Leading Professor
Dr. Navid H. Jafari
Associate Professor
Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Texas A&M University
Educational Background
Ph.D., Geotechnical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – 2015
M.S., Geotechnical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – 2011
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Memphis – 2010
Research Interests
Coastal geotechnics
Geoenvironmental engineering
Natural hazards
Natural and built environments
Subaerial and submarine landslides
Dredged material
Design of earth structures
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Meet the team
Current Students
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Omar Alawneh
PhD in Geotechnical Engineering
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Topic:
Offshore and Coastal Geotechnics
August 2020 - Present
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Mohamed Hassan
PhD Student in Geotechnical Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Topic:
Geomechanics of Coastal Wetlands
January 2022 - May 2025
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Hamed Nasiri
PhD Student in Geotechnical Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Topic:
Shearing behavior of offshore sediments
January 2023 - Present
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Cyrus Bahman
PhD Student in Geotechnical Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Topic:
Advanced Technological Solutions to Coastal Geotechnical Problems
May 2023 – Present
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Omar Snosi
PhD Student in Geotechnical Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
September 2024 - Present
Research Topic:
AI-Powered Geotechnics with Large Language Models
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Fayrouz Elwasseif
PhD Student in Geotechnical Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
TBD - Present
Former Students
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Brian Harris
PhD in Civil Engineering
Research Topic:
Design and performance of coastal restoration
May 2016 - December 2020
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Jack Cadigan
PhD in Civil Engineering
Research Topic:
Dating ice sheet retreat in the Ross Sea using benthic foraminifera
November 2015 - February 2017
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Alborz Fathinezhad
PhD in Civil Engineering
Research Topic:
Investigated the Hydrogen-Sulfide production of sludge solidification
August 2018 - December 2022
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H. Omar Ulloa
PhD in Civil Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
Research topic:
Cone penetration testing in coastal/marine soils, ML/AI techniques for improving CPT correlations, Slope stability and settlement of earthen infrastructure
August 2019 - December 2023
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Jasmine Bekkaye
PhD in Civil Engineering
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Research topic:
Quantifying debris waste generated by disasters, furthering the improvement and development of data-driven prediction models, reconnaissance methods for collecting perishable post-disaster data.
August 2020 - December 2024
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Omar Alawneh
PhD in Geotechnical Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Topic:
Offshore and Coastal Geotechnics
August 2020 - Present
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Daniel Gallegos
Masters in Civil Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Topic:
Increase efficiency in marsh creation projects
January 2022 - May 2024
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Youssef Mousa
Masters in Civil Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Topic:
Geo-environmental and coastal geotechnical
May 2023 - May 2025