Meet Our Faculty

Faculty Backgrounds and Areas of Interest:

  • Mason CEIE associate professor David Lattanzi

    Associate Professor; John Toups Faculty Fellow, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Robotics in smart cities, data analytics, artificial intelligence for structural engineering, and structural health modeling.
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Viviana Maggioni

    Associate Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Environmental engineering, water resources engineering, hydrology, remote sensing, land surface modeling, uncertainty analysis, land data assimilation systems.
  • Mason CEIE Professor Elise Miller-Hooks

    Professor and Interim Department Chair; affiliate faculty Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Bill and Eleanor Hazel Endowed Chair

    Research Interests: Multi-hazard civil infrastructure resilience quantification, disaster planning and response, sustainability, network algorithms, transportation systems optimization, intermodal and freight transport, supply chains, public transit and alternative modes.
  • Mason CEIE professor Sam Salem

    Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Accelerated construction of infrastructure, lean and green construction, project management, public-private partnerships, smart infrastructure, sustainable development, life cycle analysis, and infrastructure asset management.
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Burak Tanyu

    Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering, novel pavement construction methods, geo-transportation, and geo-environmental infrastructures.
  • Mason CEIE assistant professor Kuo Tian

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Environmental geotechnics, municipal, mining and residual waste, fate and transport of contaminants, innovative geomaterials, geosynthetics.
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Girum Urgessa

    Associate Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Structural response for air-blast, impact, progressive collapse, and underwater explosion, fiber-reinforced polymer composites in structures, engineering education and workforce development.
  • Mason CEIE professor Mohan Venigalla

    Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Transportation systems analysis and planning with an emphasis on sustainable transportation, air quality, transit, shared mobility, and urban freight planning.
  • Mason interim provost and executive vice president Kenneth Walsh

    Kenneth Walsh, PhD

    Interim Provost and Executive Vice President
    Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

     

    Research Interests: Lean construction, construction process improvement, residential construction, design-construction interface for geotechnical infrastructure
  • Mason CEIE assistant professor Emma Zhang

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Strong, durable, and sustainable structures, with a special focus on bio-based self-healing concrete, biomolecules modified anticorrosive steel structures, fungal skin for intelligent sensing, and bio-inspired damage self-reporting structures.