Neda is research faculty in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and currently the City Infrastructure Analytics Director in the Network Dynamics Lab at Georgia Tech. She is a researcher in the area of city infrastructure systems with a focus on human-infrastructure system interactions. She primarily explores the complexities of evolving human-infrastructure interrelationships and their space-time fluctuations to quantify, explain, predict, and enhance urban dynamics towards sustainable urbanization. Her scholarship spans from theoretical foundations in artificial intelligence, computational modeling, and analytics to practical applications that integrate cyberinfrastructure-enabled technologies for advancement of Digital Twins. This is the focus of her recent and ongoing research projects and publications on "Smart City Digital Twins", which seek to improve urban sustainability, resilience, and digital transformation.
Dr. John E. Taylor (Co-PI)
Director of Network Dynamics Lab
JT is the Frederick Law Olmsted Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Lab. He specializes in investigating engineering network dynamics of industrial and societal importance. His current research focuses on; (1) achieving sustained energy conservation by coupling energy use with occupant networks and examining inter-building network phenomena in cities, and (2) understanding and improving response times by affected human networks during extreme events in urban areas. His research extends from developing virtual and augmented reality applications to collect and visualize urban scale data, to developing real-time interventions to improve urban sustainability and resilience. JT enjoys hanging out with his daughters, traveling and photographing the world, reading, running, and collecting/creating art.
Christin Salley
PhD Student
Christin is a PhD student in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. She received her BS in Fire Protection Engineering, along with a certification and citation in Science, Technology, and Society from the University of Maryland in 2019. She received her MSE in Civil Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 2020. Christin's research is at the intersection of social media, infrastructure systems, and disaster response. She is also personally passionate about pathways of engineering (investigating pursuits of engineering at different educational levels) and desires to train, mentor, and teach the next generation of engineers while conducting research that benefits various communities. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, and trying new restaurants.
Xiyu Pan
PhD Student
Xiyu is a PhD student in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received his BE degree in Construction Management at Chongqing University and MS degree in management at Tongji University. Xiyu’s research vision is to improve human well-being in buildings and cities. He is interested in utilizing the smart city digital twin, crowd simulation, optimization, and other quantitative methods to develop technical solutions to city problems. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his cat, Panda, drinking bubble tea, and trying nice restaurants.
Jiajia Xi
PhD Student
Jiajia is a PhD student in the Computational Science and Engineering program with a focus on network science and computational modeling. He received an MS in Computational Science and Engineering from the school of ISyE at Georgia Tech and a BS in Economics from Presbyterian College. His research focuses on development of smart city digital twin systems that ingest real time data and the associated analytics to improve urban sustainability and resilience. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, basketball, and trips for food.
Mathias Bermeo
Masters Student
Mathias is a first-year master’s student in the CEE program at Georgia Tech. Mathias completed a BS in Civil Engineering with a concentration in structures and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from Purdue University. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation. He is interested in the application of new technologies and methods in the construction industry and seeks to explore social, environmental and economic effects in the lifecycle of constructed facilities. Outside of his studies, Mathias enjoys playing chess, listening to classical music and spending time outdoors.
Hoang Ly
Undergraduate Student
Xiyu is a PhD student in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received his BE degree in Construction Management at Chongqing University and MS degree in management at Tongji University. Xiyu’s research vision is to improve human well-being in buildings and cities. He is interested in utilizing the smart city digital twin, crowd simulation, optimization, and other quantitative methods to develop technical solutions to city problems. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his cat, Panda, drinking bubble tea, and trying nice restaurants.
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