News

ASCE State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award, as a co-recipient for the ASCE/SEI book Effects of Climate Change on Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructure Systems. ASCE award list

In the 2026 Stanford University/Elsevier list of the most-cited scientists, Dr. Aly ranks 598 of 67,736 Civil Engineering researchers for career-long impact (top 1%) and 310 of 67,736 for single-year impact (top 0.5%).

“Unsteady Aerodynamics of Pitching and Plunging Airfoils: Impact of Motion-Related Parameters” published in AIAA Journal, 64(6). Read the paper

New edited book, High Rise Buildings: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Structural, Environmental, and Technological Innovations (IntechOpen), with Dr. Aly's introductory chapter and a chapter on damping, adaptive control, and bracing in high-rise structures. Open the book

Agrivoltaic resilience paper published in Frontiers in Horticulture. Read the paper

Amro Zahrawi and Feng Xie complete their Ph.D. degrees.

Dr. Aly presents joint work with Ph.D. student Binura J. Kudagama on wind flow over a mono-slope roof building at the 8th International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE2026), Western University, London, Ontario (June 2026).

Talk on open-jet testing at the ASCE Structures Congress, Boston (April 30, 2026).

Husam AlShannaq completes his Ph.D.

Invited talk on the LSU WISE open-jet facility at the Seventh U.S.–Japan Workshop on Wind Engineering, Osaka, Japan (August 2025).

Guest editor, with Yu Zhou, of the Communications Engineering (Nature Portfolio) collection “Engineering Solutions in Wind Energy Systems: Design, Efficiency, and Sustainability.” See the collection

Talk on open-jet testing methodology at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2025), Memphis (November 2025).

New papers in Fluids (a perspective on machine learning in CFD; link) and Wind (bridge aerodynamics; link).

Physics of Fluids paper quantifies turbulence and geometric-scale effects on surface pressures from open-jet testing. Read the paper

ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Distinguished Service Award, as chair of the Fluid Dynamics Committee (2022–2024).

Recognized by LSU’s Office of Academic Affairs for two years of work developing the Geaux Communicate Quality Enhancement Plan, supporting its expansion of communication-intensive teaching (May 2024).

WGNO Good Morning New Orleans features the LSU open-jet facility (May 31, 2024). Watch the segment

LSU Energy Innovation News profiles Dr. Aly's research on extreme wind and solar installations (September 13, 2024). Read the article

Online webinar: “Resilient Coastal Communities: Sustainable Strategies for Solar Energy and Windstorm Preparedness,” Institute for Energy Innovation (November 12, 2024).

Review of agrivoltaic systems published in Sustainability. Read the paper

AISC Advancing Structural Steel Education Award.

Talk on project-based steel design education at the AISC Educator Workshop, Chicago (June 2023).

Talk on the LSU WISE open-jet facility at the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute conference, Georgia Tech, Atlanta (June 2023).

Visiting faculty, Oregon State University (winter and spring 2023).

U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellow (also in 2022).

Experimental verification of the tuned pendulum pounding mass damper published in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. Read the paper

Machine learning with CFD for wind loads on solar panels published in Sustainable Cities and Society. Read the paper

Keynote at the International Conference on Advances in Wind and Structures (AWAS22), virtual (August 17, 2022).

Md. Faiaz Khaled completes his Ph.D.; he is now an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University.

U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellow.

Suvash Chapain completes his Ph.D.

LSU Science Café talk, “The Power of Wind” (September 28, 2021). Watch the talk

Business Report on Dr. Aly's work to protect infrastructure from natural disasters (October 18, 2021). Read the article

Teen Science Café talk on windstorm research for local teens, Carver Branch Library, Baton Rouge (November 29, 2018).

Edited book Wind Engineering for Natural Hazards: Modeling, Simulation, and Mitigation of Windstorm Impact on Critical Infrastructure (ASCE), with Elena Dragomirescu.

Milad Rezaee and Hamzeh Gol-Zaroudi complete their Ph.D. degrees.

ASCE Baton Rouge Branch Outstanding Civil Engineering Educator Award.

The Times-Picayune (nola.com) asks Dr. Aly whether New Orleans schools are tornado-safe (February 11, 2017). Read the article

First journal paper on the LSU open-jet facility, “Atmospheric Boundary Layer Simulation in a new Open-Jet Facility at LSU: CFD and Experimental Investigations” (Measurement), with Hamzeh Gol-Zaroudi.

Students present the first results from the group's new open-jet simulator, a 15-fan wind generator built in the lab.

Dr. Aly joins Louisiana State University.