Masoud Nobahar has been actively involved in a number of NSF, ERDC, Mississippi DOT, MarTRAC (the University of Arkansas, a transportation research center (UTC)) and Cantsink Manufacturing Inc. research projects emphasizing bio-inspired embankment stabilization, airfield pavement stabilization, advanced landslide investigation protocol and helical piles with Mohammad Sadik Khan, Ph.D., P.E. His research interests include highway/levee/embankment slope stabilization, geophysical testing, field instrumentation, laboratory/field testing, computational geotechnics, artificial intelligence/machine learning techniques and soil–structure interaction.