Faculty Directory

Research Topics: Dynamics of soils and foundations, vibration screening, boundary element method and solid mechanics

Research Topics: Statistical/Econometric modeling, methods and applications in engineering problems, traffic safety, reliability/sustainability of infrastructure systems, crisis management, public-private partnerships, transportation planning, and engineering economics.

Research Topics: Vulnerable road user safety; use of virtual reality to study human interactions with CV/AV technology and alternative roadway designs; development of CV/AV applications; and transportation equity and sustainability

Research Topics: Structural engineering; earthquake engineering; applied and computational mechanics; and multiphysics problems

Research Topics: Waste Management; Recycling; Plastics and Polymers; Environmental Engineering; Sustainability; Porous Materials; Carbon, Aerosol Science and Technology; Hazardous Materials

Research Topics: Water resources, environmental hydraulics, water quality modeling, sediment transport

Research Topics: Unified Mechanics Theory; Computational Mechanics

Research Topics: Intermodal freight transportation, optimal investment allocation, intermodal investor competition, freight demand modeling, self-driving tracks, travel behavior, human factors in transportation engineering, driver cognition, sustainable transportation and self-driving cars

Research Topics: Creating sustainable biological processes to address needs in engineered and natural systems for water and wastewater treatment and resource recovery.

Research Topics: Earthquake resistant design; blast resistant design; multi-hazard engineering; dynamic response of structures; seismic evaluation and retrofit of steel bridges and steel buildings; seismic evaluation and retrofit of unreinforced masonry buildings; ultimate behavior of steel, metal and advanced composite structures; behavior of guyed-towers, cable structures, long-span and tall structures

Research Topics: Seismic protective systems for buildings, bridges and the infrastructure

Research Topics: Organic nitrogen chemistry in both engineered and natural environmental systems.

Research Topics: Resilient communities; Reliability analysis; Performance-based design; Cascading multi-hazard analysis; fire engineering; and earthquake engineering

Research Topics: Groundwater flow

Research Topics: Wastewater Treatment; Measurement and monitoring of pollutants

Research Topics: Computational Engineering Mechanics

Research Topics: Data Analytics; Infrastructure Systems; Structural Dynamics

Research Topics: Transportation systems engineering

Research Topics: Reinforced/Prestressed concrete highway bridges and buildings; Low-damage seismic systems

Research Topics: Groundwater modeling and remediation; stormwater management; environmental ethics

Research Topics: Advanced cementitious materials; Performance-based design of materials; Infrastructure

Research Topics: Intelligent transportation systems; Connected and automated vehicles; Big Data Analytics; AI and Machine learning; Traffic operations

Research Topics: Risk and reliability; Civil infrastructure; Extreme events; Multi-hazard; Uncertainty quantification; Geomechanics

Research Topics: Engineering mechanics, Mechanical metamaterials, Structural instability, Material constitutive modeling, Machine learning

Research Areas: Computational mechanics; Nonlinear dynamics; Numerical methods; Optimization techniques; Control systems for dynamic hybrid testing

Research Topics: Structural and earthquake engineering; bridge engineering

Research Topics: Chemistry and physics of Earth's atmosphere; Sustainable urban development; Public health; Global climate change

Research Topics: Advanced sensing technologies for field and high gravity environments; Physical modeling of levee and floodwall systems; Blast testing; Dynamic response of soil; Lateral spreading; Liquefaction

Research Topics: Geotechnical Earthquake engineering; liquefaction; Ground improvement techniques

Research Topics: Biodegradataion of chemicals in water and soil; reclamation of environmentally impacted sites (brownfields)

Research Topics: Structural and earthquake engineering; Bridge engineering; Blast and impact engineering; Performance-based engineering, nuclear structures

Research Topics: Wind engineering; Bridge engineering; Structural engineering; Nonlinear aerodynamics; Hurricane hazard modeling; Climate change

Research Topics: Environmental pathogen persistence and disinfection; Environmental surveillance of pathogens; Environmental exposure and human diseases

Research Topics: Environmental fluid mechanics; Urban stormwater management; water quality modeling; ecohydraulics