Center Director

Dr. Grace Yan

Associate Professor, Civil Engineering

Areas of Interest

Simulation of Natural Hazards, Hazard Mitigation and Community Resilience, Improvement of Risk Awareness of Natural Hazards and Informed Decision-making, Computational Wind Engineering, Structural Health monitoring and Condition Assessment

Faculty Researchers

Dr. Baojun Bai

Lester R. Birbeck Endowed Professor, Geological Science and Technology

Areas of Interest
Dr. Martin J. Bohner

Curators’ Distinguished Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

Areas of Interest
Dr. Rui Bo

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computing Engineering

Areas of Interest

 

Dr. Casey Canfield

Assistant Professor, Engineering Management and System Engineering

Areas of Interest

Human Systems Integration, Human Factors, Automation, Energy Systems, Smart Cities, Organizational Behavior, Decision Science, Risk Analysis, Risk Communication, Data Visualization, Policy Analysis, Behavioral Interventions, Program Evaluation, Implementation Science, Stakeholder Engagement

Dr. Nan Cen

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Areas of Interest

 Visible-Light Networking, Internet-of-Things, 5G New Radio, Broadband Wireless Networking, Wireless Multimedia Networks, Optimization, Protocol Design and AI for Wireless Networks

Dr. Sajal Das

Professor/Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair, Computer Science

Areas of Interest
Dr. Abhijit Gosavi

Associate Professor, Engineering Management and System Engineering

Areas of Interest

Simulation-Based Optimization, Markov Decision Processes, Airline Revenue Management, Total Productive Maintenance

Dr. Stephen Gao

Professor/Assistant chair, Geological Science and Technology

Areas of Interest

Theoretical and Applied Geophysics, Structure and Dynamics of the Earth's Crust and Mantle, Earthquakes, Seismic Anisotropy, and Receiver Function Analysis

Dr. Daoru Han

Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering

Areas of Interest
Dr. Daozhi Han

Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

Areas of Interest
Dr. Xiaoming He

Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

Areas of Interest
Dr. K.M. Isaac

Professor, Aerospace Engineering

Areas of Interest
Dr. Donnell, Kristen

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering

Areas of Interest

Embedded Sensors,Modulated Antennas/Scatterers,Microwave/Millimeter Wave Engineering,Microwave Material Characterization,Terahertz Methodologies,Electronics Design

Dr. Jinling Liu

Assistant Professor, Engineering Management and System Engineering

Areas of Interest

Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Informatics, Precision Medicine, Big Data Analytics, Systems Biology, Immunology, Causal Inference, Multi-omics Data

Dr. Kelly Liu

Professor, Geological Science and Technology

Areas of Interest

Earthquakes and Exploration Seismology, Seismic Data Processing and Interpretation, and Applied Geophysics

Dr. Tie (Tony) Luo

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Areas of Interest

 Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Security, Trust, and Privacy 

Dr. Xin Liang

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Areas of Interest

High-performance Computing, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Scientific Data Management, Large-Scale Data Analytics, and Distributed Machine Learning

Dr. Xinhua Liang

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biochemical engineering

Areas of Interest
Dr. Hongyan Ma

CEC Dean’s Scholar and Assistant Professor, Materials Engineering

Areas of Interest

 

Dr. Sanjay Madria

Curators’ Distinguished Professor, Computer Science

Areas of Interest
Dr. Wouter Mostert

Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering

Areas of Interest
Dr. Fiona Nah

Professor, Business and Information Technology

Areas of Interest
Dr. Corns, Steven

Associate Professor/Associate Chair of Graduate Studies, Engineering Management and System Engineering

Areas of Interest

Computational Intelligence, Complex Systems, Bioinformatics

Dr. Chaman Sabharwal

Professor, Computer Science

Areas of Interest

Spatial Reasoning, Graphics, Robotics, Vision and Parallel Algorithms

Dr. Keng Siau

Professor/Chair, Business and Information Technology

Areas of Interest
Dr. Lesley Sneed

Professor and Stirrat Faculty Scholar, Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest
Dr. Long, Suzanna

Professor/Department Chair, Engineering Management and System Engineering

Areas of Interest

Critical Infrastructure Systems, Strategic Management, Sustainable Infrastructures, Management, Supply Chain and Transportation, Systems Management, Organizational Behavior, Sociotechnical Systems Analysis

Dr. Nancy Stone

Professor, Psychological Science

Areas of Interest

Environmental Design, Group Processes, Team Work, Student Learning, Training, Program Evaluation, and Interview Process

Dr. Ting Shen

Assistant Professor, Psychological Science, specialized in Education

Areas of Interest

Quantitative Research Methods, Psychometrics, Empirical Research in Psychology and Education

Dr. Chenglin Wu

Assistant Professor, Structural Engineering

Areas of Interest
Dr. Mingzhen Wei

Associate Professor, Geological Science and Technology

Areas of Interest

Reservoir Simulation, Data Mining, Unconventional Resources, and Enhanced Oil Recovery

Dr. Guang Xu

Associate Professor, Mining Engineering

Areas of Interest

Mine Ventilation, Health and Safety, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Dust and DPM Control in Underground Mines, Particulate Matter Sensors and Aerosol Characterization, Battery Vehicle Fire Safety Technology in Underground Mines

Dr. Wang Yang

Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering

Areas of Interest
Dr. Hongxian Zhang

Associate Professor, Business and Information Technology

Areas of Interest

Behavior Finance

Staff

Bella Yuan

Education and Outreach Coordinator

Yi Zhao

Webmaster

Jiaming Li

Head Student Ambassadar