Associate Professor
Dr. Cai’s research interests include large-scale system optimization, river basin planning and management, drought management, water resources economics and policy, geographic information system and spatial statistics, and international water resources development.
Dr. Dodds' research interests focus on the field of nonlinear fracture mechanics fatigue and associated computational methods. Results of his research have wide ranging applications in civil engineering, offshore, petro-chemical, naval and aerospace structures. Professor Dodds has published extensively in the areas of fracture mechanics, computational methods, and software engineering.
Associate Professor
Dr. El-Rayes has research interests in construction optimization, decision support systems, information technologies, highway construction, and construction productivity. He has over 70 publications in these areas including more than 30 journal papers.
Professor
John Burkitt Webb Endowed Faculty Scholar
Dr. Hashash research interests include Deep Excavations, Earthquake Engineering, Numerical Modeling, and Soil-Structure Interaction. He is also involved in use of visualization and virtual reality techniques in geotechnical engineering applications.
Professor
Dr. Kumar's research includes study of complexity in hydrologic processes including hydroclimatology, ecohydrology, geomorphology, and hydroinformatics. The overall goal of Dr. Kumar’s research is to improve our understanding of hydrologic processes over a range of space and time scales with particular emphasis on understanding and modeling multiple scale non-linear interactions among sub-processes.
Professor
Nauman Faculty Scholar
Dr. Minsker has research interests in environmental systems analysis, investigating improved methods for modeling complex environmental systems so that informed management-level decisions can be made under conditions of uncertainty. Using machine learning approaches such as genetic algorithms, decision trees, support vector machines, and artificial neural networks, innovative and cost-effective solutions to complex environmental problems are being investigated. Recent applications include long-term groundwater monitoring and remediation design.



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