Civil and Environmental Engineering

April Gu

Professor Environmental Engineering Biography April Z. Gu joined the Cornell faculty in 2018. Gu received her B.S. in Environmental Engineering and Science from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, jointly in...

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Damian E. Helbling

Associate ProfessorEnvironmental Engineering Biography Damian E. Helbling did his undergraduate work at The Pennsylvania State University where he received a BS in civil engineering with a minor in environmental engineering. During his years as an undergrad, Helbling...

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Kenneth Clark Hover

Professor Civil Engineering Biography While writing his master's thesis on the design of falsework for the construction of concrete bridges, Hover worked as a project engineer, building bridges over the Ohio River. After completing his master's degree, he spent three...

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Qi Li

Assistant ProfessorEnvironmental Engineering Biography Qi Li completed her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University in 2016 and a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from Carleton College, MN in 2011. Her graduate research focuses on developing...

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Jacob Mays

Assistant Professor Environmental Engineering Biography Jacob Mays is an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He is interested in applications of optimization and statistical learning in energy systems. His...

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Greg McLaskey

Associate ProfessorCivil Engineering Biography Greg McLaskey received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 2011. He was then awarded a USGS Mendenhall Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 2011 and worked as a Research Civil Engineer...

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Sriramya D. Nair

Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Biography Nair’s research focusses on development and characterization of novel cementitious materials. Prior to joining CEE, she worked as a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS),...

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Linda K. Nozick

Director of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Civil Engineering Biography Dr. Linda Nozick is Professor and Director of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. She is a past Director of the College Program in Systems Engineering, a...

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Bill Philpot

Professor Environmental Engineering Biography Engineering was not an initial career choice. My first degree was a B.A. in Music from New York University in 1969. While an undergraduate I was performing professionally in and around NY City with a wide variety of...

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