Faculty

Perumalsamy N. Balaguru
Perumalsamy N. Balaguru
Distinguished Professor
Phone: 848-445-2877
Office: RWH 322C
Interests Include: Reinforced and prestressed concrete, construction management, and development and use of new materials.
Vassiliki Demetracopoulou
Assistant Professor
Phone: 848-445-2794
Office: RWH 428A
Interests Include: Improving infrastructure quality in urban environments, optimizing infrastructure systems' delivery under the current climate's risks and complexities
Nicole Fahrenfeld
Nicole Fahrenfeld
Associate Professor
Phone: 848-445-8416
Office: RWH 328D
Interests Include: Contaminant fate and transport, environmental microbiology, environmental organic chemistry, water quality.
Jie Gong
Jie Gong
Associate Professor
Phone: 848-445-2881
Office: RWH 420D
Interests Include: Sensing, machine learning, cyber-physical systems, data analytics, and large-scale visualization.
Nenad Gucunski
Nenad Gucunski
Professor and Chairman
Phone: 848-445-2232
Office: RWH 304C
Interests Include: Seismic methods and nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques, dynamic soil-structure interaction, and numerical modeling.
Qizhong (George) Guo
Professor
Phone: 848-445-2983
Office: RWH 328F
Interests Include: Hydraulics and hydrology, urban stormwater and flood management, inland and coastal water environment restoration, green and sustainable water infrastructure.
Jing (Peter) Jin
Associate Professor
Phone: 848-445-8563
Office: RWH 420F
Interests Include: Mobile senor data modeling and applications, microscopic vehicle characteristics and control in connected vehicle environment, transportation big data analytics and freeway operations
Yalin Li
Assistant Professor
Phone: 848-445-2870
Office: RWH 328A
Interests Include: Thermochemical and catalytic technologies for resource recovery, bioenergy and bioproducts, sustainable design and decision-making
Xiang Liu
Associate Professor
Phone: 848-445-2868
Office: RWH 428D
Interests Include: Smart infrastructure, smart mobility, smart logistics
Ali Maher
Professor and Director
Phone: 848-445-2951
Office: CAIT 211E
Interests Include: Ground improvement, soil dynamics, infrastructure asset management, nondestructive testing, environmental geotechnology.
Monica Mazurek
Associate Professor
Phone: 848-445-2871
Office: RWH 322F
Interests Include: Air quality engineering; analytical methods for organic compounds in environmental and chemical engineering processes; and organic geochemistry of earth materials.
Meiyin Liu
Assistant Professor
Phone: 848-445-4772
Office: RWH 420E
Interests Include: Leveraging automation and robotics to improve construction jobsite performance, especially safety.
Husam Najm
Husam Najm
Professor and Undergraduate Director
Phone: 848-445-7980
Office: RWH 428G
Interests Include: Concrete materials, infrastructure repair, prestrssed concrete, and earthquake engineering.
Hani Nassif
Hani Nassif
Professor
Phone: 848-445-4414
Office: RWH 322E
Interests Include: Reliability analysis; design, analysis, and structural health monitoring of bridges, and structural concrete.
Efthymios Nikolopoulos
Associate Professor
Phone: 848-445-9338
Office: 328A
Interests Include: Modeling and monitoring of hydrometeorological and hydrological extremes such as floods and droughts.
Tyler Oathes
Assistant Professor
Phone: 848-445-9339
Office: 328G
Interests Include: Interplay between fundamental soil behavior and the dynamic and static response of geotechnical infrastructure systems.
Hao Wang
Professor and Graduate Director
Phone: 848-445-2874
Office: RWH 428E
Interests Include: Vehicle-pavement-environment interaction, multi-scale and multi-physics modeling, sustainable infrastructure material and life-cycle assessment and analysis
Ruo-Qian (Roger) Wang
Assistant Professor
Phone: 848-445-4288
Office: RWH 328E
Interests Include: Developing numerical models to connect big data and decision-making in coastal engineering, natural hazards, water resources and renewable energy systems.
Trefor Williams
Trefor Williams
Professor Emeritus
Phone: 848-445-2880
Office: RWH 420E
Interests Include: Construction management, traffic engineering, decision support systems, neural networks, computer aided analysis, and expert systems.
Yook-Kong Yong
Yook-Kong Yong
Professor
Phone: 848-445-3219
Office: RWH 322D
Interests Include: Numerical modeling of bulk acoustic wave and surface acoustic wave piezoelectric resonators and filters; their frequency-temp behavior, acceleration sensitivity, noise characteristics, thermal stress behavior.