Shideh听Dashti

  • Professor
  • Associate Chair for Administration
  • GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING & GEOMECHANICS
Address

Office:听ECOT 514

Education:

  • PhD University of California at Berkeley (2009)
  • M.S. 听University of California at Berkeley (2005)
  • BS Cornell University (2004)

Honors and Distinctions:

  • 2025 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Distinguished Lecture Award
  • 2024 Campus Sustainability Award, 蜜桃传媒破解版下载
  • 2021 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Price, ASCE
  • 2020 Associate Editor of the Year, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics
  • 2020 Provost Faculty Achievement Award, 蜜桃传媒破解版下载
  • 2018 Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award, ASCE
  • 2015 Outstanding Reviewer Recognition, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and GeoEnvironmental Engineering.
  • 2015 Departmental Young Researcher Award, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, 蜜桃传媒破解版下载
  • 2015-16 Dean鈥檚 Faculty Fellowship, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 蜜桃传媒破解版下载
  • 2015 National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award
  • 2014 Departmental Teaching Award, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, CU听Boulder
  • 2009 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley
  • 2004鈥2005 UC Berkeley Graduate Fellowship in GeoEngineering
  • 2004 Magna cum Laude distinction, Cornell University
  • 2004 Distinguished Leadership Award, Cornell University

Professional Affiliations:

  • American Society of Civil Engineers (American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE)
  • Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
  • ATC Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) Provisions Update Committees (PUC) on liquefaction, foundation design, and seismic soil-structure interaction.
  • International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering听(ISSMGE TC104 committee member and one of two U.S. representative)
  • Co-leader and Steering Committee member of GeoEngineering Extreme Event Reconnaissance (GEER) since 2018, also participated in 8 reconnaissance efforts since 2011 (leader of 3)
  • Elected board member to the Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Committee (Awards Subcommittee),听ASCE Geo-Institute

Interests:

  • Physical Modeling (e.g., centrifuge)
  • Seismic soil-structure interaction and structure-soil-structure interaction
  • Seismic response of underground structures in dense urban environments
  • Consequences and triggering of soil liquefaction from local to regional scales
  • Performance-based design of liquefaction remediation techniques
  • Impact of compound hydrologic-seismic hazards on earthen infrastructure
  • Intersection of infrastructure resilience, environmental sustainability, and justice

Latest Publications:

