Dr. Althaf Shajihan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at San Diego State University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where his research focused on AI-enabled smart sensing for infrastructure assessment. He also holds an M.S. in Structural Engineering from IIT Bombay, where he received the Institute Silver Medal, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from NIT Calicut. His interdisciplinary research spans structural health monitoring, physics-informed machine learning, and vision-based infrastructure inspection for resilient smart cities.