Graduate Faculty

Sergio Brena, Professor, Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, B.S., Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, 1989; M.S., Texas at Austin, 1990; Ph.D., 2000; E.I.T.

Eric Gonzales, Associate Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs, B.S., Carnegie Mellon, 2006; M.S., California at Berkeley, 2007; Ph.D., 2011.

Chengbo Ai, Associate Professor, B.S., Peking University, 2007; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013.

Konstantinos Andreadis, Assistant Professor, Engineering Diploma, Technical University of Crete, 2002; M.S.E., University of Washington, 2004; Ph.D., 2009.

Sanjay Arwade, Professor, B.S.E., Princeton, 1996; M.S., Cornell, 1999; Ph.D., 2002.

Jessica Boakye, Assistant Professor, B.S. Massachusetts at Amherst, 2014; M.Sc., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016; Ph.D., 2020.

Casey Brown, Professor, B.S., Notre Dame, 1993; M.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994; Ph.D., Harvard, 2004; P.E.

Caitlyn Butler, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, B.S., Smith College, 2004; Ph.D., Notre Dame, 2010.

Ching-Shung Chang, Professor, B.S., Chen Kung University, Taiwan, 1969; M.S., South Carolina, 1973; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1976; P.E.

Eleni Christofa, Associate Professor, B.S., National Technical University of Greece, 2007; M.S., California at Berkeley, 2008; Ph.D., 2012.

Scott A. Civjan, Professor and Associate Dean, B.S.C.E., Washington University, 1989; M.S., Texas at Austin, 1995; Ph.D., 1998; P.E.

Don J. DeGroot, Professor, B.S.C.E., Concordia, 1983; M.S.C.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985; Sc.D., 1989; P.E.

Song Gao, Professor, B.S., Tsinghua University, China, 1999; M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002; Ph.D., 2005.

Simos Gerasimidis, Associate Professor, M.Eng., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2005; M.Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006; Ph.D., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2011.

Colin J. Gleason, Associate Professor, B.S., State University of New York, 2009; M.S., 2011; Ph.D., California at Los Angeles, 2016.

Christian David Guzman, Assistant Professor, B.S., University of Florida, 2009; M.S., Cornell University, 2011; Ph.D., 2016.

Carlton L. Ho, Professor, B.S., Stanford, 1976; M.S., 1980; Ph.D., 1985; P.E.

Michael A. Knodler, Jr., Professor, B.S.C.E., Massachusetts at Dartmouth, 1999; M.S.C.E., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2002; Ph.D., 2004.

Emily Kumpel, Associate Professor, B.S., John Hopkins University, 2006; M.S., University of California, Berkeley, 2007; Ph.D., 2013.

Mariana Lopes, Assistant Professor, B.S., Dayton, 2015; M.S., Arizona State University, 2017; Ph.D., 2020.

Sean McBeath, Assistant Professor, B.A.Sc., University of British Columbia, 2013; M.A.Sc., 2017; Ph.D., Imperial College London, 2021.

Daiheng Ni, Professor, B.S.M.E., China, 1991; M.S.M.E., 1994; M.S.C.E., 2001; M.S.I.E., 2003; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.

Jimi Oke, Assistant Professor, B.A., Williams College, 2010; M.S.E., Johns Hopkins University, 2014; Ph.D., 2016.

Egemen Okte, Research Assistant Professor, Lecturer, B.S. Middle East Technical University, 2015; M.Sc., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2018; Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022.

Chul Park, Professor, B.S., Yeungnam, South Korea, 2000; M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2002; Ph.D., 2007.

Kara D. Peterman, Associate Professor and Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs, B.S., Swarthmore, 2009; M.S., Johns Hopkins, 2011; Ph.D., 2014.

John E. Tobiason, Professor, B.S.C.E., New Hampshire, 1976; M.S.E.E., North Carolina, 1979; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1987; P.E.

Nicholas B. Tooker, Lecturer, B.S.C.E., Montana State University, 2001; M.S.C.E., California at Davis, 2005; Ph.D., Northeastern, 2021; P.E.

Zachary Westgate, Associate Professor, B.S., Massachusetts, 2004; M.S., 2005; Ph.D., Western Australia, 2012.

Guoping Zhang, Professor, B.S.E., Tsinghua University, 1991; M.S., 1994; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002; P.E.

Adjunct/Associate Faculty

Will Farmer, Research Physical Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey

Paul Phifer, Permitting Manager, Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind

Ljiljana Rajic, Chief Science Officer, Elateq, Inc.

Benjamin Schafer, Hackerman Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the ROSEI sustainable energy institute at Johns Hopkins University

Faculty Emeriti

David Ahlfeld, Professor Emeritus (2018)

John Collura, Professor Emeritus (2016).

James K. Edzwald, Professor Emeritus (2006).

William H. Highter, Professor Emeritus (2010).

Thomas Lardner, Professor Emeritus (2012).

Alan J. Lutenegger, Professor Emeritus (2020).

David W. Ostendorf, Professor Emeritus (2018).

Richard N. Palmer, Professor Emeritus (2021).

David A. Reckhow, Professor Emeritus (2020).

Paul W. Shuldiner, Professor Emeritus (2003).

Michael S. Switzenbaum, Professor Emeritus (2003).