Faculty
Kevin Han
Kevin Han is an Associate Professor and Edward I. Weisiger Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. He received a PhD in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management emphasis) and Master of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a MS in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management emphasis) and a BA in Architecture/Minor in Structural Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Postdoctoral Associates
Jeongbin Hwang
BS/MS/PhD from Seoul National University. [email]
Graduate Students
Shitikantha Bagh
PhD in ECE. [email]
Ahmed Afifi
PhD in CE & MSCE completed w/ us in March 2026 [email]
Chris Ritter
PhD in CE [email]
Hunter Bowman
PhD in CE [email]
Will Ashe
PhD in CE [email]
Undergraduate Students
Caleb Gira
BSCS [email]
Nathan Libutan
BSCE [email]
Summer Research Experience
Summer 2025: Chance Hurd, NC A&TSummer 2023: Trishit Mondal, IIT Roorkee
Summer 2019: Gilmarie O'Neill, University of Puerto Rico
Summer 2018: Rahul Jain, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
Summer 2017: Manuel Jara Perez, University of Evansville
Global Engagement in Academic Research (GEAR), NC State University
Summer 2023: Lujia Chen, University of Richmond; Mengyan Wu, Nankai University; Tianwei Guan, Dalian University of Technology; and Runze Gu, Tongji UniversityWinter 2023: Guangzhao He, of Zhejiang University; Ruihan Liu, China Agricultural University; and Xiange Li, New York University
Summer 2019: Yiheng Niu, Beijing Institute of Technology; Yujing Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology
Summer 2018: Xianzi Hu, Jilin University; Jiaoyang Yao, Beijing Institute of Technology; Hexiang Dong, Beijing Institute of Technology; Ziqian Qin, Zhejiang University; Mingda Sun, Zhejiang University
Summer 2017: Ka Mai, Zhejiang University; Ren Yi, Beijing Institute of Technology; Huang Zhoujun, Zhejiang University
High School Students
Summer 2022 - Summer2023: Eric Liu, NC School of Science and Mathematics
Summer 2022: James Noble, Apex Friendship and Brandon Addair, Apex High Schools
Summer 2019: Sohum Rampal, Green Hope High School
Summer 2019: Sohum Rampal, Green Hope High School
Summer 2018: Katherine Madrid and Kysheem Harris from Broughton High School through Burroughs Wellcome Research Experience / NC-MSEN Pre-College Program
Alumni
Thesis
Nailah Afshan, PhD 25'
Visiting Assistant Professor, Colorado State University Pueblo, last updated Sept 2025.
Liannian Wang, PhD 25'
Nick Albergo, PhD in CS 25'
Doyun Lee, PhD 23' & postoc 24'
Assistant Professor, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, last updated Aug 2024.
Brayan Diaz, PhD 24'
Assistant Professor, Utah State University, Logan, UT, last updated Sept 2025.
Harleen Sandhu, Postdoc 24
AI Engineering Scientist, last updated Sept 2025.
Nick Crowder, PhD 23
Digital Engineering Research Scientist, last updated Sept 2025.
Yajie Liu, PhD 23'
Assistant Professor, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, last updated Aug 2024.
Guang-Yu Nie, Postdoc 23'
Computer Vision Researcher at Samsung Semiconductor, last updated Aug 2023
Wyatt Andresen, MSCS 22'
Research Scientist, Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA), Raleigh, NC, last updated Aug 2023
Joomyung Lee, Postdoc 22'
Senior PRA Engineer, TerraPower, last updated Aug 2024
Mojtaba Noghabaee, PhD 21'
Principal AI Research Scientist, Autodesk, last updated Feb 2026
Idris Jeelani, PhD 19'
Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, last updated August 2019
Alexis McCarn, MSCE 20'
Engineer III at Reynolds American Inc., last updated May 2021
Mayank Misra, MSCE 20'
Assistant Project Manager at I.L. Long Construction Company, last updated July 2020
Non-Thesis
Jonathan Miner, BSCS & MCS 2024
Software Developer at a defense company.
Jatin Nimawat, MSCE 23'
Associate Analyst, OneMain Financial, Charlotte, NC, last updated Aug 2023
Ankur Sharma, MCS 22'
Software Development Engineer, Amazon, Seattle, WA, last updated Aug 2023
Aman Ahmed, MECE 22'
CPU Design Verification Engineer, Intel Corp, Austin, TX, last updated Aug 2023
Eman Abdullah, MCE 23'
Arvind Sastha Kumar, MSCS 21'
Software Engineer at Facebook, last updated June 2021
Arpitha Vijayakumar, Summer 2021, MCS 22'
Chinmay Terse, Summer 2021, MCS 22'
Varun Haritsa, MSECE 20'
Computer Vision Research Intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, last updated July 2020
Jamie Gachie, MCS 20'
Software Engineer at AllState, last updated June 2020
Pranav Nawathe, MCS, Software Developer Engineer at Amazon, last updated Jan. 2018
Pengyu Chen, Summer intern in 2017 from Zhejiang University, Software Engineer III at Google, last updated 2020
Mason Horne, Spring 2021, BSCE 22' expected, last updated 2020
Keagan Linsey, Fall 2020, BSCE 22' expected, last updated 2020
Miles Ferrone, Fall 2020, BSCE 21' expected, last updated 2019
Matt Ball, BSCE 19', last updated 2020
Jay Parmar, BSCS 19', Big Data Engineer at Allstate, last updated June 2019