•     Risk, Reliability, and Resilience of Civil Structures and Infrastructure Systems    
•     Smart and Equitable Urban Community Disaster Risk and Resilience Analysis
•     Performance- and Resilience-based Multi-hazard Engineering in A Changing Climate
•     Structural Control, Smart Materials and Digital Twining for Structural Maintainance
•     Physics-guided Machine Learning and Data Analytics in Natural Hazard Engineering

Publications

• Ram K. Mazumder, Sohel Rana, Xiaowei Wang, Mehedy A. Ansary, Yue Li. (202x). Earthquake Risk Assessment for Predicting Physical and Socioeconomic Losses in Urban Areas. (In Preparation for IJDRR.)
• Sohel Rana, Ram K. Mazumder, Xiaowei Wang. (202x). Integrated Fuzzy-AHP-TOPSIS Multi-criteria-decision-making Approach for Seismic Risk Assessment of Existing Buildings. (In Preparation)
• Sohel Rana, M. Abdur R. Bhuiyan, M. Raihan Mukhlis. (202x). Fast Seismic Fragility Assessment Using Time History Analyses and Generative Adversarial Networks. (In Preparation for Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering)
• Sohel Rana, M. Abdur R. Bhuiyan, Shafayat B. Ali, M. Raihan Mukhlis. (202x). An Updated and Unified Earthquake Catalog for Seismic Hazard Assessment Studies in Bangladesh. (Under Review at Scientific Reports.)
• M. Raihan Mukhlis, Sohel Rana, M. Abdur R. Bhuiyan. (202x). Seismic Performance Assessment of Retrofitted Curved RC Bridge: A Case Study. ACI Special Publication, SP358. 
• Shishir K. S. Amit, Sohel Rana, Adan B. Hussein, M. Mahfuzul Islam. (2022). Performance Evaluation of Light Transmitting Concrete Made with Plastic Optical Fibers. International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering (ICACE 2022), India.
• Shishir K. S. Amit, Sohel Rana, Sabrin Ara, M. Saifuddin. (2022). Properties Evaluation of Self-Compacting Concrete Made with Industrial By-Products. International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering (ICACE 2022), India.
• Mazumder, R. K.; Rana, S., Salman, A.M. (2021). First Level Seismic Risk Assessment of old Unreinforced Masonry (URM) Using Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation. Journal of Building Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.103162 (IF: 7.144) 
• Sohel Rana, M. Abdur R. Bhuiyan. (2021). Performance-Based Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Building Frames. International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering (ICACE). Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh. 
• Sohel Rana. (2014). Eco-friendly Sustainable Concrete Using Recycled Materials. International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering (ICACE). Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh.

Ongoing Projects

1. Community Disaster Resilience Assessment by Integrating Functionality of Buildings and Critical Infrastructure Systems. Fellowship awarded by the "Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure  (CDRI)" for 2023-24.
2. Seismic Damage Assessment of Regional Buildings Using Improved Machine Learning Techniques. Funded by the Directorate of Research and Extension, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh for 2023-24.
3. Experimental investigation of flexural behaviour of circular concrete-filled aluminium alloy tubes. Funded by the Directorate of Research and Extension, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh for 2023-25.

Other Ongoing Research

1. Regional Risk Assessment Structures and Infrastructures for Scenario Seismic Hazard. 
2. Integrated Fuzzy-AHP-TOPSIS MCDM Approach for Seismic Risk Assessment of Buildings.
3. Seismic Fragility Assessment of Multi-span RC Bridge Using Machine Learning Techniques.
   
4. Multi-hazard Seismic And Cyclone Resilience Assesmment of Cyclone Center-Cum-School.

PEER Reviewer

• Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice (ASCE) - Outstanding Reviewer 2022
• Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction (ASCE) 
• Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (Tailor & Francis)

M. Engg. (Earthquake Engg.), CUET
B. Sc. Engg. (Civil Engg.), CUET

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