Research Group Members
The research group involves graduate students at the Ph.D. and M.Sc. levels, as well as undergraduate students. Several international collaborations are also in place.
Paolo Bocchini, Ph.D.
Sushreyo Misra, Ph.D
Research scientist
Group member since March 2023
- Catastrophe modeling
Chao Sheng
Postdoctoral research associate
Starting in June 2023- Catastrophe Modeling
Xingjian Wang
Doctoral student
Group member since October 2017 (formerly M.Sc. student in the group)
- 3D printing by selective binder activation
- Structural topology optimization
- Numerical modeling of bridges
Sena Mürsel
Doctoral student
Group member since August 2019- Functional quantization
- Probabilistic modeling of infectious diseases
- Probabilistic modeling of natural hazards
Xinyue Wang
Doctoral student
Group member since August 2019- Wildfires
- Class fragility analysis for power infrastructure
- Post-disaster emergency traffic routing
Robin Hendricks
Doctoral student
Group member since August 2019Fritz Industrial Testing Supervisor
- Mechanics and modeling of steel connections
- Fiber-reinforced cementitious-matrix materials
Urinrin Otite
Doctoral student
Group member since August 2021- Post-processing or 3D printed concrete artifacts
- Reliability of marine energy harvesting devices
Joshua Tupper
Doctoral student
Group member since August 2021- Application of data science to bridge monitoring
Aayush Bansal
Master student
Group member since December 2022- Hurricate fragility of energy transmission line support structures
Hitesh Javaregowda
Master student
Group member since December 2022- Hurricate fragility of energy transmission line support structures
Chloe Shipley
Undergraduate student
Group member during September 2022 - December 2022 and since April 2023- Hurricane fragility of power transmission towers
- Data collection for a testbed in Florida
Kathryn Neumann
Clare Booth Luce student
Group member since April 2023- Computational platforms for catastrophe modeling and resilience analysis
Sonali Jepal
REU student
Group member since May 2023- Resilience of underground transportation infrastructure
Former Graduate Students and PostDocs
Claudio Meles
Visiting Master of Science student
Group member during August 2014 - January 2015(co-advised by Dr. Alessandro Marzani)
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- Enhancement of a methodology for the detection of blockages in pipe networks for oil and gas.
Cheng Tang
Former Master of Science student
Group member during August 2013 - December 2015
- Seismic aftershocks: probabilistic modeling and impact on disaster management and resilience of infrastructure systems
Francesco Rigato
Visiting Master of Science student
Group member during January 2016 - June 2016(co-advised by Dr. Mariano Zanini)
- Infrastructure interdependency assessment through time-series analysis
Bushe Yang
Former Master of Science student
Group member since December 2014On leave since June 2016
- Modelling and sampling of multi-variate wind loads applied to tall buildings
Julia Tomasi
Former Master of Science student
Group member during January 2015 - December 2016
- Energy harvesting from piezo-electric devices applied to civil infrastructure
Aman Karamlou, Ph.D.
- Resilience of bridge networks
- Assessment of seismic bridge fragility
- Parallel computing for large simulation of non-linear time-history analyses under uncertainty
Graziano Fiorillo, Ph.D.
Former postdoctoral research associate
Group member during February 2016 - August 2017(co-supervised by Dr. Javier Buceta)
- Non-homogeneous virus spreading
Roberta Stirparo
Visiting Master of Science student
Group member during July 2017 - February 2018(co-advised by Dr. Christian Carloni)
- Concrete durability and life-cycle assessment
Amirali Shojaeian
Former Master of Science student
Group member during September 2015 - February 2018
- Concrete durability
- Simulation of random functions
Joseph Ingaglio
Former MSc to PhD Student
Group member during January 2017 - January 2019(co-supervised by Drs. Clay Naito and John Fox)
- 3D Printing of cementitious materials
Mao Cheng
Former doctoral student
Group member May 2018 - January 2019- Functional quantization and regional analysis
Jeff Brietling
Former Master of Engineering Student
Group member during January 2019 - May 2019(formerly group member also as undergraduate)
- 3D printing of concrete elements
Vasileios Christou,Ph.D.
Former doctoral student and postdoctoral research associate
Group member during August 2012 - August 2019 (PhD) and September 2019 - July 2020 (Postdoc)
- Simulation of random fields for applications in structural engineering
- Functional Quantization
- Regional hazard simulation (earthquakes and hurricanes)
Shaohao Ning
Former Master of Science student
Group member during October 2019 - August 2021- Longitudinal data collection for post-disaster analaysis of community resilience
- Resilience of bridge systems
Zaiao Zhang
Former Master of Science student
Group member during October 2019 - May 2021- Transportation infrastructure data collection and modeling
Fahim Rustamy,Ph.D.
Former doctoral student
Group member During June 2017 - May 2022(co-advised by Dr. Richard Sause)
- Resilience of electrical substations
Liyang Ma, Ph.D.
Former doctoral student and postdoctoral research associate
Group member during August 2015 - December 2020 (PhD) and January 2021 - February 2022 (Postdoc, co-supervised by Dr. Daniel Conus)
- Wind fragility of power transmission systems
- Resilience of electricity infrastructure
- Multi-hazard quantization
Wenjuan Sun, Ph.D.
Former postdoctoral research associate
Group member during February 2016 - August 2022(co-supervised by Dr. Brian Davison)
- Probabilistic resilience assessment of interdependent systems (PRAISys)
Mohanad A. A. Khazaali
Former doctoral student
Group member during August 2015 - May 2017 (MSc) and June 2017 - Jan 2023 (PhD)
- Fragility and resilience of communication towers and communication systems
- Concrete durability
Haifeng Wang, Ph.D.
Former postdoctoral research associate
Group member during September 2021 - December 2022 (co-supervised by Dr. Jamie Padgett)
- Disaster resilience of coastal communities
After Lehigh, Haifeng joined the faculty of Washington State University.
Former Undergraduate Research Collaborators
Andrew Callahan
- Stochastic Finite Element Methods.
Tara Hofferth
- Data collection and processing for resilience analysis of transportation networks.
Heba Elsayed
- Modeling of bridges and urban transportation networks for seismic resilience analysis
Elaine Ivy
- Probability of road obstructions due to debris from collapsing buildings during an earthquake.
Alex Keller
Former undergraduate student
Group member during May 2015 - August 2015
- Infrastructure Interdependencies
Tyler Wang
Former undergraduate student
Group member during August 2015 - December 2015
- Infrastructure interdependency
Kathryn Hooven
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2015 - December 2015
- Resilience of the Lehigh Valley
Weida Liu
Former undergraduate student
Group member during August 2014 - May 2016
- Multi-hazard modeling
Mountaintop 2016
Team of 8 students
Group members during June 2016 - August 2016(co-supervised by Dr. Herman Nied)
Dedicated page
- Establishing a flow network for experiments on blockages and their detection
Jeff Schwartz
Former undergraduate student
Group member during June 2016 - August 2016
- Metrics for community resilience
Kris Datta
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2016 - December 2016
- Development of a community resilience testbed
Julia Patterson
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2016 - December 2016
- Community resilience metrics
Jeff Brietling
Former undergraduate student
Group member during June 2016 - December 2016
- Detection of blockages in a large pipeline network
- Experimental assessment of concrete durability
Diana Melendez
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2016 - December 2016
- Concrete durability against chloride penetration
Kyle Bordner
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2016 - May 2017
- Community resilience metrics
Mountaintop 2017
Team of 3 students
Group members during June 2017 - August 2017(co-supervised by Drs. Clay Naito and John Fox)
Dedicated page
- Advancing 3D concrete printing: methods, materials, and applications
Jacob Anderson
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2016 - September 2017
- Building resilience assessment
Praveen Joseph
Former undergraduate student
Group member during February 2018 - May 2018- Concrete durability and probabilistic life-cycle analysis of concrete mixes
Kinga Kuczynski
Former undergraduate student
Group member during February 2018 - May 2018- Life-cycle analysis of 3D-printed concrete
Louis Lin
Former undergraduate student
Group member during February 2018 - May 2018and August 2018 - December 2018
- Infrastructure systems modeling, data collection and processing
Spencer Levenson
Former undergraduate student
Group member during February 2018 - May 2018- Concrete durability and probabilistic life-cycle analysis of concrete mixes
Chase Gallik
