Tenured and tenure-track faculty
Alphabetical
Morteza Abbaszadegan
Morteza Abbaszadegan
Professor
Research Interests
Contemporary water quality issues concerning health-related water microbiology
Morteza.Abbaszadegan@asu.edu
480-965-3868
ISTB4 373
Tempe campus
Braden Allenby
Braden Allenby
Professor, President’s professor, and Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Technology
Research Interests
Sustainable engineering, earth systems engineering and management, industrial ecology, emerging technology (especially military and security technologies), weaponized narrative and identity
Brad.Allenby@asu.edu
480-727-8594
CAVC 510
Tempe campus
Samuel Ariaratnam
Samuel Ariaratnam
Professor, Undergraduate/Graduate Program Chair, construction engineering
Research Interests
Sustainable urban underground infrastructure systems, trenchless engineering and construction methods, underground asset management, performance modeling
Samuel.Ariaratnam@asu.edu
480-965-7399
CAVC 480
Tempe campus
Mounir El Asmar
Mounir El Asmar
Associate professor and Co-director, EPA National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations
Research Interests
Sustainable building performance, integrated project delivery (IPD), cost engineering
Asmar@asu.edu
480-727-9023
CAVC 576
Tempe campus
Steven Ayer
Steven Ayer
Assistant professor
Research Interests
Building information modeling (BIM), mixed (and “augmented”) reality, virtual reality, cyber-learning, engineering education
Treavor H. Boyer
Treavor Boyer
Associate professor and Program Chair, environmental engineering
Research Interests
Drinking water and wastewater treatment, urine source separation, nutrient management and resource recovery
THBoyer@asu.edu
480-965-7447
Mikhail Chester
Mikhail Chester
Associate professor and Director of the Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering
Research Interests
Infrastructure resilience and sustainability, climate change and extreme events, interdependent infrastructure systems, transportation life cycle assessment, infrastructure complexity and adaptation
MChester@asu.edu
480-965-9779
Tempe campus
Oswald Chong
Oswald Chong
Associate professor
Research Interests
Sustainable design and project planning, eco-efficiency and technical metabolism, sustainable engineering knowledge system & clusters
Otakuye Conroy-Ben
Otakuye Conroy-Ben
Assistant professor
Research Interests
Antibiotic and metal resistance in bacteria, environmental endocrine disruption, wastewater epidemiology, solid waste management, bacterial gene expression, bioremediation of petroleum contaminated water and soil, wastewater reuse, boron stable isotopes, proteoliposomes for water treatment
Otakuye.Conroy@asu.edu
480-727-4514
CNTR BLDG
Polytechnic campus
Wanda Dalla Costa
Wanda Dalla Costa
Associate professor
Research Interests
Indigenous placekeeping (urban and rural), Indigenous design engagement, climate resiliency & passive design in architecture, bioclimate principles derived from regional Indigenous architectural precedents.
Wanda.Dallacosta@asu.edu
(480) 727-2433
Tempe campus
Anca Delgado
James Ernzen
James Ernzen
Associate professor
Research Interests
Alternate project delivery methods, project management and safety, reinforced concrete design
James.Ernzen@asu.edu
480-965-0389
CAVC 566
Tempe campus
Elham (Ellie) Fini
Elham (Ellie) Fini
Associate professor
Research Interests
Sustainable Construction, Bio-based and Bio-inspired Materials, Adhesives and Sealants for Use in Construction, Multi-scale Characterization and Modeling, Surface and Interface Characterization
Peter Fox
Peter Fox
Professor and Graduate program chair
Research Interests
Water reuse, biological treatment, salinity/brine disposal
Peter.Fox@asu.edu
480-965-1734
ISTB4 365
Tempe campus
Matthew Fraser
Matthew Fraser
Professor and Associate Director
Research Interests
Air quality, air pollution, energy conservation, energy efficiency technologies
Matthew.Fraser@asu.edu
480-965-3489
CAVC 402
Tempe campus
Margaret Garcia
Margaret Garcia
Assistant professor
Research Interests
Water resources engineering, infrastructure sustainability, and resilience, couple human and natural systems, numerical modeling.
