The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world’s premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report’s top public universities, the Institute enrolls 21,000 students within its six colleges. Georgia Tech is the nation’s leading producer of engineers as well as a leading producer of female and minority engineering PhD graduates. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation’s top ten universities (without a medical school) in research expenditures. Georgia Tech is home to the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, an applied research center created to help society achieve a sustainable, equitable, superior quality of life through effective planning, policy, and design. It is also the lead university for the Georgia Transportation Institute.
Building Construction Faculty
- Baabak Ashuri Assistant Professor, Director, Economics of the Sustainable Built Environment (ESBE) Lab 404-385-7608
Expertise: Innovative Project Delivery Systems (Design-Build, CMGC, & Public-Private Partnerships), Construction Cost Analysis & Forecasting, Economic Decision Analysis, Energy-efficient green buildings, Risk Management, Investment Analysis under Uncertainty (Real Options Analysis), Capital Budgeting & Project Finance, Infrastructure Asset Management . Full Bio
Civil Engineering Academic Faculty
- Adjo Amekudzi Kennedy Associate Chair of Global Engineering Leadership and Research Development, Professor 404-894-0404
Expertise: Infrastructure Management, Asset Management, Sustainability Planning and Evaluation. Full Bio
- Laurie Garrow Associate Professor 404-385-6634
Expertise: Travel demand modeling, discrete choice modeling, air traveler behavior, public transportation, revenue management. Full Bio
- Randall Guensler Professor 404-894-0405
Expertise: Transportation planning, vehicle activity monitoring, air quality modeling, environmental impact assessment, and environmental policy analysis. Full Bio
- Michael Hunter Associate Professor, Director of National Center for Transportation Systems Productivity and Management (NCTSPM) 404-385-1243
Expertise: Traffic science and engineering, specializing in adaptive signal control, traffic simulation, freeway geometric design, and arterial corridor operations. Full Bio
- Laurence Jacobs Associate Dean, Professor 404-894-2771
Expertise: Quantitative nondestructive evaluation of civil engineering materials, Wave propagation in solids, emphasizing guided waves, nonlinear methods and heterogeneous materials, Signal processing techniques applied to nondestructive evaluation, Development of acoustic sensors for condition monitoring of structural components. Full Bio
- Lawrence Kahn Professor Emeritus 404-894-8021
Expertise: Structural concrete and masonry, High performance concrete for prestressed concrete bridges, Self-compacting concrete, Repair and rehabilitation of bridges and buildings, Earthquake resistant design and retrofit. Full Bio
- Kimberly Kurtis College of Engineering Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Scholarship, Professor 404-385-0825
Expertise: Nano/microstructure, properties, and durability of cement-based materials; development of novel methods for multiscale characterization of infrastructure materials; high performance concrete; fiber-cement composites; applications of nondestructive evaluation methods to cement-based materials. Full Bio
- Jorge Laval Associate Professor 404-894-2360
Expertise: Traffic flow theory, numerical solution methods and simulation of traffic flow models, queuing theory in transportation and dynamic congestion pricing. Full Bio
- John Leonard College of Engineering Associate Dean for Finance and Administration, Associate Professor 404-894-3482
Expertise: Technology policy in transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), traffic operations and planning, traffic engineering and design, transportation safety, traffic modeling and simulation. Full Bio
- Terry Sturm Professor 404-894-2218
Expertise: Hydraulic engineering, open channel flow resistance, compound channel hydraulics, sediment transport, erosion control at construction sites, scour around bridge abutments, cohesive sediment re-suspension. Full Bio
- James Tsai Professor 404-385-6424
Expertise: Pavement/infrastructure/asset system engineering and management, pavement technology, information and sensor technology applications, image processing and recognition applications, geospatial analysis and GPS/GIS applications, emergency response and roadway safety, logistics and optimization. Full Bio
- Yang Wang Associate Professor 404-894-1851
Expertise: Structural health monitoring and damage detection; Decentralized structural control; Smart materials and structures; Wireless sensor networks; Structural dynamics and earthquake engineering. Full Bio
- Kari Edison Watkins Assistant Professor 206-250-4415
Expertise: Pavement/infrastructure/asset system engineering and management, pavement technology, information and sensor technology applications, image processing and recognition applications, geospatial analysis and GPS/GIS applications, emergency response and roadway safety, logistics and optimization. Full Bio
Civil Engineering Research Faculty
- Angshuman Guin Senior Research Engineer 404-894-0171
Expertise: Intelligent transportation systems, freeway traffic operations, transportation safety, simulation. Full Bio
- Michael Rodgers Principal Research Scientist 404-385-0569
Expertise: Statistical and econometric analysis of vehicle emissions data, laboratory and field measurements of gaseous and particulate pollutants, instrument inter-comparison and quality assurance, vehicle emission rate modeling and model integration, remote sensing and instrumented vehicle work, and policy analysis. Full Bio
- Frank Southworth Adjunct Principal Research Scientist 404-894-0171
Expertise: Transportation planning methods, freight and passenger demand and supply modeling, sustainable transportation systems and their supply chains, land-use transportation interaction, energy efficient urban form, public transit system planning and cost-bene fit analysis. Full Bio
- Wonho Suh Research Engineer
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- Ann Xu Research Engineer II 404-894-0171
Expertise: Sustainability and transportation, emissions modeling, longitudinal travel surveys, vehicle tracking and operations, travel behavior variability.
