Faculty and Staff Directory

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Professor, 

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

Professor, 

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

Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

critical infrastructure resilience; public policy

Professor, 

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

COE Distinguished Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

CDM Smith Professor and Chair, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

Professor & Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 

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

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

COE Distinguished Professor, 

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

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, 

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

Research Associate Professor, 

optimization of structures and components for a circular economy and climate resilience with a focus on composite materials, advanced manufacturing, uncertainty analysis, and applied AI; applications include the wind industry, energy-efficient construction, managing extreme weather events, orthopedic implants.

Professor, 

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

Executive Vice Provost, 

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

Professor, 

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

Professor, 

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

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

Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research, 

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

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Geotechnical earthquake engineering; soil dynamics; geosynthetics; seismic response of landfills; base isolation; liquefaction; bridge engineering; use of shaking table in earthquake engineering

Affiliated Faculty, 

complex systems modeling, human-natural systems modeling, participatory modeling, environmental planning and policy