
Jeffrey Carney
Associate ProfessorFIBER Director
Jeff is an architect and urban designer working at the scale of housing and neighborhoods as an interface between urbanism, infrastructure, and ecosystem.
j.carney@ufl.edu
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Tim Murtha
ProfessorTim is an anthropologist, landscape archaeologist and design educator that studies the dynamics of settlement and land use.
tmurtha@ufl.edu
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Ryan Sharston
Assistant ProfessorRyan is an architect and a civil and environmental engineer focusing on high performance buildings and the health and well-being of occupants.
r.sharston@ufl.edu
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Jason Von Meding
Associate ProfessorJason is a social scientist investigating narratives of disaster, including injustice and inequality but also solidarity and hope.
jason.vonmeding@ufl.edu
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Yan Wang
Assistant ProfessorYan is a civil engineer who studies geographical and semantic urban-scale data to track spatiotemporal dynamics of human-spatial systems.
yanw@ufl.edu
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Lisa Platt
Assistant Professor Lisa is an Engineering Psychologist and Interior Designer using Systems Science to study operations in health and continuing care settings. lisaplatt@ufl.edu
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Jiayang Li
Assistant ProfessorJiayang is a landscape architecture scholar studying public perception and everyday experience of novel design interventions for climate resilience
jiayangli@ufl.edu

Changjie Chen
Postdoctoral Associate
Changjie is a planner and statistician whose research emphasis is directed at the simulation of future land-use scenarios and transportation modeling by integrating spatial analytics, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms.
chj.chen@ufl.edu

Carla Brisotto
Postdoctoral AssociateCarla Brisotto is an architect (Italy) and researcher working on climate change impacts on vulnerable populations. She employs participatory design methodologies.
c.brisotto@ufl.edu

Whitaker Schroder
Postdoctoral Associate Whit is an anthropological archaeologist interested in how sociopolitical change is manifested on the landscape, using methodologies including remote sensing and household archaeology with a current regional focus in the Maya lowlands of southern Mesoamerica.
wschroder@latam.ufl.edu
FIBER Administrative Staff

Keila Silva
Research AdministratorKeila leverages her knowledge of administrative processes and procedures to guide and facilitate FIBER research endeavors.
keila.silva@dcp.ufl.edu
FIBER Students
Fang Yao, Urban and Regional Planning, fang.yao@ufl.edu
Haiyan Hao, Urban and Regional Planning, hhao@ufl.edu
Shangde Gao, Urban and Regional Planning, gao.shangde@ufl.edu
Manan Singh, Construction Management, manansingh5@ufl.edu
Guo Ziyi, Urban and Regional Planning, ziyiguo@ufl.edu
Luwei Wang, Landscape Architecture, weiwei88117@ufl.edu
Goshtasb Shahriari-Mehr, Urban and Regional Planning, g.shahriarimehr@ufl.edu
Arezoo Zeinali, Interior Design, arezoo.zeinalika@ufl.edu
Haleh Mehdipour, Construction Management, haleh.mehdipour@ufl.edu
Amer Hamad Abukhalaf, Construction Management, amer.abukhalaf@ufl.edu
Collin Bowie, Construction Management, gville1515@ufl.edu
Isabella Guttuso, Landscape Architecture, isabellaguttuso@ufl.edu
Kaley Arboleda, Sustainable Design, kaleyarboleda@ufl.edu
Jessica Hays, Landscape Architecture, jessica.hays@ufl.edu
Forough Foroutan, Architecture, forough.foroutan@ufl.edu
Xiaoyu Chen, Interior Design, xiaoyu51@ufl.edu
Ali “Khashayar” Mahmoudi, Interior Design, alimahmoudi@ufl.edu
Shen Jingyuan, Construction Management, jingyuan.shen@ufl.edu
FIBER Advisory Board







Robert R. Twilley
Executive Director of Louisiana Sea Grant College Program and Professor of Oceanography and CoastalSciences at Louisiana State University