The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering is excited to welcome four new faculty members this year: Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy, Dr. Domenico Bau, Dr. Sybil Sharvelle and Dr. Mazdak Arabi. Each brings with them a diverse set of expertise to our already strong team of professors and researchers. We expect great things from each of them and look forward to their many contributions in the years to come. Hopefully you have already interacted with them personally, but in any case, please take a moment to learn more about them in the following introductions.

Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University as an assistant professor in January 2008. Karan received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering (summa cum laude) and master’s degree in civil engineering (cum laude) from the University of Kwazulu-Natal (formerly known as University of Natal) in Durban, South Africa in 2000 and 2002 respectively. Karan then came to the United States to pursue his doctoral studies in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, gaining his Ph.D. in 2006 specializing in environmental fluid mechanics and hydrology. He then spent an additional year as postdoctoral research fellow at Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Stanford University.
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Dr. Domenico Bau is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is originally from Padova, Italy, which is very close to Venice. Dr. Bau received his degree (Laurea) in Civil Engineering at the School of Engineering of the University of Padova, where he also worked as a research scientist following graduation.
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Dr. Sybil Sharvelle is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and is a member of the Environmental Engineering focus area. Her area of expertise is biological waste processing.

Dr. Sharvelle is originally from Indiana and attended the University of Colorado for her B.S. and M.S. degrees. She received her doctoral degree from Purdue University, where she developed a biological processor for treatment of graywater for potable reuse during long duration space missions. Through this project, Dr. Sharvelle gained extensive experience in the area of water reuse, with focus on emerging contaminants.
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Dr. Mazdak Arabi is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as CSU. He is teaching and actively conducting research in the water resources management and planning and environmental engineering areas. After receiving his B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, Mazdak became a graduate research assistant and then a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University, where he received his Ph.D. in August 2005. At CSU, Mazdak is currently an instructor for CIVE 576 “GIS and GPS for Engineering Applications”.
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