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
• Aditi Bhaskar, Ph.D.
  (970)491-8339
  aditi.bhaskar@colostate.edu
• Thomas H. Bradley, Ph.D.
  (970)237-1305
  thb@colostate.edu
• Yanlin Guo, Ph.D.
  (970)491-3518
  yanlin@colostate.edu
• Paul Heyliger, Ph.D.
  (970)491-6685
  prh@engr.colostate.edu
• Gaofeng Jia, Ph.D.
  (970)491-6580
  gaofeng.jia@colostate.edu
• Erika Miller, Ph.D.
  (970)491-3346
  erika.miller@colostate.edu
• Peter A. Nelson, Ph.D.
  (970)491-5247
  peter.nelson@colostate.edu
• Jeffrey Niemann, Ph.D., P.E.
  (970)491-3517
  jeffrey.niemann@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
• John W. Van de Lindt, Ph.D.
  (970)491-6697
  jwv@engr.colostate.edu
• Karan Venayagamoorthy, Ph.D.
  (970)491-1915
  vskaran@colostate.edu

North Dakota State University

• Kimberly Vachal, Ph.D.
  University Director
  (701)231-6425
  kimberly.vachal@ndsu.edu
• Joy Annette
  (701)231-8301
  joy.annette@ndsu.edu
• Raj Bridgelall, Ph.D.
  (408)607-3214
  raj.bridgelall@ndsu.edu
• Alan Dybing, Ph.D.
  (701)231-5988
  alan.dybing@ndsu.edu
• Dale Heglund, PE/PLS
  
  dale.heglund@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
• Pan Lu, Ph.D.
  (701)212-3795
  pan.lu@ndsu.edu
• Denver Tolliver, Ph.D.
  (701)231-7190
  denver.tolliver@ndsu.edu
• Satpal S. Wadhwa, Ph.D.
  (701)231-9594
  satpalsingh.wadhwa@ndsu.edu
• Brad Wentz, P.E.
  (701)231-7230
  bradley.wentz@ndsu.edu

South Dakota State University

• Mostafa Tazarv, Ph.D., P.E.
  University Director
  (605)688-6526
  mostafa.tazarv@sdstate.edu
• Rouzbeh Ghabchi, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-6333
  rouzbeh.ghabchi@sdstate.edu
• Ahmad Ghadban, Ph.D.
  (605) 688-6627
  ahmad.ghadban@sdstate.edu
• Guanghui Hua, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-6957
  guanghui.hua@sdstate.edu
• Kyungnan Min, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-4918
  kyungnan.min@sdstate.edu
• Michael Pawlovich, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-6936
  michael.pawlovich@sdstate.edu
• Christopher Schmit, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-6252
  christopher.schmit@sdstate.edu
• Junwon Seo, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-5226
  junwon.seo@sdstate.edu
• Francis Ting, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-5997
  francis.ting@sdstate.edu
• Nadim Wehbe, Ph.D., P.E.
  (605)688-5427
  nadim.wehbe@sdstate.edu

University of Colorado Denver

• Wesley E. Marshall, Ph.D., P.E.
  University Director
  (303)315-7568
  wesley.marshall@ucdenver.edu
• Moatassem Abdallah, Ph.D.
  (303)315-7566
  moatassem.abdallah@ucdenver.edu
• Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Ph.D.
  (303)315-0116
  farnoush.banaei-kashani@ucdenver.edu
• Caroline M. Clevenger, Ph.D.
  (303)315-7567
  caroline.clevenger@ucdenver.edu
• Bruce Janson, Ph.D., P.E.
  (303)315-7569
  bruce.janson@ucdenver.edu
• Yail "Jimmy" Kim, Ph.D.
  (303)315-7497
  jimmy.kim@ucdenver.edu
• Meng Li, Ph.D.
  (303)315-7150
  meng.li@ucdenver.edu
• Kevin Rens, Ph.D., P.E.
  (303)315-7160
  kevin.rens@ucdenver.edu
• Manish Shirgaokar, Ph.D.
  (303)315-0336
  manish.shirgaokar@ucdenver.edu

