Meet the Team

Genda Chen
Genda Chen

Director, Professor and Robert W. Abbett Distinguished Chair

Natalie Hankinson

Program / Project Coordinator

Research Engineer
Son Nguyen

Research Engineer

Woubishet Taffese
Woubishet Taffese

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Ritesh Sharma
Ying Zhuo

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Shirin Nasr Esfahani
Shirin Nasr Esfahani

Post-Doctoral Fellow

2025 Top Research Expenditure Award

Xiong Zhang
Xiong Zhang

Professor

Guirong Yan
Guirong Yan

Professor

Members

Ahmad Alsharoa
Ahmad Alsharoa

Assistant Professor

Steven Corns
Steven Corns

Associate Chair and Associate Professor

Sajal Das
Sajal Das

Curators' Distinguished Professor and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair

Michael Davis
Michael Davis

Associate Professor & Interim Department Chair

Kristen Donnell
Kristen Donnell

Woodard Associate Professor of Excellence and Director, Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies (CIES)

Islam El-Adaway
Islam El-Adaway

Associate Dean, Professor, Founding Director, and Director

Mohamed ElGawady
Mohamed ElGawady

Professor and Alard and Sheri Kaplan Faculty Scholar

Shane Epting
Shane Epting

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Mahelet G. Fikru
Mahelet G. Fikru

Professor

Emad Hassan

Assistant Professor

Jenny Liu
Jenny Liu

Professor

Hongyan Ma
Hongyan Ma

Kummer Impact Professor, Francisco Benavides Scholar, and Professor

Sanjay Madria
Sanjay Madria

Curators' Distinguished Professor

Shelley Minteer
Shelley Minteer

Director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability

Siddhardh Nadendla
Siddhardh Nadendla

Assistant Professor

Heath Pickerill
Heath Pickerill

Director of Missouri’s Local Technical Assistance Program & Rural Transit Assistance Program, Assistant Teaching Professor

Sahra Sedigh
Sahra Sedigh Sarvestani

Associate Professor

Pourya Shamsi
Pourya Shamsi

Associate Professor

Huiyuan Yang
Huiyuan Yang

Assistant Professor