Project Members
Dr. Qiong (Jane) Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of South Florida. Her research focuses on sustainability assessment, process modeling and system modeling with applications to water and wastewater systems, solid waste systems, water-energy-nutrient nexus and critical interdependent infrastructures. Her research strongly emphasizes life cycle thinking, systems thinking and bio-inspired thinking with intent to transform how we design our infrastructures with discovery and application of the universal principles across human and natural systems. Her students are currently developing treatment process models and decision support tools with active collaboration with partnering utilities for integrated water/wastewater systems for resource recovery, interdependent water, transportation and cyber infrastructures for resilience improvement, and watershed level green infrastructure implementation for stormwater management.
Qing Lu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering and M.A. degree in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked for the University of California Pavement Research Center as a project scientist and a laboratory manager before he joined the USF. He has sponsored research projects in the areas of asphalt materials and pavements, pavement design, maintenance, and management, pavement evaluation and safety, and critical infrastructures resiliency. His research areas include sustainable pavement engineering, transportation infrastructure management, highway designs for sustainable, environment-friendly, electric and autonomous transportation.
Dr. Yu Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of South Florida and leads the Next Generation Transportation System Lab (Nexts-Lab). Her research applies operations research techniques to model and analyze transportation systems with applications in air transportation, resilient infrastructure, shared mobility, and emerging technologies and innovative services in transportation. Dr. Zhang has published more than thirty papers in prestigious transportation journals and been invited to present her work in many high-influential international conferences. Dr. Zhang serves as the Chair of Transportation Research Board standing committee on airfield and airspace capacity and delay and on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part C- Emerging Technologies and International Journal of Sustainable Transportation.
Shima Mohebbi is an assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Oklahoma. She received her PhD in ISE, and her second Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Tennessee, and achieved several academic recognitions and fellowships during her graduate studies. She joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida for her postdoctoral studies in 2015. She was also a visiting scholar in the University of Exeter’s center for water systems, UK, in summer 2017. Dr. Mohebbi’s research interests include algorithmic game theory, simulation modeling, stochastic programming, and high dimensional data mining.
Dr. Xinming (Simon) Ou is professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Florida. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2005. Before joining USF in fall 2015, he had been a faculty member at Kansas State University since 2006. Dr. Ou's research is primarily in cyber defense technologies, with focuses on human-centered approaches. He has broad interest and on-going work in cyber-physical system security, intrusion/forensics analysis, moving-target defense, and mobile system security. He is the author of the MulVAL attack graph tool which has been used by Idaho National Laboratory, Defence Research and Development Canada -- Ottawa, NATO, NIST, Thales Groups, General Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Army Research Laboratory, and researchers from numerous academic institutions. Dr. Ou's research has been funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), HP Labs, and Rockwell Collins. He is a recipient of 2010 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a three-time winner of HP Labs Innovation Research Program (IRP) award, and 2013 Kansas State University Frankenhoff Outstanding Research Award.
Dr. Christian Wells is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Brownfields Research and Redevelopment at the University of South Florida, where he has served previously as Founding Director of the Office of Sustainability and as Deputy Director of the College of Global Sustainability. He is an applied environmental anthropologist who conducts NSF- and EPA-funded research on how people’s values and beliefs influence their interactions with WaSH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) infrastructure. He has published over 100 scientific articles and essays and his work has been featured by various media outlets including The New York Times and New Scientist. He was recently awarded the Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award, the Global Achievement Award for Outstanding Global Student Success, and the Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award from the University of South Florida along with the Black Bear Award by the Sierra Club of Tampa Bay “in recognition of outstanding dedication to sustainability and the environment.”
Dr. Zhao is a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at USF. Her area of interests are transportation system resilience analysis, transportation system modeling and simulation, traffic flow theory and oscillation detection, control methods for connected and autonomous vehicles, and charging facility location optimization for Electric Vehicles especially EV bus system. She served as peer reviewer for various journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of Advanced Transportation, Transportation Research Record-Journal of the Transportation Research Board, and IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
I am a PhD candidate in the department of computer science.
Hung is a doctoral student in the Department of Industrial Management Systems Engineering. Prior to joining USF, he worked at Intel Products Vietnam as a Process & Equipment Engineer for 4 years and Jetstar Pacific Airlines for 1 year. His research interest and experiences are data analytics and system reliability, condition-based monitoring and health management.
Noha is a student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, with a water resources concentration. Her research investigates the function of water infrastructure in the greater context of urban design.
