He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in civil engineering from Sharif University of Technology and his PhD in civil engineering from the University of California, Davis. After spending a year with the Computational Geomechanics Division of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at UBC in 2009. Dr. Taiebat’s research interests include theoretical and computational geomechanics, constitutive modeling of engineering materials, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and static and dynamic soil-structure interaction.