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Yu Jiang, a Master of Engineering student from our group who graduated in 2018, is presently a Ph.D. candidate in the Haslam School of Business at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN, majoring in Business Analytics. After graduation in May 2025, she will start as an Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences  in the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics at California State University, Sacramento.

While she took a very different path from engineering, her achievement is no less notable, and thus equally worthy of celebration. Congratulations, Yu!

A recent paper with group alumnus In-Chul Kim, “Application of a consistent nonlinear mild-slope equation model to random wave propagation and dissipation,” earned an Editor’s Choice designation for Volume 150, issue 6 of the ASCE Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering.

Dr. Navid Tahvildari, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, has moved to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University in Miami, FL, beginning Spring 2025. He moves to his new position as an Associate Professor. He graduated from the group in December 2011.

In addition, Dr. In-Chul Kim has moved from his postdoctoral position in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, to a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering at Pukyong University in Busan, Republic of Korea. He graduated from the group in May 2022.

Congratulations to Drs. Tahvildari and Kim!

The culmination of a four year project between Texas A&M University and the Environmental Defense Fund can be seen here. The site shows the vulnerability of communities and facilities in the Houston area to the impacts of flooding (hurricane surge, riverine, and rainfall) and contaminant transport. The site also describes the use of nature-based solutions to mitigate these impacts. This work was supported by the National Academies through the Healthy Gulf program.

If you are a former student in my research group, and want to update or correct your entry on the People page, please let me know and I will change it.

Dr. Navid Tahvildari, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Old Dominion University, appeared in a recent short film regarding a flood control project in Norfolk, VA. The film was produced by WHRO Public Media. Dr. Tahvildari was the first Ph.D. graduate from this research group, defending his dissertation on surface-interfacial wave interactions in 2011.

The College of Engineering wrote a story on the post-Hurricane Ian damage survey work in Ft Myers FL.

Congratulations to Dr. Sunghoon Han, who successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Hydrodynamic Characteristics Present in Nonlinear Long Wave Amplification in the Shadow Zone of Offshore Islands” on 22 August 2022. He will be working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Old Dominion University, working with Dr. Navid Tahvildari .

Congratulations to Dr. In-Chul Kim, who defended his dissertation titled “A consistent nonlinear frequency domain model for finite depth ocean wave propagation” on 10 March 2022. He will begin work as a postdoctoral associate at Laboratoire de Recherche en Hydrodynamique, Energetique et Environnment Atmospherique (LHEEA) at Ecole Centrale Nantes, in Nantes, France this summer.

This is also quite late, but the department wrote up a nice article on our new grant from the National Academies Healthy Ecosystems program, in partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund.