Faculty Members

Omar Ali

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture

Areas of expertise: resilient infrastructure, public space policy, and productive landscapes.

Elizabeth Carter

Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science

Areas of expertise: disaster response and mitigation, hydrometeorology and hydroclimatology, detection of water from space, and space/time statistics.

Bing Dong

Professor,College of Engineering and Computer Science

Areas of expertise: urban mobility, modeling and optimization of urban energy system, and human performance.

Sara Eftekharnejad

Associate Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science

Areas of expertise: integration of renewable energy into power systems; power system stability and control; power system reliability and security; and phasor measurement units in smart grids.

Jay Golden

Pontarelli Professor of Environmental Sustainability and Finance, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Areas of expertise: net-zero carbon transition, technology transitions, energy transitions, bio-based transitions, supply chains, and ESG and finance.

Shubha Ghosh

Crandall Melvin Professor of Law, Director of Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute, College of Law

Areas of expertise: business law.

Natarajan Gautam

Professor and Operations Research and Systems Analytics Master’s Program Director, College of Engineering and Computer Science

Areas of expertise: stochastic modeling, control, and optimization; data science: predictive and prescriptive analytics; logistics and scheduling; energy management; and queues and networks.

Minchin Lewis

Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Areas of expertise: political office, private financial management and social services.

Hannibal Newsom

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture

Areas of expertise: developing design-build / community engagement work.

Brian Ohl

Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Areas of expertise: management, collaborative governance, sustainability, environmental policy, and public budgeting.

Senem Velipasalar

Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science

Areas of expertise: computer vision; wireless smart camera networks; distributed computing; and statistical learning.

Baris Salman

Assistant Professor,College of Engineering and Computer Science

Areas of expertise: infrastructure asset management, sustainable development, and resilience.

Yilei Shi

Associate Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Civil Engineering Program Director, College of Engineering and Computer Science

Areas of expertise: transportation resilience, sustainable construction materials, and structural behavior under extreme loading conditions.

Sevgi Erdogan

Sevgi Erdogan is an Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, and in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (by courtesy). She directs the Smart Cities & Civic Technologies Research Center where she leads and fosters interdisciplinary work at the intersection of transportation engineering, urban science, data science, and public policy. She is also an affiliate of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, where she previously led the Transportation Policy Research Group. Her research focuses on developing methods, models and tools to inform policy and decision-making on the interactions across built, social, and natural systems, focusing on sustainable transportation and mobility. Her recent interests include data science for transportation, smart and connected communities, and integrated modeling of transportation. She serves as Associate Editor for Urban Rail Transit journal, and on the editorial boards of PLOS Sustainability and TransformationUrban Planning, and Energies.  Her work has been supported by federal, state and local agencies including NSF, FHWA, Maryland Departments of Transportation and Health. She was also a member of the TRB committees on Network Modeling, and Travel Forecasting until June 2025. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park, M.S. in Operations Research from the University of Delaware and in Civil Engineering from Istanbul Technical University.

If you are interested in becoming a SUII faculty member, please contact Min Liu via mliu92@syr.edu.