Dr. Huang is the founding faculty member of the nation's first ABET-accredited Rail Transportation Engineering degree program. His teaching and research focus on railroad operation safety, rail infrastructure health monitoring, and advanced sensor networks, with FRA, AAR, and NAS-sponsored projects and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and technical reports.

Dr. Shen specializes in infrastructure materials characterization and modeling for durability, energy efficiency, and sustainability. Her research has been supported by state DOTs, FRA, NSF, NCHRP, USDOT, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and private-sector partners, and she has led education and outreach programs that broaden participation in railroad engineering.

Dr. Qian has more than a decade of experience in transportation infrastructure research across heavy-haul, urban transit, and high-speed rail. His work focuses on intelligent railroad infrastructure design, inspection, and maintenance, including computer vision, image analysis, edge computing, and AI-based track inspection and risk prediction systems.

Dr. Rilett researches transportation systems analysis with a focus on safety, reliability, resiliency, and equity. He has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on more than 45 research projects with total funding above $50 million, including leadership roles in the Rural Railroad Safety Center and university transportation center programs.

Dr. Dick combines academic rail research with 11 years of railway design engineering experience. His work covers railway design, operations, capacity, and energy efficiency, including graduate research supervision, rail industry-sponsored projects, and professional service through TRB, ASCE, AREMA, INFORMS, and the International Association of Railway Operations Research.

Dr. Moreu focuses on structural engineering, smart infrastructure management, and field-focused research through the Smart Management of Infrastructure Laboratory at UNM. His background includes more than ten years of bridge design and construction industry experience, over thirty bridges in seven states, and projects funded by DOE, NSF, ONR, NAS, US DOT, TRB, and other partners.

Dr. Fitzsimmons works to improve surface transportation safety through education, research, and workforce development. He has directed the Rural Railroad Safety Center, supported multi-institution railroad safety research, taught railroad engineering, and managed a multimodal research portfolio involving FRA, U.S. DOJ, NHTSA, and FMCSA.

Dr. Losada-Rojas specializes in transportation planning and the adoption of new technologies. Her experience includes passenger rail ridership research, access evaluation, economic impact analysis for preservation projects, and recognition as a 2021 MIT CEE Rising Star and 2021 LATinE: Latinx Trailblazers in Engineering Fellow.