Salvatore Salamone, PhD

Dr. Salamone is a Professor, and holder of the Phil M. Ferguson Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Civil Engineering, in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE), at University of Texas (UT) at Austin. Before joining UT, he was a faculty member at University at Buffalo (SUNY), and a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received his PhD from the Universita’ degli studi di Palermo, in Italy. 

Salamone’s current research interests include structural health monitoring (SHM), non-destructive evaluation (NDE), ultrasonic sensing methods for smart structures, wave propagation in solids, digital signal processing and pattern recognition. Dr. Salamone's knowledge of SHM/NDE approaches have granted him research with several agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Federal Highway Administration, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the US Airforce, the Department of Energy (DOE), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Federal Rail Administration (FRA), the Pipeline Hazard Management Safety Administration (PHMSA), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and National Institutes of Health (NIH), Texas Department of Transportation, the University Transportation Research Center 2, the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, ExxonMobil and Chevron.

He has published over 150 referred journal articles and conference publications. He received several awards, including the SHM Person of the Year (2022), the Department Teaching Award (2019), the ASNT Fellowship Research Award (2018, 2023), the Achenbach Medal (2014) and the ASNT Faculty Grant Award (2011). He is serving in several technical committee including, the ASCE Structural Health Monitoring and Control, and ASME Ultrasonics for Mechanical Systems. Dr. Salamone serves as Associate Editor in several journals, including the Structural Health Monitoring: an international journal, and ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering.