Experts: Science + Technology

Professor Yassir AbdelRazig is an expert in the following categories:

• Construction Engineering and Management.
• Resilient Infrastructure- Sustainable and Green Buildings.
• Smart & Adaptive Engineering Systems.
• Simulation & Modeling of Engineering Systems.

Professor Tarek Abichou is an expert in Environmental Engineering, Hazardous Wastes, Landfills and Solid Waste.

Assistant Professor Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf is an expert in the following categories:

• Compound hydroclimatic extremes.
• Flood impacts on water pollution and public health.
• Surface water pollution.
• Socioenvironmental systems.
• Coupled inland-coastal systems.
• Natural and nature-based features.
• Water systems under nonstationarity.
• Resilient water infrastructures.
• Sustainable water management.

Assistant Professor Nasrin Alamardi is an expert in stormwater, runoff, hydrology, groundwater and flooding.

Assistant Professor Jamel Ali is an expert in biomaterials for bio/biomedical applications and nanorobots.

Farrukh Alvi is the Don Fuqua Eminent Scholar & Professor of Mechanical Engineering who specializes in the following areas:

• Active-adaptive flow control
• Experimental fluid-gas dynamics
• Aerodynamics and propulsion
• Microfluid dynamics and diagnostics
• Optical diagnostics

Professor Petru Andrei is an expert in magnetics, electrochemical systems, nano and power electronic devices as well as noise and hysteresis.

Assistant professor Olugbenga Anubi is an expert in resilient, robust and adaptive control systems, vehicle dynamics and control, real-time optimization and robotics.

Assistant professor Alexandre Berger is an expert in fluid mechanics, boundary layer transition, experimental aerodynamics, hypersonic flow and advanced flow diagnostics.

Associate professor Shonda Bernadin is an expert in several categories, including the following:

• Digital Signal Processing, speech recognition, characterization of speech and sound waves using wavelets and other time-frequency analysis methods, language modeling, data analysis techniques.
• Learning behaviors of engineering students; assessment and evaluation of student performance; teaching and learning strategies that produce an effective learning environment.
• Engineering education research on increasing retention, progression, graduation rates of students, improving quality of teaching and learning engineering, increasing diversity.
• Broadening Participation Research on interest, motivation and perception in minority engineering students.

Assistant professor Jizhe Cai specializes in the following:

• Mechanical behavior of hierarchically structured materials
• Multiscale experimental mechanics
• High-performance fibrous materials
• Carbon-based nanomaterials
• Advanced manufacturing of nanocomposite guided by computational design

Professor Gang Chen’s research interests include:

• Subsurface Water Flow
• Pollutant Transport Modeling
• Bioremediation Kinetics
• Genetic Microbiology
• Interfacial Phenomena

Associate professor Juyeong Choi specializes in the following areas:

• Infrastructure planning for sustainability and resilience
• Infrastructure system-of-systems
• Construction project management
• Capital rehabilitation planning
• Pre-demolition planning

Associate Professor Ho Yong Chung has research interests in:

• Bio-inspired polymers
• Smart materials
• Catalysts for polymers

Associate professor Jonathan Clark has research interests in:

• Robotics – legged locomotion
• Dynamic system analysis
• Mechanical design and fabrication

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Lance Cooley has research interests in:

• Superconductor materials science and physics
• Engineering applications of superconducting strands and SRF cavities for particle accelerators

Chip Cotton is an expert in fish taxonomy, marine biology, fisheries science, and life history of fishes.

Doel, a historian of recent science, has explored how the physical environmental sciences in America rose to prominence in the twentieth century and beyond. He has examined how Pentagon advisors and White House leaders learned about emerging evidence of climate change from 1947 forward and how policymakers responded to these findings.

He also served as the project leader of a 9-member, 7-nation study initiated by the European Science Foundation BOREAS initiative, which led to a dedicated edition of the Journal of Historical Geography (April 2014, vol. 14) that yielded transnational insights into global Arctic developments.

Doel’s expertise on the history of science, the Cold War and the Arctic has been featured in The Washington Post.

Fuentes is a marine conservation biologist, with expertise in conservation planning, natural resource management, and on anthropogenic and climate change impacts on marine mega-fauna, especially marine turtles. She wrote about the effect of microplastics on the environment for The Conversation, and her research has been featured in The Miami Herald, National Geographic, Fox News and more.

Grubbs is an expert in marine biology, fish ecology and fisheries science, with particular expertise in the biology of coastal and deep sea sharks and their relatives.

Shuyuan Mary Ho is an associate professor in the School of Information. Her research focuses on trusted human-computer interactions, specifically addressing issues of cyber insider threats and online identity theft.

Kaschak’s research focuses on language comprehension and language production. He also has interest in the dynamics of conversational interactions.

Paul F. Marty, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Information in the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University. His research and teaching interests include museum informatics; technology, innovation and culture; experience design; and the information society. Dr. Marty specializes in the study of people, information, and technology in museums. His publications explore the invisible work of museum computing, the evolving roles of technology professionals in museums, and the use of digital museum resources by museum visitors. He has served on the editorial boards and committees of national and international organizations, including Museum Management and Curatorship, Museums and the Web, and the Museum Computer Network. He has a background in ancient history and computer science engineering, and his Ph.D. is from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Stanwood is a developmental neuropharmacologist and behavioral neuroscientist. His research investigates the developmental origins of brain disorders through careful assessments of brain developmental trajectories following genetic and environmental perturbations.

My research directly involves my role as state climatologist for Florida. The Florida Climate Center is the leading authority on climate variability in Florida, particularly as related to ENSO. The climate Center is involved with the Southeast Climate Consortium, one of the Regional Integrated Science and Assessment (RISA) teams funded by NOAA’s Office of Global Programs. Through this involvement, we conduct research into downscaled and localized climate forecasts and their application to the sectors of agriculture, forestry, and water resources. Recent expansion of the consortium now includes the State Climate Offices of Georgia and Alabama, as well as agriculturist, hydrologists, and social scientists from the University of Florida, University of Miami, University of Georgia, University of Alabama Huntsville, and Auburn University. The Southeast Climate Consortium now receives additional funding through USDA and USDA Risk Management Agency.

An example of the climate information products developed by Florida Climate Center is a method of forecasting wildfire threat based on the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI). The experimental forecast expresses wildfire threat in probabilistic terms and is used by the Florida Division of Forestry for planning management strategies and allocation of resources. This year the wildfire threat forecast was expanded include the states of Georgia and Alabama. These results were presented at the National Seasonal Assessment Workshop, Eastern and Southern States in January of 2006. The KBDI forecast for the Southeast was included as guidance in the final report.