UFTI Affiliates - People

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Photo of Amr Abd-Elrahman Amr Abd-Elrahman Professor, Geomatics
813.757.2283
Photo of Nithin Agarwal Nithin Agarwal Director, UFTI, T2 Center
(352) 273-1674

Research Areas:

  • Multimodal transportation safety
  • Traffic Crash Data Modeling and Safety Analyses
  • Local road safety plans
  • Traffic operations, design and simulation
  • Advanced traffic signal timing
  • Connected and Automated Vehicles
  • Human factors
  • Tech transfer

Biography:
Dr.…

Photo of Bob Aghdashi Bob Aghdashi Director, McTrans Center
(352) 294-3095
Photo of Jim Baciak Jim Baciak Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
(352) 273-2131
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 Ilir Bejleri Ilir Bejleri Research Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
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 Jennifer Bridge Jennifer Bridge Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
(352) 294-7793
Photo of Suman Chowdhury Suman Chowdhury Associate Professor, UF Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Photo of Gary R. Consolazio Gary R. Consolazio Byron D. Spangler Professor of Civil Engineering, Bridge Software Institute, Assoc. Director (Structures)
Photo of Aaron Costin Aaron Costin Assistant Professor, M. E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management
(352) 273-2121
Photo of Eric Jing Du Eric Jing Du Steve and Wendy Blum Professor, UF Research Foundation Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
(352) 294-6619
Photo of Lily Elefteriadou Lily Elefteriadou Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
(352) 294-7802

Research Areas:

  • Traffic Flow Theory
  • Highway Capacity Analysis
  • Traffic Simulation
  • Signal Control
  • Travel Time Reliability

Biography:
Dr. Elefteriadou is the Director of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI) and the Barbara Goldsby Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Florida.…

Photo of Christopher Ferraro Christopher Ferraro Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering
(352) 392-0959
Photo of Juan Gilbert Juan Gilbert Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering
(352) 392-1200
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 Joel Harley Joel Harley Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(352) 392-2692
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 Eakta Jain Eakta Jain Associate Professor, Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Photo of T. Griffith Jones Ph.D. T. Griffith Jones, Ph.D. Emeritus Clinical Associate Professor, UF College of Education
352.665.5819
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 Mehri Mohebbi Mehri Mohebbi Transportation Equity Program Director
(352) 294-7823
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 Dr. Sara Rampazzi Dr. Sara Rampazzi Assistant Professor, Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)

Sara Rampazzi is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida. Her research areas focus on cyber-physical systems security, embedded systems design, modeling, and simulation with applications in Healthcare, Autonomous Systems, and the Internet of Things. Dr. Rampazzi investigates security and privacy risks and designs defense strategies for trustworthy and resilient cyber-physical systems despite emerging attacks.…

Photo of Anand Rangarajan Anand Rangarajan Professor, Computer & Information Science & Engineering
352.575.1759
Photo of Sanjay Ranka Sanjay Ranka Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering
(352) 514-4213
Photo of Kyle Riding Kyle Riding Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering Department Head, and UFTI Interim Director
(352) 294-1628
Photo of Siva Srinivasan Siva Srinivasan Professor & Associate Director, UFTI, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
(352) 294-7807

Research Areas:

  • Transportation Planning and Policy Evaluation
  • Activity-Based Approaches for Travel-Demand Modeling and Forecasting
  • Travel Impacts of New Information and Communication Technologies
  • GPS and GIS Applications for Travel-Data Collection and Analysis
  • Application of Advanced Econometric Methods for Transportation Problems

Biography:
Dr.…

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 Khiem Tran Khiem Tran Professor, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering
352-294-3369
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 Yu Wang Yu Wang Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Group Lead)
(217) 979-6365
Photo of Sandra M. Winter Sandra M. Winter Research Assistant Scientist, UF Occupational Therapy
Photo of Xiang ‘Jacob’ Yan Xiang ‘Jacob’ Yan Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
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
3522947159

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.…

Photo of Jian Zou Jian Zou Research Assistant Scientist, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering
(352) 294-7799