Shihab Uddin is currently a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USF. He got his bachelors in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh in 2015 and Masters in Civil Engineering (Transportation) (MCE) from USF in 2018. Shihab also works as a Research Assistant in USF under Dr. Qing Lu’s supervision. His research interests include resilience of transportation infrastructure, interdependency between transportation and other critical infrastructures, travel demand and traffic flow modeling and simulation. As part of USF CRISP diverse research group, he is working on identifying and modeling physical and/or geospatial interdependency between water and transportation infrastructure. The overall objective of his research is to enhance the resiliency of both infrastructures utilizing the findings from interdependency model. Part of his research is also trying to identify critical links in the transportation network using regional travel demand model as a tool.
Leili Soltanisehat is a Ph.D. student and Graduate Research assistant in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Oklahoma. She has been honored through receipt of the graduate scholarship by Old Dominion University on 2016. She earned the graduate certificate in Engineering Management and System Engineering from Old Dominion University. Her research is focused on modeling and simulating of the interdependent critical infrastructures’ resiliency. Also she has done parallel research on decentralized systems specifically on Blockchain Technology.
Mathews is a doctoral student of applied anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. His research is focused on understanding the social and cultural dimensions of water infrastructures and how they affect infrastructure management and user experiences. As a research assistant on the USF-CRISP project, he uses anthropological approaches to evaluate the social, cultural, economic and political factors that influence the resilience of critical and interdependent infrastructures.
Adam joined USF in 2016 and working as a research assistant for Dr. Yu Zhang. His researh interests include electric vehicle charging and discharging scheduling, network modeling and statistic data analysis.
Dr. Qiong (Jane) Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of South Florida. Her research focuses on sustainability assessment, process modeling and system modeling with applications to water and wastewater systems, solid waste systems, water-energy-nutrient nexus and critical interdependent infrastructures. Her research strongly emphasizes life cycle thinking, systems thinking and bio-inspired thinking with intent to transform how we design our infrastructures with discovery and application of the universal principles across human and natural systems. Her students are currently developing treatment process models and decision support tools with active collaboration with partnering utilities for integrated water/wastewater systems for resource recovery, interdependent water, transportation and cyber infrastructures for resilience improvement, and watershed level green infrastructure implementation for stormwater management.
Qing Lu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering and M.A. degree in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked for the University of California Pavement Research Center as a project scientist and a laboratory manager before he joined the USF. He has sponsored research projects in the areas of asphalt materials and pavements, pavement design, maintenance, and management, pavement evaluation and safety, and critical infrastructures resiliency. His research areas include sustainable pavement engineering, transportation infrastructure management, highway designs for sustainable, environment-friendly, electric and autonomous transportation.
Dr. Yu Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of South Florida and leads the Next Generation Transportation System Lab (Nexts-Lab). Her research applies operations research techniques to model and analyze transportation systems with applications in air transportation, resilient infrastructure, shared mobility, and emerging technologies and innovative services in transportation. Dr. Zhang has published more than thirty papers in prestigious transportation journals and been invited to present her work in many high-influential international conferences. Dr. Zhang serves as the Chair of Transportation Research Board standing committee on airfield and airspace capacity and delay and on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part C- Emerging Technologies and International Journal of Sustainable Transportation.
Shima Mohebbi is an assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Oklahoma. She received her PhD in ISE, and her second Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Tennessee, and achieved several academic recognitions and fellowships during her graduate studies. She joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida for her postdoctoral studies in 2015. She was also a visiting scholar in the University of Exeter’s center for water systems, UK, in summer 2017. Dr. Mohebbi’s research interests include algorithmic game theory, simulation modeling, stochastic programming, and high dimensional data mining.
Dr. Xinming (Simon) Ou is professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Florida. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2005. Before joining USF in fall 2015, he had been a faculty member at Kansas State University since 2006. Dr. Ou's research is primarily in cyber defense technologies, with focuses on human-centered approaches. He has broad interest and on-going work in cyber-physical system security, intrusion/forensics analysis, moving-target defense, and mobile system security. He is the author of the MulVAL attack graph tool which has been used by Idaho National Laboratory, Defence Research and Development Canada -- Ottawa, NATO, NIST, Thales Groups, General Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Army Research Laboratory, and researchers from numerous academic institutions. Dr. Ou's research has been funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), HP Labs, and Rockwell Collins. He is a recipient of 2010 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a three-time winner of HP Labs Innovation Research Program (IRP) award, and 2013 Kansas State University Frankenhoff Outstanding Research Award.
