Research Staff and Affiliates at UCF
Dr. Ni-Bin Chang (Director)
Focal research area: sustainable infrastructure, urban food-energy-water nexus, computational intelligence and machine learning, system engineering, water quality management, ecological engineering, low impact development, industrial ecology, climate change, and environmental remote sensing
Dr. Manoj Chopra
Focal research area: geo-technical engineering and geo-environmental engineering
Dr. Thomas Wahl
Focal research area: coastal flood impact and risk assessment
Dr. Kelly Kibler
Focal research area: river and estuary ecohydraulics, flood management and dam operation, and extreme horologic events.
Dr. Omer Tatari
Focal research area: construction science and stormwater management
Dr. Patrick Bohlen
Focal research area: ecological science and landscape ecology
Dr. Dingbao Wang
Focal research area: hydrology, watershed food-energy-water nexus, and climate change
Dr. Peng (Patrick) Sun
Focal research area: Sensing and sensor network, flood monitoring, drone and robot operations, environmental informatics and remote sensing
Dr. Andrew Randall
Focal research area: environmental process engineering
Dr. Arvind Singh
Focal research area: sediment transport, turbulent flows, landscape evolution
Dr. Rudy McDaniel
Focal research area: interactive narrative, knowledge management, information architecture
Dr. Naim Kapucu
Focal research area: community resilience, social network analysis, organizational structure
Dr. Woo Hyoung Lee
Focal research area: environmental biotechnology
Dr. J. Walter Milon
Focal research area: environmental economics and regulation
Dr. Debra Reinhart
Focal research area: groundwater remediation and waste management
Jeff Sonne
Focal research area: green building and energy recovery
Dr. Bruce Wilson
Focal research area: water policy and environmental right
Dr. Lei Zhai
Focal research area: nanotechnology and environmentally benign materials
Dr. Qipeng Phil Zheng
Focal research area: environmental planning and systems analysis
Dr. Anwar Sadmani
Focal research area: membrane treatment technology, analytical chemistry, PFAS analysis
Dr. Jianna (Nick) Chen
Focal research area: geochemistry, multimedia pollutant fate and transport processes, resources recovery, mining waste and low-level radioactive waste management
Dr. Lixing Gu
Focal research area: Solar photovoltaic design, building scale food-energy-water nexus
National Research Fellows
International Research Fellows
Dr. Ting Fong May Chui, University of Hong Kong
Dr. Abdelhamid Iratni, University of Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria
Dr. Zhandong Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China