Full-time Faculty Adjunct Faculty

Our faculty members — who combine practical experience with in-depth scholarly studies — instruct students, guide them, and make them partners in advanced research projects.

David Binning, PE, Instructor/ Director, Assessment and Accreditation. MS, University of Delaware. Expertise: water resources engineering.

Doaa Bondok, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of MissouriColumbia. Expertise: structural engineering.

Celso Ferreira, PE, Associate Professor. PhD, Texas A&M University. Expertise: water resources and coastal engineering; storm surge inundation prediction; geographic information systems.

Kirin Furst, Assistant Professor. PhD, Stanford University. Expertise: environmental chemistry; water quality engineering; human exposure analysis.

Lucas Henneman, Assistant Professor. PhD, Georgia Tech. Expertise: air pollution modeling; health effects of air quality interventions; environmental policy.

Wenying Ji, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Alberta. Expertise: construction engineering; construction simulation.

Laura Kosoglu, Associate Department Chair and Associate Professor. PhD, Virginia Tech. Expertise: geotechnical engineering.

David Lattanzi, PE, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Washington. Expertise: structural engineering; structural health monitoring; computer vision.

Viviana Maggioni, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Connecticut. Expertise: environmental engineering; remote sensing; hydrometeorology.

Elise Miller-Hooks, Professor, Bill and Eleanor Hazel Chair in Infrastructure Engineering. PhD, University of TexasAustin. Expertise: transportation engineering; civil infrastructure systems; stochastic and dynamic network algorithms.

Sam Salem, PE, Professor, CPC, LEED AP. PhD, University of Alberta. Expertise: construction engineering; lean and green construction; life cycle analysis.

Burak Tanyu, Associate Professor. PhD, University of WisconsinMadison. Expertise: geotechnical engineering; engineering geology; geo-environmental engineering.

Kuo Tian, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of WisconsinMadison. Expertise: geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering.

Girum Urgessa, PE, FASCE, Associate Professor. PhD, University of New Mexico. Expertise: structural engineering; computational mechanics; composite materials.

Mohan Venigalla, PE, FASCE, Professor. PhD, University of Tennessee. Expertise: transportation engineering; transportation planning; transportation air quality.

Ken Walsh, Vice President and Chief of Staff. PhD, Arizona State University. Expertise: construction engineering and management.

Shanjiang Zhu, Associate Professor. PhD, University of Minnesota. Expertise: transportation engineering; transportation economics; route choice and optimization.

We recognize and thank the following professionals for their assistance to the department as practitioner adjunct faculty.

Asma Ali, PE, T3 Design Corporation

Rich Benton, PE, SR Benton & Associates, LLC

Barbara Chastel de Boinville

Cerasela Cristei, PhD, PE, EXP U.S. Services

Matthew Doyle, PE, Fairfax County Dept. of Public Works & Environmental Services

Rafic El-Helou, PhD, FHWA, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center

Amr El-Sayed, PhD, EIT, Lane Construction

Alex Faghri, PhD, Virginia Department of Transportation

Erol Guler, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Bogazici University

Zach Haber, PhD, FHWA TurnerFairbank Highway Research Center

Shahin Hajilar, PhD, PE, Stantec

Matthew Hardy, PhD, AASHTO

Joseph Hartmann, PhD, PE, Federal Highway Administration

Sean Kennedy, PE, Kennedy Structural Engineers, PLLC

Kaustubh Khanvilkar, PE, Parsons

Richard Lindenberg, PE, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

Michael Loulakis, Esq, Capital Project Strategies

Joe D. Manous, PhD, PE, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Christopher Reseigh, PE, Consultant (Ret Parsons Brinckerhoff)

Harold Rodriguez, PE, William H. Gordon & Associates

Sajjad Roudsari, PhD, Forensics Company

Joseph Schroedel, PhD, PE, Society of American Military Engineers

Velmurugan (Vel) Subramanian, PhD, PE, Atkins

Eric Teitelman, PE, Fairfax County Department of Transportation

Richard Thoesen, PE, City of Fairfax

Tuonglinh (Linh) Warren, PE, Federal Highway Administration

Chris Woods, PE, Densification, Inc.

Mohamed Younis, PE, Aldea Services, LLC