Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering), director of UNLV's Transportation Research Center, was recently appointed to serve as a voting member on the Nevada Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety. Nambisan has more than 30 years of experience in developing research enterprises and has led efforts on more than 170 projects,…

Sajjad Ahmad and Haroon Stephen,(both Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) along with master's student Usha Poudel, published an article, "Evaluating Irrigation Performance and Water Productivity Using EEFlux ET and NDVI" in the Sustainability journal's special issue Machine Learning with Metaheuristic Algorithms for Sustainable…

Emma Regentova and Venkatesan Muthukumar  (both Electrical and Computer Engineering ), Si Jung Kim (Entertainment Engineering and Design), and Jonathan Hilpert (Education)  have received an $882,699 award from the National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning program for implementing the project " NEVADA STEM LAB…

Melissa Bartshe, Courtney Coughenour (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Haroon Stephen (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) published an article on "The relationship between tree canopy and social capital on physical activity in college students" in the Journal of American College Health. Rates of…

Jin Ouk Choi, Shreyansh Paliwal, James Bristow, Seungtaek Lee (all Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) and Hyun Kyung Chatfield (Harrah College of Hospitality) published a paper, "Construction stakeholders’ perceived benefits and barriers for environment-friendly modular construction in a hospitality centric…

Mahdi Hajiali (Computer Science) will have a new study appear in the Proceedings of the 2021 Computing Conference, a highly ranked conference in the areas of computer science and computing. Collaborators included Mahdi Hajiali, Jorge Ramón Fonseca Cacho, and Kazem Taghva (all Computer Science). The study, “Generating Correction…

Euiseong Ko and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) are a co-author and a corresponding author on a new conference paper, "PathCNN: Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks for Survival Prediction and Pathway Analysis Applied to Glioblastoma," in International Society for Computational Biology (ISMB), which is a #1 ranked bioinformatics…

Mingon Kang (Computer Science) recently received $132,000 in grants from Institute for Information & Communication Technology Promotion in South Korea. The project, entitled “Cultivating of innovative ICT‐based interdisciplinary global talents for AI‐based big data research in microorganism genome,” conducts deep learning-based…

Jin Ouk Choi (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was appointed president of the Korean-American Construction Engineering and Project Management Association for AY 2021-2022. The association is a membership association consisting principally of Korean and Korean-American construction industry professionals, college and…

Shashi Nambisan (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction and the Transportation Research Center) along with Alex Hainen of the University of Alabama, made an invited presentation, “Connected & Automated Vehicle Infrastructure System (CAVIS) Program Development and Deployment: Example in Alabama,” as part of  the "State &…

Meena Ejjada (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) was selected for the 2021 Dave Caldwell Scholarship awarded by the American Water Works Association. The nationwide scholarship established in memory of Brown and Caldwell recognizes a graduate student whose work advances engineering and technology in the drinking water…

Mingon Kang (Computer Science) is a co-author on the journal paper,"Functional Coordination of BET Family Proteins Underlies Altered Transcription Associated with Memory Impairment in Fagile X Syndrome" in Science Advances. The publication is achieved by the research collaboration with Pohang University of Science and Technology and University of…