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Rodrigo Sarlo

Assistant Professor

Rodrigo Sarlo

Rodrigo Sarlo, Assistant Professor

105-B Patton Hall
Blacksburg, VA, USA 24061
Mail Code: (0105)



Program Area : Structural Engineering and Materials
Personal Homepage : www.vibeslab.cee.vt.edu
sarlo(at)vt.edu
(540) 231-4597

Areas of Interest

Structural health monitoring, digital twins, smart cities, data-driven inference, sensing and data fusion, vibrations and structural dynamics.

  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Virginia - 2011
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech - 2014
  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech - 2018
  • 2024 NSF CAREER Award
  • 2021 TLOS XCaliber Award (Teaching)
  • 2021 Smart City Works Smart City Challenge Finalist
  • Graduate Fellow, American Society for Nondestructive Testing, 2017
  • Hord Fellow, Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering, 2015
  • CEE 3404: Introduction to Structural Engineering
  • CEE 4834: Cyber-Phys and Remote Sensing
  • CEE 5440: Instrumentation and Signal Processing for Civil Engineering Application
  • CEE 5464: Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Sarlo, R., Tarazaga, P. A., & Kasarda, M. E. (2018). High resolution operational modal analysis on a five-story smart building under wind and human induced excitation. Engineering Structures, 176, 279-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2018.08.060