Faculty
Jason Hawkins, Ph.D.
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Dr. Hawkins joined the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in August 2021. He holds a Ph.D. (2021) in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto and M.Sc. (2016) and B.Sc. (2014) in Civil Engineering from the University of Calgary. Dr. Hawkins completed postdoctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary research focus is the analysis of sustainable infrastructure systems through the application of a wide range of analytic tools. |
Graduate Student Researchers
Omid Armantalab
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Omid is a Ph.D. student in transportation engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology and his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Kharazmi University. He is currently working on Bayesian statistical representations of transportation accessibility for equity and Justice40 applications. |
Hania Afzal
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Hania is a Ph.D. student in engineering policy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her M.Sc. in Economics from IBA Karachi and her B.Sc. in Economics from Quaid-I-Azam University. Prior to joining UNL, Hania was a researcher at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE). She is currently working on electric vehicle adoption in the United States and developing countries. |
Mohammad Elayan
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Mohammad is a Ph.D. student in transportation engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received both his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology. Mohammad spent a decade working in the transportation industry in the UAE. |
Nick Aldridge
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Nick is an M.Sc. student in transportation engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his B.Sc. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from UNL. His research focuses on developing pedestrian & bicycle crash exposure metrics for the City of Lincoln. |
Donya Negahbani
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Donya is an M.Sc. student in transportation engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tehran. |
Undergraduate Student Researchers
Undergraduate students at UNL and UNO are encouraged to reach out to Dr. Hawkins about research opportunities. Current opportunities are available via UCare.
Sagun Karki
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Sagun is a freshman computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is from Kathmandu, Nepal. Sagun is working on network science analysis of environmental-economic systems |
Abigail Metschke
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Abby is a sophomore civil engineering student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is minoring in environmental engineering. Abby is from Waterloo, Nebraska. She is working on an electrification adoption survey. |
William Turman
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Will is a senior civil engineering student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is from Pierre, South Dakota. He is working on an electrification adoption survey. |