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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


George A. Snell Professor of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

R. Edward Beighley


COE Distinguished Professor and Chair, 
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

Qin Jim Chen


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

Adaptive Coastal Intelligence and Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience

Enrique M. del Castillo


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Computational geomechanics; granular materials and flows; failure and fracture in natural and engineered materials; geohazards impacting infrastructure resilience

Peter "James" Dennedy-Frank


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

Ecohydrologic modeling for water resources and conservation

Matthew J. Eckelman


Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty, 
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

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 Community and Outreach, 
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

Peter G. Furth


Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Bicycle transportation, traffic signal control including transit priority, and urban street design

Auroop R. Ganguly


College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Physics-integrated data science and machine learning for weather extremes and infrastructure resilience in sustainability and security

Khaled Ghannam


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Fatemeh Ghoreishi


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

Uncertainty-Aware Machine Learning for Reliable Decision-Making in Autonomous and Infrastructure Systems

Jerome F. Hajjar


University Distinguished Professor and CDM Smith Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Experimental testing, computational formulations, and design of sustainable and resilient steel and composite steel/concrete structures, regional modeling and assessment of infrastructure systems, and earthquake engineering

Michael Kane


Associate Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Haris Koutsopoulos


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

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

Philip Larese-Casanova


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


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

Shang Liu


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Yu (Rain) Miao


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Microbial Ecology; Groundwater and Soil Bioremediation; Saltmarsh Ecosystem; Multi-Omics; Synthetic Microbial Community.

Amy Mueller


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

Physics-informed ML-driven sensor and sensor network approaches for understanding and optimizing urban and urban-coastal environmental systems

Samuel Munoz


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

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

Andrew T. Myers


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

Probabilistic simulation and experimental testing for performance-based design of resilient and sustainable structures

Tiffany Nichols


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in History & Civil and Environmental Engineering

History of physics, astrophysics, and astronomy and how these subfields intersect with environmental history.

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

Mehrdad Sasani


Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Cristina Schultz


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

Influence of long-term climate change and of climate variability on ocean biogeochemistry

Thomas C. Sheahan


Executive Vice Provost, 
Office of the Provost

Geotechnical testing and soil characterization for infrastructure and sustainability applications.

Aron Stubbins


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

Plastics, including their impact on the environment and human health

Ali Touran


Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Julia Varshavsky


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Department of Health Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Human health impacts of environmental pollutants and interventions to protect susceptible and highly exposed populations

Sara Wadia-Fascetti


Professor and Vice Provost of PhD Network, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Ming L. Wang


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Qi “Ryan” Wang


Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Gilbert Ye


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Human-machine systems and embodied AI for civil infrastructure systems and workforce

Yang Zhang


COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Research, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Air quality; atmospheric chemistry; cloud/aerosol microphysics; sensitivity and uncertainty analysis; multiscale atmospheric modeling and forecasting; climate and Earth system modeling; health impact assessment; eco-environmental sustainability; human-Earth system interactions