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Researchers
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Jonathan D. Bray
Research:Discrete Element Modeling of Sand Production and Stress-Dependent Granular Material Response
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Kenichi Soga
Research:Distributed Fiber Optic Monitoring and Advanced Data Analytics for Infrastructure Health Monitoring
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Kenichi Soga
Research:Development of Fluid-Soil-Structure Coupling Framework for Natural Disaster Simulations Using Particle Methods (Tentative)
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dimitrios Zekkos
Research:Landslide Mobility Detection using Satellites and UAVs
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Kenichi Soga
Research:Implementation of AI and ML on tunnel engineering and construction
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dimitrios Zekkos
Research:Regional Multi-Scale Modeling of co-seismic landslides
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Robert Kayen
Research:Seismic site effect and seismology
Researcher
Advisor: Kenichi Soga
Research:Emerging Technologies in Civil Engineering
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Kenichi Soga
Research:Gas Well Monitoring
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Nicholas Sitar
Research:Reconstruction of Naturally Deposited Sands using X-Ray computed Tomography
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Kenichi Soga
Research:Three dimensional simulation of hydraulic fracturing in geo-materials using Lattice Element Method
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dimitrios Zekkos
Research:Multi-scale characterization of weathering zones and slope stability
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos
Research:Levee Health Monitoring
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dimitrios Zekkos
Research:UAV-enabled Multi-Sensing for Resiliency Assessment of Geo-Infrastructure
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Prof. Nicholas Sitar
Research:Granular mechanics governing rock avalanche runout
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Jonathan Bray
Research:Regional to site-specific liquefaction triggering and lateral spreading evaluation procedures for application to an open source seismic risk assessment tool for natural gas infrastructure.
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Jonathan Bray
Research:Liquefaction-induced deformations
Researcher
Advisor: Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos
Research:Liquefaction behavior of Gravelly Soils
Researcher
Advisor: Kenichi Soga
Research:Erosion Modeling with the MPM
Researcher
Advisor: Prof. Kenichi Soga
Research:Fracture monitoring and dynamic traffic tracking using distributed fiber optic sensing technology
Researcher
Advisor: Kenichi Soga
Research:Material Point Method; shear band simulation; large-scale landslide study
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Kenichi Soga
Research:Fiber optics gas sensing
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos
Research:Numerical Modeling in Gravel Liquefaction
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Dimitrios Zekkos
Research:Landslides due to Precipitation
Researcher
Advisor: Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos
Research:Dynamic response parameters for earth dams by using ground motion data
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Prof. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos
Research:Gravel liquefaction
Researcher
Advisor: Professor Soga and Professor Zekkos
Research:Geophysical sensor development and implementing sensors to terrestrial robots
PhD Candidate
Advisor: Professor Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos
Researcher
Advisor: Dimitrios Zekkos
Research:Robot-based monitoring of MSW landfills
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