Shane Crawford
Assistant Professor
University of Alabama
Patrick (Shane) Crawford is an assistant professor of civil, construction, and environmental engineering at the University of Alabama.
His research focuses on community resilience to natural hazards, including tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. He specializes in geospatial analysis, remote sensing, computer vision, machine learning, and sustainable infrastructure, with an emphasis on improving disaster mitigation, damage assessment, infrastructure recovery, and building-code development. His work integrates engineering with economics, insurance, public policy, and the social sciences.
Before joining the University of Alabama faculty, Crawford was a civil engineer in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Building Science Branch and a research structural engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Earlier, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Colorado State University’s Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning and a graduate research and teaching assistant at the University of Alabama, where he received the Bibb Graves Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Crawford earned a Ph.D., a master’s in civil engineering, and a bachelor’s in civil engineering from the University of Alabama.
