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• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley (2024)

• Harry Bolton Seed Award, University of California, Berkeley (2022)

• Youssef M. Salam Civil Engineering Excellence Award, American University of Beirut (2021)

• Mohamad Ali Safieddine Endowed Award for Academic Excellence, American University of Beirut (2021)

• First Prize for Best Final Year Project, American University of Beirut (2021)

• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Award, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Lebanon (2017)

• National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) Award, National Council for Scientific Research - Lebanon (2017)

• Second Place in the Lebanese Baccalaureate National Exams, Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education (2017)

• Jane Lewis Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (2025-2026)

• Graduate Research Assistantship, University of California, Berkeley (2021-Present)

• Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of California, Berkeley (2023-2024)

• National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) Scholarship, American University of Beirut (2017-2021)

Delivered:

• “Regional Simulations of Three-Dimensional Rainfall-Induced Landslides: An Application to a Watershed in Utuado, Puerto Rico”
  UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Annual Research Symposium 2025
  November 14, 2025 – Berkeley, CA, USA        

• "The Influence of Model Spatial Resolution on Rainfall-Induced Landslide Prediction for a Basin in Utuado, Puerto Rico”
  Geo-Extreme 2025 Conference
  November 5, 2025 – Long Beach, CA, USA

• “Regional Simulations of Three-Dimensional Rainfall-Induced Landslides: Example of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico”
  Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) 2025 Annual Meeting
  March 26, 2025 – Berkeley, CA, USA
  
  

• “Regional Simulations of Three-Dimensional Rainfall-Induced Landslides: Example of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico”
  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Seminar
  April 28, 2025 – Urbana, IL, USA
  
  

• “The Role of Mapped Landslide Volume in Constraining Back-Calculated Shear Strengths of Geologic Formations”
  American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
  December 10, 2024 – Washington, DC, USA
  
  

• “Pseudo-Three-Dimensional Back-Analysis of Rainfall-Induced Landslides in Utuado, Puerto Rico”
  Geo-Congress 2024
  March 1, 2024 – Vancouver, BC, Canada
  
  

• “Regional Pseudo-3D Prediction of Rainfall-Induced Landslides in Utuado, Puerto Rico”
  American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
  December 14, 2023 – San Francisco, CA, USA
  
  

• “Predictive Hazard Cascade Modeling”
  CLaSH (Center for Land Surface Hazards) Modeling Workshop
  October 10, 2023 – Boulder, CO, USA

Upcoming:                         

• “Watershed-Scale Rainfall–Subsurface Structure Interactions and Their Influence on Shallow Landslide Triggering”
  American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
  December 17, 2025 – New Orleans, LA, USA
  
  

• “The Influence of Storm Time Series Characteristics on Landslide Triggering within a Watershed in Utuado, Puerto Rico”
  Geo-Congress 2026
  March 9–12, 2026 – Salt Lake City, UT, USA
  
  

• “Capturing Regional Slope Failures Triggered by Bedrock Exfiltration: Influence of Soil Thickness and Depth-Varying Strengths”
  Pan Mediterranean Geotechnical Engineering Conference (PMGEC 2026)
  March 25–28, 2026 – Beirut, Lebanon