Faculty Directory


Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

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Matthew Bartos

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 8.610

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Developing the next generation of smart urban water systems, including real-time flood monitoring and stormwater control; algorithms for data assimilation, event detection and sensor/controller placement

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Oguzhan Bayrak

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-7826, 512-232-6409
Office Location: ECJ 4.720

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Areas of Impact

Research Interests

Behavior, analysis. and design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures; Bridge engineering; Evaluation of structures in distress; Use of fiber reinforced polymers for structural repair

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Amit Bhasin

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-3667
Office Location: ECJ 6.108

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Material science aspects and mechanistic modeling of distresses in pavement materials (fatigue cracking, moisture damage); self healing properties of bituminous materials; structure-property relationships in composite materials; surface properties and interfacial adhesion of materials; development of test methods to characterize properties and performance of pavement materials

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Chandra Bhat

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4535
Office Location: ECJ 6.810

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Activity and travel behavior analysis; travel demand modeling; application of econometric, discrete choice and market research techniques in transportation planning; logistics and freight modeling; transportation energy and transportation air quality analysis; urban form and spatial data modeling

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Stephen Boyles

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-3548
Office Location: ECJ 6.204

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Network modeling; traffic assignment; transportation user behavior; infrastructure systems

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Carlos Caldas

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-6014
Office Location: ECJ 5.210

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Information technologies for project management; life-cycle information integration; project data analysis; construction knowledge discovery and dissemination; product and process modeling; project control systems; field management technologies; communication, collaboration and coordination technologies

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Sergio Castellanos

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Environmental and energy justice, sustainable transportation, renewable energy technology manufacturing and deployment, and energy systems modeling

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Christian Claudel

Associate Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 6.208

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Control and estimation of distributed parameter systems; transportation systems; wireless sensor networks; unmanned aerial vehicles

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Tyler Dick

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-4252
Office Location: ECJ 6.902

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Railway mainline, yard and terminal capacity, design and interaction; railroad network operations and performance resiliency; operations potential of advanced railway traffic control systems with virtual and moving blocks; railway energy efficiency and alternative energy locomotives; technology-assisted train operations and self-propelled autonomous railcars; predictive analytics for operations and maintenance planning; safety of rail operations and hazardous materials transportation.

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Berkin Dortdivanlioglu

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 4.730

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Areas of Impact
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Chadi El Mohtar

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-3695
Office Location: ECJ 9.227K

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Pore fluid engineering; non-aqueous flow through porous media; earthquake engineering; liquefaction; fatigue life and behavior of asphalt concrete

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Kasey Faust

Associate Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Infrastructure management and decision making; infrastructure interdependencies; intersection of engineering and policy; public involvement in infrastructure decisions; coupled human infrastructure interdependencies; impact of urban decline on infrastructure systems

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Anca Ferche

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 4.706

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Analysis and performance assessment of concrete structures, structural implications of deterioration mechanisms, development of constitutive models for evolving concrete and reinforcement materials, and sustainability of concrete structures

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Raissa Ferron

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-2691
Office Location: ECJ 4.704

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Rheology; characterization of fresh concrete micro-and nano-structure; cement chemistry and aggregation mechanisms; self-consolidating concrete; affordable sustainable housing materials

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Andrew Fix

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Next-generation HVAC and thermal systems; Energy efficient air dehumidification (selective membranes, desiccants, and other sorbents); Atmospheric water harvesting systems and materials; Membrane gas separations; Thermal energy storage

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Kevin Folliard

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3591, 512-232-7820
Office Location: ECJ 4.716, PRC 18B

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Portland cement concrete; concrete durability; high-performance concrete; controlled low-strength materials

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Xavier Fonoll Almansa

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: 9.102D

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Resource recovery from wastes; microbial community engineering; decentralized sanitation

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Courtney Gardner

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 9.102E

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Environmental biotechnology and microbiology; microbiome engineering; environmental fate of chemical and biological pollutants; stormwater quality; wildfire microbiology and ecosystem recovery

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Robert Gilbert

Department Chair and Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3688
Office Location: ECJ 9.227H

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Performance reliability and risk management for slopes, dams, levees, foundations, waste containment and site remediation

