Woubishet Zewdu Taffese is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Intelligent Infrastructure (CII) at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Turku, Finland, where part of his research was carried out at Aalto University, Finland. The focus of his doctoral research was on applied machine learning for durability assessment of reinforced concrete structures. He also received an M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from the Dresden University of Technology, Germany.