Mehran Pourakbar

Detail-Oriented and results-driven Geotechnical Engineer pursing Ph.D. in civil Engineering and 4+ years of experience across multiple international projects. Adept at designing geotechnical solutions such as retaining walls, soil cement columns, and micropiles. Proven ability to work in both field and office settings, with extensive experience in advanced soil mechanics, geotechnical design, and research. I am seeking a Geotechnical Engineering position with a company that values creativity, growth, and collaboration and offers the opportunity to grow both personally and professionally.

• Dynamic centrifuge test of an embankment underlain a liquefiable soil and isolated soil-cement columns., Khosravi, M., Pourakbar, M., Soroush, A., Zaregarizi, S., Hung, W. Y., & Nabizadeh, A., 17th World Conf. on Earthquake Engineering, Hoboken, NJ, Wiley, 2020
• Feasibility Study of Road Culvert/Bridge Deck Deicing Using Geothermal Energy., Pourakbar, M., Khosravi, M., Plymesser, K., & Perkins, S. A., Montana Department of Transportation, Task Report 1, 2021
• A Feasibility Study of Road Culvert/Bridge Deck De-icing Using Geothermal Energy., Pourakbar, M., Khosravi, M., Plymesser, K., Gunyol, P., Phillips, A., SEN, T., & Perkins, S., Montana Department of Transportation, Task Report 2, 2021
• Evaluation of Low Stress and Cracking Zones in the Core of a High Rockfill Dam in a Relatively Narrow Canyon Using 3D Numerical Modeling., Soroush, A., & Pourakbar, M., International Journal of Geomechanics, 22, 3, 04021299, 2022
• Dynamic Centrifuge Tests to Evaluate the Seismic Performance of an Embankment Resting on Liquefiable Ground Improved by Unreinforced and Reinforced Soil-Cement Columns., Pourakbar, M., Khosravi, M., Soroush, A., Hung, W. Y., Hoang, K. K., & Nabizadeh, A., Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 148, 12, 04022106, 2022
• A Case Study on Jet Grouting Application for Deep Excavation in Granular Soils., Pourakbar, M., Naziri, S., Babaee, E., & Maleknia, A., Geo-Congress, 386-394, 2022
• Experimental Study of Failure Mechanisms of Soil Cement Columns under Embankment Loading., Pourakbar, M., Soroush, A., Khosravi, M., Hung, W. Y., Nabizadeh, A., & Huang, J. X., Geo-Congress, 173-181, 2022
• Small-strain thermo-mechanical performance of lunar mare and highlands regolith simulants under Earth's atmospheric pressure and in vacuum., Pourakbar, M., Zhao, Y., Cortes, D. D., & Dai, S., Icarus, 429, 116405, 2025

• Judge's Choice Prize for excellence in IEE/WERC Contest
• 2nd Place in Student Poster Competition, NM TransCon 2024