I am an Assistant Professor in the Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Chicago. I received my PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. I am passionate about improving people’s quality of life by increasing the level of service communities receive from their infrastructure. My research fosters resilient and sustainable communities by using systems approaches to study the interface between built, natural, and social systems. I focus on three broad areas: 1) infrastructure management during uncertain contexts; 2) understanding public perceptions towards the built environment; and 3) organizational considerations of sustainable water technologies. I have worked on various complex engineering problems, such as: managing infrastructure interdependencies in rural Alaska, understanding environmental impacts after the East Palestine chemical spill, and responding to population displacement.