Hoda Soltani
I am a civil engineer and data scientist with six years of professional engineering experience, three years of Data Science, and eight years of academic research focused on predictive modeling of complex dynamic systems. I hold a PhD in Civil Engineering, where my research applied system identification, time-series analysis, and state-space modeling to large-scale experimental data to study the seismic response of foundations and support infrastructure resilience. My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences and workshops.
Following my doctorate, I worked at Shannon & Wilson, a leading geotechnical consulting firm in Seattle, contributing to high-impact projects in the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco Bay Area, including seismic resilience analyses and large-scale numerical simulations for critical infrastructure. I later transitioned into data science, completing advanced training in computer science, machine learning, deep learning, and AI. I currently work as a data scientist in higher education, applying predictive modeling to student success and retention initiatives.
