Faculty Directory

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

Research Topics: Safer-by-design catalytic nanohybrids for pollutant removal from water and wastewater systems, fate and transport of next generation nanomaterials through terrestrial and subsurface media, interaction of complex nanohybrids with the biological wastewater treatment, additive manufacturing for nano-enable water treatment, environmental and human health implications of nanohybrids and nano-enable products such as electronic waste

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: Mechanical metamaterials, Structural instability, Pattern transformation, Material constitutive modeling, Reinforcement 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