About
I am the Department Head at the Department of Built Environment, OsloMet, and hold a PhD and engineering background from the University of Tromsø. In 2015, I was a visiting phd scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
As department head, I am responsible for both the academic and administrative enactment of the department. This includes personnel and financial management responsibilities, as well as executive budgetary authority. I am accountable for the departments academic activities, fostering innovation, evaluation, quality assurance, and the delivery of teaching and research in accordance with established goals and strategies. Additionally, I contribute to the development of a positive organizational culture, facilitate efficient and effective organization of the department, ensure good interaction with the faculty administration, and ensure that the departments activities are developed and managed in line with strategies and decisions made by governing bodies.
As department head, I also foster collaboration, communication, and information flow between stakeholders within and outside the university, and drive efforts to connect academic communities across departments and faculties. I also ensure that students and staff in the department are heard in matters concerning them.
My research interests lie in critical infrastructure, with particular expertise in bridge condition assessment using drones, resilience, risk assessment related to critical infrastructures, and proposing sustainable solutions.
For more information about me, please visit my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonas-zewdu-ayele-ph-d-93bb8120/ or ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yonas-Zewdu-Ayele
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Aliyari, Mostafa; Droguett, Enrique Lopez; Barabady, Javad;
Ayele, Yonas Zewdu
(2025).
Ant colony optimization of hyper-parameters in multi-head attention layer for time series forecasting.
Applied Soft Computing.
Vol. 183.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2025.113562
Oruma, Samson Ogheneovo;
Ayele, Yonas Zewdu
; Sechi, Fabien; Rødsethol, Hanne Kristine
(2023).
Security Aspects of Social Robots in Public Spaces: A Systematic Mapping Study.
Sensors.
Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s23198056
Aliyari, Mostafa;
Ayele, Yonas Zewdu
(2023).
Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Power Load Prediction in Critical Infrastructure: A Comparative Case Study.
Applied System Innovation.
Vol. 6.
https://doi.org/10.3390/asi6060115
Farzadmehr, Mohsen; Aliyari, Mostafa; Baghshani, Vahid;
Ayele, Yonas Zewdu
(2023).
A Framework for Dynamic Risks and Resiliency Assessment of Critical Infrastructure: a Case Study on Power Distribution Transformers.
CIRED Conference Proceedings.
https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2023.0666
Ayele, Yonas Zewdu
; Chockalingam, Sabarathinam; Lau, Nathan
(2023).
Threat Actors and Methods of Attack to Social Robots in Public Spaces.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35822-7_18
Shukla, Ankur; Gao, Xueli;
Ayele, Yonas Zewdu
(2023).
STPA-Based Safety Approach on the Emergency Ventilation System in Nuclear Power Plant.
Brito, Mario P.; Aven, Terje; Baraldi, Piero; Cepin, Marko; Zio, Enrico (Ed.).
ESREL 2023 - Proceedings of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference : The Future of Safety in the Reconnected World,
3 – 7 September 2023, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. p. 1561-1568.
Research Publishing Services.
https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-8071-1_P193-cd
Sechi, Fabien;
Ayele, Yonas Zewdu
(2022).
Security Implications of Social Robots in Public Space - A Systematic Literature Review.
Leva, Maria Chiara; Patelli, Edoardo; Podofillini, Luca; Wilson, Simon (Ed.).
Proceedings of the 32nd European
Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022). p. 2308-2315.
Research Publishing Services.
https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-5183-4_S10-06-2
Rødsethol, Hanne Kristine;
Ayele, Yonas Zewdu
(2022).
Social Robots in Public Space: Use Case Development.
Leva, Maria Chiara; Patelli, Edoardo; Podofillini, Luca; Wilson, Simon (Ed.).
Proceedings of the 32nd European
Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022). p. 256-264.
Research Publishing Services.
https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-5183-4_R08-01-3
Esnoul, Coralie;
Ayele, Yonas Zewdu
; Fredriksen, Rune
(2022).
Challenges in Evidence Evaluation and Decision-Making Regarding D I&C Systems in Safety Demonstration in the Nuclear Industry.
Leva, Maria Chiara; Patelli, Edoardo; Podofillini, Luca; Wilson, Simon (Ed.).
Proceedings of the 32nd European
Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022). p. 1069-1076.
Research Publishing Services.
https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-5183-4_R18-22-5
Ayele, Yonas Zewdu
; Esnoul, Coralie
(2022).
Independently Verifiable Evidence for Safety Assurance - A Survey Analysis.
Leva, Maria Chiara; Patelli, Edoardo; Podofillini, Luca; Wilson, Simon (Ed.).
Proceedings of the 32nd European
Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2022). p. 959-967.
Research Publishing Services.
https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-5183-4_R18-07-2
