Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty
Jean-Daniel Saphores, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Economics; Planning, Policy, and Design
Research Interests: Transportation and environmental systems (with a focus on air pollution and energy use), travel behavior analysis, alternative fuel vehicles, automated vehicles, transit use, sustainable infrastructure management, and decision making under uncertainty using real options
Email: saphores@uci.edu
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Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Mechanics and physics of multi-scale porous materials, nano- and meso-chemo-mechanics, engineering advanced materials for sustainable infrastructures
Email: mjaq@uci.edu
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Amir Aghakouchak, Ph.D., P.E.
Chancellor's Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Hydrology, climatology, remote sensing of environment, climate extremes, water-energy nexus, climate change, stochastic modeling, water resources management
Email: amir.a@uci.edu
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Tirtha Banerjee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Atmospheric boundary layer dynamics, turbulent fluid dynamics, land/water/vegetation - atmosphere interaction, wildfires, vegetation dynamics, carbon and water cycles, hydrology, wetlands and terrestrial aquatic interfaces
Email: tirthab@uci.edu
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Elisa Borowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Transportation equity and justice, shared mobility, community needs and impacts, travel behavior during extreme events
Email: borowski@uci.edu
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Matthew Dean, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Sustainable transportation and energy systems, transportation-energy modeling and decision-making, shared automated vehicles
Email: matthew.dean@uci.edu
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Russell Detwiler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Groundwater hydrology, contaminant fate and transport, subsurface process modeling, groundwater/surface-water interaction
Email: detwiler@uci.edu
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Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Hydrology and geomorphology with emphasis on modeling the interactions between the atmosphere, land, and the terrestrial environment at plot to large-watershed scale
Email: efi@uci.edu
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Shakira Hobbs, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Samueli Faculty Development Chair
Research Interests: global sustainability, resource recovery from anthropogenic waste, and life cycle thinking applied to engineering equity at the food-energy-water nexus
Email: shakira.hobbs@uci.edu
Kuo-Lin Hsu, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Remote sensing of precipitation, hydrologic systems modeling, stochastic hydrology, water resources systems planning
Email: kuolinh@uci.edu
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Michael Hyland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Modeling, design, control, and analysis of smart city transportation systems with emphases on shared-use autonomous mobility services and urban transit networks
Email: hylandm@uci.edu
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R. Jayakrishnan, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Transportation systems analysis
Email: rjayakri@uci.edu
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Sunny Jiang, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interests: Water pollution microbiology, environmental biotechnology, aquatic microbial ecology
E-mail: sjiang@uci.edu
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Wenlong Jin, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Intelligent transportation systems, traffic flow theory, transportation network analysis
E-mail: wjin@uci.edu
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Joel Lanning, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Seismic design of civil structures, large-scale testing, alternative building materials, teaching methods in engineering education
Email: joel.lanning@uci.edu
Anne Lemnitzer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Geotechnical and earthquake engineering, soil structure interaction, RC design, seismic monitoring
Email: alemnitz@uci.edu
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Mo Li, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Unconventional infrastructure materials, and their interfaces with structural engineering, advanced manufacturing, spatial damage sensing, and the environment
Email: mo.li@uci.edu
Michael McNally, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Urban Planning and Public Policy
Research Interests: Travel behavior, transportation systems analysis
Email: mmcnally@uci.edu
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Ayman Mosallam, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Materials & Manufacturing Engineering Technology
Research Interests: Advanced composites and hybrid systems, seismic repair and rehabilitation of structures, diagnostic/prognostic structural health monitoring techniques, 3D printing in construction and sustainable and green building technology
Email: mosallam@uci.edu
Phu Nguyen, Ph.D.
Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Hydrology, GIS, satellite precipitation estimation algorithms, databases and visualization tools for remotely-sensed data and information, crowdsourcing, water resources systems
Email: ndphu@uci.edu
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Christopher Olivares Martinez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Environmental biotechnology, remediation, metabolomics, pollutant fate in natural and engineered systems, microbial toxicity, environmental organic chemistry
Email: chris.olivares@uci.edu
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Stephen Ritchie, Ph.D.
Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies
Research Interests: Transportation engineering, advanced traffic management and control systems, development and application of emerging technologies in transportation
Email: sritchie@uci.edu
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Diego Rosso, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering; Director of the UCI WEX Center
Research Interests: Environmental process engineering, mass transfer, wastewater treatment, carbon- and energy-footprint analysis
Email: bidui@uci.edu
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Brett Sanders, Ph.D.
Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Urban Planning and Public Policy
Research Interests: Urban flooding, coastal flooding, dam-break flooding, flood hazard modeling, flood risk management, sediment management, shallow-water hydrodynamics and morphodynamics, computational methods, remote-sensing with drones, translational research for flood modeling targeting community resilience, population health and poverty alleviation
Email: bsanders@uci.edu
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Soroosh Sorooshian, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Earth System Science, Director of the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing
Research Interests: Hydrology, hydrometeorology and hydroclimate modeling, remote sensing, water sources management
Email: soroosh@uci.edu
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Lizhi Sun, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Micro- and nano-mechanics, composites and nanocomposites, smart materials and structures, multiscale modeling, elastography
Email: lsun@uci.edu
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Jasper Vrugt, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Earth System Science
Research Interests: Examining how (eco)systems work, why theories deviate from data, how scientists diagnose change, as applied to biogeosciences, ecology, geomorphology, geophysics, hydrology, soils
Email: jasper@uci.edu
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Farzin Zareian, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Structural engineering, performance-based earthquake engineering, structural reliability, structural control
Email: zareian@uci.edu
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