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Kartik Aggarwal


Geospatial-Temporal Data Scientist, 
The Roux Institute

Serena Alexander

Serena Alexander


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Climate change, sustainable and resilient transportation systems, environmental policy

Akram N. Alshawabkeh


Senior Associate Dean for Global Engineering Campus, 
Office of the Dean

Geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration
Yasser Aponte

Yasser Aponte


Manager of Community Partnerships, 
iSUPER

R. Edward Beighley


Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling; remote sensing of the hydrologic cycle; hydrologic impacts of climate and/or land use change; flood hazard and risk assessment

Dionisio P. Bernal


Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

System identification, fault detection and fault localization, earthquake engineering, soil structure interaction, structural stability
Sujit Bhandari

Sujit Bhandari


Laboratory Manager, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Large-scale structural testing

Kurt Braun


Senior Laboratory Technician, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Luca Caracoglia


Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Structural dynamics; wind engineering; wind energy; wind-induced vibration; fluid-structure interaction; linear and nonlinear cable dynamics; climate change

Virginia Casey


Senior Research Scientist, 
PROTECT

Qin Jim Chen


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Coastal engineering and science, particularly in the development and application of state-of-the-art numerical models to address coastal resiliency and sustainability

Sally Conant


Senior Co-op Coordinator, Global Engineering & Associate Director, Global, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering, 
Global Engineering Co-op

Sarah Corley


Program Manager, 
PROTECT and ECHO

David Deeter

David Deeter


Marketing & Communications Manager, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

James Dennedy-Frank

Peter "James" Dennedy-Frank


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ecohydrologic modeling for water resources and conservation
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Soumyo Dey


Geospatial-Temporal Data Scientist, 
The Roux Institute

Daniel M. Dulaski


Teaching Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Transportation safety; roadway geometry and roadside design; human factors in transportation.

Matthew J. Eckelman


Associate Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis, sustainable production and green design, energy systems and emissions modeling, climate change and health, healthcare sustainability

Ozlem Ergun


COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Design and management of large-scale networks, supply chain design and resilience, collaboration and crowdsourcing in logistics, humanitarian logistics

David Fannon


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in School of Architecture & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sustainable and high performance building design; persistent architecture and resilience; human health, safety, and comfort in the built environment.

Loretta A. Fernandez


Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Environmental organic chemistry; passive sampling methods; transport and transformation of contaminants in built and natural environments

Stephen Flynn


Professor, 
Political Science

critical infrastructure resilience; public policy

Peter G. Furth


Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Traffic signal control including transit signal priority and better serving pedestrians; bicycle safety and bicycle network analysis; transit operations analysis

Auroop R. Ganguly


College of Engineering Distinguished Professor and Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Science: Climate Dynamics, Weather Extremes, Hydrology, Hydrometeorology, and Ecology Engineering: Critical Infrastructructure, Water Resources, Transportation Security, and Lifeline Systems Data Science: Machine Learning, Network Science, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Extreme Value Theory Interdisciplinary Methods: Knowledge Guided Data-Driven Sciences and Artificial Intelligence Convergent Challenge: Environmental Security, Climate Adaptation, and Infrastructure Resilience
Griffith Gao

Griffith Gao


Applications Developer & Data Administrator, 
PROTECT

Khaled Ghannam

Khaled Ghannam


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Boundary-layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality modeling, hydroclimatology
Fatemeh Ghoreishi

Fatemeh Ghoreishi


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Design and decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning and data analysis, Bayesian statistics, multidisciplinary design optimization, autonomous and cyber-physical systems
Ashley Gjovik

Ashley Gjovik


Program Manager, 
iSUPER

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Natalie Gold


Administrative Coordinator, 
PROTECT

Tarik Gouhier


Associate Professor, 
Marine and Environmental Sciences

Population Biology

Jonathan Grabowski


Professor, 
Marine and Environmental Sciences

environmental science and policy, fisheries, ecological economics

Jerome F. Hajjar


CDM Smith Professor and Chair, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sustainable and resilient steel and composite steel/concrete structures; earthquake engineering; structural stability; large-scale experimental testing of structures; regional simulation

