School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty Muhammad Zeshan Akber

Muhammad Zeshan Akber

Assistant Professor
Summary

With a PhD in Civil Engineering and a commitment to academic excellence, I strive to drive innovation in construction management through impactful teaching, advanced research, and educational leadership.

Academic Background
PhD (Civil Engineer) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology June 01, 2018 - June 01, 2022
Honours and Awards
Publications
Bridging the gap in concrete slump prediction: Scalable, generalized, and deployable machine learning approach August 21, 2025 Structural Concrete - Pages 1-23
Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for resilience optimization of building structures considering utility interactions for functionality April 01, 2025 Computers and Structures - Volume 310, Article Number 107703
TPE-xgboost for explainable predictions of concrete compressive strength considering compositions, and mechanical and microstructure properties of testing samples December 27, 2024 Construction and Building Materials - Volume:457, Article Number 139398
TPE-Optimized DNN with Attention Mechanism for Prediction of Tower Crane Payload Moving Conditions September 26, 2024 Mathematics - Volume:12, Issue:19, Article Number 3006
Life-Cycle Performance Modeling for Sustainable and Resilient Structures under Structural Degradation: A Systematic Review September 25, 2024 Buildings - Volume:14, Issue:10, Article Number 3053
Improving the experience of machine learning in compressive strength prediction of industrial concrete considering mixing proportions, engineered ratios and atmospheric features September 20, 2024 Construction and Building Materials - Volume:444, Article Number 137884
Predicting the 28-day compressive strength by mix proportions: Insights from a large number of observations of industrially produced concrete October 12, 2023 Construction and Building Materials - Volume:400, Article Number 132754
Sustainability-Oriented Optimization and Decision Making of Community Buildings under Seismic Hazard March 01, 2023 Sustainability - Volume:15, Issue:5, Article Number 4385
Predicting the slump of industrially produced concrete using machine learning: A multiclass classification approach October 15, 2022 Journal of Building Engineering - Volume:58, Article Number 104997
Prediction of seven-day compressive strength of field concrete October 25, 2021 Construction and Building Materials - Volume:305, Article Number 124604
Life cycle sustainability assessment of electricity generation in Pakistan: Policy regime for a sustainable energy mix December 01, 2017 Energy Policy - Volume 111, Pages 111-126
Conferences
Postdoctoral Fellow Centre for Advances in Reliability and Safety October 01, 2022 - February 01, 2025
Postgraduate Research Student & Teaching Assistant HKUST August 28, 2018 - August 03, 2022
Lecturer University o Management and Technology October 01, 2017 - July 30, 2018
Field Engineer B.L. Harbert International, LLC March 09, 2015 - September 30, 2016
Engr. Project Management TC (Pvt) Ltd., Pakistan November 01, 2013 - August 31, 2014