Arash joined KPFF in 2017 from oil and gas industry with expertise in steel design and nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA). He graduated from IUST (B.S.) and Sharif University (MBA) in Iran and worked in various structural engineering fields thereafter. In 2015 he earned his PHD in structural engineering from Texas A&M University where he developed a level III system identification and damage detection method for base isolated structures. Since joining KPFF, he has focused on managing projects including several healthcare and industrial buildings and also teamed up with his college and lunched KPFF Louisville Technical Excellence program.