Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Buried structures
Soil erosion
Flooding effects on civil infrastructures
Soil-structure interaction
Geo-hazards ( sinkhole, land subsidence...)
Net-zero construction materials
Omer Zeyrek
PhD Student
Hadi Suroor
PhD Student
Coleman Vaughan
PhD Student
Tyler Hebert
MS Student
Alejandra Vega
MS Student
Tyler Jenkins
MS Student
Charles Ledford
MS Student
Kushal Topu
MS Student
Mississippi State University
Brett Cobb, MS, graduated in Fall 2025 (Currently Project Manager at Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC)
Ben Shannon, MS, graduated in Fall 2025 (Currently Geotechnical Engineer at MDOT)
Tarleton State University
Jennifer Villarreal, Undergraduate Student Researcher (currently Engineer at Bleyl Engineering)
Yarit Trevor, Undergraduate Student Researcher
Daniel Martinez, Undergraduate Student Researcher
Dane Anter, Undergraduate Student Researcher (currently Engineer at TxDOT)
Anissa Reyes, Undergraduate Student Researcher
Raul Sandoval, Master's Student Researcher (currently MS student at Texas A&M University)
Trevor Pierce, Undergraduate Student Researcher
Tanna Morquecho, Undergraduate Student Researcher
Ruth Abegaz, Postdoc Research Scholar
Matthew Moody, Undergraduate Student Researcher
Bryce Vaughan, Undergraduate Student Researcher
(Note: in the order of hired date)