Gilbert Bassett
Professor, Finance, College of Business Administration |
Statistics, energy and environment |
Richard Kosobud
Professor Emeritus, Economics, College of Business Administration |
Environmental economics, policy macroeconomics |
John McDonald
Professor, Economics, College of Business Administration |
Urban economic development - theory and policy, congestion pricing on urban highways, land values and zoning, urban real estate markets |
Arkalgud Ramaprasad
Professor and Interim Department Head, Information and Decision Sciences, College of Business Administration |
eMedicine, eBusiness strategy, information systems discontinuity, and information systems operability |
Dale W.R. Rosenthal
Assistant Professor, Finance, College of Business Administration |
Commodity and related (weather, emissions, shipping) markets |
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Engineering
Suresh K. Aggarwal
Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering |
Ignition and combustion of multi-component fuel droplets and sprays; turbulent spray combustion; direct numerical simulations of shear layers; partially premixed flame structure; transient combustion phenomenon including flame-vortex interactions, passive/active control of two-phase processes, and emissions |
Farhad Ansari
Professor and Department Head, Civil and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering |
Structural engineering with emphasis in Structural Health Monitoring, smart sensors, nondestructive testing, integrated fiber optic sensors for condition monitoring of bridges, fiber optic acoustic emission sensors for real time monitoring of corrosion and fracture, development of MEMS based sensors for civil structural systems, optical fiber distributed sensor for post seismic monitoring of damaged structures, monitoring the state of repaired and strengthened structures, development of weigh-in-motion systems, image processing techniques for characterization of entrained air bubble system in concrete |
Rodica Baranescu
Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering |
Research and development activities in low emission diesel engines for truck applications, simulation and modeling of combustion, emissions, fuels, processes and systems in diesel engines, evaluation and development of alternative fuels for heavy-duty engines |
Kenneth Brezinsky
Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering |
High temperature gas phase chemical kinetics related to combustion processes with special emphasis on environmental impact; combustion synthesis of non-oxide refractory materials |
Kenneth Copenhaver
Research Engineer, Energy Resources Center, College of Engineering |
Development and application of hyperspectral sensors from multiple platforms including airborne, tripod and microscope to applied problems including agriculture, security and medical; the application of geospatial data to agricultural, environmental and bio-fuel concerns including land use, productivity, carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions; the application of remotely sensed imagery for agriculture including projects which have led to reduced applications of nitrogen and other farm chemicals |
Isabel F. Cruz
Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering |
Databases, geographic information systems, semantic web, information visualization, and security, semantic data integration, ontology matching, geospatial interoperability, context-aware role based access control, privacy-preserving record linkage, personal information management, and semantic desktop |
John J. Cuttica
Director, Energy Resources Center, College of Engineering |
Energy and environmental sustainability, distributed generation, bio-energy, alternative energy sources |
Mitra Dutta
Professor and Department Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering |
Optoelectronics devices and novel quantum and nanoscale devices, optical characterization of optoelectronic devices and structures, wide band gap structures and devices, bio-optoelectronics |
Christophe Darnault
Assistant Professor, Civil and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering |
Hydrology and water resources engineering; hydrological, biochemical processes impacting water dynamic, quality and quantity; hydromechanics, hydraulic engineering and structures; integrated management and sustainable development of water resources, fate and transport of contaminants in the environment, diffuse pollution |
Siddhartha Ghosh
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering |
Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Compound Semiconductors and Multifunctional Oxides, fabrication of high-performance optoelectronic devices, characterization HgCdTe detectors and avalanche photodiodes using state of the art noise and bandwidth measurement system, developing spintronic devices using nanowires and novel spin injectors |
David He
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering |
Failure and reliability analysis of manufacturing systems, equipment and process diagnosis and prognosis, statistical process control, agile manufacturing systems, scheduling and control for agile production and manufacturing, environmentally conscious manufacturing |
Amid Khoudadoust
Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering |
Environmental separations technologies; remediation of contaminated soils and sediments; biodegradation of PCBs in sediments; arsenic in fly ash |
Andreas A. Linninger
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering,
College of Engineering |
System design and analysis, advancing mathematical modeling and computational methods in process design and optimization, integrated design and control and systems biology |
Leilah Lyons
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineerign |
Educational software design, computer-supported collaborative learning, human-computer interaction for mobile devices, interactive museum exhibit design |
Sudip Mazumder
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
College of Engineering |
Fuel cells and alternative renewable energy systems
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Constantine M. Megaridis
Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering |
Fluid dynamic phenomena in carbon nanotubes, experimental diagnostics in micro/nanoscale systems, nanoparticle formation in high temperature flows, multiphase heat and mass transfer, nanoparticle colloidal suspensions, droplet and spray technologies, super-repellent coatings, superhydrophobicity, micro/nanofluidics |
Sohail Murad
Professor and Department Head, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering |
Classical and statistical thermodynamics |
Krishna R. Reddy
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering |
Remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater; waste containment; groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling; beneficial reuse of waste and recycled materials |
Karl J. Rockne
Associate Professor, Civil and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering |
