Research Grants and Awards
See the research grants and awards earned by CSEE faculty members
2020-2021
- SUNY Distinguished Professor Michel Bruneau and assistant professor Negar Elhami Khorasani received accolades from the American Institute of Steel Construction.
- SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus George C. Lee recognized by the International Association of Bridge Earthquake Engineering.
- Kang Sun secures $100,000 grant from NASA to study COVID-19 air pollution impact.
- Associate professor Ning Dai received UB's Young Investigator Award.
- Assistant professor Ian Bradley joins DOE-funded project to purify water and produce fuel.
- Assistant Professor Xiao Liang will collaborate with faculty members in UB's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department as well as faculty at the University of Florida on a $3 million NSF-funded project.
- PhD candidate Seyed Omid Sajedi recieved the Mark Diamond Research Fund award.
- Associate Professor Panagiotis Ch. Anastasopoulos named Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics for the second-straight year.
2019-2020
- Environmental engineering students Novin Mehrabi and Brianna Scharf earned the SNO student Award at Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference. Learn about the honors at this link.
- SUNY Distinguished Professor Michel Bruneau earns lifetime achievement from American Institute of Steel Construction. Learn about the honor from AISC here.
- Environmental engineering students win UB's World Challenge Challenge with their insect-based burgers. Learn about their initiative here.
- UB CSEE students Paolo Bourdeau and Abdulrahman Hassaballah earned three total awards at the Celebration of Student Academic Excellence. Learn about their awards at this link.
- Team featuring two UB students takes third place at the World's Challenge Challenge finals.
- Research assistant professor Kang Sun at UB Renew Institute awarded $528,000 grant by NASA to map air pollution
- PhD candidate Reda Snaiki won the Engineering Mechanics Institute Fluid Dynamics Student Paper Competition
- Wind engineering faculty member Teng Wu's paper was featured in the Editor's Choice section of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics.
- Faculty member Ravi Ranade earned a grant worth over $500,000 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Assistant professor Nirupam Aich received the 2019 Emerging Investigator Award from the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization.
- Associate Professor Pangiotois Ch. Anastasopoulos was named a 2019 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.
2018-2019
- SUNY Distinguished Professor Michel Bruneau recognized as Structural Engineering Institute Fellow. Learn about Bruneau's distinction at this link.
- Associate Director for UB's Great Lakes Program, Helen Domske received the John R. Vallentyne Award from the International Association for Great Lakes Research. Learn about Domske's award at this link
- Assistant professor Teng Wu receives bridge and structural engineering award from international organization. Read more about Wu's award here
- Reda Snaiki, a PhD structural engineering student won the Dean's Graduate Achievement Award. Read about his honor here
- Ramla Qureshi, a PhD candidate, received the Mark Diamond Research Fund Award for her research on fire engineering. Read about her research here.
- Ketan Ragalwar, a PhD candidate, was awarded a grant from the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois. Read about his award here.
2017-2018
- Ning Dai, assistant professor received an NSF CAREER award for her proposal titled: CAREER: Impacts of Marine Algal Blooms on Disinfection By-Product Formation in Seawater Desalination. Click Here to learn more about her award and abstract. Follow this link to read more about the NSF CAREER Awards
- Teng Wu receives Robert Scanlan Award from the American Association for Wind Engineering. Read More about Wu's AAWE award
- Assistant professor Teng Wu receives the IAWE Junior Award. Read More about Wu's IAWE Award
- Professor Andrew Whittaker recieves ASCE Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Energy Award. Read More about Whittaker's ASCE Award
- Professor Andre Filitrault received Most Influential Paper Award from international journal. Read More about Filitrault's Award
- Professor Andrew S. Whittaker was awarded the 2017 Walter P. Moore, Jr. Award, given annually by the Structural Engineering Institute to a structural engineer who has demonstrated technical expertise in and dedication to the development of structural codes and standards. Read More about Whittaker's Walter P. Moore Jr. Award
- Assistant Professor Pinar Okumus received the 2016 Outstanding Reviewer award for the American Society of Civil Engineers. Read More about Okumus' ASCE Award
- Professor Michel Bruneau honored along with his co-authors with the 2017 Moisseiff Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Read more about Bruneau's Moisseif Award
2016 - 2017
- Assistant professor Pinar Okumus received a National Science Foundation Award for Collaborative Research: Resilient Seismic Retrofit by Integrating Selective Weakening and Self-Centering. In this project, a new seismic retrofit method, integrating the concepts of selective weakening, hinged walls, and self-centering, will be investigated to achieve low seismic damage. Read more about Okumus' grant
- Assistant professor Andreas Stavridis is the primary investigator on a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Geological Survey.
- Michel Bruneau, a professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering received a grant from the Pankow Foundation to research R-Factors developed from FEMA P-695 studies for Coupled Composite Plate Shear Walls - Concrete Filled. Read more about Bruneau's grant
- Pinar Okumus received a grant from FM Global and Business and Industry.
- Alan Rabideau, Professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, received a grant from the Buffalo Water Board and Public Government.
- Stephen Still Assistant Professor Qing He received a grant from the New York State Department of Transportation
- Professor Michel Bruneau is a Co-PI on a project funded by the Pankow Foundation, and will produce research with the intnet of advancing the wind and seismic design of Concrete-Filled Composite Shear Walls. Learn about the grant advancing technology of shear walls
- Ning Dai, and assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering received an NSF CAREER award to study the Impacts of Marine Algal Blooms on Disinfection By-Product Formation in Seawater Desalination. Read more about Dai's award
- Assistant Professor Ravi Ranade received a grant from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
