
Alexander Abuabara
Instructional Assistant Professor; Postdoctoral Research Associate; Faculty Fellow
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Expert Area: Evacuation And Transportation; Hurricane; Community Planning; Geographic Information Science (GIS); Urban Hazards; Suicide Risk Assessment and Prediction.
Contact: aabuabara@arch.tamu.edu

Ahmed K. Ali
Associate Professor; Director Resource-Based Design Research Lab (RBDR/Lab)
Department of Architecture
Expert Area: Design in Circular Economy, Waste & Industrial Symbiosis, Building Materials & Assemblies
Contact: 540-449-7030, ahali@tamu.edu

Sherry Bame
Professor Emerita; Faculty Fellow
Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center; Center for Health Systems & Design
Expert Area: Health Systems Planning and Policy; Environmental Health; Health-Related Disaster Planning; Hurricane; Community Planning;
Contact: 979-845-8407, sbame@tamu.edu

Ivis Garcia
Associate Professor; Faculty Fellow
Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center; Center for Housing & Urban Development
Expert Area (Tags): Housing; Community Development; Planning in/with Minority and Low-Income Communities; Equity and Community Planning for Disaster Recovery; Recovery And Public Health; Hurricane; Community Planning;
Contact: ivis.garcia@tamu.edu

Tara Goddard
Associate Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center (HRRC); Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI); Texas Target Communities Program
Expert Area: Transportation Safety; Transportation technology and ethics; pedestrian and bicyclist safety; wildfire planning and evacuation; transportation psychology, behavior, and culture; Wildfire Mitigation, Recovery And Community Planning;
Contact: goddard@tamu.edu

Sungmin Lee
Assistant Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning; Center for Health Systems & Design
Expert Area: Urban Trees in Crime Prevention; Built Environment
Contact: sungminlee@tamu.edu; 979-587-4159

Jaimie Hicks Masterson
Director, Texas Target Communities; Faculty Fellow
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Expert Area: Community Resilience And Sustainable Development; Hurricane
Contact: jaimiehm06@tamu.edu

Michelle Meyer
Associate Professor, Director, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Expert Area: Recovery And Public Health; Wildfire Mitigation, Recovery And Community Planning; Hurricane
Contact: mmeyer@arch.tamu.edu

Galen Newman
Professor; Department Head; Faculty Fellow
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Department; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Expert Area: Urban Regeneration, Land Use Science, Spatial Analytics, Flood Resilience and Community/Urban Scaled Design; Community Resilience and Sustainable Development; Wildfire Mitigation, Recovery And Community Planning; Hurricane; Urban Regeneration
Contact: gnewman@arch.tamu.edu

Walter Gillis Peacock
Professor; Faculty Fellow
Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; U. S. Census Bureau; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center; Texas Target Communities; Center for Housing and Community Development; Texas Research Data Center (TXRDC)
Expert Area: Evacuation And Transportation; Wildfire Mitigation, Recovery And Community Planning; Hurricane; Evacuation; Restoration and Long-Term Recovery from Disasters; Disaster Mitigation and Resilience.
Contact: 979-845-7835, peacock@tamu.edu

Patrick Suermann
Professor, Interim Dean
College of Architecture; Department of Construction Science
Expert Area: Military Construction; Lunar Construction; Expeditionary Construction
Contact: 719-339-9611, suermann@tamu.edu

James Tate
Assistant Professor
Department of Architecture; Center for Health Systems & Design; Center for Housing and Urban Development
Expert Area: Wildfire Mitigation; Recovery And Community Planning
Contact: jtate@arch.tamu.edu

Doug Wunneburger
Instructional Professor; Faculty Fellow,
Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Expert Area: Evacuation And Transportation; Hurricane;
Contact: dwunneburger@arch.tamu.edu

Jorge Vanegas
Dean Emeritus; Director of the Institute for Sustainable Communities; Professor
Department of Architecture
Expert Area: Built Environment; Sustainability with a Focus on Livable, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities enabled by Intelligent Facilities and Infrastructure
Contact: (979) 204-2577; jvanegas@tamu.edu

Shannon Van Zandt
Professor; Faculty Fellow
Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center; Center for Housing and Urban Development; Texas Target Communities
Expert Area: Community Resilience and Hazards Mitigation; Disaster Recovery; Social Vulnerability; Low-Income Housing; Climate Adaptation (buyouts); Recovery And Public Health; Hurricane
Contact: 979-458-1233, svanzandt@tamu.edu

Wei Yan
Professor
Department of Architecture; CRS Center
Expert Area: Computational Methods in Architecture, Augmented Reality, AI, Building Information Modeling, Parametric Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization
Contact: wyan@tamu.edu; 979-574-8305

Siyu Yu
Assistant Professor; Faculty Fellow
Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Expert Area: Community Resilience And Sustainable Development; Wildfire Mitigation, Recovery And Community Planning; Hurricane; Built Environment, Disaster Relief, Policy, Community Resilience, Climate Adaptation
Contact: 979-676-7689; syu@arch.tamu.edu