Group

Research Group – Coastal-Urban Resilience Engineering and Science

Tam Trinh – PhD student

Saif Haider – Master’s degree student

Prospective Students – Fellowships Available!

Presidential fellowships are available that pay about $52k per year, plus other opportunities to be funded on research grants and a Provost’s Fellowship. Contact me if you are interested in meeting to learn more about student opportunities in my research group. I am always happy to help with guidance on term papers or other student projects — check the “Projects” links or the “News” links on the lab’s homepage for areas we’re spending the most time working on.

Coastal/Ocean Engineering Collaborators at Stevens

Reza Marsooli, Assistant Professor

Jon Miller, Research Associate Professor

Marouane Temimi, Associate Professor

Mahmoud Ayyad – Research Assistant Professor

Laura Kerr, Research Engineer

Matthew Janssen – Research Assistant Professor

Former Research Group Members

Shima Kasaei – PhD graduate (August 2025), now employed at Stantec, New York City

Kazi Mita – PhD graduate (August 2024), now employed at Fuss and O’Neill, Connecticut

Ziyu Chen – PhD graduate (August 2022) and post-doctoral researcher, now at Ocean University of China

Luis Fernando Pareja-Roman – former post-doctoral researcher, now an assistant research professor at Rutgers

Fanglin Zhang – PhD graduate (December 2021), hired as a coastal engineer at WSP Engineering, NYC

Haichen Liu – M.E. graduate (May 2020)

Lun “Larry” Yin – PhD graduate (May 2019), now a senior data engineer at Experian in San Jose, CA

Praneeth Gurumurthy – M.E. graduate (May 2018), now a data scientist for clean energy at RESurety

Reza Marsooli, former post-doctoral researcher, now an Assistant Professor at Stevens

Roham Bakhtyar, former post-doctoral researcher, now a Coastal/Hydraulic Scientist, USACE New York Office

Sergey Vinogradov, Storm surge modeling, risk analysis project manager at Binera