Summary
Ali Ozdagli is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in earthquake engineering with 12 years of experience specializing in vibration control, advanced smart damping devices, seismic isolation, and real-time hybrid simulation. He combines deep structural analysis and finite element modeling expertise with hands-on testing, instrumentation, and system identification to drive experimentally validated control designs. His background spans academic research at Purdue and Notre Dame, practical data curation and IT support for NEES, and field experience from international internships, giving him a rare blend of lab, computation, and site-level insight. Based in Albuquerque, he also explores big-data approaches to structural behavior and has contributed to creating data hierarchy templates that improved experimental data interoperability.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Civil Engineering at Bogazici University
University of New Mexico School of Engineering
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Structural Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Structural Engineering at Purdue University
Master of Science (M.S.), Earthquake Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Earthquake Engineering at University of Notre Dame
English, German, Turkish