Engineering at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. Prior to that, I earned my B.S. in Civil Engineering from COMSATS University Islamabad in August 2023, where I received a Gold Medal in my final year.
Alongside my graduate studies, I worked as a Research Associate at the Earthquake Engineering Center, University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Peshawar, Pakistan, contributing to research in structural and earthquake engineering. I also founded the Extreme Events Impact Studies (EEIS) Network, a multidisciplinary research initiative focused on post-event assessment of natural hazards, with advisory board members from five countries and student members from more than 13 countries.
Total Articles Published/Accepted: 15+
First & Corresponding Author Publications: 15+
Highest Impact Factor: 12.1, Single Author, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
Cumulative Impact Factor: 60+
Citations and Indices: 150+ citations, h-index 7, i10-index 6
Research Visibility: RI Score 200+, ResearchGate Reads 22k+
University of Southern California, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, United States
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Incoming Fall 2026)
Ranking: No. 28 among National Universities in the United States, U.S. News & World Report
National University of Sciences & Technology, Department of Structural Engineering, Pakistan
M.S. in Structural Engineering (2024 – 2026)
Advisor: Dr. Azam Khan
Ranking: No. 1 in Pakistan for Engineering and Technology
COMSATS University Islamabad, Department of Civil Engineering, Pakistan
B.S. in Civil Engineering (2019 – 2023)
Advisors: Asif Shahzad and Dr. M. Faisal Javed
Ranking: No. 1 in Best Global Universities in Pakistan, U.S. News & World Report
Abbottabad Public School, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Higher Secondary School (2017 – 2019)
Structural & Earthquake Engineering
Resilient Infrastructure Under Extreme Hazards
Multi-Hazard Resilient Infrastructure Design
Structural Stability & Optimization
Computational Structural Mechanics
Engineering Applications of Deep Learning (ML) and Computer Vision (CV)