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Biographies of Invited Delegates from U.S.A.

  • Professor Atorod Azizinamini - University of Nebraska, Lincoln

    • Dr. Atorod Azizinamini, P.E. is Endowed University Professor and Director of National Bridge Research Organization (NaBRO) at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He worked seven years in Industry, prior to joining Civil Engineering Department at UNL in 1989. He is member of several national committees related to Steel Bridges, including TRB steel bridge committee. He chaired ASCE's Bridge Technical Committee from 2003 through 2006. He is currently leading Strategic Highway Research Program's (SHRP2), R19A project aiming at developing technologies to increase service life of existing and new bridges 100 plus years. He has developed several innovative technologies related to bridge engineering, including Folded Plate technologies and new steel bridge systems. He has published more than 200 technical publications related to structural engineering. He has taught more than 40 short courses to practicing professional engineers on design of steel bridges. He has supervised more than 40 graduate students at M.S. and Ph.D. levels, who now are practicing structural engineers. Dr. Azizinamini is registered professional engineer in the States of Nebraska and Montana.

  • Professor Chuck Bakis - Pennsylvania State University

    • Dr. Charles Bakis is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering Science & Mechanics at Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania. He has a PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the design, manufacturing, and characterization of advanced polymeric composite materials. Most of his research has found application in the aerospace, civil, and industrial fields. He is a fellow of ASME and the Intl. Inst. for Fiber Reinforced Polymers in Construction and he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction. He has taught courses on Materials for Design in Green Engineering for undergraduate and graduate students. His other teaching interests focus on composite materials, experimental mechanics, and solid mechanics.

  • Professor Nabil Grace, Lawrence Technological University

    • Dr. Grace is a University Distinguished Professor and the Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department. He is also the Director of the Center for Innovative Materials Research (CIMR). The CIMR is the largest and most comprehensive testing facility in the state of Michigan. Dr. Grace research projects are currently funded by the US Army Research Laboratory, US-DOT, the state of Michigan, NSF, and several State DOTs. In the last three years, Dr. Grace received fourteen national awards for the deployment of his research findings in infrastructures such as the Bridge Street Bridges, Michigan, and the Penobscot cable-stayed long span bridge, Maine. Dr. Grace was awarded two US patents for his development of the new Ductile Hybrid Fabric and new highway bridge system. He has two patent applications addressing new armor structure and new non-corrosive bridge system. He has over a hundred papers and articles published in the PCI, ACI, ASCE Journals, and delivered several keynote presentation in national and international conferences.

  • Professor Liv Haselbach - Washington State University

    • Dr. Liv Haselbach received her BS from Cornell in Civil and Environmental Engineering, her MS from Berkeley in Chemical Engineering and her PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Connecticut. In the early 80s she worked for chemical and petroleum companies. From the late 80s to the early 2000s she was the proprietor of a small consulting firm in the NY area specializing in land development. Since then she has been a lecturer at Yale teaching Air Pollution Control, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina and is now an associate professor at Washington State University. She is the author of the GreenSource professional book "The Engineering Guide to LEED-New Construction: Sustainable Construction for Engineers". Her research focuses on sustainable construction, low impact development, environmental issues with concrete, alternative transportation, and air pollution.

  • Professor Arpad Horvath - University of California, Berkeley

    • Dr. Arpad Horvath is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley ( http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~horvath), Director of the Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing ( http://cgdm.berkeley.edu), and Director of the Engineering and Business for Sustainability certificate program ( http://sustainable-engineering.berkeley.edu). His research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of products, processes, and services. He has lead, among others, studies on buildings, transportation, telework, pavements, carbon footprint analysis, water provision, electricity generation, and servicizing products using information and communication technologies. He is Associate Editor of ASCE's J. of Infrastructure Systems, as well as a recipient of ASCE's Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize and the Laudise Prize "for outstanding achievements in industrial ecology by a young scientist or engineer" by the International Society for Industrial Ecology.

  • Professor Alissa Kendall - University of California, Davis

    • Dr. Kendall joined University of California at Davis in 2007 after completing a joint PhD at University of Michigan's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and School of Natural Resources and Environment. Her research applies life cycle assessment methods to transportation infrastructure and energy systems. Her current research emphasizes the development of life cycle assessment methods for long-lived systems, with a particular focus on characterizing uncertainty, the treatment of time in impact assessment, and climate change effects.

  • Professor Amy Landis - University of Pittsburgh

    • Dr. Amy Landis, Ph.D. joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. Dr. Landis' expertise is in process-based Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and ranges from improving upon LCA as a tool to applying LCA to biobased products. She conducts research with the University's Center for Sustainable Transportation and Infrastructure funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Her research related to infrastructure and green products includes improving upon metrics and methods for utilizing LCA to design and evaluate green building products and materials. She has served as an advisor and collaborator with Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital in their endeavors to green their facilities and staff as well as with Phipps Conservatory as they participate in the Living Building Challenge. Dr. Landis also works with Pennsylvania companies who are developing fiber reinforced polymers and other green products to evaluate and improve upon their products' life cycle environmental impacts.

  • Professor Michael Lepech, Stanford University

    • Dr. Michael Lepech joined the Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty from the University of Michigan's Center for Sustainable Systems at the School of Natural Resources and Environment. He received his PhD in Materials Engineering from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also received his BS and MSE in Structural Engineering from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor along with his MBA in Strategy from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Professor Lepech's research focuses on the integration of sustainability indicators into engineering design, ranging from materials design, structural design, system design, to operations management. Such sustainability indicators include a comprehensive set of environmental, economic, and social costs. Recently his research has focused on the design of sustainable high performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs) and fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs), the impacts of sustainable materials on building and infrastructure design and operation, and the development of new life cycle assessment (LCA) applications for building systems, transportation systems, water systems, consumer products. Along with this his research group is also studying the effects that slowly diffusing sustainable civil engineering innovations, and the social networks they diffuse through, can have on achieving long term sustainability goals.

  • Mr Myint Lwin, Director, Office of Bridge Technology (HIBT), FHWA

    • Mr. M. Myint Lwin is the Director of the Office of Bridge Technology, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. He is responsible for setting policies, regulations, program direction and guidance for the National Highway Bridge Programs established by Congress in the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). His office is responsible for providing stewardship and oversight to assure that the Nation's highway bridges are safe for the traveling public. He is an advocate for advancing bridge technologies through working together with AASHTO, States, Industry, Academia and other stakeholders to ensure safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability of highway bridges and structures. He has been promoting high-performance materials, such as, HPC, HPS, FRP, in bridge design and construction for improving durability, workability, speed, economy and lower life-cycle cost. He has organized and conducted workshops in the applications of advanced composites in the highway infrastructure. He has published many papers and books on bridge engineering. He has taught undergraduate courses in bridge design and construction, and NHI courses in bridge inspection. He received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Rangoon and MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle.

  • Professor Anu Ramaswami - University of Colorado, Denver

    • Dr. Ramaswami is a full Professor of Environmental Engineering and Director of the NSF-Sponsored $3.2M IGERT Program on Sustainable Urban Infrastructure in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Denver (http://thunder1.cudenver.edu/IGERT/). She received her BS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and her MS and PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Ramaswami's research spans environmental modeling, technology development for sustainability and integration of science and technology with policy and planning for real-world implementation in communities.

  • Professor Sami Rizkalla - North Carolina State University

    • Dr. Rizkalla is a Distinguished Professor of civil engineering and construction, Director of the Constructed Facilities Laboratory at NC State and currently Director of the National Science Foundation University/Industry Research Center "Repair of Buildings and Bridges with Composite". Rizkalla is an elected Fellow of ACI , ASCE, EIC, CSCE, IIFC and recently PCI. He has authored or co-authored five engineering books, published 130 journal papers and 230 technical papers in conference proceedings. He has established the Canadian Network of Centers of Excellence on the use of fiber reinforced polymer for repair and rehabilitation of infrastructure in 1995 and directed the network until 2000. He also supervised the construction of the first "smart" pre-stressed concrete highway bridge built in North America. Rizkalla received his PhD in civil engineering from NC State University in 1976.

