Faculty
Environmental Engineering at USC
Full-Time Faculty
George Ban-Weiss
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008
Global and regional climate modeling, effects of atmospheric particles and land-use on climate and air quality, measurement of climatically relevant pollutant emissions from energy sources, evaluating climate models using satellite data, synergistic approaches for reducing climate change and urban air pollution.
Office: KAP 230C | Tel: (213) 740-9124 | Email: banweiss@usc.edu
Amy Childress
Professor and Director of the Environmental Engineering Program
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
Membrane contactor processes for innovative solutions to contaminant and energy challenges; pressure-driven membrane processes as industry standards for desalination and water reuse, membrane bioreactor technology, colloidal and Interfacial aspects of membrane processes.
Office: BHE 215 | Tel: (213) 740-6304 | Email: amyec@usc.edu
Felipe de Barros
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2009
Environmental fluid mechanics, stochastic hydrogeology, contaminant transport in heterogeneous porous media, site characterization and risk assessment, with emphasis on the scale issue, aquifer remediation and sustainability.
Office: KAP 224B | Tel: (213) 740-6130 | Email: fbarros@usc.edu
Daniel McCurry
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2016
Engineered water sources, environmental organic chemistry, and water reuse.
Office: BHE 220 | Tel: (213) 740-0762 | Email: dmccurry@usc.edu
Massoud Pirbazari
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1980
Treatment and removal of hazardous chemicals, mathematical modeling of biophysicochemical processes in water and wastewater treatment, and the development of biotechnology for pollution remediation.
Office: KAP 260 | Tel: (213) 740-0592 | Email: pirbazar@usc.edu
Kelly T. Sanders
Dr. Teh Fu Yen Early Career Chair, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2013
Analytical modeling of urban and agricultural systems; sustainable energy, water, and waste management; lifecycle assessment; smart grid data analytics.
Office: KAP 200B | Tel: 213-821-0095 | Email: ktsanders@usc.edu
Constantinos Sioutas
Fred Champion Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Doctor of Science, Harvard, 1994
Technologies for measuring physicochemical characteristics of air pollutants, toxic properties, and novel technologies for reducing the emissions of air pollutants.
Offie: KAP 216C | Tel: (213) 740-6134 | Email: sioutas@usc.edu
Adam Smith
PhD., University of Michigan 2014
Resource recovery from waste streams, microbial syntrophy in anaerobic systems.
Office: BHE 221 | Tel: 213-740-0473 | Email: smithada@usc.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Burcin Becerik-Gerber
Stephen Schrank Early Career Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Associate Professor
Doctor of Design, Harvard University, 2006
Energy Efficiency, Building Information Modeling, Situational Awareness for Built Environment, Human-Building Interaction, Human Centered Sensing and Policy Generation for Energy Efficiency, Occupancy and Behavior Driven Energy Models, Sensors and Sensor Systems, Prediction of Human and Building Behavior
Office: KAP 224C | Tel: (213) 740-4383 | Email: becerik@usc.edu
Mital Luhar
Henry Salvatori Early Career Chair, Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Doctoral Degree, Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012
Work addresses open problems in aero- and hydrodynamic design, flow control, environmental science, as well as physical biology, and involves a combination of laboratory experiments and theory.
Office: RRB 220 | Tel: 213-740-7212 | Email: luhar@usc.edu
Patrick Lynett
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2002.
Numerical and physical modeling of coastal processes; wind wave evolution from deep to shallow water; sediment transport in the coastal zone; wave interaction with permeable structures such as breakwaters; internal waves; wave energy.
Office: KAP 224E | Tel: (213) 740-3133 | Fax: (213) 744-1426 | Email: plynett@usc.edu
Lucio Soibelman
Viterbi Dean's Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998
Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Image Reasoning, Text Mining, Machine Learning, Multi-reasoning Mechanisms, sensors, sensor networks, and advanced infrastructure systems
Office: KAP 210A | Tel: (213) 740-0609 | Email: soibelman@usc.edu
Qiming Wang
Ph.D., Duke University, 2014
Mechanics of active materials and structures, Additive manufacture, Biofouling management, Water treatment.
Office: BHE 222 | Tel: (213) 821-4715 | Email: qimingw@usc.edu
Published on July 30th, 2020
Last updated on September 29th, 2020