Active capping and contaminated sediment cleanup; biodegradation of hazardous pollutants; ecological and human health threat mapping in the Great Lakes; fate of brominated flame retardants; transport of organic contaminants in soil and sediment; micro-structure characterization of sediment, soil, and soot particles; soot transport to Great Lakes sediments/role of soot as vector for semi-volatile organic pollutant transport |
Michael Stroscio
Richard and Loan Hill Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering |
Electrical, optical, and mechanical properties of nanostructures, quantum transport, solid state electronics and optoelectronics, phonons in nanostructures, theory of nanodevices, applications of nanoscale structures and devices in electrical engineering and bioengineering |
Christos G. Takoudis
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, College of Engineering |
Microelectronic materials and processing, heterogeneous catalysis and surface chemistry |
Thomas L. Theis
Director, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy; Professor, Civil and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering |
Mathematical modeling and systems analysis of environmental processes, the environmental chemistry of trace organic and inorganic substances, interfacial reactions, subsurface contaminant transport, hazardous waste management, industrial pollution prevention, industrial ecology |
Ouri Wolfson
Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering |
Database systems, distributed systems, transaction processing, mobile computing |
William M. Worek
Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering |
Heat and mass transfer processes, thermodynamics, advanced energy systems and solar energy engineering |
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Environment and Humanities
Christopher Boyer
Associate Professor, History,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Environmental history, especially in Mexico
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David Hilbert
Associate Professor, Philosophy,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Color, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mind |
Kirk Arden Hoppe
Associate Professor, History,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Modern African history and modern world history, including environmental history, African wildlife and nature preservation
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Dan Peterman
Associate Professor, Studio Arts,
School of Art and Design |
Recycled materials
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Environmental and Occupational Health Science and Medicine
Emily Q. Ahonen
Research Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
- Immigrant and other precarious workforces, women's occupational health, effects of the built environment on health, interdisciplinary applied research, qualitative inquiry and mixed methods in public health research, evaluation methodology
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Badi M. Boulos
Associate Professor Emeritus, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Shool of Public Health |
- Placental transfer of pollutants and compounds and hazards to the unborn fetus, basic toxicology, carcinogenesis, industrial, environmental and clinical toxicology with examples as health hazards in the arts and crafts
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Paul Brandt-Rauf
Dean, School of Public Health; Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Publich Health |
- Environmental carcinogenesis, molecular epidemiology, protein structure-function, gene-environment interactions, cancer prevention, environmental health policy, environmental health ethics
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Sherry Brandt-Rauf
Research Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
- Legal, social, and ethical issues surrounding genetic testing, occupational and environmental health policy, environmental justice, intersection of law and medicine
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Michael Cailas
Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
Water quality monitoring network design, environmental data analysis, risk assessment and cost benefit analysis |
Lorraine Conroy
Professor and Director, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
Characterizing workplace contaminant sources, ventilation system model development and validation, workplace exposure assessment |
Irina V. Dardynskaia
Research Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
- Radiation medicine and radiation protection, epidemiological studies of health effects of radiation and chemical exposure on women and children. Health effects of in utero radiation and chemical exposure, in utero dose reconstruction
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Samuel Dorevitch
Research Associate Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy; Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
Environmental epidemiology, incorporating objective measures of health and exposure; health effects of air pollution; inner-city asthma; occupational allergies and asthma; water quality and health |
Serap Erdal
Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
Environmental and occupational exposure assessment, health risk assessment, development of exposure measurement methods/techniques, multi-media exposure analysis and modeling, aerosol science and technology, validation of size selective particle samplers |
Nurtan Esmen
Research Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy; Professor Emeritus, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
Application of engineering principles and math to occupational and environmental health problems, with special emphases on aerosol physics, exposure estimation and characterization, and the theory of decisionmaking in environmental health sciences. |
Linda Forst
Division Director and Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
Occupational health disparities, farm worker health and safety, occupational injury epidemiology, web-based teaching in environmental health, occupational diseases |
Lee S. Friedman
Assistant Professor,Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology, School of Public Health |
- Injury epidemiology, occupational health, road injury prevention, real-time surveillance, military health issues, child health, conflicts of interest in biomedical research, nnon-ionizing radiation, community health
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David L. Geenen
Assistant Professor, Section of Cardiology, College of Medicine |
Cardiac physiology and cardiac muscle Intracellular Signaling, and hormonal changes in the environment |
Daniel O. Hryhorczuk
Professor Emeritus, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health; Director, Environmental Global Health, College of Medicine |
Health effects of exposure to dioxins, PCBs, heavy metals, and ionizing radiation; global environmental and occupational health; pediatric environmental health; environmental stressors and maternal and child health in eastern Europe |
Steven E. Lacey
Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
- Occupational exposure reconstruction
