Biography:

   Kaveh Karami was born on 22 August 1983 at Sanandaj, a nice and cold city beside of the Abidar Mountain in Kurdistan, Iran. He received his diploma in Mathematics and Physics from Sheikh Mahmoode Shaltoot high school in 2001. During his study at high school he was interested in classical (Newton) Mechanics in Physics. Therefore, studying civil structures behavior was one of his favorite fields at University. Kaveh Karami started academic study at University of Kurdistan in 2001, and got BSc as the second student of the Civil Engineering Department in 2005. Then, he began postgraduate study at Iran University of Science and Technology (one of four top ranked Universities in Iran) in the field of Structural Engineering in 2006. He finished his dissertation, with excellent grade, entitled “Semi-active optimal control of high rise building based on capacity demand theory” under supervising of Professor Fereidoun Amini, in 2008. He got his PhD degree, with excellent grade, on the “Smart structural control of damaged structures by structural health monitoring” at Iran University of Science and Technology, under supervising of Professor Fereidoun Amini, in 2013. During his PhD study he visited Professor Satish Nagarajaiah at Rice University, Houston Texas, USA, for collaboration on research related to damage detection and semi-active structural control, as a research project during Six months. He is currently an Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kurdistan. Kaveh Karami’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of structural vibration control; active and semi-active control; structural health monitoring; system identification; smart structures and systems; vibration based structural damage detection and dynamic of tall buildings.