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Mark Abkowitz

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Enterprise risk management, hazardous materials transportation safety and security, assessing the impacts of extreme weather on infrastructure adaptation, and spatial analysis of freight transportation systems

Douglas Adams

Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Health of materials and machines using sensors to reveal hidden signatures, development of nonlinear approaches for structural health monitoring to realize intelligent structures that are self-aware to prevent failure in energy, security, and manufacturing applications

Hiba Baroud

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Statistical modeling applied to risk and decision analysis in infrastructure systems

Gautam Biswas

Professor of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Engineering Management

Research Focus: Model- and Data-Driven methods for Monitoring, Control, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Fault tolerance in Cyber Physical Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Intelligent Learning Environments, Learning Analytics, Integrated Planning, Scheduling, Control, and Resource Allocation for Complex systems

Daniel Balasubramanian

Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science

Research Focus: L ightweight application of formal methods and analysis to model-based development

Janey Camp

Research Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Interactions of nature and man-made systems utilizing geospatial technologies, gentrification and mobility in the Nashville area, infrastructure system adaptation to climate change, risk management, STEM integration into education

Abhishek Dubey

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research Focus: Cyber-physical systems, intelligent and connected communities, computational abstractions and the online learning algorithms and decision procedures for cyber-physical systems, AI-driven emergency response systems, performance management and scheduling of public transit systems

Jonathan Gilligan

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Natural science, social science, and public policy with a focus on coupled human-natural systems and on the ways in which scientific knowledge and uncertainty affect policy decisions about the environment

Jesus Gomez-Velez

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Environmental flow and transport, groundwater-surface water interactions, watershed hydrology, analytical and numerical modeling, data mining and assimilation

Gabor Karsai

Professor of Computer Science

Research Focus: Model-driven software and system development, model-integrated computing, distributed and resilient software platforms, verification and assurance of autonomous systems

Xenofon Koutsoukos

Chair, Department of Computer Science

Research Focus: Hybrid and embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, sensor networks

Akos Ledeczi

Professor of Computer Science

Research Focus: Computer science education and wireless sensor networks (WSN), model integrated computing

Shihong Lin

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: M embrane Processes, Water-Energy-Environment Nexus, Environmental Surface Science, Environmental Application and Implication of Nanotechnology

Meiyi Ma

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Research Focus: M achine learning, formal methods, and cyber-physical systems

Sankaran Mahadevan

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Uncertainty quantification, Risk and reliability analysis, Machine learning, System diagnosis and prognosis, and Decision-making under uncertainty. Applications to structures, materials, networks and systems in civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering and healthcare.

Ayan Mukhopadhyay

Research Scientist Computer Science

Research Focus: Designing decentralized decision-making systems for emergency response, understanding how crowdsourced reports can be used to infer emergency scenarios, optimizing para-transit routing, trying to understand how to tackle wildfires and heatwaves, designing deep learning methods for aiding conservation

Ipek Oguz

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Research Focus: Medical image analysis, structural image analysis, longitudinal imaging studies and machine learning, neuroimaging, ophthalmic imaging, and obstetric imaging

Caglar Oskay

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Multiscale Computational Failure Modeling of Solids and Structures, Life Prediction and Performance Assessment of Structures, Computational Modeling of Composites and other Heterogeneous Materials, Modeling of Multiphysics Systems

Craig Philip

Research Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Coordination activities with the Metropolitan Transit Authority in Nashville and the development of collaborations focused on the interplay of land use and mobility choices

Christopher Rowe

Associate Dean for External Relations

Research Focus: Engineering education, program/project management, leadership, ethics, strategy

Florence Sanchez

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Chemo-mechanical behavior and long-term performance of cement-based composites; Nanoscale behavior and nanomodification of cement and concrete materials; 3D printing of infrastructure materials; Mechanical/chemical/energy responses at material interfaces; Nanoscale interfacial interactions and dynamics in heterogeneous materials; Chemomechanically adaptive materials; Coupled chemo-transport-mechanical modeling

Janos Sztipanovits

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

Research Focus: Embedded software, Structurally adaptive systems, Model-integrated computing

Ahmad Taha

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Dynamic networks and cyber-physical systems sciences, s ustainable power systems control, operation, and planning, w ater distribution networks control and optimization, t ransportation systems state estimation and feedback control problems, c yber-security of power grids, water networks, and global positioning system (GPS)

Daniel Work

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Focus: Transportation cyber physical systems and transportation data analytics