ABOUT US
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Magued Iskander, PhD, PE, F.ASCE [Link]
Magued Iskander, PhD, PE, F.ASCE is a civil engineering professor at New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic University/Institute, aka. Brooklyn Poly), where he has also served as Chair of the Civil and Urban Engineering Department since 2013. Dr. Iskander holds a B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from Alexandria University and a Ph.D. degree in Civil (Geotechnical) Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the States of New York, New Jersey, and Wisconsin.
Dr. Iskander is an internationally recognized geotechnical engineering expert. He authored 5 books, edited 11 books, and published over 250 papers including 100+ refereed journal articles dealing with foundations, experimental modeling with transparent soils, rapid penetration into granular media, seismic earth pressure, pedagogy, offshore geotechnics, and urban geotechnology. He has been invited to make over 35+ technical presentations, and to teach 45+ short courses to professional groups across the United States and Canada.
Professor Iskander is a recipient of $17+ million in grants, gifts, and contracts as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI. He graduated 16 doctoral and 40 master’s students and served on the doctoral committees of 23 graduates at five universities. Additionally, he is currently advising 5 doctoral students.
Professor Iskander has a distinguished record of service to the professional community. For example, he served as a Past-President of ASCE Metropolitan Section Geotechnical Group, and member of the Geo Institute of ASCE Publications, Deep Foundations committees, and Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce, among others. He was also elected as Speaker of the NYU School of Engineering faculty (2013-2015), and as Alternate Senator to NYU Faculty Senators Council (2013-2019).
Professor Iskander is the recipient of several teaching awards including Chi Epsilon, Civil Engineering Honor Society, James Robbins District Excellence in Teaching Award (2000) and Polytechnic University Distinguished Teacher Award (2002) and NYU Poly’s Jacobs Excellence in Education Award twice (2006 and 2009). He teaches courses in geotechnical engineering, foundation engineering, advanced foundation design, urban excavation support systems, as well as instrumentation, monitoring, and condition assessment of civil engineering structures. He is also the developer and Instructor of several Continuing Education Courses including ASCE Instrumentation and Monitoring Bootcamp: Planning, Execution, and Measurement Uncertainty for Structural and Geotechnical Construction Projects, which has been attended by 750+ practicing engineers.
Dr. Iskander can be reached at Iskander@nyu.edu.
GRADUATE STUDENT
Linzhu (Lynn) Li, PhD, A.M.ASCE [Scholar, Link]
Linzhu Li, PhD, is an assistant professor at Bradley University, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering. Dr. Li holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Petroleum Exploration Technology and Engineering from Southwest Petroleum University in China. She received her Master’s degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and a Ph.D. Degree in Civil (Geotechnical Engineering) from the New York University (NYU).
Dr. Li’s research area includes Application of Dynamic Image Analysis (DIA) for granular sand particle size and shape analysis and Visualization of flow through porous transparent granular materials. She published 9 Journal articles dealing with image processing, machine learning, computational fluid mechanics in geotechnology. Her publication has been selected as Editor’s Choice in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. She received School of Engineering (SoE) Fellowship at NYU (2017-2021) and Armour College Award, IIT (2014-2015). She also has been invited to make technical presentations at a variety of professional meetings and universities.
Dr. Li is an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). She teaches courses in Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering and Foundation Analysis and Design. Dr. Li can be reached at LLI@FSmail.Bradley.edu.
Research Affiliates
Andrzej Głuchowski. [Scholar, SGGW]
Eduardo Suescun-Florez [Scholar, Link]
Particle shape calculator developer
Linzhu (Lynn) Li