Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering Faculty

Our faculty do groundbreaking work in building sustainable and long-lasting infrastructure, monitoring structural conditions, and anticipating and reducing the impact of natural hazards.

  • 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.
  • A headshot of assistant professor Daniel Worthington Smith

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

    Research Interests: Water treatment processes, Water quality; Global water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), Willingness to pay for public service and environmental improvements, Utility consolidation, Hazardous waste site engineering and remediation
  • 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 associate professor Kuo Tian

    Associate 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.
  • 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.
  • Vice president for strategic initiatives Kenneth Walsh

    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.
  • Mason CEIE associate professor Shanjiang Zhu

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

    Research Interests: Travel demand modeling, transportation planning, data analytics, managed lanes and tolling, multi-modal mobility and infrastructure.