Dr. Christian Wells is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Brownfields Research and Redevelopment at the University of South Florida, where he has served previously as Founding Director of the Office of Sustainability and as Deputy Director of the College of Global Sustainability. He is an applied environmental anthropologist who conducts NSF- and EPA-funded research on how people’s values and beliefs influence their interactions with WaSH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) infrastructure. He has published over 100 scientific articles and essays and his work has been featured by various media outlets including The New York Times and New Scientist. He was recently awarded the Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award, the Global Achievement Award for Outstanding Global Student Success, and the Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award from the University of South Florida along with the Black Bear Award by the Sierra Club of Tampa Bay “in recognition of outstanding dedication to sustainability and the environment.”
Dr. Zhao is a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at USF. Her area of interests are transportation system resilience analysis, transportation system modeling and simulation, traffic flow theory and oscillation detection, control methods for connected and autonomous vehicles, and charging facility location optimization for Electric Vehicles especially EV bus system. She served as peer reviewer for various journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of Advanced Transportation, Transportation Research Record-Journal of the Transportation Research Board, and IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
I am a PhD candidate in the department of computer science.
Hung is a doctoral student in the Department of Industrial Management Systems Engineering. Prior to joining USF, he worked at Intel Products Vietnam as a Process & Equipment Engineer for 4 years and Jetstar Pacific Airlines for 1 year. His research interest and experiences are data analytics and system reliability, condition-based monitoring and health management.
Noha is a student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, with a water resources concentration. Her research investigates the function of water infrastructure in the greater context of urban design.
Shihab Uddin is currently a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USF. He got his bachelors in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh in 2015 and Masters in Civil Engineering (Transportation) (MCE) from USF in 2018. Shihab also works as a Research Assistant in USF under Dr. Qing Lu’s supervision. His research interests include resilience of transportation infrastructure, interdependency between transportation and other critical infrastructures, travel demand and traffic flow modeling and simulation. As part of USF CRISP diverse research group, he is working on identifying and modeling physical and/or geospatial interdependency between water and transportation infrastructure. The overall objective of his research is to enhance the resiliency of both infrastructures utilizing the findings from interdependency model. Part of his research is also trying to identify critical links in the transportation network using regional travel demand model as a tool.
Leili Soltanisehat is a Ph.D. student and Graduate Research assistant in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Oklahoma. She has been honored through receipt of the graduate scholarship by Old Dominion University on 2016. She earned the graduate certificate in Engineering Management and System Engineering from Old Dominion University. Her research is focused on modeling and simulating of the interdependent critical infrastructures’ resiliency. Also she has done parallel research on decentralized systems specifically on Blockchain Technology.
Mathews is a doctoral student of applied anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. His research is focused on understanding the social and cultural dimensions of water infrastructures and how they affect infrastructure management and user experiences. As a research assistant on the USF-CRISP project, he uses anthropological approaches to evaluate the social, cultural, economic and political factors that influence the resilience of critical and interdependent infrastructures.
Adam joined USF in 2016 and working as a research assistant for Dr. Yu Zhang. His researh interests include electric vehicle charging and discharging scheduling, network modeling and statistic data analysis.
Dr. Qiong (Jane) Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of South Florida. Her research focuses on sustainability assessment, process modeling and system modeling with applications to water and wastewater systems, solid waste systems, water-energy-nutrient nexus and critical interdependent infrastructures. Her research strongly emphasizes life cycle thinking, systems thinking and bio-inspired thinking with intent to transform how we design our infrastructures with discovery and application of the universal principles across human and natural systems. Her students are currently developing treatment process models and decision support tools with active collaboration with partnering utilities for integrated water/wastewater systems for resource recovery, interdependent water, transportation and cyber infrastructures for resilience improvement, and watershed level green infrastructure implementation for stormwater management.
Qing Lu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering and M.A. degree in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked for the University of California Pavement Research Center as a project scientist and a laboratory manager before he joined the USF. He has sponsored research projects in the areas of asphalt materials and pavements, pavement design, maintenance, and management, pavement evaluation and safety, and critical infrastructures resiliency. His research areas include sustainable pavement engineering, transportation infrastructure management, highway designs for sustainable, environment-friendly, electric and autonomous transportation.
Dr. Yu Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of South Florida and leads the Next Generation Transportation System Lab (Nexts-Lab). Her research applies operations research techniques to model and analyze transportation systems with applications in air transportation, resilient infrastructure, shared mobility, and emerging technologies and innovative services in transportation. Dr. Zhang has published more than thirty papers in prestigious transportation journals and been invited to present her work in many high-influential international conferences. Dr. Zhang serves as the Chair of Transportation Research Board standing committee on airfield and airspace capacity and delay and on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part C- Emerging Technologies and International Journal of Sustainable Transportation.
