Meet Our Experts

Alexander Abuabara

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

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 

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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