People in Research - Herff College of Engineering

Brian Waldron is a practicing civil engineer with expertise in groundwater systems, contaminant transport, and geographic analysis. He is a native Memphian, receiving his bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degrees from the University of 蜜桃导航. His doctorate degree from Colorado State University in 1999.

Brian is a professor in the department of civil engineering and directs the Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research, or CAESER. His greatest passion about CAESER is the immediate impact its outcomes have on communities by improving the quality of life of citizens and encouraging stewardship of the natural environment. During his tenure directing CAESER and two prior centers, a total of 229 projects accumulating $43.65M in awards have been acquired. This amount reflects the hard work of CAESER鈥檚 faculty, staff and most especially its student employees who serve as CAESER鈥檚 foundational workforce as well as indicates the tremendous value communities see in partnering with CAESER.

Dr. Mariquita "Kit" Boone is the pre-award coordinator for Herff College of Engineering. In her role, Kit helps Herff researchers find and secure funding for UofM research and educational projects. She works with research teams during the pre-award phase of the sponsored project lifecycle to ensure the proposal is accurate, complete, and compliant with the sponsor requirements . Support includes proposal assistance, non-financial post-submission assistance, as well as research administration services.

Dr. Marie-Cecile Chalbot, Post Award Coordinator

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Photo	Lead PI	Research Interest
	Dr. Hasan Ali	Power forecasting, behind the meter photovoltaic (PV), PV supercapacitor energy storage, Electric Vehicle research
	Dr. David Arellano	Expanded-polystyrene block geofoams, backfill, retaining walls
	Dr. Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian	Glaucoma, convolutional neural network
	Dr. Kevin Berisso	Vest testing, RF controls
	Dr. Gary Bowlin	Cardiovascular, DNA, in vitro im plants, designing drugs, bio material for dental bone, electrospinning polymers
	Dr. Joel Bumgardner	Bone graft materials, Chitosan, biomaterials
	Dr. Charles Camp	Bridge remediation; 3D Dynamic analysis
	Dr. Amy Curry	Phantom Limb
	Dr. Russell Deaton	VLSI Fabrication, Algorithmic Self-Assembly of Materials, Nanotechnology.
	Dr. Ali Fatemi	Multiaxial fatigue, additive manufacturing metals, wrought materials, co-extruded high density polyethylene-based multilayer materials, axial and bending fatigue
	Dr. Daniel Foti	Drone research
	Dr. Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan	Modeling concentrated dusty plasma; ultrasonic aerosol generators fabrication
	Dr. John Hochstein	Vehicle emission reduction
	Dr. Stephanie Ivey	STEM, Workforce development, apprenticeship accelerator, girl/women empowerment, diversity, transformative technology, intermodal freight
		Empathic engineer, gender equity, PALS simulation support, drone research, cybersecurity
	Dr. Farhad Jazael	Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Laboratory (GFCT Lab)...underdevelopment Developing a framework to quantify Microplastic load transported by urban stormwater, Brown and Caldwell, 2021 (PI)- ~$33K ITESO-蜜桃导航 Engineering Exchange, US Department of State, 2021 (co-PI)- ~$83K Pre- and post-restoration assessment of Loan Oak basin, West Tennessee River Basin Authority, 2021 (Co-PI)- ~$163K Toward a Water Smart Campus- Green Fee, University of 蜜桃导航, 2020 (PI)- ~$27K Investigating contaminant storage and release mechanisms at low permeability zones, Herff College of Engineering Faculty Research Grants- UoM, 2020 (PI)- ~$15K West TN Dept of Agriculture, Tennessee Department of Agriculture, 2019 (Co-PI) ~$430K MLGW Aquitard, 蜜桃导航 Light, Gas, and Water Division, 2019 (Co-PI)- ~$5M Community of Research Scholars grant (CoRS), University of 蜜桃导航, 2019 (PI) -$2K Allen Wellfield Evaluation, 蜜桃导航 Light, Gas, and Water (MLGW) Division, 2017 (Co-PI)- $1.2M Microplastics Fate and Transport in Agricultural Soil: Interrelation of Hydrodynamics, Chemistry, and Material sciences, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA-NIFA), 2020 (Co-PI) - ~$500K
	Dr. Jessica Jennings	Research fellowships
	Dr. Hsiang Lin	Dynamic vibration reasoning design optimization
	Dr. Jeffrey Marchetta	3-star industrial assessment, magnetically induced fluid motion in reduced gravity
	Dr. Claudio Meier	Stream restoration
	Dr. Sabyasachee Mishra	Transport research, smart cities, asset management transit fleet, land use, work zone alert systems, freight congestion and mobility multimodal freight model
	Dr. Larry Moore	Manufacturing, workforce development, energy consevation, wastewater, industrial facilties storm water quality
	Dr. Shahram Pezeshk	Spatial analysis, attenuation model, spectrum matching-response spectrum, vertical to horizontal response spectral ratios,, ground motion prediction equations
		3D resolution, spherical aberration cellular imaging, optical sectioning microscopy
		Image and signal processing
	Dr. Brian Waldron	Groundwater, storm water controlblight mapping, GIS, water portal maintenance, water use app development, increasing aggie production resilience, water resources use
		geisinger DSA

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