School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Oklahoma State University
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Maha Kenawy, Ph.D.
Uncertainty Quantification for Infrastructure Systems in Multihazard Environments
Our research team creates new numerical methods and uses high-performance computing tools to study and reduce the vulnerability of civil infrastructure to the direct and compounding effects of natural hazards.



News & Conferences
December 19, 2025: New Project on Integrating Multidisciplinary Simulations and Artificial Intelligence for Regional Flood Risk Assessment of Energy Transmission Infrastructure
Dr. Kenawy has received a grant from the Hamm Institute for American Energy to assess the vulnerability of electric transmission towers across Oklahoma to flooding and debris flow hazards. Learn more here.
June 5, 2025: International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability
Dr. Kenawy presented her research on adaptive sequential experimental design of regional-scale earthquake simulations at the 2025 International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability.
March 24, 2025: PEER LBNL Workshop on the Regional Scale Simulated Ground Motions
Dr. Kenawy presented her research on using simulated earthquake ground motions to improve regional-scale seismic hazard and risk analysis.
February 7, 2025: NHERI Computational Symposium
MSc Student Aman Karki presented his research on quantifying the influence of modeling uncertainty on assessing the collapse capacity of civil structures under dynamic earthquake loading.
