PhD Student Directory: A to P

Adams

Pozzi
LinkedIn
My research explores applications of sequential decision making, reinforcement learning, and optimization methods to contemporary energy-transportation problems, including electric fleet design, route planning, and equitable ridepooling.

Acharya
LinkedIn
Theoretical and computational modeling of dynamical interactions in line defects including dislocations or cracks, with applications to plasticity, liquid crystal glass membrane, and earthquake rupture dynamics.

Gordon
LinkedIn
Using the UK Met Office Unified Model, I model aerosol-cloud interactions during coastal fog events.

Wang

Qian

Dayal

Flanigan & Berges
LinkedIn
My research is on cyber-physical-social infrastructure systems (CPSIS) with a focus on achieving human-centered and social objectives by actuating physical infrastructure systems.

Tang & Akinci

Qian

Harper
LinkedIn
Assess how micromobility (shared bikes, e-scooters) reshape urban transportation

Qian

Gordon
LinkedIn
Atmospheric Modeling, Aerosol Indirect Effects, Fog Microphysics, Visibility, Dust

Flannigan & Qian
LinkedIn
Multimodal transportation network modeling to measure the accessibility of essential services across different communities and inform improvements in mobility services

Akinci & Berges
LinkedIn
I study deep space habitats design for NASA human exploration missions. My current focus is on quantifying uncertainties when integrating computational models.

Dayal

Dayal & Rounce
LinkedIn
My research is about the mechanics of sea ice and developing continuum models for sea ice rheology.

My research focuses on mercury pollution in an aquatic environment.

Akinci & Berges
LinkedIn
Fault diagnosis of temperature and humidity control systems on terrestrial and space habitats

My research focuses on optimizing the maintenance and enhancing the operation of commercial vehicle fleets.

Nock

My current research projects focus on improving the representation of organic aerosols in the Unified Model to study the climate effects of biomass burning and evaluating the performance of reduced-complexity air quality models for policy applications.

Samaras & Nock
LinkedIn
My research is on climate change impacts within the residential sector, focusing on rising temperatures and vulnerable populations’ electricity consumption. The aim is to support the development of more equitable climate adaptation plans and policies.

Nock & Samaras

Dayal

Flanigan

Lee

Rounce
LinkedIn
My research focuses on improving the performance of glacier evolution models through enhanced calibration techniques and high-resolution spatial and climate datasets based on remote sensing and statistical tools.

Dayal
LinkedIn
My research focuses on solving physical problems, especially quantum mechanics using machine learning and dimension reduction methods.

Acharya
LinkedIn
Solving Partial Differential Equations with a Finite Element-Based Computational Scheme based on Duality.

Qian

Qian
Transportation Planning, Human Mobility, Infrastructure Resilience

Wang
LinkedIn
(i) Nanoscale fluid flow and heat transfer physics. (ii) Uncertainty quantification for transport phenomena in molecular simulations. (iii) Machine learning and nanoscale physics
Flanigan
LinkedIn
My research interests lie in the internet of things, smart cities, and intelligent infrastructures.

Qian

Qian

Tang
LinkedIn
My research interest lies in integrating human and AI for transferring inspection and operational experiences of critical civil infrastructure and industrial plants through extended reality.

Gregory

VanBriesen & Samaras
LinkedIn
My research involves assessing climate risk to drinking water utilities, including quantifying changes to distribution infrastructure reliability, analyzing effects on operations and finances, and developing general climate adaptation strategies.

Flanigan & Berges
LinkedIn
Predictive Maintenance Digital Twins.

Electrification of transportation with an emphasis on public transit

Lowry
LinkedIn
My research examines the factors controlling the adsorption of perfluorinated compounds to colloidal activated carbon for use in groundwater remediation.

Berges
LinkedIn
My research interests include building energy management, digital twins, semantic modeling, AI-driven predictive maintenance, and human behavior modeling for energy consumption.

Lee

Lowry
LinkedIn
I study the development of engineered nanomaterials as carriers for agrochemicals as well as the factors that drive plant-nanoparticle interactions.

Building Information Modeling, Generative AI and ML

Lee

Presto & Adams

Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory whose research focuses on semantic modeling and digitization of building controls