Community Ecology, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, Coastal Ecosystems, Ecosystem Resilience
Geotechnical centrifuge modeling, in situ testing of soils, laboratory instrumentation, concrete technology.
James Cahill is a lecturer and independent PI in Environmental Engineering Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2016. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Rockefeller University from 2017-2020. He has expertise in Population Genomics, Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics. His research focuses on applying genomic techniques to immediate challenges in species conservation, environmental monitoring and human health.…
Structural analysis, vehicle impact simulation, heat and mass
transport in concrete, bridge engineering, 3-D Visualization,
numerical methods.
Structure-property-processing relationships of multiphase polymers, liquid crystalline polymers and thermosets, magnetic field processing of polymers, ionomers.
Dr. Lili Du is a Professor in the Civil and Coastal Engineering Department, University of Florida. She received her Ph.D. degree in Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems with a minor in Operations Research and Statistics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2008, MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2003, and her BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in 1998.…
Traffic operations, signal control optimization, highway capacity analysis, and traffic simulation.
Applied AI and data analytics,Internet of Things,Humans and technology,Transportation,Personalized learning,Lifelong workforce development
Christopher Ferraro specializes in the development sustainable, high-performance cement-based materials & carbon-dioxide produced as part of the construction involving portland cement concrete. The concrete materials research group conducts research on a wide variety issues and include efforts across cross disciplinary research efforts within civil engineering as well other departments including; Environmental, Materials, Industrial and Mechanical Engineering.
Foundational AI,Applied AI and data analytics,Hazards engineering,Coastal Hazards
Wind engineering, random vibrations, reliability, non-Gaussian
simulation, structural dynamics.
Surface and groundwater quality modeling, applications of operations research to water resources, environmental systems.
Structures, non-linear analysis, computer methods, finite
element
analysis of bridges.