MPC Key Personnel
Principal Investigators

Colorado State University

• Suren Chen, Ph.D., P.E.
  University Director
  (970)491-7722
  suren.chen@colostate.edu
• Rebecca Atadero, Ph.D., P.E.
  (970)491-3584
  rebecca.atadero@colostate.edu
• Christopher Bareither, Ph.D., P.E.
  (970)491-4660
  christopher.bareither@colostate.edu
• Caroline M. Clevenger, Ph.D.
  (970)491-7963
  caroline.clevenger@colostate.edu
• Scott Glick, Ph.D.
  (970)491-1802
  scott.glick@colostate.edu
• Yanlin Guo, Ph.D.
  (970)491-3518
  yanlin@colostate.edu
• Paul R. Heyliger, Ph.D.
  (970)491-6685
  prh@engr.colostate.edu
• Gaofeng Jia, Ph.D.
  (970)491-6580
  gjia@colostate.edu
• Hussam Mahmoud, Ph.D.
  (970)491-6605
  hussam.mahmoud@colostate.edu
• Jeffrey Niemann, Ph.D., P.E.
  (970)491-3517
  jniemann@engr.colostate.edu
• Mehmet E. Ozbek, Ph.D.
  (970)491-4101
  mehmet.ozbek@colostate.edu
• Joseph Scalia, Ph.D.
  (970)491-3774
  joseph.scalia@colostate.edu
• Kelly Strong, Ph.D.
  (970)491-4021
  kelly.strong@colostate.edu
• John W. Van de Lindt, Ph.D.
  (970)491-6697
  jwv@engr.colostate.edu

North Dakota State University

• Kimberly Vachal, Ph.D.
  University Director
  (701)231-6425
  kimberly.vachal@ndsu.edu
• NeTia Bauman
  (701)231-9594
  netia.richards@ndsu.edu
• Raj Bridgelall, Ph.D.
  (408)607-3214
  raj.bridgelall@ndsu.edu
• Ying Huang, Ph.D.
  (701)231-7651
  ying.huang@ndsu.edu
• Dinesh R. Katti, Ph.D., P.E.
  (701)231-7245
  dinesh.katti@ndsu.edu
• Kalpana S. Katti, Ph.D.
  (701)231-9504
  kalpana.katti@ndsu.edu
• Brenda Lantz, Ph.D.
  (303)871-7773
  brenda.lantz@ndsu.edu
• Zhibin Lin, Ph.D., P.E.
  (701)231-7204
  zhibin.lin@ndsu.edu
• Pan Lu, Ph.D.
  (701)212-3795
  pan.lu@ndsu.edu
• Denver Tolliver, Ph.D.
  (701)231-7190
  denver.tolliver@ndsu.edu

South Dakota State University

• Nadim Wehbe, Ph.D., P.E.
  University Director
  (605)688-5427
  nadim.wehbe@sdstate.edu
• Rouzbeh Ghabchi, Ph.D.
  (605)688-6333
  rouzbeh.ghabchi@sdstate.edu
• Ahmad Ghadban, PhD
  (605) 688-6627
  ahmad.ghadban@sdstate.edu
• Guanghui Hua, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-6957
  guanghui.hua@sdstate.edu
• Allen L. Jones, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-6467
  allen.jones@sdstate.edu
• Kyungnan Min, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-4918
  kyungnan.min@sdstate.edu
• Christopher Schmit, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-5726
  christopher.schmit@sdstate.edu
• Junwon Seo, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-5226
  junwon.seo@sdstate.edu
• Mostafa Tazarv, Ph.D.
  (605)688-6526
  mostafa.tazarv@sdstate.edu
• Francis Ting, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-5997
  francis.ting@sdstate.edu
• Jonathan S. Wood, Ph.D.
  (605)688-6936
  jonathan.wood@sdstate.edu

University of Colorado Denver

• Wesley E. Marshall, Ph.D., P.E.
  University Director
  (303)352-3741
  wesley.marshall@ucdenver.edu
• Moatassem Abdallah, Ph.D.
  (303)556-5287
  moatassem.abdallah@ucdenver.edu
• Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Ph.D.
  (303)315-0116
  farnoush.banaei-kashani@ucdenver.edu
• Bruce Janson, Ph.D., P.E.
  (303)556-2831
  bruce.janson@ucdenver.edu
• Yail Jimmy Kim, Ph.D.
  (303)352-3653
  jimmy.kim@ucdenver.edu
• Meng Li, Ph.D.
  (303)556-6971
  meng.li@ucdenver.edu
• Carolyn A. McAndrews, Ph.D.
  (303)315-1000
  carolyn.mcandrews@ucdenver.edu

University of Denver

• Patrick Sherry, Ph.D.
  University Director
  (303)871-2495
  patrick.sherry@du.edu

University of Utah

• Chris Pantelides, Ph.D., P.E.
  University Director
  (801)585-3991
  c.pantelides@utah.edu
• Steven F. Bartlett, Ph.D., P.E.
  (435)841-9837
  bartlett@civil.utah.edu
• Amanda Bordelon, Ph.D., P.E.
  (801)581-3578
  bordelon@civil.utah.edu
• Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Ph.D., P.E.
  (801)587-8858
  cathy.liu@utah.edu
• Richard J. Porter, Ph.D., P.E.
  (801)585-1290
  richard.jon.porter@utah.edu
• Pedro Romero, Ph.D., P.E.
  (801)587-7725
  pedro.romero@utah.edu
• David Sanbonmatsu, Ph.D.
  (801)581-8505
  sanbonmatsu@psych.utah.edu
• David Strayer, Ph.D.
  (801)581-5037
  david.strayer@utah.edu
• Ran Wei, Ph.D.
  (801)581-8730
  ran.wei@geog.utah.edu

University of Wyoming

• Khaled Ksaibati, Ph.D., P.E.
  University Director
  (307)766-6230
  khaled@uwyo.edu
• Mohamed M. Ahmed, Ph.D., P.E.
  (307)766-5550
  mahmed@uwyo.edu
• Dick T. Apronti, Ph.D.
  (307) 223-6317
  dapronti@uwyo.edu
• Promothes Saha, Ph.D.
  (307)766-6783
  psaha@uwyo.edu
• Jennifer Tanner, PhD, FACI
  (307)766-2073
  tannerj@uwyo.edu
• Kam Weng Ng, Ph.D., P.E.
  (307)766-4388
  kng1@uwyo.edu
• Rhonda Young
  (307)766-2184
  rkyoung@uwyo.edu
• Milan Zlatkovic, Ph.D.
  (801)819-5925
  mzlatkov@uwyo.edu

Utah State University

• Paul J. Barr, Ph.D., P.E.
  University Director
  (435)797-8249
  paul.barr@usu.edu
• James Bay, Ph.D.
  (435)797-2947
  jim.bay@usu.edu
• Anthony Chen, Ph.D.
  (435)797-7109
  anthony.chen@usu.edu
• James Dorward, Ph.D.
  (435)797-1471
  jim.dorward@usu.edu
• Marvin W. Halling, Ph.D., P.E.
  (435)797-3179
  marv.halling@usu.edu
• Marc Maguire, Ph.D.
  (435)797-1139
  m.maguire@usu.edu
• John Rice, Ph.D., P.E.
  (435)797-8611
  john.rice@usu.edu
• Patrick Singleton, Ph.D.
  (435)797-7109
  patrick.singleton@usu.edu
• Ziqi Song, Ph.D.
  (435)797-9083
  ziqi.song@usu.edu
• Andrew Sorensen
  (435)797-6377
  andrew.sorensen@usu.edu