Brian Helmuth


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Ecological forecasting and resilience of coastal environments

Julia Hopkins


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Coastal morphodynamics, including effects of extreme weather events on sediment transport in the surf zone; wave-current interactions in the nearshore; developing and implementing field-verified numerical models to study coastal processes, informing coastal management with process-based research

Randall Hughes


Professor, 
Marine and Environmental Sciences

Marine biodiversity and conservation; genetic management for climate adaptation
Michael Kane

Michael Kane


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Citizen-centric controls, infrastructure automation; community resilience; grid-interactive efficient buildings; sustainability

Leila Keyvani Someh


Associate Teaching Professor, 
First Year Engineering Program

Resilience Engineering, Engineering Education, Evidence-Based Teaching, Pedagogy, Progressive Collapse

Haris Koutsopoulos


Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Urban transportation networks and informatics, public transportation operations, mobility on demand

Michelle Laboy


Assistant Professor, 
School of Architecture

Building and site systems integration; structures and landscape performance; building and urban resilience; green infrastructure; socio-ecological factors in design, transdisciplinary teaching and learning

Philip Larese-Casanova


Associate Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Physical, chemical, and electrochemical transformation processes of metallic, inorganic, and organic water pollutants, with applications to groundwater environments and unit operations
Jack Lesko

Jack Lesko


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering

emerging interdisciplinary design involving lightweight polymeric multifunctional materials, structural design and reliability, packaging, and energy systems
Yiannis Levendis

Yiannis Levendis


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Gasification and combustion of solid fuels, generation and containment of combustion-generated pollution, synthesis and characterization of combustion-generated materials, fire suppression – fire extinction, engine design and operation
Shang Liu

Shang Liu


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Air pollutant origin, transport, and formation; aerosol chemistry, physics, and optics; indoor air quality
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Claudia Mantaras Ortiz


Neurodevelopment Assessment Specialist - PT, 
PROTECT

Yu Miao

Yu (Rain) Miao


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Environmental biotechnology for groundwater remediation, wastewater treatment, and public and ecological health

Caroline Milligan


Senior Data & Student Services Associate, 
Cooperative Education

Nicolas Minutillo

Nicolas Minutillo


Principal Software Engineer, 
iSUPER

Lorraine Mountain


Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator, 
Cooperative Education

Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.

Amy Mueller


Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Biogeochemistry of natural and engineered systems; in-situ sensors and instrumentation for high-resolution process characterization; remediation and sustainability in natural and built coastal environments; sensor-driven closed-loop controls for resource optimization in engineered systems; signal processing and machine learning, embedded systems, and sensor networks

Sinan Müftü


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Cold-spray additive manufacturing; high-velocity impact of micron-scale particles; mechanics and tribology of axially moving materials; numerical simulation of tissue healing and bone remodeling

Samuel Munoz


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sedimentary records of environmental change, paleoclimate and climate change, rivers and fluvial processes, hydroclimatic extremes

Andrew T. Myers


Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fixed and floating offshore wind structures; multi-scale experimental testing of structures; computational simulation; probabilistic modeling

Vladimir Novotny


Professor Emeritus, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Diffuse (Nonpoint) Pollution, Water Quality Management, Total Maximum Daily Loads, Restoration, Socio-economic Issues of Water Quality Abatement

Annalisa Onnis-Hayden


Teaching Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Biological treatment processes; ecotoxicology and toxicity assessment; microbial population dynamics and ecology in engineered biological systems

Jessica Ormsby


Associate Co-op Coordinator, 
Cooperative Education

Mark Patterson


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Development of autonomous underwater robots for civil infrastructure and marine sensing; decision support tools for gray/green infrastructure like tide gates; environmental fluid mechanics; biomechanics and mass transfer in living systems

Kelsey Pieper


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Applied environmental chemistry; corrosion; drinking water quality, treatment, and infrastructure; post-disaster drinking water recovery; public health engineering