Meet Our Faculty

Faculty Backgrounds and Areas of Interest:

  • Mason CEIE associate professor David Lattanzi

    Associate Professor; John Toups Faculty Fellow, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Robotics in smart cities, data analytics, artificial intelligence for structural engineering, and structural health modeling.
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Viviana Maggioni

    Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Affairs, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Environmental engineering, water resources engineering, hydrology, remote sensing, land surface modeling, uncertainty analysis, land data assimilation systems.
  • Mason CEIE Professor Elise Miller-Hooks

    Professor and Department Chair; affiliate faculty Systems Engineering and Operations Research

    Bill and Eleanor Hazel Endowed Chair

    Research Interests: Multi-hazard civil infrastructure resilience quantification, disaster planning and response, sustainability, network algorithms, transportation systems optimization, intermodal and freight transport, supply chains, public transit and alternative modes.
  • Mason CEIE professor Sam Salem

    Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Accelerated construction of infrastructure, lean and green construction, project management, public-private partnerships, smart infrastructure, sustainable development, life cycle analysis, and infrastructure asset management.
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Burak Tanyu

    Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering, novel pavement construction methods, geo-transportation, and geo-environmental infrastructures.
  • Mason CEIE assistant professor Kuo Tian

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Environmental geotechnics, municipal, mining and residual waste, fate and transport of contaminants, innovative geomaterials, geosynthetics.
  • GM CEIE professor Girum Urgessa

    Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Structural response for air-blast, impact, progressive collapse, and underwater explosion, fiber-reinforced polymer composites in structures, engineering education and workforce development.
  • Mason CEIE professor Mohan Venigalla

    Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Transportation systems analysis and planning with an emphasis on sustainable transportation, air quality, transit, shared mobility, and urban freight planning.
  • Mason interim provost and executive vice president Kenneth Walsh

    Kenneth Walsh, PhD

    Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Chief of Staff, Office of the President

    Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Lean construction, construction process improvement, residential construction, design-construction interface for geotechnical infrastructure
  • Mason CEIE assistant professor Emma Zhang

    Assistant Professor, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

    Research Interests: Strong, durable, and sustainable structures, with a special focus on bio-based self-healing concrete, biomolecules modified anticorrosive steel structures, fungal skin for intelligent sensing, and bio-inspired damage self-reporting structures.