Engineering Group
Leads IBHS’s research and engineering projects.
Includes the operation of the Research Center and IBHS’s building code applications.
Team Members
Danny Baker
Carpenter
Tanner Beck
Electrician Technician
Heidi Erfourth
Lab Technician
Hesam Fallahian, PhD
Director of AI Research
Lucas Faulkner
Atmospheric Instrumentation Technician
Shemekia Gordon
Lab Technician
Sara Hudson
Lab Technician
Shawn Macomber
Director, Construction & Carpentry
Rafi Marandi, PhD
Programming & Instrumentation Director
David McClain
Technician – Carpentry
Brenna Meisenzahl
Research Project Scientist/ Engineer
Ali Merhi, PhD
Research Engineer,
SC Wind & Hail Research Chair
Kelsey Moorhead
Instrumentation Engineer
David Morris
Instrument Technician
Michelle Padilla
Instrument Technician
Korah Parackal, PhD, CPEng
Research Engineer
HANK POGORZELSKI
Applied Statistician
Aaron Prabhakaran
Technical Project Designer
Justin Privette
Campus Operations Manager
Xareni Sanchez Monroy, PhD
Research Scientist
Chris Sanders
Research Project Scientist/Engineer
Justin Self
Carpenter
Tyler Sivil
Carpenter
Evan Sluder
Research Project Scientist/Engineer
Jake Sorber
Research Project Scientist/Engineer
Junior Stewart
Carpenter
Josh Sturgis
Lab Technician
Tom Trout
Fabricator
David Trull
Technician – Carpentry
Marcus Watkins
Lab Technician
Freddie C. Wilson, Jr.
General Maintenance & Carpenter
