Facilities
Imad Al-Qadi – Professor
Research Interests
- pavement materials
- sustainability
- life-cycle assessment
- asphalt mixes and performance
Ramez Hajj – Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- asphalt binders
- flexible pavements
- computational modeling of infrastructure materials
- material characterization
- smart and sustainable pavement construction
Jeffrey R. Roesler – Professor
Teaching
Research Interests
- structural design tools
- concrete materials
- pavements and microscale urban heat islands
- non-contact sensing for construction monitoring
- passive sensing for construction materials
Erol Tutumluer – Professor
Teaching
Research Interests
- transportation geotechnics
- pavement and railroad geomaterials
- geosynthetics
- subgrade soils and base/ballast unbound aggregates
- soil/aggregate stabilization
Rail
Chris P.L. Barkan – Professor
Research Interests
- railroad transportation safety and risk analysis
- hazardous materials transport
- railroad infrastructure and operating economics
- new rail technologies
J. Riley Edwards – Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- railroad track safety
- innovative materials
- track superstructure
- heavy axle load (HAL) freight railways
- intercity and high speed passenger rail
Systems
Rahim F. Benekohal – Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
- traffic flow modeling and simulation
- traffic flow theory
- intelligent transportation systems (ITS)
- traffic signal systems
- roadway capacity analysis
- highway grade crossing safety
Eleftheria Kontou – Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- sustainable transportation systems modeling
- electric vehicle operations
- electric vehicle charging infrastructure
- emerging mobility services simulation
- transportation/energy systems interdependencies
Lewis Lehe – Assistant Professor
Teaching
Research Interests
- transportation pricing
- urban traffic and transit
- transportation applications of AI
- public policy
Hadi Meidani – Associate Professor
Research Interests
- digital twins for transportation systems
- resilient infrastructure
- scientific machine learning
- uncertainty quantification
Yanfeng Ouyang – Professor
Teaching
Research Interests
- networks and supply chains
- logistics systems
- sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems
- renewable energy systems
- traffic flow theory and pperations
- sensor network systems
- safety and econometrics
Alireza Talebpour – Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- human-automated vehicle (AV) interactions
- traffic flow theory
- reinforcement learning
- optimal control