News

Bakinam and Mohamed are joining Dewberry in their Resilience team and based in Fairfax, VA. We are so sad to have them leave our group, but excited for their new opportunity.

Linnea Saby has been named a 2019-2020 Presidential Fellow in Data Science at UVA!

Jeff Sadler successfully defended his dissertation! The dissertation was titled Data-driven Techniques to Improve Understanding, Prediction and Mitigation of Urban Coastal Flooding.

Congrats to Linnea and Ben from first place finishes in poster presentations. Linnea won 1st place in the graduate poster contest at VA GeoCon and Ben got first place at the 15th Annual University of Virginia Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS)!

Yawen has successfully defended his dissertation proposal on the topic Flood Risk Assessment and Increased Resilience for Civil Infrastructure in Coastal Regions under the Impact of Climate Change and Sea Level Rise.

Congratulations to group members Alex, Ben, Linnea, Faria, Choi, and Iman for passing their PhD comprehensive exams!

Our group traveled to Washington, D.C. for the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting where group members co-authored a total of 14 talks and posters.

Jon Goodall was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Gina O’Neil successfully defended her Ph.D. Proposal titled Using LiDAR Topographic Data and Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Near-Surface Soil Saturation for Improved Environmental Planning-Scale Wetland Mapping.

Alex Chen won best poster at the 5th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2018) held in Shenzhen, China for his poster titled Reputation System for Ensuring Data Trustworthiness of Crowdsourced Weather Stations.