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Zhaomiao Guo

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 6.104

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Applied mathematics and computation focusing on transportation and energy systems modeling and optimization; Sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems, transportation electrification, smart mobility, multi-modal transportation systems, energy and transportation systems interdependence, shared mobility, freight systems

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Todd Helwig

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-2239, 512-475-8195

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Design and behavior of steel structures

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Ben Hodges

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4730, 512-471-1807
Office Location: ECJ 9.102G

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Hydrodynamics; transport and water quality issues in lakes, rivers and estuaries

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Blair Johnson

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


(512) 232-1863
Office Location: ECJ 8.214

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Environmental fluid mechanics; turbulence; sediment transport and mixing processes; experimental methods

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Maria Juenger

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3593, 512-471-7751
Office Location: ECJ 4.736

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Hydration chemistry and microstructural characterization of portland cement and related materials; mechanisms of chemical deterioration in concrete; concrete durability; reducing the environmental impact of concrete production

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Loukas Kallivokas

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-5769
Office Location: ECJ 4.734

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Computational mechanics; inverse problems in engineering; wave propagation and structural dynamics; earthquake engineering; numerical methods; large-scale computational modeling

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Lynn Katz

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4244
Office Location: ECJ 9.102H

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Contaminant fate and transport; combined abiotic and biotic treatment systems for in-situ remediation; environmental surface chemistry

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Spyros Kinnas

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-475-7969, 512-232-1887
Office Location: ECJ 8.610

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Ocean engineering; hydrodynamics; cavitation; wave mechanics; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); design of ocean vehicle control and propulsion systems; tidal turbines

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Kerry Kinney

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-1740
Office Location: ECJ 9.102A

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Beneficial application of microorganisms to the treatment of pollutants in the environment; algae-to-biofuel production processes; potentially detrimental microbial communities that develop in indoor environments

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Mary Kirisits

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-7120
Office Location: ECJ 8.216

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Biological drinking water treatment processes; microbial transformation of inorganic contaminants; application of molecular biology to biological water treatment processes; rainwater harvesting; impacts of nanomaterials on microorganisms in engineered water treatment systems; biofilms; quorum sensing in pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms; microbial community structure of pediatric otitis media

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Kara Kockelman

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-0210, 512-471-4379
Office Location: ECJ 6.904

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Travel behavior modeling; Transport data analysis; Transport economics and energy policy; Roadway safety; The connection between urban form and transportation

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Krishna Kumar

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-4406
Office Location: ECJ 9.227B

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Multi-scale modeling of natural hazards, landslides, earthquakes, debris flows, material point method, discrete element and lattice Boltzmann, high-performance computing in geomechanics; large-scale big data frameworks for modeling infrastructure systems

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Manish Kumar

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Chemical Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 8.212

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Membrane processes and bio-inspired membranes for wastewater treatment and water reuse

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Jun-Whan (Michael) Lee

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 4.722

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Coastal engineering; coastal hazard forecasting and assessment; disaster resilience and risk management; flood mitigation using nature-based solutions; sea level rise vulnerability; ocean resource management

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Fernanda Leite

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-5957
Office Location: ECJ 5.302

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Information technology for project management; building information modeling; life-cycle information integration; collaboration and coordination technologies; information technology-supported construction safety management

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Howard Liljestrand

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4604
Office Location: ECJ 8.206

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Aquatic chemistry; contaminant transport; pollutant containment and remediation acid deposition; air pollution modeling

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Randy Machemehl

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4541, 512-232-3107
Office Location: ECJ 6.902, CTR 200

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Transportation system operational analysis and design software development; transport system demand estimation

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Lance Manuel

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-5691
Office Location: ECJ 4.718

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Random vibration; structural dynamics; structural reliability; atmospheric inflow turbulence simulation for wind turbine loads analysis; computational methods for windstorm field generation; performance of deepwater offshore platforms; probabilistic seismic hazard analysis

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Pawel Misztal

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-5840
Office Location: ECJ 5.428

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Indoor chemistry and implications on indoor air quality and occupants' health

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Javad Mohammadi

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Optimization and artificial intelligence in power grids; Electrified transportation systems, smart buildings, and smart cities; Modeling implications of transitioning to a low-carbon energy economy

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Dev Niyogi

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Understanding of the Earth system and the dynamic role of coupled land surface processes on regional hydroclimatic and environmental extremes; translating the scientific work undertaken into decision tools and portals with a focus on sustainable climate-ready/resilient coastal, cities and agricultural systems

