Faculty

Research Interests: Earthquake ground motions, spectral attenuation relations

Research Interests: Environmental microbiology and ecology, Biotransformation, Wastewater contaminants, Molecular & isotopic techniques, Microbial communities

Research Interests: Air quality engineering, Atmospheric aerosols, Air pollution, Climate change mitigation, Environmental justice

Research Interests: Computational mechanics, Nonlinear continuum mechanics

Research Interests: Management of distributed energy resources, Electric power distribution systems, Application of ML techniques, Power systems, Robotics

Research Interests: Geotechnical Engineering infrastructure, Population growth and densification, Soil dynamics, Multi-hazard stressor mitigation strategies

Research Interests: Water resource management, Climate change, Policy implementation, Hydrology

Research Interests: Control and Optimization Modeling and control of distributed parameters systems, Large-scale infrastructure systems, Automation of transportation (ground and air)

Research Interests: Structural dynamics and design, Earthquake engineering, Isolation & high-performance systems, Use of novel materials in design

Research Interests: Earthquake engineering, Geotechnical engineering, Physical and numerical modeling, Environmental geotechnics

Research Interests: Urban water infrastructure, Green stormwater infrastructure, Food-energy-water nexus, Infrastructure justice, Decision-making and policy, Community science and engagement

Research Interests: Traffic and transportation operations, Discrete choice analysis, Travel behavior, Transportation planning

Research Interests: Disaster risk management; reliability of critical infrastructure systems; climate adaptation and resilience; structural engineering; extreme event modeling

Research Interests: Large-Eddy Simulation, Wind Energy, Urban Dispersion, Air Quality, Wildfire Smoke, Turbulence Modeling, Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Research Interests: Surface hydrology, Ecosystem ecology, Aeolian Processes, Desertification, Nonlinear environmental dynamics

Research Interests: Freight operations, Network theory, Traffic flow, Transit operations

Research Interests: Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics, Monitoring and Assessment of Infrastructure, Computational modeling, Soil-structure interaction, Masonry structures

Research Interests: Traffic flow modeling, Transportation systems, Traffic control

Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics of indoor air and pollutant transport, Simulation methods for complex non-linear systems, Energy efficiency in buildings, Biomass Cookstoves, Drinking water treatment, Development Engineering

Research Interests: Ecohydrology, Remote sensing, Satellite experiments, Stable isotopes, Plant biology, Surface hydrology

Research Interests: Atmospheric chemistry, Terrestrial biogeochemistry, Biosphere-atmosphere exchange, Atmospheric composition

Research Interests: Urban sciences, Built and natural environment, Human mobility, Energy Technologies, Statistical Physics of Complex Systems & Network Science

Research Interests: Finite element analysis, Theoretical and computational solid mechanics, Constitutive theory, Micromechanics, Polymer mechanics, Elastomer modeling

Research Interests: Data-driven applications in civil and environmental engineering, Geotechnical earthquake engineering, Noninvasive subsurface imaging, Natural hazards engineering

Research Interests: Transportation economics, Policy and planning, Air transportation, Public transportation

Research Interests: Air pollution & air quality, Atmospheric chemistry, Motor vehicle emissions, Sustainable transportation, Photochemical air quality modeling

Research Interests: Biological water and wastewater treatment processes, Biofilms and their development, Analysis of full-scale treatment reactors, Nutrient control, Sustainable development

Research Interests: Life cycle assessment (LCA), Sustainability, Green design, Environmental management, Infrastructure systems

Research Interests: Air pollution assessment, Air quality modeling, Atmospheric modeling, Exposure monitoring, Environmental justice applications

Research Interests: Engineering pedagogy & engineering expertise, Water & sanitation, Poverty action

Research Interests: Transportation systems, Transportation economics, Transportation planning, Air transportation

Research Interests: Earthquake geotechnical engineering, Interferometric Synthetic-Aperture Radar, Terrestrial Laser Scanning-LIDAR, Structure-From-Motion geomatics, Engineering geophysics, Engineering Geology, Seismic Soil Liquefaction, Hazard and Risk.

