May 8, 2026
PROGRAM
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
Gregory V. Lowry
Interim Department Head and Hamerschlag University
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS
ASCE Outstanding Civil Engineering Student Award
This award is presented to a senior who exhibits outstanding leadership and service.
Lawrence G. Cartwright Service Award
This award is presented to a senior who exhibits outstanding professional and university service.
H.A. Thomas Sr. Scholarship Award
This award is presented to a senior who exhibits outstanding scholarship.
Harold A. Thomas (1885-1973), Professor of Civil Engineering at Carnegie Tech, was an expert in hydraulics and was both an experimentalist and a mathematical modeler.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Award
This award is presented to a senior who has conducted outstanding research.
James P. Romualdi Civil and Environmental Engineering Award
This award is presented to a senior who exhibits excellence in the traditional areas of civil engineering, both academic and practical.
As an alumnus and longtime faculty member, James Romualdi touched the lives of many students in CEE. He was an expert in structural engineering, concrete design, failure analysis, and transportation engineering. His research led to the innovation and patent of fiberreinforced concrete.
Community and Engagement Excellence Award
This award is presented to a CEE undergraduate or graduate student who demonstrates exceptional leadership in fostering collaboration among diverse groups—including students, faculty, staff, across different departments, and local and global organizations— to create meaningful academic, social, and cultural impact. The recipient actively initiates, leads or contributes to activities that promote long-term positive community engagement while inspiring others to participate and sustain these efforts.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
This award is presented to a student who exhibits outstanding teaching ability.
Paul P. Christiano Distinguished Service Award
This award is presented to a graduate student who exhibits outstanding professional and university service.
Paul P. Christiano (1942-2001), an alumnus and faculty member of the Civil Engineering department, was known for his dedication to Carnegie Mellon. Christiano was an expert in structural and geotechnical engineering and led the graduate program in these areas.
During his tenure at Carnegie Mellon, he served as CEE department head, dean of the College of Engineering and university provost, and helped lead an educational movement that fostered the growth of interdisciplinary research on campus.
Mao Yisheng Outstanding Dissertation Award
This award is presented to a Ph.D. student who submits an outstanding doctoral dissertation.
Mao Yisheng was the first recipient of a Ph.D. from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1921. His career was an outstanding example of innovation in civil engineering.
AWARDING OF DEGREES
Bachelor of Science
Master of Science
Doctor of Philosophy
GRADUATES
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Civil Engineering
Annaliese Rose Brannon ◆
Alexander Ater Capestany ◆
Additional Major: Engineering and Public Policy
Margarita Mergie Cejudo Arita
Edwin Chen**
Jose Eduardo Echeverria ◆
Angela Fan ◆
Additional Major: Engineering and Public Policy
Aurora Bondonna Fuchs ◆
Ezra Jinich**
Lillian Dahnby Keith** ◆
Neveen Atef Khalil ◆ Minor: Arabic Studies
Jordyn Maria Le
Additional Major: Engineering and Public Policy
Carlyle Frances Najarian ◆ Minor: Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Molly Jewell Smith
Additional Major: Engineering and Public Policy
Katherine Studentsova ◆ Minor: Hispanic Studies
Kundhavi Tiruchinapalli ◆
Samantha Kate Vu ◆ ●
Yujun Wu ◆ Minor: Game Design
Tianze Zhou ◆
Additional Major: Human-Computer Interaction Minor: Business Administration
Environmental Engineering
Paul Amir Davis
Alessandra Delorenzo ◆
Chase Alexander Gumbs
Additional Major: Engineering and Public Policy
Liting Jiang ◆ Minor: Robotics
Jaden Simmons
McCleery Brown Minor: Film and Media Studies
Lauren Taeyoung Oh ◆
Additional Major: Engineering and Public Policy
Matteo Joseph Perillo ◆
Additional Major: Engineering and Public Policy
Jana Emma Reiser ◆
Ester Schneiderova ◆ Minor: Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Brian Kaveh Spradley ◆
Additional Major: Engineering and Public Policy
Abigail G. Stech
Ella Katherine Vander Velde ◆
Additional Major: Engineering and Public Policy
Isabella Williams ◆ Minor: Materials Science and Engineering
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Artificial Intelligence Engineering – Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ruike Chen**
Aryaman Shandilya**
Daren Yao**
Jinsong Yuan**
Artificial Intelligence Engineering – Civil and Environmental Engineering –Applied Study
Janbol Jangabyl**
Rutvik Nitin Joshi**
Civil and Computer Engineering
Mao Wang**
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Morgan Engel Abbruscato
Andrew Bae
Dylan Lane Bonanno
Zican Cao**
Barbara Castro-Schell**
Dunsin Fadojutimi*
Carla Sofia Gomez-Fonseca**
