People

Prof Tai Thai - ARC Future Fellow

The Steel and Composite Structures group is led by Prof Thai. He is an ARC Future Fellow and also the recipient of ARC DECRA Fellowship. He is a member of Standards Australia Committees BD23 (structural steel) and BD32 (composite construction) and the Chief Editor for Shock and Vibration journal. His research interests have been in the areas of machine learning applications in structural engineering, progressive collapse and robustness of buildings, modular tall buildings, modular connections, steel-concrete composite structures, steel structures, cold-formed steel structures, timber structures, high-strength concrete, laminated composites, structural reliability, and advanced analysis and design.

Group photo at IE2023

Group photo taken at the IE conference Oct 2023

Research ranking and impact

Based on the 2025 Stanford's World's Top 2% Scientists list, Prof Thai's single-year rankings are:
- 1,792th/236,313 scientists in overall ranking
- 6th/1,356 scientists in the Civil Engineering subfield

In Australia, his single-year ranking in the Civil Engineering subfield is 1/97.

His citatations and h-index are:
- Citation = 16,700 (Google Scholar) or 13,500 (Scopus)
- H-index = 73 (Google Scholar) or 67 (Scopus)
- FWCI = 3.3 and Citations per Publication= 61.8 (SciVal)

Contact us

Department of Infrastructure Engineering
Engineering Block C, Level 3, Room C313
Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
T: +61 3 8344 6196
E: tai.thai@unimelb.edu.au
W: UoM, ORCID, Google Scholar, Scopus, WoS, ResearchGate

Weixi best paper award

Weixi  Wang received the best paper award at the IE conference 2025

Nimisha at CIA Adelaide2025

Nimisha presented at the Concrete Institute of Australia (CIA) conference in Adelaide - 09/2025

ASEM25 Lalita and Kiran (Lalita and Kiran presented at the ASEM25 conference in Busan, Korea - 08/2025)

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Kwon from Toronto

(Visited by Prof Oh-Sung Kwon from Toronto University - 30/06/2025)

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Lalita received Best Journal Paper Award (Lalita received the Best Journal Paper Award at IEGRC 2024 Conference - 21/10/2024 - Congratulations Lalita)

Visit by Kaveh from HERA

(Visited by Dr Kaveh Andisheh from HERA - 09/08/2024)

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SIF2024(Lalita and Nav presented at the SIF2024 Conference in Coimbra, Portugal in June 2024)

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ICSAS24 conference

(Kirant presented at the ICSAS24 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 2024

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Seminar by Dr Shan-Shan Huang(Seminar by Dr Shan-Shan Huang from The University of Sheffield - 11/12/2023)

Lalita at ACMSM26

(Lalita Lama presented at the ACMSM26 Conference in Auckland in Dec 2023)

Weixi at ICTWS 2023 (Weixi Wang presented at the ICTWS Conference in Sydney in Nov 2023)

Farewell David

(Farewell lunch for David Medall Martos to back to Valencia - Nov 2023)

Itsaso visit

(Lunch with Dr Itsaso Arrayago during her visist at UoM in May 2023)

Arjun Kandel

(Arjun Kande presented at the Eurosteel2023 Conference in Amsterdam in Sep 2023)

Gauvar Swami

(Gaurav Swami presented at the Eurosteel2023 Conference in Amsterdam in Sep 2023)

Quang Du Nguyen

(Quang Du Nguyen presented at the Concrete2023 Conference in Perth in Sep 2023)

Group members

Postdocs

Current PhD students (*Co-supervision)

Former PhD students (*Co-supervision)

Visiting scholars