Research Interests: Pollutant emissions and controls, Climate and environmental impacts of transportation, Pollutant measurement technologies and community monitoring, Atmospheric aerosol chemical & optical properties

Research Interests: Structural dynamics, Earthquake engineering, Seismic isolation, Nonstructural components, Passive control, Engineering mechanics

Research Interests: Hydroecology, Landscape dynamics, Complex environmental systems, Environmental restoration

Research Interests: AI & ML applications in engineering, Structural & computational mechanics, Finite element methods, Nonlinear and nonlocal continuum mechanics, Multiscale simulation of materials, Modeling and simulation of material failures, and Modeling/simulation environmental fluid dynamics.

Research Interests: Membrane separation, Desalination, Water purification, Wastewater reuse, Environmental applications of nanomaterials

Research Interests: Design and analysis of structural systems, Earthquake engineering, Reinforced concrete construction, New & existing buildings , Lifeline systems, Rehabilitation (retrofitting)

Research Interests: Concrete behavior & Structural materials

Research Interests: Structural health monitoring using vibration-based and vision-based techniques, Experimental methods including hybrid simulations, and their applications, Assessment & rehabilitation of essential facilities, Concrete, masonry, steel & wood structures, Earthquake engineering, Bridge engineering, Energy-efficiency in buildings,
Sustainability & resiliency of structures

Research Interests: Modeling, Estimation & control of energy systems, Vehicle electrification, Distributed energy resources

Research Interests: Pathogen detection & removal (in water and sludge), Water reuse, Nutrient recovery, Drinking water and sanitation in low-resource regions, Wastewater-based surveillance

Research Interests: Analysis, design, assessment & rehabilitation of structural systems, Earthquake engineering, Adaptive design of structural systems, Multihazard interactions and vulnerability assessment, Community resilience

Research Interests: Digital fabrication, 3D printing of lattice reinforcements, Ductility enhancement of cement-based materials, Multifunctional facade systems for energy-efficient buildings, High-Performance Fiber reinforced concrete composites

Research Interests: Disease transmission, Water, Public health surveillance, Zoonotic infectious disease, Community-acquired antimicrobial resistance

Research Interests: Availability & reliability of communications, Navigation & surveillance systems, Airport systems planning & design, Airport & airspace capacity and delay analysis, Systems modeling & performance analysis, National Airspace System (NAS) infrastructure performance and investment analysis, Air traffic flow management

Research Interests: Exploration geophysics, Applied seismology, Machine Learning (oil & gas industry)

Research Interests: Static and dynamic evaluation of soil properties, Constitutive behavior of sands, Liquefaction of unusual soil

Research Interests: Groundwater hydrology, Inverse modeling, Modeling of flow & contaminant transport, Environmental risk assessment, Hydrogeology, Geostatistics

Research Interests: Building energy efficiency, Indoor environment quality, HVAC, Thermal comfort, Indoor air quality, Energy simulation

Research Interests: Transformation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, Water reuse & recycling, Urban water infrastructure, Engineered treatment wetlands

Research Interests: Transportation, Wireless communications, Inertial navigation for vehicle systems

Research Interests: Policy analysis, Behavioral research, Transportation, Energy and environment, Mobility & sharing economy, ITS (smartphone apps, automated vehicles), Alternative fuel vehicles (electric vehicles, hydrogen vehicles)

Research Interests: Legal resolution of construction-related disputes

Research Interests: Geotechnical earthquake engineering, Wireless sensors, Seismic slope stability, Seismic Earth pressure, Rock erosion, Groundwater remediation

Research Interests: Infrastructure sensing and modeling, Energy Geotechnics, Fundamentals of soil behavior, Geotechnical structures, Ground engineering, Soil & granular mechanics

Research Interests: Coastal and estuarine systems, Adaptation policy, Coastal flows, Climate change

Research Interests: Mechanics of solids, Computational mechanics, Finite element methods, Finite element software

Research Interests: Lean construction, Supply-chain management, Materials management, Logistics, Design management, Construction product & process engineering, Digital twins, Simulation

Research Interests: Environmental fluid dynamics, Novel imaging for flow measurements, Mixing & transport by turbulence, Flow & transport in wetlands, Hydrodynamic effects on aquatic organisms, Aerosol transport, Inquiry & inclusive education, Mental wellness

Research Interests: Urban Economics, Land use, and transportation, Urban simulation, Urban informatics, Visualization, Constitutive behavior of sands

Research Interests: Behavioral modeling, Discrete choice analysis, Travel behavior, Transportation planning

Research Interests: Structural engineering, Structural reliability, Earthquake engineering, Uncertainty quantification

Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering, Landslides, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Satellites, Earthquakes, Natural hazards