Shima Mohebbi is an assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Oklahoma. She received her PhD in ISE, and her second Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Tennessee, and achieved several academic recognitions and fellowships during her graduate studies. She joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida for her postdoctoral studies in 2015. She was also a visiting scholar in the University of Exeter’s center for water systems, UK, in summer 2017. Dr. Mohebbi’s research interests include algorithmic game theory, simulation modeling, stochastic programming, and high dimensional data mining.
Dr. Xinming (Simon) Ou is professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Florida. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2005. Before joining USF in fall 2015, he had been a faculty member at Kansas State University since 2006. Dr. Ou's research is primarily in cyber defense technologies, with focuses on human-centered approaches. He has broad interest and on-going work in cyber-physical system security, intrusion/forensics analysis, moving-target defense, and mobile system security. He is the author of the MulVAL attack graph tool which has been used by Idaho National Laboratory, Defence Research and Development Canada -- Ottawa, NATO, NIST, Thales Groups, General Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Army Research Laboratory, and researchers from numerous academic institutions. Dr. Ou's research has been funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), HP Labs, and Rockwell Collins. He is a recipient of 2010 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a three-time winner of HP Labs Innovation Research Program (IRP) award, and 2013 Kansas State University Frankenhoff Outstanding Research Award.
Dr. Christian Wells is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Brownfields Research and Redevelopment at the University of South Florida, where he has served previously as Founding Director of the Office of Sustainability and as Deputy Director of the College of Global Sustainability. He is an applied environmental anthropologist who conducts NSF- and EPA-funded research on how people’s values and beliefs influence their interactions with WaSH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) infrastructure. He has published over 100 scientific articles and essays and his work has been featured by various media outlets including The New York Times and New Scientist. He was recently awarded the Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award, the Global Achievement Award for Outstanding Global Student Success, and the Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award from the University of South Florida along with the Black Bear Award by the Sierra Club of Tampa Bay “in recognition of outstanding dedication to sustainability and the environment.”
Dr. Zhao is a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at USF. Her area of interests are transportation system resilience analysis, transportation system modeling and simulation, traffic flow theory and oscillation detection, control methods for connected and autonomous vehicles, and charging facility location optimization for Electric Vehicles especially EV bus system. She served as peer reviewer for various journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of Advanced Transportation, Transportation Research Record-Journal of the Transportation Research Board, and IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
I am a PhD candidate in the department of computer science.
Hung is a doctoral student in the Department of Industrial Management Systems Engineering. Prior to joining USF, he worked at Intel Products Vietnam as a Process & Equipment Engineer for 4 years and Jetstar Pacific Airlines for 1 year. His research interest and experiences are data analytics and system reliability, condition-based monitoring and health management.
Noha is a student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, with a water resources concentration. Her research investigates the function of water infrastructure in the greater context of urban design.
Shihab Uddin is currently a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USF. He got his bachelors in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh in 2015 and Masters in Civil Engineering (Transportation) (MCE) from USF in 2018. Shihab also works as a Research Assistant in USF under Dr. Qing Lu’s supervision. His research interests include resilience of transportation infrastructure, interdependency between transportation and other critical infrastructures, travel demand and traffic flow modeling and simulation. As part of USF CRISP diverse research group, he is working on identifying and modeling physical and/or geospatial interdependency between water and transportation infrastructure. The overall objective of his research is to enhance the resiliency of both infrastructures utilizing the findings from interdependency model. Part of his research is also trying to identify critical links in the transportation network using regional travel demand model as a tool.
Leili Soltanisehat is a Ph.D. student and Graduate Research assistant in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Oklahoma. She has been honored through receipt of the graduate scholarship by Old Dominion University on 2016. She earned the graduate certificate in Engineering Management and System Engineering from Old Dominion University. Her research is focused on modeling and simulating of the interdependent critical infrastructures’ resiliency. Also she has done parallel research on decentralized systems specifically on Blockchain Technology.
Mathews is a doctoral student of applied anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. His research is focused on understanding the social and cultural dimensions of water infrastructures and how they affect infrastructure management and user experiences. As a research assistant on the USF-CRISP project, he uses anthropological approaches to evaluate the social, cultural, economic and political factors that influence the resilience of critical and interdependent infrastructures.
Adam joined USF in 2016 and working as a research assistant for Dr. Yu Zhang. His researh interests include electric vehicle charging and discharging scheduling, network modeling and statistic data analysis.