2025.01–Present
Wenlong Yu
Visiting Ph.D. Researcher
Landslide mechanisms and monitoring using UAV photogrammetry, LiDAR, and InSAR.
People
GeoSMART@UCF brings together civil engineers, geologists, geophysicists, remote-sensing scientists, and computing researchers across field observation, modeling, and data science.
Principal investigator · 2023.08–Present
Weiwei Zhan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · Director, GeoSMART@UCF
Dr. Zhan develops interdisciplinary approaches that combine remote sensing, geophysical sensing, GeoAI, and geomechanics to study natural hazards and their impacts on infrastructure and environmental systems.
Current team
Graduate Researchers
2025.08–Present
Osama Al-Tarawneh
Ph.D. Researcher · Civil Engineering
Sinkhole detection and modeling through geophysics, remote sensing, and GeoAI.
2025.08–Present
Muhammed Jaseem P A
Ph.D. Researcher · Civil Engineering
Compound rainfall–landscape hazards, spatial networks, and complex-systems analysis.
2025.08–Present
Bassam Nasir
Ph.D. Researcher · Civil Engineering
Marine geophysics, coastal resilience, remote sensing, and geohazard modeling.
2025.08–Present
Kishan Dhakal
Ph.D. Researcher · Civil Engineering
Landslide mapping and monitoring with InSAR, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence.
Undergraduate Researchers
GG
2025.08–Present
Grayson Grady
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Undergraduate research in geosystems engineering and natural-hazard resilience.
Co-advised Researchers
EH
2024–Present
Elise Helene Meyer
Ph.D. Researcher · Tufts University
Geospatial site terms and nonergodic ground-motion modeling.
Former members
Alumni
Postdoctoral Alumni
BK
2025.01–2026.06
Bahareh Kalantarghorashi Harandi
P3 Postdoctoral Fellow
Remote sensing, spatial machine learning, and GeoAI for geohazard prediction and mitigation.
Graduate Alumni
2024.08–2026.05
Varun Singh
M.S. · Civil Engineering
Field data analysis, geotechnical investigation, and engineering materials.
2024.08–2026.05
Sanidhya Sharma
M.S. · Civil Engineering
Big-data analytics, signal processing, and seismic-hazard assessment.
MD
2024.08–2025.12
Matthew Davies
Ph.D. Researcher · Co-advised
Collaborative doctoral research in coastal and infrastructure systems.
MR
2024–2026
Maggie Roberts
Ph.D. Researcher · Tufts University
Geospatial site amplification and nonergodic ground-motion modeling.
Undergraduate Alumni
2024.08–2025.08
Nathalia Carreno
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Landslide mapping, climate-driven hazards, and sustainability.
2025.01–2025.08
Gustavo Flores
Undergraduate Research Assistant · UCF EXCEL
Computational methods and data-driven analysis for coastal-erosion research.
2025.01–2025.08
Julia Manfrediz
Undergraduate Research Assistant · UCF EXCEL
Landslide mapping and natural-hazard mitigation.
2024.08–2025.05
Olivia Tedeschi
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Coastal erosion, field investigation, and laboratory research.
2024.08–2025.03
Ma Alessandra Domingo
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Florida sinkhole research and environmental engineering.
2024.01–2024.05
Jesllie Lopez Martinez
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Undergraduate research in geotechnical engineering and natural hazards.
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