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An Li
Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
Environmental organic chemistry |
Babette J. Neuberger
Clinical Associate Professor, Health Policy and Administration; Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, School of Public Health |
Environmental/occupational health law and policy nationally and internationally |
Victoria Persky
Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health |
Epidemiology of chronic diseases; epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases |
Peter Scheff
Professor Emeritus, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
Air quality management, development of measurement-based receptor models, characterization and control of indoor air quality, industrial hygiene, occupational and environmental exposure assessment, environmental epidemiology |
Daniel Swartzman
Professor Emeritus, Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health |
Social ethics, toxic substance law and policy, government decisionmaking, medical malpractice litigation and policy, public health advocacy, environmental health policy |
Simon Silver
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine |
Molecular genetics and biochemistry of how bacterial cells cope with toxic overload of inorganic cations and anions |
Leslie T. Stayner
Professor, Epidemiology and Director, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health |
Occupational and environmental epidemiology, epidemiologic methods, risk assessment, cancer and other chronic diseases |
Charles A. Warren
Research Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
- Human factors and behavioral toxicology, neuropsychological studies of the impact of environmental stressors and pollutants, impact of addiction status (tobacco and gambling) and states of relaxation of EEG, ERP and heart rate
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Sylvia H. Washington
Research Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health |
Environmental history, environmental justice, environmental health |
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Environmental Policy, Planning and Design
Ning Ai
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy; Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Urban environmental planning, industrial ecology, sustainable economic development, system analysis of urban sustainability, waste management |
Sarah Dunn
Associate Professor, Architecture,
College of Architecture and the Arts |
Green architecture, planning and design |
Roberta Feldman
Professor, Architecture, College of Architecture and the Arts |
Affordable and public housing design |
Michael Gelick
Professor, Architecture, College of Architecture and the Arts |
Sustainable design |
Charles Hoch
Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Physical planning, housing planning and policy |
Martin Jaffe
Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Land use control, water resources policy and management, environmental protection |
Susan Kaplan
Outreach Activities Coordinator, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy; Visiting Research Coordinator, Occupational Health Service Institute, School of Public Health |
Brownfields, green building, environmental health |
Cindy Klein-Banai
Associate Chancellor for Sustainability |
Sustainability in higher education, sustainability tracking and rating systems |
Henry Kurth
Associate Director, Energy Resources Center, College of Engineering |
Energy efficiency, renewable resource, sustainable development |
Steffen Mueller
Principal Research Economist, Energy Resources Center, College of Engineering |
Efficient energy utilization to reduce energy consumption and emissions, industrial energy system economics, air emissions and other regulatory compliance requirements for distributed energy, resource potential for distributed energy systems |
Michael A. Pagano
Dean, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs; Professor, Public Administrartion, College of Urban Planing and Public Affairs |
Budgeting and finance, urban policy, federalism and intergovernmental relations |
David C. Perry
Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Economic development, planning theory and political economy |
Rachel Weber
Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy and Associate Director for Research and Program Development, Great Cities Institute, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Urban and regional economic development, development finance, municipal government law, planning theory, industrial restructuring, public finance
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Eric Welch
Associate Professor, Public Administration,
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Environmental policy; science and technology policy; R&D performance evaluation; electronic government |
Curtis R. Winkle
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Urban Planning
and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Health planning, management skills, program evaluation, statistics |
Mosheh Wolf
Visiting Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Ecology of human-modified and urban landscapes; the interface between the native species and the anthropogenic environs; biodiversity and sustainability in human-controlled landscapes; spatial animal ecology |
Moira Zellner
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy; Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Environmental planning |
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Natural Sciences
Rafail Abramov
Associate Professor, Mathematics,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Statistical description of chaotic dynamical systems with many conserved quantities, information theory-based predictability, fluctuation-dissipation theorem and its geophysical applications |
Mary V. Ashley
Professor, Biological Sciences,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Molecular ecology, landscape genetics, conservation biology |
Hormoz BasiriRad
Professor, Biological Sciences,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Ecophysiology, plant nutrition and global climate change |
Jean E. Bogner
Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Landfill gas processes and emissions/contaminant hydrogeology |
Joel Brown
Professor, Biological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Evolutionary ecology |
George Crabtree
Distinguished Professor, Physics,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Sustainable energy production, storage and use, materials science, nanoscale superconductors and magnets, vortex matter in superconductors, highly correlated electrons in metals |
Andrew J. Dombard
Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Planetary Science and Exploration, Geophysics
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Peter T. Doran
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Hydrology, quaternary, lacustrine processes, periglacial environments, extreme environments, exobiology |
Martin F. J. Flower
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Petrology, geochemistry, geodynamics, earth evolution |
