Swanson School of Engineering 2016 statistical summary

Anthony Iannacchione Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1997 – Anthony Iannacchione is an associate professor and the director of the mining engineering program at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to this appointment in 2008, he worked for the U.S. Bureau of Mines and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for approximately 34 years. His educational background is split between civil engineering, mining engineering and geology and is a registered professional engineering and geologist in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Dr. Iannacchione’s research interest include mitigating the impacts caused by coal mine subsidence, designing coal mine’s with minimal risk of unplanned water discharges, investigating and solving strata control problems in underground mines, and evaluating underground mine ventilation systems.

Vikas Khanna Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Ohio, 2009 - Dr. Khanna's research and teaching interests are in the general areas of sustainability science and engineering, industrial ecology, and role of environmental policy in engineering decision-making. The primary goal of his research is to develop and apply tools and techniques for understanding the sustainability of engineered products and processes. Current focus is on studying the life cycle environmental impacts of advanced biofuels that can act as drop in replacements for fossil fuels, environmental evaluation of nanotechnology, including life cycle energy impacts of carbon nanofibers and polymer nanocomposite materials. He is also developing integrated multiscale economic-environmental models for evaluating the role of environmental policies such as carbon tax and assessing risks to complex industrial systems.

Xu Liang William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1994 - Dr. Liang's primary research interests include: (1) to discover and reveal fundamental laws that govern water and energy cycles, and (2) to investigate how the water and energy cycles affect the health of our environment and ecological systems, and how they influence the transport and cycling of nutrients and pollutants at different scales, such as at local, regional, continental, and global scales. She is also very interested in research topics leading to improving accuracies on weather forecasts, droughts and floods, and on climate studies; scaling and data assimilation using in situ and remotely sensed measurements; impacts of climate change on diseases re-occurrences and re-distributions, and on sustainable water resources and environment; data and model system development through building the cyberinfrastructure, sensors and wireless sensor network (WSN) for hydrological sciences, and applications of emerging information technology for sustainable ecological system and water resources management.

Jeen-Shang Lin Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982 - Dr. Lin’s expertise lies in the areas of geomechanics and numerical methods. He has conducted research on nonlinear system identification of soil, cell traction force microscopy, discrete/continuum methods, and numerical modeling of rock cutting. He is currently working on the constitutive modeling and stability assessment of methane hydrate bearing sediments.

Mark Magalotti Senior Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. Civil Engineering University of Pittsburgh 2013. Dr. Magalotti is the Co-Director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center For Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure. Research interests include multi-modal transportation planning and traffic control systems including ramp management and adaptive traffic signal systems.