College of Engineering

Dr. Nathan Richbourg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. His research leverages fundamental insight into multi-property hydrogel design to evaluate how cell-environment interactions drive disease development in the bone marrow microenvironment. Improved hydrogel design, by controlling stiffness, protein transport, and biochemical properties, creates new opportunities for guiding cell behavior in artificial, 3D microenvironments.

Dr. Qianwen (Vivian) Guo is an Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida State University. Her research focuses on improving transportation systems for vulnerable populations by harnessing emerging technologies such as virtual reality and drones to enhance mobility and food accessibility for aging communities. Dr. Guo leads multiple federally funded projects, including those supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Dr. Leo Liu is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and Pettit Institute of Bioengineering and Biosciences at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2020.

Dr. Yanshuo Sun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. in transportation engineering from the University of Maryland.

Dr. Juyeong Choi, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He earned his B.S. in Architectural Engineering from University of Seoul and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. His research interests include infrastructure and facility planning, infrastructure system-of-systems, operational simulation modeling, and capital rehabilitation planning in the context of disaster risk reduction.

Dr. Lisa Spainhour received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1994, and studies traffic safety with a focus on aging drivers. Since 2002, she has led a team of researchers and programmers that develop, deploy, and support traffic crash and citation software, currently supported in over 150 agencies with over 16,000 users. Dr.

Dr. John Sobanjo

Dr. Eren Erman Ozguven, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of the FAMU-FSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research interests are focused on multi-modal emergency transportation operations, evaluation of roadway crashes, emergency inventory management, modeling of transportation networks, and intelligent transportation systems. Dr. Ozguven’s research program has evolved towards studying the accessibility and safety of the multi-modal transportation networks in order to assess the transportation needs of the aging populations. Dr.

Maxim A. Dulebenets, Ph.D., P.E., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.  His research interests include but are not limited to: operations research, optimization, simulation modeling, NP-hard problems, mathematical programming, metaheuristics, hybrid algorithms, evolutionary computation, transportation engineering, freight transportation, intermodal freight facilities, railroads, liner shipping scheduling, and GPS data processing.

Dr. Yan Li earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing China in 1995. In 2002 she earned her Ph.D.in Chemical Engineering at The Ohio State University. Dr. Li studies Stem cell technology and engineering; Tissue engineering and biomaterials; and Cell processing and bioprocessing.
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