BRIDGE LAB - Key Persons


Abhilash Kamineni

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Alfonso Torres-Rua

Job Titles:
  • Water
Aboutalebi, M., Torres-Rua, A., McKee, M., Kustas, W., Nieto, H., Coopmans, C., (2018). Behavior of vegetation/soil indices in shaded and sunlit pixels and evaluation of different shadow compensation methods using UAV high-resolution imagery over vineyards: Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping III. SPIE, doi: 10.1117/12.2305883 *

Austin Ball

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Practice

Bedri Cetiner


Belize Lane

Job Titles:
  • Water

Benjamin Baksis

Job Titles:
  • Business Assistant

Bethany Neilson

Job Titles:
  • Water

Blake Tullis

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Water

Brady Cox


Brady Forbush

Job Titles:
  • Computer Technician Lead

Brian Crookston

Job Titles:
  • Water Hydraulics

Brianna Cox

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Assistant

Burak Sarsilmaz


Burak Sarsılmaz

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer
Burak Sarsılmaz is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before joining Utah State University, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar within the Autonomous Controls Laboratory at the University of Washington. Burak received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and M.A. in Mathematics from the University of South Florida. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East Technical University. From 2014 to 2016, he was a flight control systems engineer in the T625 multirole helicopter project at Turkish Aerospace Industries.

Burdette Barker

Job Titles:
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Irrigation Specialist

Cal Coopmans

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Research Assistant Professor
Stark, B., Coopmans, C., Chen, Y.Q, (2013). Concept of operations for personal remote sensing unmanned aerial systems. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications, 69:1-4, 5-20.

Charles Swenson

Swenson, C.M, Nikitin, P., (2001). Impedance of a short dipole antenna in a cold plasma. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 49:10, 1377 - 1381. doi: 10.1109/8.954926 Swenson, C.M, (1992). The critical velocity effect and recent space experiments. Encyclia, 69, 273-296.

Chen Hu

Job Titles:
  • Dean Michael Ancajas, PhD ( AMD )

Chris Winstead

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Colin Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Water

David G Tarboton

Job Titles:
  • Director, Utah Water Research Laboratory
  • Sant Endowed Professor of Water Resources Engineering Director, Utah Water Research Laboratory

David Kunz

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director of Development

David Rosenberg

Job Titles:
  • Water

David Stevens


Dean Michael Ancajas

Job Titles:
  • Dean Michael Ancajas, PhD ( AMD )

Denzil Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Chairman / Micron Technology, Inc

Diane Buist

Job Titles:
  • Staff Assistant III

Don Cripps


Dr. Hongjie Wang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Utah State University
Dr. Hongjie Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Utah State University. At USU, Dr. Wang serves as the co-director of the Utah State University Power Electronics Laboratory (UPEL). Dr. Wang is the Charging Stations of the Future (CSoF) project lead at the NSF ASPIRE ERC. Dr. Wang has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and holds 8 issued patents. Dr. Wang received NSF CAREER Award in 2023. His current research areas include DC power distribution, analysis, design and control of resonant converters, extreme fast charging, grid interface power converters, health monitoring and diagnosis of power converters, and dynamic wireless power transfer for transportation electrification applications.

Finnegan Thornton

Job Titles:
  • Graphic Designer

Gavin Payne

Job Titles:
  • Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp

Geraldine Merrill

Job Titles:
  • Scholarship

Greg Droge

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Hal Chugg

Job Titles:
  • Director of Facilities

Jacob Gunther

Job Titles:
  • Department Head
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer
Jake Gunther is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has worked and consulted on projects in the areas of pattern recognition, speech recognition and synthesis, image processing, sonar array processing, and multi-rate signal processing. Recent projects have included echo and feedback cancellation, unmixing and sub-pixel target detection in hyperspectral imagery, data fusion, channel equalization, accelerating iterative decoding of error control codes, and system characterization using spread spectrum signaling. Research Interests His research interests include signal processing, statistical signal processing, array processing, adaptive filtering and its applications, independent component analysis, decision theory, estimation theory, and communication theory. Gunther, J.H, Fish, C., Swenson, C.M, Moon, T.K, (2014). Reliable space-to-Earth communication as a secondary service in the 460-470 MHz band. International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, 33:2, 93 - 106. doi: 10.1002/sat.1072 Flake, J., Moon, T.K, McKee, M., Gunther, J.H, (2010). Application of the relevance vector machine to canal flow prediction in the Sevier River Basin. Agricultural Water Management , 97:2, 208 - 214. doi: 10.1016/j.agwat.2009.09.010 Gunther, J.H, Eames, B., Nelson, D., (2009). Description of EduCOM: A graphical modeling and programming language for teaching and learning digital communication systems. Computer Applications of Engineering Education, 19:4, 1 - 14. doi: 10.1002/cae.20354

