Ardavan Yazdanbakhsh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York (CCNY). Before joining CCNY, he worked as graduate research assistant at Texas A&M University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering. Dr. Yazdanbakhsh's primary research is in the areas of cement-based materials and mechanical performance of reinforced concrete members, with an emphasis on the development of sustainable concrete, nano-modification of cementitious materials, durability of concrete, and experimental mechanics. He has authored several technical publications on these topics. Dr. Yazdanbakhsh is the principal investigator of a project titled as "Utilization of recycled concrete in new building construction" awarded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2013.

Dr. Yazdanbakhsh has several years of industry experience. He joined IranYas Construction Company in 2001 where he worked as a site engineer of a road construction project until 2004. In 2004 he joined Cyrus Group of Companies in the UAE as a production engineer of a plant where construction materials such as concrete and asphalt additives, pavement materials, and primers were produced. He later joined the construction branch of the company and worked as a site engineer of residential buildings with concrete structures until 2008.