Experts Guide

Kourtellis can discuss pedestrian and bicycle safety, transportation behavioral research and analysis, intelligent transportation systems, crash avoidance technologies, controlled driving tests, traffic survey/data analysis, safety and engineering, driver assistance systems, driver assistance systems and connected vehicles.

Vaselbehagh is an expert in thermal-fluid sciences whose research focuses on energy resilience in nuclear and solar energy systems, aerodynamics, propulsion and system optimization. With funding support from NASA, the National Science Foundation, Tampa Electric Company and the Tennessee Valley Authority, his work in collaboration with Boeing, Raytheon and other industry partners advances thermal-fluid sciences to enhance the development of energy and aerospace systems.

Volinsky is an expert in thin films processing whose research focuses on how to make and test very thin layers of materials that are used in things like electronics, coatings, or solar cells -- and understanding how strong or flexible they are. He also studies irradiated materials properties and X-Ray diffraction -- how radiation changes a material’s structure and properties and the use of X-rays to analyze the internal arrangement of its atoms.

Yalcin researches health and engineering systems modeling and healthcare analytics and is co-founder of the Collaborative for Research & Education in Aging and Technology. His expertise includes data analytics, ambient intelligence, the Internet of Things and time-series data mining and analytics applications in healthcare.

Pyayt's research lab designs, develops and evaluates novel systems for biological and biomolecular sensing, manipulation and assembly. These have applications to COVID-19 immunity monitoring, sepsis diagnosis and detection of pregnancy complications. Specific research areas include sensors, nanoscale endoscopy, optofluidics and point-of-care testing.

Kaw's research focuses on engineering education, open courseware development, bascule bridge design, fracture mechanics, composite materials and computational nanomechanics. He can also discuss online education, flipped classrooms, higher education access and adaptive learning.

Lee is an expert in traffic analysis and motorcycle safety in the USF College of Engineering Center for Urban Transportation Research.

Ferekides' research focuses on photovoltaics, semiconductors, solar cells and opto-electronics.

Alexander's research focuses on corrosion, infrastructure durability

and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. His work is designed to identify the driving forces of degradation processes including chloride ion ingress, carbonation, water permeation and corrosion in civil infrastructure and predict damage from those forces to inform design and inspection protocols.

Passaglia's research focuses on neural engineering, neuroscience, glaucoma and other eye- and vision-related topics, including retinal physiology and disease.

Chen's research focuses on traffic crash modeling and safety analysis, advanced traffic safety model development, pedestrian and bicyclist safety, traffic congestion and operation efficiency, intelligent transportation system and transportation infrastructure monitoring and management.

Goswami's research focuses on solar and renewable energy, energy efficiency, indoor air quality and energy storage.

Yeh is an expert in water purification, wastewater resource recovery and life support in challenging, off-grid and remote environments. His research focuses on innovations at the water-energy-food nexus and includes developing autonomous, self-powered water machines, anaerobic and phototrophic membrane bioreactors and food-to-food biorecycling. he serves as principal investigator of the Membrane Biotechnology Lab.

Murphy's research focuses on oil spills, fluid mechanics, animal biomechanics, collective animal behavior and cardiovascular fluid mechanics. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2019 for his work on the fluid dynamics of biological propulsion in tiny insects and zooplankton.

Yucelen is a mechanical engineer whose research focuses on nanomaterials and engineering education.

Arslan's research interests are related to advanced signal processing techniques at the physical layer, with cross-layer design for networking adaptivity and quality of service control. He is interested in wireless technologies including cellular, wireless PAN/LAN/MANs, fixed wireless access and specialized wireless data networks like wireless sensors networks and wireless telemetry.

Mihelcic's research focuses on sustainability, the impact of anthropogenic stressors on water resources, water supply, water reuse, nutrient management and water, sanitation and hygiene in the developing world.

Jackman is an expert in pedestrian and bicycle safety, outreach education, policy analysis, communications and program management.

Kramer's research focuses on metropolitan and statewide multimodal policy, planning and processes.

Godfrey is a senior research associate at the Center for Urban Transportation Research at USF. Her research interests include employee safety reporting, crashworthiness and crash energy management of transit buses, onboard technologies to reduce accidents and incidents, National Household Travel Survey trend data analysis and the role of public transit in natural disaster response.

Alfredo's research interests include understanding the relationship between actual and perceived drinking water risk on a household's water source and home water treatment technology decisions. Prior to joining the faculty at USF, Alfredo was research program manager at DC Water focused on the difficulties large, urban utilities face in ensuring a constant supply of high quality, potable water.

Christensen's research interests are at the intersection of networks and energy in the area of energy-efficient computing and communications systems and the application of communications to improving the storage, distribution and use of energy in small grids.

Reeves' research interests are inter- and intra-organizational collaboration, Lean Six Sigma and engineering education.

Chen's research focuses on quantum engineering (communications, computing, machine learning, sensing, cryptography and photonics); artificial intelligence and multi-robot systems with applications to smart factory and self-driving; wireless communications and networking, particularly 6G and communication for AI; cryptographic systems, post-quantum cryptography and cybersecurity; and social networks and data analytics.