Harrison Jacob Green
Vianey Guadiana**
Dalton Herschel Harmon
Joon Sun Hwang
Lauren Janicke**
Lillian Dahnby Keith
Elizabeth Krauss
Alison Catherine Lavery**
Lei Liao**
Clara Rose Liddick**
Esteban Londono**
Yixin Ma**
Ziyuan Ma**
Justin H. Oh
Chenyang Peng*
Natural Premier**
Maulana Panji Gumilang Rumra**
Kenedy Frances Sanchez
Xinyi Tang**
Jiayu Wang**
Mingyu Wang**
Tianqi Wang**
Albin Weliczker Wells*
Jingwu Wen**
Yu Xia**
Junyu Xie**
Sri Yolan Yuliansa**
Linman Zhang**
Yitong Zhang**
Tianye Zhou**
Civil and Environmental Engineering –Applied Study
Tianyue Zhao**
GRADUATES
Civil and Environmental Engineering – Research
Colin Richard Doody
Zhou Wang
Jiarui Zhang
Haowei Zhao
Computational Mechanics
Maryam Khodadad*
Katherine Piper**
Environmental Management and Science
Keerat Singh
Architecture-Engineering Construction Management
Ayesha Agnihotri**
Trijya Bhardwaj**
Carleigh Rose Cusick**
Gopika Danayakapura Somashekar**
Rounak Godhkey**
Dishita Goel**
Athul Janesh Kumar Nair**
Vaishnavi Nityanand Kini**
Anupoojapurnima Manivannan**
Janhavi Hemant Patil**
Samhita Shyam**
Tanya Singh**
Lisa Santosh Souz**
Aakash Vipparla**
Sifei Zhu**
GRADUATES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Mehul Bapat
Computational Mechanics
Molecular mechanics of interface-dominated transport in soft macromolecular systems Advisor: Gerald J. Wang
Kevin Bryant Freymiller
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Coupled energy and passenger mobility systems: interdependency modeling, joint optimization and pricing Advisor: Sean Qian
Jordan Malique Joseph*
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assessing residential energy efficiency retrofit adoption potential and societal impacts across the US Advisors: Destenie Nock; Constantine Samaras
Daniel Mutahwa Katusele**
Computational Mechanics
Microstructural Design, Multistability, and Effective Response of Soft Multifunctional Composites Advisor: Kaushik Dayal
Daryn Lee**
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Measuring and Improving Public Transit Accessibility Using Large-Scale Mobility Data Advisor: Sean Qian
Chaochao Lin
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Value of Information for Binary Engineering Systems in Single-agent and Multi-agent Management Analysis Advisor: Matteo Pozzi
Jiachao Liu**
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Curb-aware Network Models
Leveraging Hetrogeneous Data: Learning and Optimization Advisor: Sean Qian
Miguel Mora**
Civil and Environmental Engineering
A Process-Oriented Energy Management Framework for Housing Manufacturing Advisor: Pingbo Tang
Ozan Baris Mulayim
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Towards Semantic Interoperability and Adaptive Control of Autonomous Grid-Interactive Buildings Advisor: Mario Berges
Saptarshi Saha**
Computational Mechanics
Uncovering Topological Defects in Disordered Materials Advisors: Gerald J. Wang; Amit Acharya
Preom C. Sarkar**
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biological Selenium Reduction and Recovery in Flue Gas Desulfurization Wastewater Advisor(s): Gregory V. Lowry
Siddharth Singh
Computational Mechanics
A Study of Bulk and Interfacial Line Defect Mediated Dynamic Plasticity and a Duality-based Computational Technique for 1-D Nonconvex Elasticity Advisor: Amit Acharya
Benjamin Therrien
Civil and Environmental
Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy
Nanofertilizer Engineering and Risk Communication
Advisors: Baruch Fischoff; Gerald J. Wang
Hairong Wang**
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Advanced Sensor Technologies and AI Algorithms for Autonomous Site Characterization by Robotic Platform Advisor: Gregory V. Lowry
Zhichen Wang*
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Framework for Automated Change Propagation from Building Information Models to Building Energy Models
Advisors: Burcu Akinci; Mario Berges
Albin Weliczker Wells
Civil and Environmental
Engineering
From the Ground Up: Integrating Field Measurements with Remote Sensing for Improved Glacier Evolution Modeling
Advisor: David Rounce
Emily J. Zuetell
Engineering and Public Policy and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Climate Resilient Communities in Data-Scarce Contexts: Operationalizing Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Local Climate Risk Assessment
Advisor: Paulina Jaramillo
Amit Acharya
Peter Adams
Burcu Akinci
Mario Bergés
Jacobo Bielak
Sarah Christian
Donald Coffelt
Kaushik Dayal
David A. Dzombak
Sarah Fakhreddine
Susan Finger
Katherine A. Flanigan
James H. Garrett Jr.
Kelvin Gregory
Corey Harper
Chris T. Hendrickson
Su Jiang
Gregory V. Lowry
Joe D. Moore
Destenie Nock
Brian Belowich
Lindsey Breyak
Andrea Francioni Rooney
Ryan Gent
Allison McLachlan
Geena Provenzano
G. Ronald Ripper
Melissa Ritchie
The faculty and staff of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department would like to thank you for attending our diploma ceremony.
FACULTY
Fethiye Ozis
Matteo Pozzi
Zhen (Sean) Qian
David Rounce
Constantine Samaras
Mitchell J. Small
Pingbo Tang
Gerald J. Wang
Cathy Schaefer
Mei Tao
David Vey
Christian Woodfin