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Dr. Torlapati is a Lecturer at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rowan University. He specializes in environmental impacts of PAHs, stormwater management, mathematical optimization using evolutionary algorithms, high performance computing, and bioremediation of chemical contaminants. In his previous role, Dr. Torlapati was a post-doctoral research associate at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has developed numerical models to simulate the biodegradation of PAHs in beached oil during the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska as well as the BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico. In addition, he has worked on the ecological impact of flood mitigation structures on the New Jersey shoreline due to Hurricane Sandy.