Shideh Dashti

Shideh Dashti is an Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) and the Associate Chair for Administration in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering. She also directs a college-funded interdisciplinary research theme titled RISE: Resilient Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity. Shideh obtained her undergraduate degree at Cornell University and graduate degrees at the University of California, Berkeley. She worked briefly with ARUP and Bechtel on several engineering projects in the U.S. and around the world, spanning seismic design of underground structures, foundations, and slopes. Her research team at CU studies: the interactions and interdependencies among infrastructure systems during earthquakes and climatic extremes; seismic performance of underground structures; triggering, consequence, and mitigation of the liquefaction hazard at local and regional scales; impact of compound climatic-seismic hazards on geotechnical infrastructure; and the intersection of resilience, environmental sustainability, and justice. She is the recipient of the 2018 Arthur Casagrande Award and the 2021 Walter Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) as well as the 2025 Distinguished Lecture Award from EERI (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute).