Konar Research Group

Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

People

Megan Konar

Associate Professor
Research Interests: water-food-trade, water resources sustainability, food trade networks, infrastructure, water and food policy
mkonar@illinois.edu
Google Scholar
@MeganKonar
CV


Current students

Deniz Berfin Karakoc

PhD Student
Research Interests: interdependent infrastructure networks, food supply chains, networks, community resilience
karakoc2@illinois.edu
https://denizberfinkarakoc.github.io
Junren Wang

PhD Student
Research Interests: food-energy-water nexus, food-water-trade
junrenw2@illinois.edu
Akshay Pandit

PhD Student
Research Interests: food-water-trade, supply-chains, applied econometrics, machine learning
apandit2@illinois.edu
Jack Hanley

PhD Student
Research Interests: groundwater sustainability, food supply chains
johnrh3@illinois.edu
Rui Zhang

PhD Student
Research Interests: water and food policy, water system optimization
rui7@illinois.edu
Arushi Arnav

PhD Student
Research Interests: hydrologic extremes, food-energy-water nexus, water and food sustainability
aarnav2@illinois.edu


Alumni

NAME, DEGREE (YEAR) -- PLACEMENT

P.J. Ruess, PhD (2022) -- Postdoc, Virginia Climate Center

Nicole Jackson, PhD (2020) -- Postdoc, Sandia National Laboratories

Rachel von Gnechten, MS (2019) -- Research Analyst, International Water Management Institute

Xiaowen Lin, PhD (2019) -- Software Engineer, Google

Sajani Gumidyala, MS (2018) -- Consultant, KIT Professionals, Inc.

Qian Dang, PhD (2018) -- Data Scientist, Facebook

Landon Marston, PhD (2017) -- Assistant Professor, Kansas State University