Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Research Assistants
Mingyu Sun
mingyus2@illinois.edu
Ph.D. student / Societal Risk and Hazard Mitigation
Research Topic: building functionality modeling under hazards
Abigail Beck
albeck2@illinois.edu
Ph.D. student / Societal Risk and Hazard Mitigation
Research Topic: connecting infrastructure and social systems and creating a decision framework to support community resilience
Luke Aaron Edwards
lukeae2@illinois.edu
M.S. student / Structural Engineering
Research Topic: connecting structural reliability and societal impacts to improve decision analysis in the frame of community resilience
Yihan Jiang
yihanj4@illinois.edu
M.S. student / Structural Engineering
Research Topic: impact of building code changes on future hurricane risk of residential buildings in changing climate
Alumni
Chi-Ying Lin
Ph.D. / Societal Risk and Hazard Mitigation
Dissertation Title: Investigation of climate change impact on hurricane wind and freshwater flood risks using ML techniques
Vamshi K. Gudipati
Ph.D. / Structural Engineering
Dissertation Title: Target reliability index optimization framework for building classes
Sami Pant
Ph.D. / Structural Engineering
Dissertation Title: Climate change impact on u.s. hurricane risk to residential buildings
Xian He
Ph.D. / Societal Risk Management
Dissertation Title: Disaster risk management of interdependent infrastructure systems for community resilience planning
Anisha Datta
M.S. / Structural Engineering / Architecture
Research Topic: analyzing material properties of concrete, effects of regional factors on concrete strength and construction
Juhan Park
M.S. / Structural Engineering
Dissertation Title: Decision framework for selecting structural strength of new facility on the airbase
Georges H. Abdallah
M.S. / Structural Engineering
Research Topic: forecasting the intensity and frequency of hurricanes under future climate change scenarios
Kelly Samara
M.S. / Societal Risk Management
Research Topic: wind fragility assessment
Elizabeth Berry
M.S. / Structural Engineering
Structural Engineering
Christian Waldschmidt
B.S. / Structural Engineering
Research Topic: impact of building code changes on future hurricane risk of residential buildings in changing climate