University of Denver

• Patrick Sherry, Ph.D.
  University Director
  (303)871-2495
  patrick.sherry@du.edu
• Ruth Chu-Lien Chao, Ph.D
  (303)871-2495
  chu-lien.chao@du.edu
• Jesse Owen, Ph.D.
  (303)871-2495
  jesse.owen@du.edu
• Andi Pusavat, Ph.D.
  (303)871-2495
  andi.pusavat@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
• Jianli Chen, Ph.D.
  (540)315-0110
  jianli.chen@utah.edu
• Evert Lawton, Ph.D., P.E.
  (801)585-3947
  lawton@civil.utah.edu
• Xiaoyue "Cathy" Liu, Ph.D., P.E.
  (801)587-8858
  cathy.liu@utah.edu
• Nikola Markovic, Ph.D.
  (801)585-2877
  nikola.markovic@utah.edu
• Abbas Rashidi, Ph.D.
  (801)581-3155
  abbas.rashidi@utah.edu
• Pedro Romero, Ph.D., P.E.
  (801)587-7725
  pedro.romero@utah.edu
• Xianfeng "Terry" Yang, Ph.D.
  (801)585-1290
  x.yang@utah.edu
• Xuan Zhu, Ph.D.
  (801)585-7961
  xuan.peter.zhu@utah.edu

University of Wyoming

• Khaled Ksaibati, Ph.D., P.E.
  University Director
  (307)766-6230
  khaled@uwyo.edu
• Ahmed Abdelaty, Ph.D.
  (307)766-2356
  aahmed3@uwyo.edu
• Mohamed Ahmed, Ph.D., P.E.
  (307)766-5550
  mahmed@uwyo.edu
• Anas Alrejjal
  (307)761-3899
  aalrejja@uwyo.edu
• Dick T. Apronti, Ph.D.
  (307) 223-6317
  dick.apronti@angelo.edu
• Victor Bershinsky, P.E.
  (307)766-3188
  vbershin@uwyo.edu
• Ahmed Farid, Ph.D.
  (407)530-9360
  afarid@uwyo.edu
• Marwan Hafez, Ph.D.
  (307)761-2463
  mhafez@uwyo.edu
• Amirarsalan Mehrara Molan, Ph.D., P.E.
  (805)756-2947
  amolan@calpoly.edu
• Milhan Moomen, Ph.D.
  (765)237-8230
  mmoomen@uwyo.edu
• Suresh Muknahallipatna, Ph.D.
  (307)766-3174
  sureshm@uwyo.edu
• Kam Ng, Ph.D., P.E.
  (307)766-4388
  kng1@uwyo.edu
• Promothes Saha, Ph.D.
  (307)766-6783
  psaha@uwyo.edu
• Jennifer Tanner, Ph.D., P.E.
  (307)766-2073
  tannerj@uwyo.edu
• Shaun Wulff, Ph.D.
  (307)766-6483
  wulff@uwyo.edu
• Er Yue, Ph.D.
  (307)766-6743
  eyue@uwyo.edu
• Chengyi "Charlie" Zhang, Ph.D., P.E.
  (307)766-4232
  chengyi.zhang@uwyo.edu
• Milan Zlatkovic, Ph.D., P.E.
  (307)766-2390
  mzlatkov@uwyo.edu

Utah State University

• Marvin W. Halling, Ph.D., P.E.
  University Director
  (435)797-3179
  marv.halling@usu.edu
• James Bay, Ph.D.
  (435)797-2947
  jim.bay@usu.edu
• Michelle Mekker, Ph.D.
  (435)797-3180
  michelle.mekker@usu.edu
• Shuna Ni, Ph.D.
  (435)797-0990
  shuna.ni@usu.edu
• Keunhyun Park, Ph.D.
  (435)797-0225
  keunhyun.park@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, Ph.D.
  (435)797-6377
  andrew.sorensen@usu.edu