Steven L. Forman
Professor and Undergraduate Director,
Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Quaternary environments, paleoclimatology, eolian depositional systems, arctic land-sea interactions, neotectonics, geochronology |
Miquel Gonzalez-Meler
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Global change biology, plant and ecosystem physiology, isotope ecology, respiration |
Stephen J. Guggenheim
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Clay mineralogy, organo-clays, phyllosilicates, thermal analysis, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction |
Luke Hanley
Professor and Department Head, Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Research interest lay at the interface of analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, bioengineering, and surface science. We apply advanced instrumental methods to modify and characterize both biological and materials surfaces in several distinct projects
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Henry Howe
Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Biological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Community ecology, experimental restoration, rodent-plant interactions, ecology of tropical seed dispersal |
Boris Igic
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Evolution, mating systems, diversity and disparity within/among organismal groups, quantitative trait loci |
Lon Kaufman
Professor, Biological Sciences; Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Cell signaling processes, sustainable engineering of crop plants of importance to prevent damage caused by stress |
Brian Kay
Professor and Department Head, Biological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Fabien Kenig
Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Biogeochemistry, organic geochemistry, wtable isotope geochemistry, paleoceanography, life in extreme environments |
Roberta J. Mason-Gamer
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Molecular phylogenetics, evolution of polyploids and hybrids, grass systematics |
D'Arcy Meyer-Dombard
Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Geobiology, microbial geochemistry, environmental genomics, ecology of "extreme" environments
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Emily Minor
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy; Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Landscape ecology, urban ecology, conservation planning, dispersal and invasions |
Kathryn L. Nagy
Research Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy; Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Environmental geochemistry, mineral-water interface kinetics and thermodynamics, clay chemistry |
Dennis Nyberg
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Natural area revitalization and conservation |
Roy E. Plotnick
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Paleontology, paleoecology, landscape ecology, spatial statistics, fractals |
Preston T. Snee
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Energy transfer in semiconductor nanocrystals |
Carol A. Stein
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Plate tectonics, marine geophysics, heat flow |
Neil Sturchio
Professor and Department Head, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Geochemistry of rock-water systems, synchrotron radiation studies of mineral-fluid interfaces, environmental geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, actinide decay-series geochronology |
Kate Warpeha
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Cellular stress as a result of environmental change; changing environmental signals (UV, cooling/warming, salt in soils/water table) and how they affect plant developmental responses; plant biochemical technology and engineering |
David Wise
Associate Director, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy; Professor, Biological Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Causes and implications of food-web complexity and explores how human-induced impacts, such as global climate change and habitat modification, will affect the functioning of terrestrial food webs |
Reika Yokochi
Visiting Research Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
Noble gas geochemistry: Hydrosphere, atmosphere and mantle |
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Transportation
Lise Dirks
Research Transportation Specialist, Urban Transportation Center, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
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Land Use and travel behavior, public transportation planning and policy, job access/reverse commute program, Geographic Information Systems in transportation |
Kazuya Kawamura
Professor and Department Head, Urban Planning and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Freight transportation, transportation economics, congestion pricing, accessibility
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Jie Lin
Research Associate Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy; Associate Professor, Civil and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering |
Statistical and mathematical modeling of transportation problems and issues; transportation energy and environmental studies; sustainable transportation systems; data mining |
Paul Metaxatos
Research Assistant Professor, Urban Transportation Center, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
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Passenger and Freight Demand Forecasting, Intelligent Transportation Systems Planning, Transit Planning |
Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian
Associate Professor, Civil and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering |
Travel behavior analysis; transportation planning; activity-based travel demand modeling; microsimulation modeling methods of urban activities; integrated land-use and transportation models; applied econometrics and disaggregate choice models; urban travel survey data and data mining; transportation systems analysis; intelligent transportation systems; performance evaluation of transportation systems |
Steve Schlickman
Executive Director, Urban Transportation Center, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Transportation funding, finance, planning, advocacy, politics and general management |
Siim Sööt
Retired Executive Director, Urban Transportation Center, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Urban sprawl, travel demand |
P.S. Sriraj
Senior Associate and Research Assistant Professor, Urban Transportation Center, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Public transportation systems, Welfare-to-work, Transportation Asset Management, GIS in transportation, socio-economic factors in transportation, and systems thinking/complex problems in transportation |
Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah
Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs |
Urban transportation systems analysis; regional science; interactions between labor markets, economic development and transportation; Intelligent Transportation Systems |
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