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Dr. Hamid Ghasemi is a research structural engineer in the Federal Highway Administration's Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center. He is currently involved on numerous research studies and projects, which address the needs of the highway community, with emphasis on seismic factors, computer modeling, and structural analysis. His research interests include passive and active structural control, and modal analysis and testing for non-destructive evaluation of bridges. He is a technical panel member on the HITEC program for evaluation and performance characteristics of seismic isolation and energy dissipation systems. Dr. Ghasemi was instrumental in developing the test plan for this program as well as analyzing the test data, and has written the summary report for this program. Dr. Ghasemi was also a member of the T-3 AASHTO technical committee that developed the new guide specifications for seismic isolation design. He also has years of research on dynamic behavior of curved bridges and has authored numerous technical publications. Dr. Ghasemi received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.
