Resilience and Sustainability - People

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Photo of Sara Behdad Sara Behdad Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences
(352) 294-7547

Research Areas:

  • Sustainable Design
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Lifecycle Assessment 
Photo of Swarup Bhunia Swarup Bhunia Professor and Steven Yatauro Faculty Fellow Director, Warren B. Nelms Institute for The Connected Worldc
(352) 392-5989

Research Areas:

  • Hardware and systems security
  • Food and medicine safety
  • Adaptive and energy-efficient computing
  • Wearable and implantable systems 
Photo of Crystal Goodison Crystal Goodison Associate Director and Associate Scholar, GeoPlan Center Urban and Regional Planning
(352) 392-2351

Research Areas:

  • Coastal resiliency and adaptation planning
  • Geospatial modeling
  • Online geospatial visualization and decision support tools 
Photo of Yujie Hu Yujie Hu Assistant Professor, Geography Department
(352) 294-7514

Research Areas:

  • GIS
  • Spatial networks
  • Transportation
  • Human mobility and accessibility
  • Public health
Photo of Prabhat Mishra Prabhat Mishra Professor, Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering; Director, Embedded Systems Lab
352-294-6658

Research Areas:

  • Trustworthy Systems
  • Formal Verification
  • Security and Trust
Photo of Zhong-Ren Peng Zhong-Ren Peng Professor/Director International Center for Adaptation Planning and Design (iAdapt), Department of Urban and Regional Planning
352-294-1491

Research Areas:

  • GIS and Analysis
  • Information Technology for Planning
  • International Planning
  • Landscape Planning Using GI
Photo of Ruth Steiner Ruth Steiner Professor and Director, Center for Health and the Built Environment Urban and Regional Planning
(352) 294-1492

Research Areas:

  • Transportation policy and Planning
  • Coordination of land use and transport
  • Sustainable transport
  • Walking and bicycling
Photo of Shuo Wang Shuo Wang Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
352-392-4961

Research Areas:

  • Electrification of Transportation
  • Power Electronics 
  • Renewable Energy Integration
Photo of Yan Wang Yan Wang Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER)
(352)294-3376

Research Areas:

  • Urban Resilience
  • Urban Analytics
  • Geo-Visualization
  • Intelligent Disaster Response System
  • Crisis Informatics
  • Infrastructure Planning
Photo of Xiao Yu Xiao Yu Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
352-294-7754

Research Areas:

  • Hydrology
  • Nearshore hydrodynamics
  • Living shoreline/Engineering with nature
Photo of Xilei Zhao Xilei Zhao Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
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Xilei Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. Dr. Zhao received her B.E. in Civil Engineering from Southeast University, China, in 2013, her MSEs in Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in 2016 and 2017, respectively, and her Ph.D.…