Meet Our Experts

Executive Associate Dean, Professor. Dean’s Office; Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning. Expert Area: Built Environment and Physical Activity; Healthy Living/Communities by Design. Contact: 979-845-7056

Contact Chanam Lee

Dean, Professor. Dean’s Office; Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning. Expert Area: Transportation and Land Use; Planning Policy. Contact: 979.845.1222

Contact Lingqian (Ivy) Hu

Associate Professor; Director Resource-Based Design Research Lab (RBDR/Lab), Department of Architecture, Expert Area: Design in Circular Economy, Waste & Industrial Symbiosis, Building Materials & Assemblies

Contact Ahmed K. Ali

Professor, Director, Building Performance Assessment Center (BPAC), Associate Director, TEES-Energy Systems Laboratory. Department of Architecture. Expert Area: Renewable Energy Systems; Energy Use Efficiency. Contact: 979-845-5041

Contact Juan-Carlos Baltazar

Assistant Professor, Associate Director, Center for Health Systems & Design. Department of Architecture; Center for Health Systems & Design. Expert Area: Health Facility Design for Older Adults; Telemedicine for Behavioral Health. Contact: 979-845-6183

Contact Zhipeng Lu

Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture; Center for Health Systems & Design; Center for Housing and Urban Development. Expert Area: Wildfire Mitigation; Recovery And Community Planning

Contact James Tate

Interim Department Head of Architecture, William M. Peña Endowed Professor in Information Management, Department of Architecture. Expert Area: Computational Methods in Architecture, Augmented Reality, AI, Building Information Modeling, Parametric Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization. Contact: 979-574-8305

Contact Wei Yan

Dean Emeritus; Director of the Institute for Sustainable Communities; Professor. Department of Architecture. Expert Area: Built Environment; Sustainability with a Focus on Livable, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities enabled by Intelligent Facilities and Infrastructure. Contact: (979) 204-2577

Contact Jorge Vanegas

Associate Professor, Department of Construction Science. Expert Area: Energy and Building Information Modeling; Facility Performance Assessment. Contact: 979-458-9375

Contact Manish Dixit

Associate Professor, Cecil O. Windsor Jr. ’66 Endowed Professor, Department of Construction Science. Expert Area: Construction Safety; Construction Automation; Sustainable Construction. Contact: 979-845-7075

Contact Chuma Nnaji

Professor, Department of Construction Science. Expert Area: Military Construction; Lunar Construction; Expeditionary Construction. Contact: 719-339-9611

Contact Patrick Suermann

Professor Emerita; Faculty Fellow, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center; Center for Health Systems & Design. Expert Area: Health Systems Planning and Policy; Environmental Health; Health-Related Disaster Planning; Hurricane; Community Planning. Contact: 979-845-8407

Sherry Bame

Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning. Expert Area: Microclimate Design; Thermal Comfort and Heat Health 

Contact Robert Brown

Associate Professor; Faculty Fellow, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center; Center for Housing & Urban Development. Expert Area: Housing; Community Development; Planning in/with Minority and Low-Income Communities;  Equity and Community Planning for Disaster Recovery; Recovery And Public Health; Hurricane; Community Planning

Contact Ivis Garcia

Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning; Center for Health Systems & Design. Expert Area: Urban Trees in Crime Prevention; Built Environment. Contact: 979-587-4159

Contact Sungmin Lee

Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Center for Health Systems & Design. Expert Area: Nature and Mental Health; Environmental Psychology; Urban Informatics. Contact: 979-862-1211;

Contact Dongying Li

Director, Texas Target Communities; Faculty Fellow, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center. Expert Area: Community Resilience And Sustainable Development; Hurricane

Contact Jaimie Hicks Masterson

Associate Professor, Director, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. Expert Area: Recovery And Public Health; Wildfire Mitigation, Recovery And Community Planning; Hurricane

Contact Michelle Meyer

Professor; Department Head; Faculty Fellow, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Department; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center. Expert Area: Urban Regeneration, Land Use Science, Spatial Analytics, Flood Resilience and Community/Urban Scaled Design; Community Resilience and Sustainable. Development; Wildfire Mitigation, Recovery And Community Planning; Hurricane; Urban Regeneration

Contact Galen Newman

Professor; Faculty Fellow, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; U. S. Census Bureau; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center; Texas Target Communities; Center for Housing and Community Development; Texas Research Data Center (TXRDC). Expert Area: Evacuation And Transportation; Wildfire Mitigation, Recovery And Community Planning; Hurricane; Evacuation; Restoration and Long-Term Recovery from Disasters; Disaster Mitigation and Resilience. Contact: 979-845-7835

Contact Walter Gillis Peacock

Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning. Expert Area: Urban Planning Methods and Technologies; AI in Planning

Contact Tom Sanchez

Instructional Professor; Faculty Fellow, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center. Expert Area: Evacuation And Transportation; Hurricane

Contact Doug Wunneburger

Assistant Professor; Faculty Fellow, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center. Expert Area: Community Resilience And Sustainable Development; Wildfire Mitigation, Recovery And Community Planning; Hurricane;  Built Environment, Disaster Relief, Policy, Community Resilience, Climate Adaptation. Contact: 979-676-7689

Contact Siyu Yu

Professor; Faculty Fellow, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center; Center for Housing and Urban Development; Texas Target Communities. Expert Area: Community Resilience and Hazards Mitigation; Disaster Recovery; Social Vulnerability; Low-Income Housing; Climate Adaptation (buyouts); Recovery And Public Health; Hurricane. Contact: 979-458-1233

Contact Shannon Van Zandt