Jagath Kaluarachchi

Job Titles:
  • Dean and Professor

James Bay


Jeff Horsburgh

Job Titles:
  • Water

Jennifer Morales

Job Titles:
  • Grant & Proposal Development Specialist

Joan McLean


Joanna (Liyuan) Hou


John Rice

Job Titles:
  • Geotech and Associate Department Head

Jon Rosdahl

Job Titles:
  • CSR

Jonathan Phillips


Ken Jewkes

Job Titles:
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Staff

Koushik Chakraborty


Kristen Gabriel

Job Titles:
  • Recruiter

Kyle Moor


Levi Leckie

Job Titles:
  • Financial Officer

Levi Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Webmaster

Li Xue

Job Titles:
  • Outstanding Student Fellowship, 1994

Malcolm Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Fort Supply Technologies

Marlo Bailey

Job Titles:
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Graduate Program Coordinator

Marv Halling

Job Titles:
  • Department Head Structural

Mason Palmer

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Researcher

Matthew Jensen

Job Titles:
  • Director of PR and Marketing

Mehedi Hasan

Job Titles:
  • Assaduzaman Towfiq, Electrical & Computer Engr, August 2014 - August 2018

Michael E Snow

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair

Michael Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Water Hydraulics

Michael McFarland


Mindy Whiteley

Job Titles:
  • Staff Assistant
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati


Monte Larson

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the Dean

Pat Patterson

Job Titles:
  • Space Dynamics Laboratory

Patrick Singleton

Job Titles:
  • Transportation

Paul Barr

Job Titles:
  • Engineering

Paul Rew

Job Titles:
  • Computer Technician
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering

Pin Shuai


Qun Wang

Job Titles:
  • Ferdous Pervej, Electrical & Computer Engr, November 2017

Randal Martin


Regan Zane

Morroni, J., Zane, R., Maksimovic, D., (2009). Design and implementation of an adaptive tuning system based on desired phase margin for digitally controlled DC-DC converters. IEEE Trans. Power Electron, 24:2, 559-564.

Reyhan Baktur

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Yasin, T., Baktur, R., Turpin, T., Arellano, J., (2017). Analysis and design of highly transparent meshed patch antenna backed by a solid ground plane. Progress in Electromagnetics Research M, 56, 133-144. doi: 10.2528/PIERM16092708

Rodney Anderton

Job Titles:
  • on Semiconductor

Rorry Forbush


Rose Hu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean & Professor
  • Associate Dean for Research and Professor

Ryan Dupont


Sanghamitra Roy


Scott Budge

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Seed Grant

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Tuition on Sponsored Projects

Shelbie Kaczmarczyk

Job Titles:
  • Grant & Proposal Development Specialist

Shelly Wardell

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Sid Henderson

Job Titles:
  • Rincon Research Corporation

Sierra Young

Job Titles:
  • Water

Skylar McDaniel

Job Titles:
  • Grant & Proposal Development Coordinator

Srishti Banerji


Steve Barfuss

Job Titles:
  • Water Hydraulics

Steve Larson

Job Titles:
  • Director of Industry Relations

Susan Hammond

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sydney Dahle

Job Titles:
  • Public Relations Specialist

Thomas Fronk

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Dean & Professor

Tim Goodale

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Researcher

Todd Moon


Tony Ahlstrom

Job Titles:
  • Development Officer

Tricia Brandenburg

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Graduate Program Coordinator

Utah Clean Cities

Job Titles:
  • Sustainability Partner of the Year ( for SELECT & ASPIRE Centers ), 2020
Utah Clean Cities Sustainability Partner of the Year (for SELECT & ASPIRE Centers), 2020 Utah Clean Cities

Vishy Swaminathan

Job Titles:
  • Adobe Systems, Inc

Wiley Forbush

Job Titles:
  • Computer Technician Lead

William Shaw

Job Titles:
  • SP Communications

Yiming Su


Zac Sharp

Job Titles:
  • Water

Zhen Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor