Dr. Bocchini Research Group
Dr. Paolo Bocchini is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lehigh University. His research group focuses on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Systems, Catastrophe Modeling, Probabilistic Analysis applied to Civil Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.
News and Events
December 2023
Sena and Xinyue complete courses to become better communicators and teachers, and receive official certificates.
December 2023
Xingjian defends his dissertation on 3D printing concrete and topology optimization. The group celebrate him and the upcoming holidays.
December 2023
The Catastrophe Modeling & Resilience Tour has now visited several Universities and Institutions. The latest was the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
November 2023
Applications are now open for the first in the world graduate degrees in Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience.
September 2023
Lehigh continues to do very well in academic rankings. The new Wall Street Journal's ranking puts us as number 14 in the nation.
July 2023
At ICASP 14 in Dublin, Ireland, Sena showed that Functional Quantization can be improved and tailored to optimize performance on the statistics we care the most about.
June 2023
Xinyue presents her work at the 2023 Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute in Atlanta. She is paving the way for class vulnerability curves for transmission towers.
May 2023
The work of the team on 3D printing concrete is celebrated through a special exhibit at the National Museum of Industrial History. Read more and see pictures.
May 2023
Dr. Mohanad Khazaali is officially hooded as a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering. Dr. Khazaali is now a working as a catastrophe modeler at Verisk - Extreme Event Solutions, one of the leading CatModeling firms in the world. Congratulations Mohanad!!!
Active Research Topics
Catastrophe modeling
Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Systems
Regional Hazard Analysis by Functional Quantization
Non-homogeneous virus spreading and risk
CatModeling of communication infrastructure
3D printing concrete
Life-cycle finite element analysis
Selected Publications
Fiorillo, Bocchini, Buceta
A predictive spatial distribution framework for filovirus-infected fruit bats
Ma, Bocchini, Christou
Fragility models of electrical conductors in power transmission networks subjected to hurricanes
Sun, Bocchini, Davison
Resilience metrics and measurement methods for transportation infrastructure: The state of the art
Christou et al.
Effective sampling of spatially correlated intensity maps using Hazard Quantization: application to seismic events
Bocchini, Deodatis
Critical review and latest developments of a class of simulation algorithms for strongly non-Gaussian random fields
Miranda, Bocchini