  1. Bessette, C.,听Dashti, S.,听Liel, A.,听Hwang, Y.W听(2025). 鈥淢achine learning-based settlement models for shallow-founded structures on interbedded sites considering dense granular columns,鈥澨ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and GeoEnvironmental Engineering听(Accepted and In Press).
  2. Bessette, C.,听Dashti, S.,听Liel, A.,听Brito, L.听(2025). 鈥淚nfluence of Stratigraphic Variability and Ground Motion Properties on the Effectiveness of Dense Granular Columns as Liquefaction Mitigation for Structures,鈥澨ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and GeoEnvironmental Engineering, 151(5),听.
  3. Hwang, Y.W.,听Dashti, S.,听Bessette, C. (2025). 鈥淢itigation of Liquefaction Damage to Shallow-founded Structures with In-Ground Structural Walls,鈥澨ASCE听Journal of Geotechnical and GeoEnvironmental Engineering, 151(2),听.
  4. Brito, L.,听Dashti, S.,听Liel, A., Wham, B.,听Bessette, C.听(2024). 鈥淒eformation Mechanisms in Stratigraphically-Variable Liquefiable Deposits Near Buildings on Shallow Foundations,鈥澨ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and GeoEnvironmental Engineering,听151(3), 10.1061/jggefk.gteng-12741.
  5. Barron, B., Roudbari, S., Pezzulo, P.听Dashti, S., Liel, A., Glade, S. (2024). 鈥溾橞ecause We鈥檙e Dying in Here鈥:
    A Study of Environmental Vulnerability and Climate Risks in Incarceration Infrastructure,鈥澨Journal of Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7 (6): 2437-2465.
  6. Bessette, C.,听Brito, L.,听Dashti, S.+,听Liel, A., Wham, B. (2024). 鈥淒evelopment of Dynamic Centrifuge Models for Measurement and Visualization of Deformation Mechanisms in Interlayered Liquefiable Soils,鈥澨Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 181, ARTN 108651.
  7. Rose, H.R., Wham, B.P.,听Dashti, S., Liel, A.B.听(2024). 鈥淎xial resistance of pipelines with enlarged joints,鈥澨ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and GeoEnvironmental Engineering, 150 (9), ARTN 04024077.
  8. Glade, S., Schmitz, C., Barron, B.N.,听Dashti, S., Roudbari, S., Liel, A. B., Pezzullo, P.C., & Miller, S. L. (2024). 鈥淗azards and incarceration facilities: Evaluating facility-level exposure to floods, wildfires, extreme heat, and landslides in Colorado,鈥澨Natural Hazards Review,听.
  9. Hwang, Y.W.,听Dashti, S.+听(2023). 鈥淪eismic Interactions Among Multiple Structures Founded on Liquefiable Soils in a City Block,鈥澨ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics听(Accepted and in press).
  10. Hwang. Y.W.,听Dashti, S.听+,听Tiznado, J.C.听(2023). 鈥淪eismic Performance of Mat-Founded Building Clusters on Liquefiable Soils Treated with Ground Densification,鈥澨Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering听(Accepted and in press).
  11. Hwang, Y.W., Bullock, Z., Dashti, S., Liel, A.B. (2022). 鈥淎 Probabilistic Predictive Model for Foundation Settlement on Liquefiable Soils Improved with Ground Densification,鈥 ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics (Accepted and in press).
  12. Bullock, Z., Dashti, S., Liel, A.B., Porter, K. (2022). 鈥淧hysics-Informed Probabilistic Models for Peak Pore Pressure and Shear Strain in Layered, Liquefiable Deposits,鈥 Geotechnique (Accepted and in press).
  13. Bullock, Z., Dashti, S., Liel, A.B., Porter, K., and Maurer, B.W. (2022). 鈥淧robabilistic Liquefaction Triggering and Manifestation Models Based on Cumulative Absolute Velocity,鈥 ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics, 148(3).
  14. Hwang, Y.W.,听Dashti, S.,听Kirkwood, P.听(2021). 鈥淚mpact of Ground Densification on the Response of Urban Liquefiable Sites and Structures,鈥澨ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002710.
  15. Tiznado, J.C.,听Dashti, S., Ledezma, C. (2021). 鈥淎 Probabilistic Predictive Model for Liquefaction Triggering in听Layered Sites Improved with Dense Granular Columns,鈥澨ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002609.
  16. Nagula, S.S.,听Hwang, Y.W.,听Dashti, S., Grabe, J. (2021). 鈥淣umerical investigation of liquefaction mitigation potential with vibroflotation,鈥澨Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering,听Volume 146.
  17. Bullock, Z.,听Liel, A.B., Porter, K.,听Dashti, S.听(2021). 鈥淪ite-Specific Liquefaction Fragility Analysis: Cloud, Stripe, and Incremental Approaches,鈥澨J. of Earthquake Eng. and Structural Dynamics, Issue 9, DOI: .
  18. Hwang, Y.W.,听Ramirez, J.,听Dashti, S.,听Kirkwood, P., Liel, A.B., Camata, G., Petracca, M. (2021). 鈥淪eismic Interaction of Adjacent Structures on Liquefiable Soils: Insight from Centrifuge and Numerical Modeling,鈥澨ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics, 147(8).
  19. Bullock, Z.,听 Dashti, S., Liel, A., Porter (2021). 鈥淐an Geotechnical Liquefaction Indices Serve as Predictors of Foundation Settlement?鈥澨Earthquake Spectra, DOI: .
  20. Tsai, C., Lin, C.,听Dashti, S.,听Kirkwood, P.听(2021). 鈥淚nfluence of Container and Loading Characteristics on the Evaluation of Soil听Dynamic Properties in the Geotechnical Centrifuge,鈥澨Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 142, DOI: .
  21. Aghababaei,听M.听Okamoto, C., Koliou,听M., Nagae, T., Pantelides,听C.P., Ryan,听K.L., Barbosa,听A.R., Pei,听S. van de Lindt,听J.W., and Dashti,听S. (2021). 鈥,鈥 ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, 147(3).
  22. Bullock, Z., Liel, A., Dashti, S., Porter, K. (2020). 鈥淎 Suite of Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Cumulative Absolute Velocity in Shallow Crustal Earthquakes Including Epistemic Uncertainty,鈥 Earthquake Spectra, .
  23. Tiznado, J.C., Dashti, S., Ledezma, C., Wham, B. (2020). 鈥淧erformance of Embankments on Liquefiable Soils Improved with Dense Granular Columns: Observations from Case Histories and Centrifuge Experiments,鈥 ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and GeoEnvironmental Engineering, 146(9).