Structural Engineering · Lehigh University

Faisal Nissar Malik

Ph.D. Candidate working on multi-physics real-time cyber-physical (hybrid) simulation, machine learning for structural dynamics, and sustainable and resilient infrastructure.

My research focuses on advancing the assessment and design of infrastructure systems subjected to extreme loading through the development of real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) frameworks that couple physical experiments with high-fidelity computational models. My work emphasizes multi-physics cyber-physical simulations incorporating soil-structure, fluid-structure, and aeroelastic interaction effects using neural-network based surrogate models and real-time digital twins. The insights gained from these frameworks are applied toward the design and experimental validation of resilient structural systems, including shape-memory-alloy damping systems, nonlinear damping devices, mass timber structures among others.