Qingbin Cui is Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Maryland. He has over 15 years of academic and industry experience in the area of construction and project management. He served as Public Private Partnership consultant to Alabama Department of Transportation and assisted in toll road financing. He was a project analyst with China Fortune Investment and provided feasibility analysis for energy efficiency projects under the Torch Programme. Prior to that, he worked as a field engineer, team leader, and project manager at Sinopec (NYSE: SNP) and managed various types of construction projects including residential and commercial buildings, schools, industrial facilities, and roads. He also served as an estimator in the Kaifeng-Luoyang Expressway project funded by the World Bank. Dr. Cui holds a BS in Construction Engineering and Management and MS in Technology Economics from Tianjin University, and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Purdue University.
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Deepak Sharma is a Civil Engineer, currently working as a Research Assistant at the Civil Engineering Department of University of Maryland in College Park. Before joining University of Maryland, he completed his MS in Civil Engineering and also worked at the University of Alabama as a Teaching Assistant. During the year 2008 he worked for Robins and Morton, Birmingham (Al) at a construction and renovation project of a hospital in Lawton, Oklahoma and assisted the Vice President of Construction at the University of Alabama Facilities Department in preparing cost-benefit reports for the University during the year 2007. Before coming to USA, he worked as a full time lecturer in Nirma University, India where he delivered lectures and conducted labs in the Department of Civil Engineering. His research interests are the design of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), use of alternate energy alternatives for sustainability, BIM, automation and combating climate change.
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Morteza Farajian holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Project Management Program) from University of Maryland, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from American University of Sharjah. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in the Project Management Program at University of Maryland. He has been a member of the Sustainable Infrastructure Group since 2009. His principal area of work addresses project decision support systems in project finance and procurement. He has done research in the area of Public Private Partnership (PPP), Value for Money Analysis (VfM), Benefit Cost analysis (BCA), financial engineering, investment strategies and portfolio management. He is also interested in Vehicle Millage Traveled (VMT), carbon trading market, and renewable energy finance.
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Shu-Chien (Mark) Hsu is a civil engineer specializing in project finance and revamp and renovation project. Prior to pursuing his Ph. D. degree in University of Maryland, He worked for Taiwan Construction Research Institute and Government as an assistant researcher to complete several projects related to infrastructure system feasibility and economic analysis. His research now focuses on Project complexity and Carbon regulations related area.
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Xinyuan (Emily) Zhu is a second year PhD student and research assistant in Project Management program. She holds a bachelor’s degree of environmental engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China and a dual master’s degree of Corporate Management from Shanghai Jiaotong University and Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She is now working in the sustainable infrastructure group and focusing her study area on the climate change, carbon policy and carbon market, and renewable energy and energy efficiency.
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Yujie (Lawrence) Lu is a faculty research assistant in sustainable infrastructure group, civil and environmental engineering department, University of Maryland since August 2009. He’s also a Ph.D. candidate in Department of Construction Management and Real Estate at Tongji University, China and expected to graduate in 2011. His research interest covers sustainability, climate change, carbon emissions, energy efficiency in building and construction industry. He is also interested in complex project, project finance, organization design and risk management in project management research. During the stay at the group, he led a jointed research project funded by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China.
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Qinyi (Thomas) Ding is a PhD student of Civil Engineering department of University of Maryland. He is also a senior software quality engineer of MicroStrategy. He has over three years of experience in the industry of Business Intelligence. He has sufficient experience working with databases and MicroStrategy products. He is familiar with database design, SQL statements and website programming. He has worked on various databases and has plenty of knowledge about data processing and performance tuning techniques. His expertise is very helpful for data storage, interaction between database and website as well as web user interface. His working experience with MicroStrategy can also bring Business Intelligence and visualization to this project.
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Qianli (Shally) Deng is a second year M.S. student in Project Management Program at the University of Maryland. She has received her B.S. degree in Construction and Project Management in Tianjin University, China with a combination background of Civil Engineering, Finance and Management Science. Her area of work addresses the guarantee design on Energy Performance Contracts (EPC) with uncertainty, which helps ESCOs reasonably allocate the estimation financial risks with successful contract negotiation.
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Sushmita Sahu is a 1ST year MS Student in Civil and Environmental Engineering .She holds a Bachelor’s degree of Civil Engineering from National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. She has worked as a Software Engineer on Multiple technologies and Platforms .Her research interests involve developing models for prediction of financial risk and the behavior of International Markets in response to global phenomena, Sustainable Infrastructure Management, use of stochastic programming and optimization in energy markets and Bayesian Networks.
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Rosemary Dason-Deane is an undergraduate research assistant with the Project Management program. She is currently in pursuit of her bachelor's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a focus in project management and transportation. She is interested in the integration of sustainable practices at the state and federal level as well as the development of standardized criteria for evaluating these green strategies.
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Lisa Whitten is a third year undergraduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park studying Civil Engineering with a focus on Transportation and Project Management.  She is also a research assistant studying climate change and energy efficiency. She is currently working on the process and delivery of green contracting practices used to reduce emissions from highway construction activities.
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