Meet the Team

  • Keerti Rath

    PhD Candidate

    Transportation Planning

  • Eric Twum Barima

    PhD Candidate

    Transportation Engineering

  • Nasreldin Mokhtar, P.E

    PhD Candidate

    Structural Engineering

  • Mansoor Adil

    PhD Student

    AI / ML / GIS

  • Aqsa Zahid

    PhD Student

    Hydrology

Research Areas

  • Infrastructure Resilience

    Modeling and optimizing the performance of interdependent infrastructure under natural hazards, with multi-scale recovery analysis.

  • Disaster Risk Modeling

    Quantitative probabilistic risk frameworks, uncertainty quantification, and multi-hazard analysis for regional systems.

  • Transportation Systems

    Smart transportation, pedestrian safety, evacuation modeling, equitable mobility, and AI-driven network analysis

  • Hydrology & Climate Risk

    Flood hazard mapping, watershed-scale assessments, climate variability impacts, and resilient water infrastructure design.

  • AI, Machine Learning & GIS

    Geospatial intelligence, digital twin systems, Web-GIS platforms, and ML-driven disaster prediction and risk mapping.

  • Structural Engineering

    Structural performance under extreme loads, lifecycle analysis, reinforced concrete systems, and infrastructure reliability.

Alumni

  • Vishnupriya Jonnalagadda

    Former Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Infrastructure Risk & Resilience

Join My Research Group

Are you interested in joining our team? Please consider applying to the Civil and Environmental Engineering programs at Florida A&M University or Florida State University. For the college's current admission requirements, look at https://eng.famu.fsu.edu/cee/graduate/admission-requirements. Please indicate your interest in working with Neetesh on your application. We have 1-2 openings for PhD students every year.

We would welcome students with B.S. or M.S. degrees in engineering, earth sciences, applied statistics, and urban planning. You are also welcome to email Neetesh (nsharma@eng.famu.fsu.edu) with your CV, transcripts, and a brief description of your interests and goals.