Samira Mirzavand is a skilled civil engineer and Ph.D. student at the University of Minho, specializing in Structural Safety, Infrastructures Health Monitoring, and Machine Learning Algorithms with over a decade of experience. She combines academic rigor with practical expertise, having worked as a structural design engineer, supervisor engineer and a university lecturer. Her research focuses on advanced modeling and analysis techniques, including wavelet transforms, Hilbert Huang transform and Deep Learning Algorithms, for assessing the safety and reliability of civil infrastructures.