team
Somayeh Asadi
PI
Somayeh Asadi is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia. Her research group's work focuses on smart buildings and cities, Occupant behavior and health, net-zero carbon built environment, resilient and adaptive built environment, food–energy–water-society nexus, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Negin Alemazkoor
Co-PI
Her research is inherently multi-disciplinary and aims to advance reliability and resilience of infrastructure systems by facilitating fast and accurate system analysis that leads to optimal system operation and management
Devin K. Harris
Co-PI
Professor Harris is chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia. His research and teaching interests focus on large scale infrastructure systems with a primary focus on condition monitoring and system performance. His research leverages image-based measurement techniques, simulation, visualization, and data analytics with applications in the areas of structural health monitoring, smart cities, and digital twins.
Arsalan Heydarian
Co-PI
Arsalan Heydarian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as the UVA Link Lab. His research focuses on the user-centered design, construction, and operation of intelligent infrastructure, aiming to enhance sustainability, adaptability, and resilience.
Tanya Mishra
Consultant
Dr. Taniya Mishra is the founder and CEO of SureStart. She has been an AI scientist for over 10 years, with many peer-reviewed articles, 88 patents, and featured press articles in MIT Technology Review, NBC Learn, and The Atlantic. She is deeply passionate about increasing AI workforce diversity through opportunity equity.