Faculty and Staff Directory

Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, 

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

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Development of underwater robots for civil infrastructure and explosive sensing; neurophysiology and behavior biomimetics

Professor & Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 

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

Professor, 

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

Senior Lab Technician, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Senior Research Scientist, 

Administrative Assistant, 

Professor, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Director of Laboratories, 

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Program Manager, 

Marketing & Communications Coordinator, 

Teaching Professor, 

Geometric design of transportation systems; transportation safety; human factors in transportation design; multi-modal streets; roundabouts; traffic calming; intelligent transportation systems

Associate Professor, 

Environmental engineering and sustainability; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency and emissions modeling; environmental assessment of bio and nanomaterials; material and energy use in urban buildings and infrastructure

First-Year, NU Start (L-Z), & Civil and Environmental Engineering (L-Z) Academic Advisor, 

Professor, 

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

Associate Professor, 

Sustainable and high performance building design; development of sustainable building technologies; human comfort within the built environment

Associate Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

critical infrastructure resilience; public policy

Professor, 

Traffic signal control; transit signal priority; transit operations modeling; transit data collection and sampling

Professor, 

Geoscience (Climate Science, Hydrology, Hydrometeorology); Engineering (Infrastructure Resilience, Water Resources, Lifeline Systems); Data Sciences (Machine Learning, Data Mining, Nonlinear Physics)

Applications Developer & Data Administrator, 

Associate Professor, 

detection of biomolecules at the nanoscale in micro and nanofluidic channels; biophysics; micro and systems biology; environmental sensing; analytical instrumentation

Affiliated Faculty, 

Quantitative Biology

Affiliated Faculty, 

environmental science and policy, fisheries, ecological economics

CDM Smith Professor and Chair, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

Ecological forecasting and resilience of coastal environments

Assistant Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

Marine Community Ecology and Biodiversity

Assistant Professor, 

Occupant-centric building controls, community resilience, model predictive control, hybrid systems

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Associate Teaching Professor, 

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

Professor, 

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

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Associate Professor, 

Environmental chemistry and mineralogy; transformation and remediation of water pollutants; nanomaterial sorbents for water treatment

Professor, 

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

COE Distinguished Professor, 

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

Laboratory Manager, 

Student Services and Data Manager, 

Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator, 

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.

Assistant Professor, 

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

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, 

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

Professor Emeritus, 

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

Teaching Professor, 

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

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Senior Research Engineer, 

Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

Microbial ecology and physiology, drinking water treatment and distribution, wastewater treatment, public health microbiology, molecular microbiology, 'omics analyses

Senior Business Manager, 

First-Year & Civil and Environmental Engineering (A-K) and Class of 2020 & 2021 Academic Advisor, 

Operations Manager, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Engineering education with a focus on differentiated curricula. Transportation engineering with a focus on alternative intersection designs.

Professor, 

Progressive collapse of structures; earthquake engineering; structural integrity and reliability; building and community resilience

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Teaching Professor and Associate Director, 

Service-learning in engineering, sustainable urban design; alternative energy sources; green roof technology; soil-liquid infiltration physics

Senior Vice Provost for Curriculum and Programs Professor, 

Soft ground engineering, coastal adaptation, education and training for engineers and scientists

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Geotechnical subsurface characterization through in-situ and laboratory methods; quantification of construction energy and carbon; sustainable geotechnics

Robert D. Black Professor, COE Distinguished Professor, 

Subsurface sensing and imaging systems, detection of explosives-related anomalies, engineered system development and engineering leadership

Program Manager, 

Project Manager, 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Renewable energy transformation, reducing fossil fuel reliance, energy resilience, energy democracy, climate engineering, gender & energy, integrating social justice with climate and energy innovations

Associate Professor, 

The global cycles of carbon and plastics. Research into the cycling of natural carbon focusses upon dissolved organic carbon in natural waters from the depths of the ocean to the Tibetan plateau. I have conducted fieldwork in the open ocean, at hydrothermal vents, on glaciers, on the Amazon River, and in the Siberian Arctic. The diversity of research sites is required to develop a coherent understanding of the global cycles of elements, particularly carbon. The focus upon carbon is due its central role in determining global climate, as the building block of life, and the food that fuels natural ecosystems. Studying plastics is a natural extension of my work on the carbon cycle. Plastics are also formed predominantly from carbon. They are now also everywhere on Earth, including in the air we breathe. To understand the risk plastics pose, we need to understand where they are in the environment and what types of byproducts are formed when the degrade.

Assistant Professor, 

(1) physics-informed AI; (2) physics-encoded deep learning for scarce data interpretation; (3) data-driven governing law discovery; (4) symbolic learning and reasoning; (5) smart and resilient infrastructure; (6) advanced sensing, big data analytics, machine/deep learning, uncertainty quantification and inverse computational mechanics with applications to civil infrastructure monitoring and resilience assessment

Professor Emeritus, 

Cooperative education; professional ethics; education research

Professor, 

Risk assessment; construction cost/schedule uncertainty; project delivery systems; simulation; construction productivity

Affiliated Faculty, 

Evolutionary and community ecology; coastal sustainability

Assistant Professor, 

environmental exposures and maternal-child health outcomes and will continue to work on biomonitoring studies and advancing risk assessment in vulnerable communities

Professor, 

Condition assessment methodologies for infrastructure systems; life cycle and life span analysis; structural and earthquake engineering uncertainty

Associate Research Scientist, 

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Network-wide pavement and bridge deck inspections: sensor technology for infrastructure; saliva-based sensor technology for disease diagnosis and monitoring; structural health monitoring for bridges; subsurface fault detection using air-coupled GPR systems

Assistant Professor, 

Urban and social resilience; geo-social networking; coupled, human-natural systems, natural disaster response and evacuation; urban computing

Professor Emeritus, 

Ozonation & Chlorination of Water, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Chemical Precipitation & Coagulation, Kinetics & Mechanism of Chemical Processes