{"id":37,"date":"2012-01-03T22:47:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T03:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:44:38","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/","title":{"rendered":"PI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"border-radius:16px;background-color:#f7f8fb;padding-top:20px;padding-right:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:20px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-86b54818 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n  \n  <div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n\n    \n    <div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:65%\">\n\n      \n      <h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:32px;font-weight:800;margin-bottom:8px\">Alireza Tabarraei, Ph.D.<\/h1>\n      \n\n      \n<p>\n  <strong>Associate Professor<\/strong><br>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/mees.charlotte.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener\">\n    Department of Mechanical Engineering &amp; Engineering Science\n  <\/a><br>\n  Affiliated Faculty, \n  <a href=\"https:\/\/datascience.charlotte.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener\">\n    School of Data Science\n  <\/a><br>\n  The University of North Carolina at Charlotte\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n      \n      <div class=\"wp-block-group has-background\" style=\"border-radius:12px;background-color:#ffffff;padding-top:14px;padding-right:16px;padding-bottom:14px;padding-left:16px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n        \n        <p style=\"margin:0\">\n          <strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:atabarra@charlotte.edu\">atabarra@charlotte.edu<\/a><br>\n          <strong>Phone:<\/strong> +1 (704) 687-1087<br>\n          <strong>Fax:<\/strong> +1 (704) 687-8345<br>\n          <strong>Office:<\/strong> 388 Duke Centennial Hall\n        <\/p>\n        \n\n      <\/div><\/div>\n      \n\n      \n      <div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:14px\">\n        \n<div class=\"wp-block-button\">\n  <a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.de\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=-OwBidMAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate\" style=\"background-color:#046A38;color:#ffffff;border-radius:8px;padding:10px 20px;font-weight:600\">\n     Google Scholar \u2192\n  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n      <\/div>\n      \n\n    <\/div>\n    \n\n\n    \n    <div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:35%\">\n\n      \n      <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/files\/2026\/02\/headShot-scaled.jpg\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/files\/2026\/02\/headShot-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Alireza Tabarraei\" style=\"border-radius:14px;width:100%;height:auto\" \/>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/figure>\n      \n\n    <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div>\n  \n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n  <li><strong>Ph.D., Structural Mechanics<\/strong>, University of California, Davis. Thesis: \u201cA Partition of Unity Finite Element Method on Polygonal and Quadtree Meshes.\u201d<\/li>\n  <li><strong>M.S., Structural Mechanics<\/strong>, Sharif University of Technology. Thesis: \u201cH-Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Shear Band Localization in Elasto-Plasticity Cosserat Continuum.\u201d<\/li>\n  <li><strong>B.S., Civil Engineering<\/strong>, Sharif University of Technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alireza Tabarraei, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering &amp; Engineering Science Affiliated Faculty, School of Data Science The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Email: atabarra@charlotte.edu Phone: +1 (704) 687-1087 Fax: +1 (704) 687-8345 Office: 388 Duke Centennial Hall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/atabarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}