Welcome to the webpage of the Structural Intelligence for Multi-Hazard Resilience (SIMR) Lab, dedicated to advancing resilient and intelligent structural systems. The SIMR Lab is focused on developing next-generation computational and data-driven approaches to enhance infrastructure performance under extreme and cascading hazard conditions. Specific areas of interest at SIMR Lab include:
Performance-based earthquake engineering and structural performance evaluation
Multi-hazard resilience, reliability, and sustainability of infrastructure systems
Risk, loss, and resilience quantification for engineering systems
Computational structural mechanics and high-fidelity numerical modeling
High-performance and large-scale scientific computing for structural analysis
Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in structural engineering
Computer vision-based monitoring, damage detection, and structural assessment
Intelligent sensing and data-driven structural condition evaluation
Optimization-based design and decision-making for complex engineering problems
Mar. 2026 - SIMR Lab is pleased to have received an Excellent Paper Award for “In the Wake of the March 28, 2025 Myanmar Earthquake: A Detailed Examination” published in the Journal of Dynamic Disasters.
Feb. 2026 - A publication from the SIMR Lab was recognized among the top downloaded articles in the Journal of Dynamic Disasters.
The SIMR Lab is informally established at the Department of Structural Engineering, National University of Sciences & Technology, by Umar Ahmad Noor.
Aug. 2025 - Umar A. Noor published “Advances in Machine Learning for Structural Seismic Response Prediction: A Comprehensive Review” in Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (IF = 12.1).
Aug. 2025 - Umar A. Noor is featured on the NUST Institute website for publishing a single-author paper in a high-impact journal (Impact Factor = 12.1).
Jul. 2025 - Umar A. Noor published “Machine Learning Innovations in Revolutionizing Earthquake Engineering: A Review”, in Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (IF = 12.1).
May 2025 - Umar A. Noor published “In the Wake of the March 28, 2025 Myanmar Earthquake: A Detailed Examination”, in Journal of Dynamic Disasters.