Dr.Labi's Students

Dr. Labi’s students are at various levels: undergraduate (B.S.) and graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.). They are trained to enhance their skills in three key areas: research ability, teaching skills, and engagement with the academic community and industry, both domestic and international. Most of his PhD students go on to become professors at universities all over the world.

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Dr. Labi’s students carry out research in topics that characterize emergent threats including aging infrastructure, funding limitations, and infrastructure vulnerability and exploit opportunities including technological advancements and interdisciplinary synergies. They address problems that are either descriptive (using tools including simulation, statistical and econometric, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and artificial intelligence modeling) or prescriptive (using tools such as optimization involving multiple criteria, stochasticism, or simulation).

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His students acquire these tools by taking courses in the schools of economics, industrial engineering, computer science, and statistics, not only at Purdue but also at other schools such as GeorgiaTech, Virginia Tech and MIT through exchange programs, workshops, or special semester-long programs.

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The contribution of Dr. Labi’s students include the development of methodological platforms that provide a scientific basis to make infrastructure development decisions consistent with principles of economy, sustainability, resilience to natural and man-made stressors, and infrastructure longevity.