M.Garcia@asu.edu
480-965-8838
G. Edward Gibson, Jr.
G. Edward Gibson, Jr.
Professor and Sunstate Chair of Construction Management and Engineering
Research Interests
Front end planning, risk management, safety, alternative project delivery, leadership
David Grau
David Grau
Associate professor
Research Interests
Systems engineering, uncertainty and risk, automation, computing, and remote sensing, lean philosophy and processes, construction productivity
David.Grau@asu.edu
480-727-0665
CAVC 574
Tempe campus
Rolf Halden
Rolf Halden
Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Health Engineering
Research Interests
Public health engineering, sustainable cities, urban water cycle, green chemistry and engineering, urban metabolism & exposure assessment
Rolf.Halden@asu.edu
480-727-0893
ISTB4 481
Tempe campus
Kerry Hamilton
Keith Hjelmstad
Keith Hjelmstad
Professor, President’s professor, and Undergraduate Program Chair, civil engineering
Research Interests
Computational mechanics, structural engineering, structural stability, simulation of complex systems
Keith.Hjelmstad@asu.edu
480-316-0850
CAVC 408
Tempe campus
Christian G. Hoover
Christian Hoover
Assistant professor
Research Interests
Structural and solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, multi-scale material characterization, materials and structural testing
Christian.Hoover@asu.edu
480-965-2693
Sandra Houston
Sandra Houston
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Unsaturated soils, expansive and collapsible soils, arid region soils, foundations, modeling of unsaturated flow/deformation
Sandra.Houston@asu.edu
480-965-2790
ISTB2 221b
Tempe campus
Kamil Kaloush
Kamil Kaloush
Professor and Director of the National Center of Excellence on Smart Innovations
Research Interests
Pavements, materials, design and evaluation, management, urban heat island
Kamil.Kaloush@asu.edu
480-965-5509
ISTB2 229D
Tempe campus
Edward Kavazanjian, Jr.
Edward Kavazanjian, Jr.
Regents professor and Director of Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics
Research Interests
Biogeotechnical engineering, ground improvement, geotechnical earthquake engineering, waste containment system design, mechanical properties of municipal solid waste
Edward.Kavazanjian@asu.edu
480-727-8566
GWC 112B
Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics
Tempe campus
Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
Professor
Research Interests
Bio-degradation of toxic compounds, intestinal microbial ecology-obesity, intestinal microbial ecology-autism, bio-energy, bio-prospecting/microbial metabolic exploration
Dr.Rosy@asu.edu
480-727-7574
BDA 210
Tempe campus
Klaus Lackner
Klaus Lackner
Professor
Research Interests
Closing the carbon cycle by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, carbon sequestration, carbon foot-printing, innovative energy and infrastructure systems and their scaling properties
Klaus.Lackner@asu.edu
480-727-2499
Anthony J. Lamanna
Anthony J. Lamanna
Associate professor, Sundt Professor of Alternative Delivery Methods and Sustainable Development, and Undergraduate program chair for construction management
Research Interests
Anchorage to concrete, Sustainable development, Strengthening, repair, retrofit, and adaptive reuse of existing structures.
Yingyan Lou
Yingyan Lou
Associate professor
Research Interests
Intelligent transportation systems, connected and autonomous vehicles, transportation network modeling, transportation systems analysis, numerical methods
Yingyan.Lou@asu.edu
480-965-6361
CAVC 476
Tempe campus
Michael Mamlouk
Michael Mamlouk
Professor
Research Interests
Pavement design and management, pavement evaluation, pavement preservation and rehabilitation, material characterization
Mamlouk@asu.edu
480-965-2892
ISTB2 239B
Tempe campus
Giuseppe Mascaro
Giuseppe Mascaro
Assistant professor
Research Interests
Stochastic hydrology, watershed modeling, hydroclimatology, food-water-energy nexus
Giuseppe.Mascaro@asu.edu
480-727-2474
Barzin Mobasher
Barzin Mobasher
Professor
Research Interests
Mechanics of composite materials, development of new construction materials, durability of building materials
Barzin@asu.edu
480-965-0141
ISTB2 239C
Tempe campus
Rebecca Muenich
Rebecca Muenich
Assistant professor
Research Interests
Food-energy water nexus, watershed and environmental modeling, urban agriculture, ecosystem services, nutrient recycling.