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Atila Novoselac

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-475-8175
Office Location: ECJ 5.422

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Ventilation and indoor air quality; computations and measurements of airflows in buildings; pollutants transport modeling; building energy analysis

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William O'Brien

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4638
Office Location: ECJ 5.430

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Production systems: project supply chain management, project controls; computer integrated construction: information integration, collaborative systems, human-computer interaction, implementation issues

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James O'Connor

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4645
Office Location: ECJ 5.2

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Project constructability; advanced construction technologies; pre-construction management systems; project decision/risk analysis; systems for work process integration; benchmarking of capital projects; value management processes

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Othman Oudghiri-Idrissi

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 4.706

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

In-space Assembly and Manufacturing, Lunar Infrastructure, Wave Mechanics, Homogenization, Inverse Problems

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Paola Passalacqua

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-3319
Office Location: ECJ 8.612

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Multi-scale analysis of hydrological processes; dynamics of environmental transport on river networks and deltaic systems; quantitative analysis and modeling of landscape forming processes, geomorphic transport laws and subgrid-scale parameterization.

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Jorge Prozzi

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3488
Office Location: ECJ 6.112

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Highway pavement design and rehabilitation; monitoring, evaluation and performance analysis of highway pavements; asphalt technology; accelerated pavement testing; sustainable pavement engineering; environmentally-friendly pavement technologies; applied probability and statistics; applied econometrics; life-cycle cost analysis; transportation infrastructure management

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Ellen Rathje

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3683
Office Location: ECJ 9.227C

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Geotechnical earthquake engineering and engineering seismology; seismic stability of earth structures and slopes; earthquake-induced landslides; seismic site response; field liquefaction evaluation and soil improvement; application of remote sensing to earthquake damage assessment

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Christopher Rausch

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 5.428

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Industrialized construction; modular construction; geometric digital twins; digitization; building information modeling; computational design; circular economy; materials reuse.

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Salvatore Salamone

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3427, 512-232-4464
Office Location: ECJ 4.710

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Structural health monitoring; non-destructive evaluation; ultrasonic sensing methods for smart structures; wave propagation in solids; digital signal processing and pattern recognition

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Navid Saleh

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-9175
Office Location: ECJ 8.608

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Environmental nanotechnology; physicochemical processes; fate and transport of nanomaterials in the environment; groundwater remediation

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Alexandra Clará Saracho

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 9.227F

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Biogeotechnics; erosion of soils; carbon capture and storage; 3D printing in geotechnical engineering; thermal properties of soils; laboratory testing of soils; biotechnology

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Polina Sela

Associate Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-6879
Office Location: ECJ 8.208

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Water resources systems management; cyber-physical urban systems

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Gerald Speitel

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-7995
Office Location: ECJ 10.326

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Treatment processes for hazardous organic chemicals, including biodegradation and adsorption; drinking water treatment; computer models of treatment processes

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Kenneth Stokoe

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3689
Office Location: ECJ 9.227

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil dynamics; non-destructive testing of pavements, soils and structures; offshore geotechnical engineering

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Charles Werth

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-1626
Office Location: ECJ 8.206

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Reactive transport and fate of pollutants in water resources, including groundwater and urban lakes and the development of sustainable technologies for pollution removal from impacted waters

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Eric Williamson

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-475-6175, 512-471-4594
Office Location: ECJ 4.722, PRC 177

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Response of structures to blast and impact; progressive collapse; structural response modelling and simulation; static and dynamic stability; failure modeling; damage mechanics

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Sharon Wood

Executive Vice President and Provost and Professor (not currently teaching)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-1166
Office Location: ECJ 10.310, PRC 177

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Design and behavior of reinforced concrete structures; infrastructure monitoring; earthquake engineering

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Yunlan (Emma) Zhang

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 4.732

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Architected materials (mechanical metamaterials), deployable structures, extraterrestrial structures and materials, bio-inspired materials, additive manufacturing, and shape morphing structures. 

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Jorge Zornberg

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3595
Office Location: ECJ 9.227A

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Soil mechanics; soil reinforcement and improvement; environmental geotechnics; geosynthetics; numerical and physical (centrifuge) modeling of geotechnical and geoenvironmental systems