Former undergraduate student (REU)
Group member during May 2017 - August 2017;REU during May 2018 - August 2018 (co-advised by Dr. Sause);
group member during January 2019 - May 2019
- Innovative data collection for power grids
- Electric substations vulnerability
- Combination of GIS and machine learning
Natalie Rosato
Former undergraduate student (REU)
Group member during May 2018 - August 2018- Hazard scenario selection
Victoria Pasini
Former undergraduate student
Group member during May 2018 - May 2019- Regional data collection for transportation infrastructure
- GIS
- Hurricane data collection
Morgan Comisac
Former undergraduate student
Group member during January 2019 - May 2019- Resilience of transportation networks and associated data
Tsering Dingtsa
Former undergraduate student
Group member during January 2019 - May 2019- 3D printing of concrete elements
Vaafoulay Kanneh
Former undergraduate student
Group member during January 2019 - May 2019- Automated acquisition of communication infrastructure data
- 3D printing of concrete elements
Marcia Bardman
Former undergraduate student
Group member during May 2019 - August 2019- Collection of hurricane recovery data
Pawat Rithipreedanant
Former undergraduate student
REU during May 2019 - August 2019Group member during August 2019 - August 2020
- Automated structural classification by machine learning
Raul Ramirez-Campos
Former undergraduate student
Group member during DEcember 2020 - February 2021- Survey on disaster recovery of power substations
Anna Smith
Undergraduate student
Group member during January 2019 - May 2020, Global Social Impact Fellow (co-advised by Dr. Buceta)- Data collection and processing strategies for the transmission of filoviruses to humans
Thomas Szewczyk
Undergraduate student
Group member during August 2019 - June 2020 (co-advised by Dr. Brian Davison) and during August 2020 - December 2020- PRAISys platform development for infrastructure resilience
- Expert survey on telecom infrastructure recovery
Alexis Javier
Undergraduate student
Group during since August 2020 - December 2020- Expert survey on telecom infrastructure recovery
Abdur Raqeeb Rahaman
Undergraduate student
REU student during May - August 2021- Seismic fagility of underground tunnels
Nate Alter
Former undergraduate student
Group member during January 2019 - August 2021, Global Social Impact Fellow (co-advised by Dr. Buceta)- Data collection and processing strategies for the transmission of filoviruses to humans
Lindsay Slavit
Former undergraduate student
Group member during January 2019 - August 2021, Global Social Impact Fellow (co-advised by Dr. Buceta)- Models for the transmission of filoviruses to humans
Tucker Bayda
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2021 - May 2022 (and previously collaborator)- Manufacturing process and tools for 3D printed concrete
Ryan Saks
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2021 - February 2022- Resilience of telecommunication systems
Trevor Belinsky
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2021 - December 2021 (previously collaborator)- Manufacturing process and tools for 3D printed concrete
Anna Behringer
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2021 - December 2022- Design and manufacture an installation with 3D printed concrete
Leah Marville
Former REU student
Group member during May - August 2022- Catastrophe modeling of undeground infrastructure
Peter Misiewicz
Former undergraduate student
Group member during May - December 2022- Hurricane fragility of power transmission towers
- Data collection for a testbed in Florida
Jeremy Baidoo
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2022 - December 2022- Survey deployment to assess performance of topology optimization algorithms versus expert solutions
Philip DeLise
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2022 - December 2022- Survey deployment to assess performance of topology optimization algorithms versus expert solutions
Johanna Gutierrez
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2022 - December 2022- Survey deployment to assess performance of topology optimization algorithms versus expert solutions
Daisy Remache
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2022 - December 2022- Survey deployment to assess performance of topology optimization algorithms versus expert solutions
Chloe Shipley
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2022 - December 2022- Hurricane fragility of power transmission towers
- Data collection for a testbed in Florida
Yushun Zou
Former undergraduate student
Group member during September 2022 - December 2022- Survey deployment to assess performance of topology optimization algorithms versus expert solutions