Narayanan Neithalath
Narayanan Neithalath
Professor
Research Interests
Materials in civil infrastructure, novel cement-based materials and design, microstructure and mechanics, sustainable materials, computational materials science
Narayanan.Neithalath@asu.edu
480-965-6023
ISTB2 201B
Tempe campus
Hasan Ozer
Leon A. van Paassen
Leon A. van Paassen
Associate professor
Research Interests
Engineering geology, geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, soil mechanics, ground improvement
Leon.Vanpaassen@asu.edu
480-965-1075
Kristen Parrish
Kristen Parrish
Associate professor and graduate program chair for construction management
Research Interests
Energy efficiency in buildings, building energy analysis, efficient process design and execution, construction planning, engineering education
Kristen.Parrish@asu.edu
480-727-6363
CAVC 572
Tempe campus
Ram Pendyala
Ram Pendyala
Professor and Director
Research Interests
Multimodal transportation systems planning, activity-travel behavior analysis, transportation demand forecasting/modeling, travel surveys and data analytics, land use-transportation policy analysis
Ram.Pendyala@asu.edu
480-727-4587
CAVC 502
Tempe campus
François Perreault
François Perreault
Assistant professor
Research Interests
Combine microbiology, chemistry and nanotechnology to address critical issues related to water quality and water treatment, Antimicrobial properties of graphene-based nanomaterials, Biofouling control in membrane-based water treatment processes
Francois.Perreault@asu.edu
480-965-4028
Subramaniam “Subby” Rajan
Subramaniam “Subby” Rajan
Professor
Research Interests
Structural and solid mechanics, finite element analysis, design optimization, materials and structural testing, high-performance software development
S.Rajan@asu.edu
480-965-1712
ISTB2 201A
Tempe campus
T. Agami Reddy
T. Agami Reddy
Professor
Research Interests
Sustainable energy systems, renewable and distributed energy systems modeling and simulation, green building science, building data analytics, model based operation, fault detection and control
T.Agami.Reddy@asu.edu
480-727-7417
CDS 351 and CAVC 508
Tempe campus
Bruce Rittmann
Bruce Rittmann
Regents professor and Director of the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology
Research Interests
Environmental biotechnology, biofilms, resource recovery, modeling, microbial ecology
Rittmann@asu.edu
480-727-0434
BDA 210B
Tempe campus
Thomas P. Seager
Thomas P. Seager
Associate professor
Research Interests
Resilient infrastructure, anticipatory environmental life cycle assessment, team science, sustainable systems & technologies, energy analysis
Thomas.Seager@asu.edu
ISTB4 369
Tempe campus
Kenneth Sullivan
Kenneth Sullivan
Professor
Research Interests
Organizational transformation, expertise-based project delivery, performance measurement, human factors, and accountability systems, procurement & supply chain, facility management
Kenneth.Sullivan@asu.edu
480-965-4213
CAVC 582
Tempe campus
Pingbo Tang
Pingbo Tang
Associate professor
Research Interests
Computer vision for civil infrastructures, bridge management, automation in construction, human-centered automation in civil engineering, data science for civil infrastructure systems
TangPingbo@asu.edu
480-727-8105
CAVC 578
Tempe campus
Junliang (Julian) Tao
Junliang (Julian) Tao
Associate professor
Research Interests
Bioinspired burrowing mechanisms, bioinspired geosystems, smart and sustainable geosystems, soil behavior
julian.tao@asu.edu
480-965-1108
GWC 126
Tempe campus
Enrique Vivoni
Enrique Vivoni
Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate College
Research Interests
Numerical modeling of watershed processes, eco-hydrology and hydro-meteorology of semiarid regions, applications of environmental sensing technologies, climate and land use change impacts on water resources, stakeholder engagement and decision making support
Vivoni@asu.edu
480-727-3575
ISTB4 769
Tempe campus
Zhihua Wang
Zhihua Wang
Associate professor
Research Interests
Multiscale urban climate modeling, land-atmospheric interactions, landscape and infrastructure management, urban environmental sustainability study, energy efficiency analysis
Zhwang@asu.edu
480-727-2933
Paul Westerhoff
Paul Westerhoff
Regents Professor and Fulton Chair of Environmental Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Fulton Chair of Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
Environmental geochemistry; food, water, and energy nexus; drinking water treatment, water quality
P.WESTERHOFF@asu.edu
480-965-2885
Tempe campus
Avi Wiezel
Avi Wiezel
Associate professor and Assistant dean for facilities
Research Interests
Leadership for project-based companies, construction process modeling, entrepreneurial-ism, adult education, mathematical models of decision making
Avi.Wiezel@asu.edu
480-965-4121
CAVC 580
Tempe campus
Tianfang Xu
Tianfang Xu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Numerical simulation of groundwater flow and solute transport, uncertainty quantification, and applications of machine learning in hydrology
tianfang.xu@asu.edu
480-965-7666
ISTB4 469
Tempe campus
Claudia Zapata
Claudia Zapata
Associate professor
Research Interests
Geotechnical engineering, environmental effects in pavement design
Claudia.Zapata@asu.edu
480-727-8514
GWC 124
Tempe campus
Xuesong Zhou
Xuesong Zhou
Associate professor
Research Interests
Transportation network modeling, railway engineering, intelligent transportation systems, dynamic traffic assignment
Xuesong.Zhou@asu.edu
Tempe campus
