Jose Faria
Interim Director
Ph.D., PMP
Office: Room 2951
Areas of Specialization:
Mixed integer optimization applied to land development, mathematical decomposition and hybrid techniques to solve mixed integer programming problems, decision analysis applied to capital allocation, probabilistic optimization models, and analysis of project management networks under uncertainty.
Vamsi S. Kalasapudi
Visiting Instructor
Wallied Orabi
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Research Interests: Optimization and Decision Support for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, Automation in Construction, Sustainable Building Construction
Nipesh Pradhananga
Graduate Program Director
Research interests: Construction Technology, Construction Safety and Health, Construction Simulation, Information Modeling, Computational Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Virtual Reality
Arif Mohaimin Sadri
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Hazard Mitigation, Community Resilience, Smart & Shared Mobility, Social and Information Networks, Post-disaster Reconstruction
Research Advancements: Arif Sadri is developing a crisis communication tool for disaster prone areas and an agent-based simulator for system wide resilience assessment.
Research Area: Evacuation Modeling, Network Science and Modeling, Agent-based Modeling and Simulation, Machine Learning, Coupled Socio-Physical Infrastructure Networks
Lab: Network-driven Human-centric Infrastructure Resilience & Sustainability [N-HIRS] Laboratory https://sites.google.com/site/arifmsadri/
Lu Zhang
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Human-Building Interaction, Disaster Resilient Communities, Smart Buildings, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, Building and Civil Information Modeling, Semantic Information Modeling, Data Analytics