Henry V. Burton

Henry V. Burton Assistant Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Stanford University M.S. Stanford University B.S. Morgan State University

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Dr. Burton joined the UCLA Engineering faculty in 2014. His research interests are in increasing the resilience of structures and communities in relation to natural hazards while incorporating sustainable practices in building construction, maintenance and operation. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Morgan State University and his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Specific areas of interest include (1) developing enhanced earthquake resistant building systems, (2) performance-based life-cycle design and assessment, (3) modeling the relationship between the performance of infrastructure systems within the built environment, and the ability of communities to minimize the extent of socioeconomic disruption following extreme events such as major earthquakes. This work relies heavily upon large-scale experimental testing, high-performance computing for structural simulations and advanced probabilistic methods.

Timu W. Gallien

Timu W. Gallien Assistant Professor Coastal Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Irvine M.S. Purdue University B.S. Purdue University

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Timu Gallien’s research examines evolving coastal hazards from climate change and urbanization using numerical modeling and high resolution field observations. Her research interests include urban coastal flood prediction, beach groundwater, coastal infrastructure, and nearshore processes.  Gallien received her Ph.D. from UC Irvine.

Ximin He

Ximin He Assistant Professor Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. University of Cambridge M.S. Tsinghua University

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Dr. He is an Assistant Professor in UCLA's Materials Science whose research focuses on biologically inspired materials based on stimuli-responsive polymers and micro/nanostructure fabrication, for applications in biomedicine, environment, and energy. The interdisciplinary research across “design – synthesis – properties – functions” involves polymer chemistry and physics, molecular design and synthesis, and studies of mechanical, optical and electrical properties of soft materials. Dr. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard and obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry/Nano Optoelectronics; University of Cambridge.

Gaurav N. Sant

Gaurav N. Sant Assistant Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Purdue University M.S. Purdue University B.S. Purdue University

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Dr. Sant is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and holder of the Edward K. and Linda L. Rice Endowed Chair in materials science. His research is focused on elucidating structure-property relations in inorganic materials including metallic, and non-metallic materials, and specifically understanding how reaction processes are formative, and/or destructive of microstructure. As thrust areas, the research, which spans from "atoms to infrastructure", seeks to: (i) quantify solute-solvent reaction dynamics at interfaces, (ii) monitor, manipulate and mitigate electrochemical corrosion processes and (iii) quantify and simulate coupled mass and ion transport processes in random porous media.