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Marina AstithaEversource Energy Professor in Environmental and Sustainability Education Associate Professor School of Civil & Environmental Engineering Phone: 860-486-3941 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3892-6672 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/M-9755-2015 |
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Brian Filipiak (01/2023-pres)
Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn (co-advised by Dr. Astitha and Dr. Cerrai) Email: brian.filipiak ‘at’ uconn.edu https://brian-filipiak.scholar.uconn.edu/
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Fatemeh Azizpourshoubi (08/2024-pres)
Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn M.S. in Environmental Engineering Babol Noushirvani University of Technology B.S. in Civil Engineering Babol Noushirvani University of Technology Email: fazizpour ‘at’ uconn.edu |
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Lais DaSilva (08/2022-pres)
MS candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn Email: lais.dasilva ‘at’ uconn.edu |
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Sloane Poppei (08/2025-pres)
Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn M.Eng. Applied Climate, University of Michigan, 2024 B.S.E. Climate and Meteorology, University of Michigan, 2023 (co-advised by Dr. Astitha and Dr. Cerrai) Office: 212 Innovation Partnership Bldg, Storrs Email: sloane.poppei ‘at’ uconn.edu |
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Emily Erickson(08/2025-pres)
Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Engineering, UConn B.S. Environmental Science, University of Rochester, 2025 Office: 212 Innovation Partnership Bldg, Storrs Email: emily.erickson ‘at’ uconn.edu |
Past graduate students
Dr. Israt Jahan (08/2020-01/2026), Ph.D. Environmental Engineering. Dissertation Title: “Advancing Wind Gust Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification with Machine Learning and
Assessing Severe Wind Climatology Using High-Resolution Regional Climate Modeling”. Currently: Natural Hazards Modeler, AI in Weather and Climate Resilience, Environmental Engineer, FM Global.
Dr. Tasnim Zaman (08/2019-04/2025), Ph.D. Environmental Engineering. Dissertation Title: “Advancing offshore wind prediction and assessment of climate change impacts on wind in the Northeastern United States“. Currently: Assistant Research Professor and Eversource Energy Center Manager, UConn.
Dr. Ummul Khaira (08/2019-08/2024), Ph.D. Environmental Engineering. Dissertation Title: “On the prediction of extreme weather events for the NE US using NWP and machine learning: tropical storms and winter weather“. Currently: Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineer at STV.
Dr. Christina Feng Chang (08/2017-08/2022), Ph.D. Environmental Engineering. Dissertation Title: “On the Development of a Novel Methodology to Assess and Predict Water Quality Indicators by Linking Multi-Media Models and Machine Learning“. Currently: Environmental Engineer at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), NC.
Michael S. Walters (08/2017-08/2020), MS Environmental Engineering; Thesis title: “Evaluation of Winter Weather Prediction during Extreme Snowfall Events and an Analysis on Wind Gust Prediction for Non-Convective Rain and Wind Events“.
Dr. Huiying Luo (08/2014-11/2019), Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Dissertation Title: “Interpreting the Information Embedded in Observed and Modeled Air Quality Time Series and Using Regional Air Quality Models for Regulatory Policies“. Currently: NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.
Dr. Jaemo Yang (08/2013-08/2018), Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Dissertation Title: “Improvement of storm wind-speed prediction for the northeast United States”. Currently: Researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), CO.
Alexander Samalot (08/2014-04/2017), MS Environmental Engineering. Thesis title: “Combined Universal Kriging and Kalman Filter Techniques to Improve Wind Speed Prediction for the Northeastern United States”. Environmental Consultant at Whitestone Associates, Inc.
Ghezae Fisseha (08/2015-05/2018), MS Environmental Engineering (plan B).