Faculty Expertise

Dr. Mecit Cetin

Professor

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), mobile devices/sensors, connected and automated vehicles, system-state prediction, traffic flow theory and simulation, big data analytics, congestion pricing, traffic signal control and optimization.

Dr. Mujde Erten-Unal

Professor

Biological and hazardous wastewater treatment, green infrastructure, adaptive design to sea level rise, pollution prevention, and sustainable development.

Dr. Temitope Idowu

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Assistant Professor

Coastal sustainability, resilience and adaptation, flood risk mapping and modeling, coastal processes, GIS and remote sensing applications to coastal and environmental challenges, coastal machine learning techniques integration and applications.

Dr. Hyun Dong Kim

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Assistant Professor

Coastal and Ocean Engineering, AI Applications in Coastal Hydrodynamics, Sediment Transport, Flooding Problems, Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), Numerical and Physical Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Port, Harbour and Maritime Engineering, Coastal Erosion and Resilience, and Interdisciplinary Applications.

Dr. Sandeep Kumar

Professor | Department Chair

Decarbonization, Microalgae, Circular Economy, Renewable Carbon, Biofuels, Bioproducts, Electrochemical Hydrogenation, Microplastics, Lithium Extraction, Adsorption, Waste Management, and Nutrients Recycling.

Dr. Shahin Nayyeri Amiri

Senior Lecturer

My research interest is very diverse and generally covers several fields of Civil and Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Duc Nguyen

Professor

Computational Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Structural Dynamics, Engineering Design Sensitivity Analysis & Optimization, Parallel Computing for FEA, Efficient Sparse/Dense Linear Solvers, Non-linear Solvers, Eigen-Solvers, Branch & Bound Mixed Real-Integer Linear Programming Problems, etc...

Dr. Gary Schafran

Professor

Environmental engineering, aquatic chemistry, physicochemical treatment processes, natural systems water quality, lake oxygenation, and reservoir management.

Dr. Qing Tang

Assistant Professor

Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) for transportation infrastructure maintenance, discharge rate modeling and optimization for CAV, and autonomous vehicle testing and simulation. Her research interests include CAV modeling and control, human-automation interactions, AI/machine learning in autonomous driving systems, and smart/sustainable infrastructure.

Dr. Wanting (Lisa) Wang

Assistant Professor

Community resilience modeling under multi-hazards such as tornadoes, floods, sea level rise, and climate change. Improving the resilience-based design of structural systems, civil infrastructure, and the built environment. Data and algorithm fusion across multiple disciplines, including structural engineering, computer science, economics, social science, and operational research. Resilient, sustainable, and equitable community decision-making support.

Dr. Xixi Wang

Professor/Chief Departmental Advisor

Effects of climate change versus human activity on water resources; evaporation from water-limited soils; hydrology-soil-vegetation interactions in changing climate; stormwater, watershed hydrology, LID, and BMP; groundwater.

Dr. Pengfei Wang

Assistant Professor

Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Seismology, and Applied Statistics, emphasizing regional geo-hazard modeling and analysis, multi-hazards risk assessment, geospatial analysis, and statistical learning and modeling in civil engineering applications.

Dr. Kun Xie

Associate Professor

Transportation Safety; Transportation Reliability and Resilience; Incident/Emergency Management; Transportation Planning and Management; Connected and Autonomous Vehicles; AI in Transportation; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Driving Behavior.

Dr. Jaewan Yoon

Associate Professor

Stochasticity in Water Resources Water Quality Management and Modeling Diffusive/Dispersive Substance Fate and Transport Macro- and Meso-scale Spatiotemporal Simulation Statistical Characterization and Optimization

Dr. Sylvain Marsillac

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Microelectronic and optoelectronic devices, spin polarized electron sources, solar cells, thin film growth and materials characterization

 

Dr. Masha Sosokina

Professor

High-performance simulations and workflows, energy-efficient computational systems, machine learning models for application performance and energy saving, cyber-physical systems, and cyberinfrastracture training

Dr. Qianqian Su

Assistant Professor

Plasma based acceleration, accelerator physics, high performance computing, optimization, plasma physics, machine learning, ultrafast laser, optics and linear collider designs

Dr. Qianlong (Ronnie) Wang

Assistant Professor

Robust and trustworthy AI, security and privacy in distributed and decentralized learning frameworks, blockchain, vulnerability analysis, explainable AI, causal learning, and applications in cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things, e.g., smart transportation and smart health

Dr. Ambrosio Valencia-Romero, Assistant Professor

Dr. Valencia-Romero's research advances strategic engineering design that addresses sociotechnical challenges by integrating systems science, risk analysis, implementation theory, and dynamic networks to engineer meaningful and collectively robust solutions that align upstream and downstream stakeholder interests, foster effective large-scale collaboration, and facilitate the architecting of systems-of-systems.

Email: a1valenc@odu.edu

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Dr. Pilar Pazos, Professor

Process improvement, performance management, team-based work systems, socio-technical systems, big data analytics, health-care analytics, engineering education, and research methodology.

Phone: 757-683-5540

Email: mpazosla@odu.edu