Faculty & Staff Directory

Senior Associate Dean for Research and Global University Campus, 

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

Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty, 

Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling; remote sensing of the hydrologic cycle; hydrologic impacts of climate and/or land use change; flood hazard and risk assessment

Professor, 

System identification, fault detection and fault localization, earthquake engineering, soil structure interaction, structural stability

Professor, 

Structural dynamics; wind engineering; wind energy; wind-induced vibration; fluid-structure interaction; linear and nonlinear cable dynamics; climate change

Professor, 

Coastal engineering and science, particularly in the development and application of state-of-the-art numerical models to address coastal resiliency and sustainability

Assistant Professor, 

Ecohydrologic modeling for water resources and conservation

Associate Professor, 

Environmental engineering and sustainability; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency and emissions modeling; environmental assessment of bio and nanomaterials; material and energy use in urban buildings and infrastructure

Associate Professor, 

Sustainable and high performance building design; persistent architecture and resilience; human health, safety, and comfort in the built environment.

Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, 

Environmental organic chemistry; passive sampling methods; transport and transformation of contaminants in built and natural environments

Professor, 

Traffic signal control including transit signal priority and better serving pedestrians; bicycle safety and bicycle network analysis; transit operations analysis

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Geoscience (Climate Science, Hydrology, Hydrometeorology); Engineering (Infrastructure Resilience, Water Resources, Lifeline Systems); Data Sciences (Machine Learning, Data Mining, Nonlinear Physics)

Assistant Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

Design and decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning and data analysis, Bayesian statistics, multidisciplinary design optimization, autonomous and cyber-physical systems

CDM Smith Professor and Chair, 

Sustainable and resilient steel and composite steel/concrete structures; earthquake engineering; structural stability; large-scale experimental testing of structures; regional simulation

Assistant Professor, 

Coastal morphodynamics, including effects of extreme weather events on sediment transport in the surf zone; wave-current interactions in the nearshore; developing and implementing field-verified numerical models to study coastal processes, informing coastal management with process-based research

Assistant Professor, 

Occupant-centric building controls, community resilience, model predictive control, hybrid systems

Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 

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

Associate Professor, 

Physical, chemical, and electrochemical transformation processes of metallic, inorganic, and organic water pollutants, with applications to groundwater environments and unit operations

Professor, 

emerging interdisciplinary design involving lightweight polymeric multifunctional materials, structural design and reliability, packaging, and energy systems

Assistant Professor, 

Environmental biotechnology for groundwater remediation, wastewater treatment, and public and ecological health

Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies, 

Biogeochemistry of natural and engineered systems; in-situ sensors and instrumentation for high-resolution process characterization; remediation and sustainability in natural and built coastal environments; sensor-driven closed-loop controls for resource optimization in engineered systems; signal processing and machine learning, embedded systems, and sensor networks

Associate Professor, 

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

Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, 

Fixed and floating offshore wind structures; multi-scale experimental testing of structures; computational simulation; probabilistic modeling

Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

Applied environmental chemistry; corrosion; drinking water quality, treatment, and infrastructure; post-disaster drinking water recovery; public health engineering

Professor, 

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

Foley Family Assistant Professor, 

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

Executive Vice Provost, 

Soft ground engineering, coastal adaptation, education and training for engineers and scientists

Professor, 

Environmental chemistry; geochemistry; the carbon cycle; freshwater, coastal and ocean biogeochemistry; feedbacks between natural biogeochemical cycles and climate change; permafrost; black carbon; aquatic microplastics

Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

applied machine learning for damage assessment in civil structures; multi-domain transfer learning; performance and structural assessment of offshore wind structures

Assistant Professor, 

Environmental exposures and maternal-child health outcomes, biomonitoring, risk assessment in vulnerable communities

Professor and Vice Provost of PhD Network, 

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

COE Distinguished Professor, 

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

Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research, 

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

Professor, Distinguished Fellow, and Associate Chair for Research, 

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