City & Regional Planning Faculty:
- Subhro Guhathakurta Director, Center for Geographic Information Systems, Professor 404-385-0900
Expertise: Geographic information systems, Sustainability, Planning support systems, Housing, International development. Full Bio
- David Lee Research Scientist II 404-385-5120
Expertise: Urban modeling; Integration of Land Use and Transportation Modeling; Regional Transportation Planning; Spatial Structure; Geographic Information and Planning Support Systems; Megaregions; Planning Methods. Full Bio
- Catherine Ross Director, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development , Harry West Professor 404-385-5130
Expertise: Megaregions, quality growth, land development, healthy places, community design and architecture, air quality and natural environment. Full Bio
- Zhaohua Wang Senior Research Engineer, Center for Geographic Information Systems 404-385-0904
Expertise: Highway Pavement Management Systems, Highway Pavement Condition Assessment using Sensor Technology, Roadway Asset Inventory and Management Systems, Application of GIS/GPS and Information Technology for Pavement Rehabilitation and Design. Full Bio
- Tim Welch Assistant Director, CQGRD, Assistant Professor 404-385-5114
Expertise: Transportation and land use policy, planning and forecasting, transporation connectivity, equity and environment. Full Bio
College of Computing Faculty
- Richard Fujimoto Regents' Professor 404-894-5615
Expertise: Parallel and distributed simulation systems, telecommunications networks, aviation networks, military networks. Full Bio
Economics Faculty:
- Thomas "Danny" Boston Professor 404-894-5020
Expertise: Quantitative program performance evaluations; minority and small business entrepreneurship; and public housing and community development. Full Bio
- Vivek Ghosal Professor and Director of Ph.D. and M.S. Programs 404-894-4910
Expertise: Antitrust/competition laws and enforcement; business strategy and competitive advantage – innovation, M&As and pricing; public policies towards businesses, and corporate strategy; and firms’ decision-making under uncertainty. Full Bio
- Patrick McCarthy Professor, Director of the Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies 404-894-4914
Expertise: Transportation economics, transportation safety, discrete choice analysis, public transit, applied econometrics, government regulation. Full Bio
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty:
- Anthony Yezzi Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor 404-385-1017
Expertise: Image Processing (particularly medical imaging applications), Computer Vision, Estimation and Control, Computation and algorithms, Applied differential geometry. Full Bio
Industrial and Systems Engineering Faculty
- Chelsea "Chip" White Professor, Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics 404-894-2303
Expertise: Logisitcs, freight, rail, trucking industry studies, freight industry studies, supply chain productivity and risk mitigation. Full Bio
Mechanical Engineering Faculty
- Jin-Yeon Kim Researcher
Expertise: Applied matheatics, non-equilibrium processes, wave scattering, interface physics, nondestructive evaluation and ultrasonics. Full Bio
Public Policy Faculty:
- Gordon Kingsley Associate Professor 404-894-0454
Expertise: Organizational theory, public administration, science and technology policy, environmental policy. Full Bio
- Hans Klein Associate Professor 404-894-2598
Expertise: Development of large scale systems, federal technology policy, the politics of innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, public access television, Internet governance, and on-line democracy. Full Bio