The Transforming Urban Underground Infrastructure (TUUI) Collaborative

Members

Steering Committee

Elise Miller-Hooks
Joanne Leach
Priscilla Nelson
Kenichi Soga

TUUI Members

Ibraheem Abdul-Azeez
Lagos State University
Researcher in Urban Transport and Logistics
Abdul Ahad
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India
Urban Mobility
Hakob Avetisyan
California State University Fullerton
CEE Engineering, Project Management, Construction, Sustainability, Economic Analysis
Alireza Azadnia
George Mason University
Transportation systems, Maritime shipping
Farrukh Baig
Interdisciplinary Research Center for Sustainable Energy System, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Electric Vehicles, Transportation Planning, Public Policy, Urban Management
Luciana Barroso
Zachry Dept Civil & Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University
Assoc. Dept. Head for Undergraduate Programs and Assoc Prof. in Civil Engineering
VEDAT BAYRAM
Department of Analytics, Operations, and Systems, Kent Business School, the University of Kent, UK
Assoc. Prof. of Operations Research with an expertise in learning-based and large scale optimization
Kheira Bekkadja
VHB/GMU
Bert Bosseler
IKT - Institute for Underground Infrastructure, Germany
Scientific Director, Sewer and Pipeline Engineering and 1:1 scale tests
John Bridgeman
University of Liverpool
Water and wastewater infratructure
KC Chang
GMU
Sensor data fusion and probabilistic inference
Lyra Chen
University of Washington
Sandeep Chitta
Michigan Technological University
Experimental and DEM modeling of granular materials and soils for resilient underground infrastructu
Cliff Davidson
Syracuse University
Attributes of infrastructure that promote sustainability, including minimizing climate change
Flavia De Luca
University of Bristol
Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering, Soil-Structure Interaction, Large Scale Experimental Test
Irem Dikmen
University of Reading
Construction Risk Assessment and Management, Systems Modelling, Climate Risk and Resilience
Matt Doyle
Fairfax County Government DPWES/CAP/WDCD
I have worked with underground infrastructure projects in the mid-Atlantic for nearly 40 years.
David Eichinger
MS Computer Science Student
Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision
Sevgi Erdogan
Syracuse University
My research focuses on creating more equitable and sustainable communities by understanding the comp
Celso Ferreira
George Mason University
Flood Hazards Engineering
Vikash Gayah
Penn State University
traffic flow theory, transportation safety, transportation network modeling,
Catalina Gonzalez Duenas
George Mason University
Structural Engineering, Multi-hazard Risk Assessment, Applied Machine Learning
Zhaomiao Guo
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematical modeling and computation focusing on coupled transportation and energy systems.
Subash Gupta
CES
Experience in Traffic
Kidanemariam Alula Habtegiorgis
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Discrete Choice modelling, Travel behavior, AI, ML & GIS applications in transportation
Youssef Hashash
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tunneling design and monitoring, earthquake engineering
Md Sami Hasnine
Virginia Tech
AI in Travel Behavior, Travel Demand, Econometrics, Public Transportation Demand & Fare Enforcement
Guiping Hu
GMU
Arun Jaganathan
Louisiana Tech University
Non-destructive testing of buried pipes, sensors for horizontal directional drilling machines
Joanne Leach
University of Birmingham
Mobility, built environment, infrastructure, health and wellbeing
Martina Leveni
The Ohio State University
Underground energy storage. Geothermal energy. Subsurface resources.
Ziyue (Jelly) Li
Florida State University
Tianyi Li
Saint Louis University
Tianyi Li is an assistant professor of transportation engineering at Saint Louis University. He earn
Jelly Li
Florida State University
Transportation Engineering
Daan Liang
University of Alabama
diaster resilience
Stephen Lisse
Stephen D. Lisse PE
Experienced on seven infrastructure megaprojects and maintaining/operating underground infrastruture
Yingxiao Liu
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rowan University
geotechnical engineering, seepage, numerical modeling, and machine learning
Mosi London
Arlington County Department of Environmental Services
Planner, researcher and educator in transportation policy, safety and technology
Fleur Loveridge
University of Leeds
energy geostructures, underground thermal energy storage, climate resilience
Lauren McMillan
Northumbria University
Data-driven analysis of water distribution systems
Elise Miller-Hooks
George Mason University
Transportation systems, stochastic modelling and algorithms, resilience, disrupted systems
Anil Misra
Florida International University
Micromechanics and Metamaterials, Geomechanics/Geomaterials
Mike Mooney
Colorado School of Mines
Tunnel and underground space design and construction
Fatemeh Nazari
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Transportation Demand Forecast and Travel Behavior Analysis with Advanced Methods like Data Analysis
Priscilla Nelson
Colorado School of Mines
Geotech, geological and geoenv. eng, underground construction, design of underground facilities
Aida Nemalhabib
George Mason University
Transportation systems, data science and machine learning
Esdras Ngezahayo
University of Birmingham, UK
Transportation geotechnics, underground stabilisation, sustainable geotechnics, climatic geohazards
Shuna Ni
University of Maryland at College Park
Fire resilience of Built Environments
Jelena Ninic
Durham University
AI and simulation-driven digital twins for underground infrastructure
Mohamadhossein Noruzoliaee
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Transportation; Cybersecurity; Aging Infrastructure Maintenance Analytics; Network Modeling
Michael Onabanjo
Olabisi Onabanjo University
Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Yuyan Pan
Florida State University
Luca Pappalardo
ISTI-CNR
Expert in human mobility, AI-driven urban systems, and algorithmically mediated mobility
Debra Phillips
Queen's University of Belfast
soil, geology, contaminated soil and water, GIS, remediation, landfills, groundwater
Shmulik Pinkert
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Geotechnical Engineering, Optimization of complex foundation systems
Kalyan Piratla
Clemson
Pipeline resilience assessment, pipeline asset management, and trenchless methods
Roderick Radzikowski
PhD student at George Mason University @ CEIE - Transportation
Project Manager - Engineer III Project Manager - Engineer III Transportation Design Division, Fai
Mark Reiner
Acuitas 3D, LLC co-founder
Former Director of Resilient Infrastructure at Jacobs. Three start-ups infrastructure modelling
Pouya Rezai
George Mason University
Microfluidic sensors to detect water chemical and biological contaminants rapidly and sensitively
Chris Rogers
University of Birmingham
Trenchless Technology, Buried Pipes, Underground Space
Matteo Rubinato
Aston University
Gaetana Rubino
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
Expert in sustainable mobility, logistics, and project management with a systemic approach.
Bahar Shahverdi
MWCOG, GMU
Interdependent lifelines, post disaster restoration and resilience, travel demand modeler
Lance Sherry
George Mason University - Center for Air Transportation Systems Research
System Engineering, Data Analytics, Transportation, Energy, Safety
Xianming Shi
University of Miami
Nanotechnology, Electrochemical Engineering, Materials science, Concrete Durability, Corrosion prote
Daniel Smith
George Mason University
Drinking water, wastewater, and hazardous waste engineering practice and research
Kenichi Soga
UC - Berkeley
Infrastructure sensing, infrastructure modeling, geomechanics, underground construction
Rohith Swaminathan
Research Assistant
Master's Degree in Geotechnical Engineering. 3 Years of Experience-Tunnels and Underground Infra
Kuo Tian
George Mason University
geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering
Hao Wang
Rutgers University
Transportation infrastructure resilience and sustainability; Smart infrastructure; AI applications
Lei Wang
University of Cincinnati
geotechnical engineeirng, underground infrastructure, deep excavation, tunnels
Shi'an Wang
The University of Kansas
Intelligent transportation systems, control systems, optimization
Graeme West
The Alan Turing Institute
Artificial Intelligence, asset management, prognostics
Suguang Xiao
Clarkson University
Soil-Structure Interaction, Cold Regions Engineering, Earthquake Engineering
Bo Xiao
Michigan Technological University
research experience in construction managemetn, BIM, AI and robotics
Tim Yates
UCL
Marketing and operational support for UKCRIC
Ashkan Zare Hadesh
George Mason University
Transportation systems, data analyst
Shanjiang Zhu
George Mason University
Travel demand modeling, transportation planning, transportation data analytics