SEI Young Professional Scholarship
Nima Has been awarded the SEI Young Professional Scholarship by the American Society of Civil Engineers. This scholarship, presented by the SEI Young Professionals Committee and the SEI Futures Fund, supports early-career structural engineers by providing opportunities to grow professionally and connect with leaders in
Outstanding Student Scholarship Award
I’m honored to receive the Civil and & Architectural Engineering (CAE) Outstanding Student Scholarship Award in recognition of my scholarly research, including publications and citations in high-impact journals.
Frederick Palmer Prize
Thrilled to share that our research ANNA: Advanced Neural Network Algorithm for Optimisation of Structures, has been awarded the 2025 Frederick Palmer Prize by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)!
Established in 1818, ICE is one of the world’s oldest professional engineering bodies, with over 200 years of history
John Ries Scholarship
ESCSI is proud to announce Nima Khodadadi, Ph.D., Research Assistant in the Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering at University of Miami, as the recipient of the John Ries Scholarship in Academic Year 2023-24.
Emerging Leaders Alliance (ELA) for Young Professionals
The Emerging Leaders Alliance (ELA) is a partnership among leading engineering and science-based organizations that provides high quality leadership training. For the past 16 years, the ELA has successfully hosted an interdisciplinary leadership conference for young professionals, providing advanced training in topics
AELS Award
I'm very pleased and honored to have been awarded the Academic Excellence, Leadership, and Service Award (AELS) for the second time at the University of Miami.
I want to give special thanks to the Graduate Student Association (GSA), my advisor, Prof. Antonio Nanni, and Dr. Francisco De Caso, who have always helped me.
ACI Foundation Concrete Materials Fellowship
The ACI Foundation is a non-profit subsidiary of ACI that promotes progress, innovation, and collaboration in the concrete industry through strategic investments in ideas, research, and people to create the future of the concrete industry.
News By Richard Westlund (University of Miami)
“With such big data sets, we need to apply machine learning and AI algorithms to find the most sustainable solutions,” Khodadadi said. “Since concrete produces more than 8 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, civil engineers have an excellent opportunity to contribute to sustainability on a global basis.”
A native of Iran, Khodadadi earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in structural civil engineering from the University of Tabriz. He obtained his first Ph.D. in artificial intelligence at the Iran University of Science and Technology, one of the nation’s top universities. To date, he has written more than 50 papers and 10 book chapters relating to concrete and sustainability, including three since coming to the U.S. last year... Read more
Graduate Student of the Year at the University of Miami, receiving the prestigious Toppel Career Center Award.
All Awards:
- ACI Fellowship Foundation
- John Ries Scholarship (Expanded Shale, Clay, and Slate Institute )
- Travel Stipend, University of Miami
- ACI Emerging Leaders Conference for Young Professionals
- Student of year at the 9th Annual Toppel Awards at the University of Miami
- Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Futures Fund Student Scholarship ASCE
- AELS gradute student, University of Miami
- Awarded the Rothberg University of Miami COE Pitch Competition
- Wulkan Family American Public Transportation Foundation Endowed Scholarship
- Awarded a Non-Academic Research Internship for Graduate Students (INTERN)
- Academic Excellence Awardees, University of Miami
- Obtaining an award for Iran’s National Elites Foundation
- 1st rank among students at Iran University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering
- Obtaining an award for Iran’s National Elites Foundation
- 1st rank among students at Iran University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering
- Obtaining an award for Iran’s National Elites Foundation
- Obtaining an award for Iran’s National Elites Foundation
- 1st rank among researchers at Iran University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering
- Obtaining awards for Iran’s National Elites Foundation Province Educational Gold Medal: Awarded by the University of Tabriz, Master of Science (M.Sc.)
- Obtaining an award for Iran’s National Elites Foundation
- Obtaining an award for Iran’s National Elites Foundation
- M.Sc. thesis marked 20 out of 20
- 1st rank among students at the University of Tabriz Master of Science (M.Sc.)
- Among 1% of approximately 30,000 Participants Who Passed Iranian Nationwide Universities’ Master Entrance Exam in the field of Civil Engineering
- 11230th rank among more than 310,000 participants in the Iranian National University Entrance Exam in the whole country•1st rank students for four consecutive years of high-school and pre-university curriculum
Academic Excellence, Leadership, and Service Award (AELS), 2023
Awardees
Academic Excellence Awardees, University of Miami 2023
Academic Excellence Awardees, University of Miami 2023