Reed's research focuses on rehabilitation and haptics (the sense of touch). His rehabilitation interests include restoring abilities in individuals with asymmetric impairments, such as from stroke or unilateral amputations. His haptics work focuses on thermal responses of the skin, coordinated motions and human-robot interaction.

Dunleavy's research focuses on CAD modeling of microwave and millimeter- devices; development of new microwave/millimeter-wave experimental techniques for evaluation, modeling and design verification of devices, circuits and wireless sub-systems; design and evaluation of novel monolithic microwave/millimeter-wave integrated circuits (MMICs); and MMIC based sub-systems. This research led to the spinout company -- Modelithics, Inc. -- focused on commercial development and distribution of microwave and millimiter-wave device models.

Gunaratne's research uses probability methods, fuzzy sets, neural networks, digital imaging and satellite technology to solve soil and pavement engineering problems.

Wang's research focuses on nano-science, nano-manufacturing, nano-materials, nano-mechanics, clean water and energy.

Ghani's research focuses on cybersecurity, including ransomware analysis, denial-of-service attack mitigation, Internet of Things security, cyber skills development and workforce training. He can also discuss cyberinfrastructure design, cloud computing and disaster recovery.

Albergo is an expert in geotechnical engineering, sinkholes, chemical spills, contamination assessment and cleanup and environmental engineering.

Alcantar's research focuses on nanoparticles, green materials chemistry and organic or inorganic thin films.

Goyette is an expert in emergency management, safety and security for public transit, public transit agency safety planning, public transit management and public transit customer service.

Lin's research focuses on traffic safety and engineering, pedestrian and bicycle safety, wrong-way driving prevention, traffic congestion management and traffic signal operations.

Winters has more than 40 years of experience in traffic demand management, where his work focuses on how to influence the intensity, timing and spatial distribution of vehicle demand to reduce traffic impact, manage parking needs, reduce greenhouse gasses and enhance mobility options.

Lu's research focuses on pavement engineering, asphalt mix design, pavement management systems, transportation infrastructure management and steel bridge deck surfacing.

Guldiken established the USF Acoustic and Microfluidics Laboratory to research acoustics, microfluidics, flluid mechanics, sensors and transducers, with the overarching goal of solving global challenges.

Alqasemi's research focuses on rehab technology, robotics, technologies for people with disabilities, human-robot interaction and brain-computer interface.

Frisina is an expert on hearing and hearing loss whose research focuses on neuroengineering/neural engineering, sensory systems, aging neuroscience, drug development and aging and hearing loss.

Bhanja's research focuses on nanocomputing, emerging computing frameworks, nature and physics-inspired computing, and security and authentication of Emerging Systems.

Hendricks has developed recommendations for a regional Transportation Options Program plan for the Tampa Bay area, under sponsorship from the Florida Department of Transportation. Her research focuses on transportation demand management, trip reduction ordinances, growth management and bicycle and pedestrian transportation.

Ergas' environmental biotechnology research focuses on wastewater treatment and reuse, biological nutrient removal, biological waste to energy technologies, biological treatment processes, anaerobic digestion, sustainable aquaculture technologies, low impact development technologies for stormwater management, onsite wastewater nutrient removal and water technology.

Concas is a senior economist with extensive experience in urban and regional economic impact analysis and transportation policy analysis. His research work focuses on the study of the linkages between transportation infrastructure investment, economic development and residential location patterns.

Saddow's research focuses on topics connected to material science and biomedical engineering, including silicon carbide growth, semiconductor technology, neural implants and glucose and blood pressure sensors.

Yucelen is director of the USF Laboratory for Autonomy, Control, Information and Systems and director of the Forum on Robotics and Control Engineering. His research focuses on autonomous vehicles and robotics.

Das' current research is focused on design and policy issues for smart electricity grids supporting green generation, electric vehicles and smart consumers in smart and connected communities; and developing strategies for impact mitigation of large-scale influenza pandemic outbreaks. He can discuss system performance optimization, carbon emissions control for electronic power networks, smart grid and microgrid modeling and design, influenza pandemic outbreak mitigation; and breast cancer survivor detection and intervention strategies.

Boyd's research focuses on multimodal transportation planning

and land use planning and development. She also serves in supporting roles for several projects focused on statewide and metropolitan policy, planning and programming, and strategic and organizational management.

Silva is a professor of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering. His research interests include pandemic mitigation, data analytics, applied operations research and engineering education.

Keita is a transportation planning and engineering researcher with comprehensive experience and education in urban planning and policy and civil engineering. Her research interest is in the area of intermodal transportation, equity in transportation and big data.

Zhang is program director for the USF Center for Urban Transportation Research Advanced Air Mobility program. Her research areas include multimodal transportation systems modeling and analysis, air traffic management, airport operation and management, advanced air mobility, sustainable transportation and transportation resilience.