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Habibollah Fakhraei, Assistant Professor
Environmental Engineering
My research interests are environmental engineering, environmental modeling, biogeochemistry, aquatic chemistry, water quality modeling, air pollution effects, GIS, geostatistical analysis, hydrology, numerical optimization.
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Engineering B, Room 38Ajay Kalra, Associate Professor
Water Resources Engineering
My research interests are interdisciplinary in the area of hydro-climatology, urban sustainability, artificial intelligence, water resources management, drought frequency, and probabilistic forecasting and downscaling.
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Engineering B, Room 114Prabir Kolay, Director and Professor
Geotechnical Engineering
My research interests are soft and expansive soil stabilization using different chemical stabilizers, Characterization of PFA (Pulverized Fuel Ash) from coal based thermal power plant, Leaching studies, Dry separation of Cenosphere, Thermal & electrical properties of soil, Characterization of Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) for various uses, Resilient modulus & long-term durability of RCA, Cyclic behavior of soil & stabilized soil, Liquefaction potential of local Illinois soil.
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Engineering B, Room 26Jia Liu, Associate Professor
Environmental Engineering
My research interests are nanomaterials for water treatment and reuse, impacts of nanomaterials on aquatic and soil ecosystems, phytoremediation of contaminated soil and groundwater, and renewable energy production using nanomaterials and bioelectrochemical systems.
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Engineering B, Room 116Vijay Puri, Professor
Geotechnical Engineering
My research interests are soil dynamics, machine foundations, design of foundations to resist seismic loads, liquefaction of soils, determination of dynamic soil properties, waste disposal, utilization of coal preparation and combustion wastes, clay liners, and soil improvement using geogrids.
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Engineering B, Room 28Debarshi Sen, Assistant Professor
Structural Engineering
My research interests are Structural Dynamic systems, infrastructure monitoring and resilience, applications of statistical and machine learning in monitoring, regional fragility assessment, seismic response control.
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Engineering B, Room 36Sangmin Shin, Assistant Professor
Water Resources Engineering
My research interests are integrated water resources management, critical interdependent infrastructure modeling, water cyber-physical-social system, artificial intelligence, urban water sustainability and resilience, socio-environmental hydrology, multi-objectives optimization, real-time control, and systems thinking and analysis.
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Engineering B, Room 34Jale Tezcan, Professor
Structural Engineering
Dr. Tezcan’s research covers a wide-range of topics including ground motion modeling, signal processing, material characterization, machine learning algorithms, data mining and uncertainty estimation.
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Engineering B, Room 32Mehmet Yilmaz, Assistant Professor
Environmental Engineering
My research interests are inter-disciplinary, covering environmental, geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering and chemistry. I specifically focus on solid waste containment system design and assessment, landfill gas emission controlling, carbon dioxide attenuation and mineralization, wind and geothermal energy geotechnics, life cycle assessment of renewable energy systems, and contaminant transport through porous and nonporous media.
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Engineering B, Room 30