  • Professor Carol Shield - University of Minnesota

    • Dr. Carol Shield is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She serves as Chair of ACI Committee 440 Fiber Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement, and is active on subcommittees 440H FRP Reinforced Concrete, 440I FRP Prestressed Concrete and 440F FRP Repair-Strengthening, where she led a task group looking at the reliability of the ACI 440 equations for shear strengthening. In some of her work for ACI440H, she provided the reliability analysis for the flexural strength of beams reinforced with FRP bars. She has also studied the bond of GFRP bars to concrete. Dr. Shield is the director for both the NSF George E. Brown Jr. NEES MAST Laboratory and the Department of Civil Engineering Structures Laboratory.

  • Mr Kirk Steudle, Director, Michigan DOT

    • Mr. Kirk. T. Steudle, P.E., Michigan State Transportation Director Kirk Steudle has been with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) since 1987, leading to his appointment by Governor Jennifer Granholm as Director in 2006. A licensed professional engineer, Director Steudle is responsible for administering a highway program with 9,716 miles of state trunkline and 4,400 state highway bridges, a department with 2,800 employees statewide, and various multi-modal programs; including transit, air, rail, marine/port and nonmotorized transportation. Director Steudle graduated from Lawrence Technological University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Engineering. He represents MDOT on the Michigan Transportation Asset Management Council, and chairs the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Standing Committee on Highway Traffic Safety and Subcommittee on Asset Management, vice chairs the Standing Committee on Performance Management and also serves on the Executive Committee. He is a national expert in IntelliDrive (VII), the technology that enables vehicles to communicate with the road network for greater safety and mobility. Director Steudle is on the Board of Directors for Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA).

  • Professor Tom Theis - University of Illinois, Chicago

    • Dr. Theis is Director of the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy (IESP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. IESP focuses on the development of new cross-disciplinary research initiatives in the environmental area. He was most recently at Clarkson University, where he was the Bayard D. Clarkson Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Management. Professor Theis received his doctoral degree in environmental engineering, with a specialization in environmental chemistry, from the University of Notre Dame. His areas of expertise include life cycle assessment, the mathematical modeling and systems analysis of environmental processes, industrial pollution prevention, industrial ecology, the environmental chemistry of trace organic and inorganic substances, interfacial reactions, subsurface contaminant transport, and hazardous waste management. He has been principal or co-principal investigator on over fifty funded research projects and has authored or co-authored over one hundred papers in peer reviewed research journals, books, and reports. He is a member of the USEPA Science Advisory Board (Chartered Board).

  • Professor Julie Zimmerman - Yale University

    • Dr. Julie Beth Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the School of Engineering and Applied Science (Environmental Engineering Program) and the School of Forestry and Environment at Yale University. Dr. Zimmerman also serves as the Associate Director for Research for the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. Her research interests include green chemistry and engineering, systems dynamics modeling of natural and engineered water systems, environmentally benign design and manufacturing, the fate and impacts of anthropogenic compounds in the environment as well as appropriate water treatment technologies for the developing world. She also conducts research on corporate environmental behavior and governance interventions to enhance the integration of sustainability in industry and academia. Dr. Zimmerman previously served as an Engineer in the Office of Research and Development at the United States Environmental Protection Agency where she managed grants to academia and small businesses in the areas of pollution prevention and sustainability. She received a joint PhD from the University of Michigan in Environmental Engineering and Natural Resource Policy.
 
Biographies of Invited Delegates from Japan
  • Professor Tsuyoshi Fujita, National Institute for Environmental Studies

    Dr. Tsuyoshi Fujita is a head of Environmental Technology Evaluation System Research Team of National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan. He is also a professor of the Graduate School of Engineering, Toyo University. His research fields are eco industrial development, low carbon city, urban environment simulation system, circular economy planning and spatial LCA, where he has published aroundas many as seventy journal papers. He is engaged in several national research projects to develop integrative urban technology and policy simulation system for Japanese and Asian cities and regions. Coordination of physical environmental models with decision support assessment system such as LCA and environmental economic evaluation is the focus of present research activities. He is a chair of Eco town and circular region research committee by the Ministry of Environment, a member of the Sub-committee of Environmental Model Cities by the National Prime Minister Cabinet Office, Chair of LCA Methodology Working and Member of environmentally friendly construction system promotion committee by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation and Chair of Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Systems Research, Japan Society of Civil Engineering. He is also actively engaged in several research projects for the planning of Chinese cities and regions to realize sustainable circular economy. He was granted a doctor of engineering from the University of Tokyo as well as receiving a MCP (Master of City Planning) degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly an Associate Professor in Osaka University after working in the construction company as an urban planner for a ten yerars.

  • Dr Tomohiko Ihara, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

    Dr. Tomohiko Ihara is the research scientist at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1998 and obtained his master degree in 2000. He also received his doctorate of engineering at the University of Tokyo, Department of Geosystem Engineering in March 2004. He joined AIST in April 2004. Now he is researching on four topics related environmental issues, which are evaluation of countermeasures to urban heat islands, fuel saving by application of solar reflective paint (cool paint) to cars, consumers' behavior which can abase CO2 emissions without lowering satisfaction, and material flow analysis of food system. He also involved life cycle assessment of waste management systems as part of LCA National Project by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

  • Dr Kenji Ikeda, Hokkaido Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

    Dr. Kenji Ikeda works for Hokkaido Development Bureau, which is one of local arm of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. He is responsible for national highway construction in Hokkaido. He received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Hokkaido and started his career in 1981 as Civil Engineer for the Bureau. He also served the Public Works Research Institute, fomar Ministry of Construction, and Civil Engneering Research Institute of Hokkaido. He has published many papers on seismic design, bridge management system, and participated in making out Japanese Bridge Specifications. He received his PhD in Engineering from the University of Hokkaido in 2004. He was awarded the Tanaka Prize by JSCE in 2003 and Raymond C. Reese Research Prize by ASCE in 2007.

  • Professor Seiichi Kagaya, Hokkaido University

    Dr. Seiichi Kagaya is a professor in the Division of Engineering and Policy for Cold Regional Environment, Graduate School of Engineering at Hokkaido University. He graduated from Hokkaido University in 1970. He obtained his PhD in Environmental Science from Hokkaido University in 1983. His research focuses on infrastructure planning system and design such as transportation and river improvement and systems analysis on regional and urban facilities. His research interests are also in strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and decision-making process of sustainability governance with various stakeholders. He is a vice president of Japan Section of Regional Science Association International and a vice president of Japan Association for Human and Environmental Symbiosis.

  • Mr Akira Kobayashi, Nippon Steel Composites Co., Ltd.

    Mr. Akira Kobayashi is a general manager in the technical developing department at Nippon steel composite Co. ltd. in Japan. His current research interest is retrofitting of concrete and steel structures with continuous fiber sheets or FRP plates. He is a member of JSCE Committee on Hybrid Structures.

  • Dr Takashi Matsumoto, Hokkaido University

    Dr. Takashi Matsumoto is currently an associate professor of Division of Built Environment at Hokkaido University. He graduated from Department of Civil Engineering at University of Tokyo in 1992, and has received Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at University of Michigan in 1998. His research interest is in the fracture mechanics and micromechanics of fiber reinforced composite materials. Especially, his focus is on the theoretical modeling of fatigue mechanisms of composite materials and structures. Ongoing research projects include the mechanics of ECC (Engineered Cementitious Composite), a strain hardening type fiber reinforced cementitious composite and CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer), and their applications to bridges are investigated through experiments and analyses.

  • Professor Hiroshi Mutsuyoshi, Saitama University

    Dr. Hiroshi Mutsuyoshi is a Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Saitama University, Saitama, Japan. He received his doctoral degree in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1984. His research interests include seismic engineering for concrete structures, prestressed concrete and application of new materials to structures. He is a president of Japan Reinforcing Bar Joints Institute. He is a member of ACI International Partnership Committee, 440 Committee and a convener of TG 9.14 (extradosed tendons) of fib-Commission 9 (Reinforcing and Prestressing Materials and Systems).

  • Dr Itaru Nishizaki, Public Work Research Institute

    Dr. Itaru Nishizaki is a Team Leader of the Advanced Materials Research Team, Public Work Research Institute (PWRI) in Tsukuba city located about 60km north of Tokyo. He received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the Faculty of Science at Tohoku University, and obtained his Doctor degree in Engineering from Tokyo University of Science. He is interested in various kinds of new materials for construction and improvement of construction materials including FRP, paints, steels, titanium, cement concrete, asphalt concrete, etc. FRP is one of the main materials for his research activities. He especially interested in the development of FRP application technology for construction and long term durability of FRP under construction use. He has been the chief secretary of the Task Committee on FRP bridges from 2004 to 2009.

  • Dr Yasuhiko Sato, Hokkaido University

  • Dr Takumi Shimomura, Nagaoka University of Technology

    Dr. Takumi Shimomura is an Associated Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Nagaoka University of Technology, Niigata, Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1988 and obtained a degree of doctor of Engineering in 1993. His research interests include creep and shrinkage of concrete and durability of concrete structures concrete, concrete structures and FRP structures. He is a chairman of JSCE Technical Committee 331on structural performance of deteriorated concrete structures since 2004.

  • Professor Kunitomo Sugiura, Kyoto University

  • Professor Takafumi Sugiyama, Hokkaido University

    SUGIYAMA Takafumi is Professor of Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University. His recent research interests include microstructure analysis of hydrated cement system, investigation of transport prop erties of concrete and developmewnt of the integration methodology of environmental and durability design. Currently he is a chief secretary of Hokkaido Chapter, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE).

  • Dr Fumio Taguchi, Public Work Research Institute

    Dr. Taguchi is a Materials Research Team Leader of CERI. He received a Bachelor of Engineering from the Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto and started his career in 1978 as Civil Engineer for the Hokkaido Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
    He has a PhD in Engineering from Muroran Institute of Technology in 2008. He is also a Professional Engineer, JP(Civil Engineering) and First Class Civil Engineering Works Execution Managing Engineer.JP.
    His research interests are in the Maintenance Method for Frost and Salt Attack of Concrete Structures (Method of deterioration prediction, Methods of inspection, Evaluation and judgment, Remedial measures), Shotcrete, and Short-fiber-mixed concrete.
    He also served Technical Commmittee (JCI-TC065A) on the Method of Evaluating Resistance to Freezing and Thawing of Concrete as manager (2006-2008),and member of JSCE Shortcrete Research Sub committee (2003-2005)
    He is member of several committees related to concrete . (e.g. Sub-Chairman of Concrete Maintenance/Management Subcommittee, Member of Design Performance Subcommittee, Concrete Research Committtee, Association for Civil Engineering Technology of Hokkaido).

  • Professor Tamon Ueda, Hokkaido University

    UEDA Tamon is a Professor at Division of Built Environment of Hokkaido University. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1982. His research interests are in numerical analysis of concrete and hybrid structures, prediction of chronological change in structural performance, upgrading of structures, seismic design and structural design methodology. He is currently the Chairman of International Committee on Concrete Model Code for Asia (ICCMC), Vice President of Asian Concrete Federation (ACF), Advisory Committee Member of International Institute of FRP in Construction (IIFC) and Secretary of ISO/TC71/SC7 (Maintenance and Repair of Concrete Structures).

  • Mr Hirofumi Watanabe, ACC

    Mr. Hirofumi Watanabe graduated from civil engineering department of Waseda University in 1993, and joined Kawada Construction Co., Ltd. He has mainly took charge of design and technical development of PC bridges. Moreover, research activities are carried out as a technical committee of ACC about the applicability of concrete structure which used FRP materials.

  • Professor Seishi Yamada, Toyohashi University of Technology

    • Professor Seishi Yamada, PhD is Chairman of Faculty Meeting, Head of Dept, Dept of Architecture and Civil Engrg, Toyohashi University of Technology (National University Corporation). He earned his PhD at Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) in 1980. He was an instructor of Tohoku University for ten years from 1980. His early achievements include first fully agreement between theory and experiments on the nonlinear instability behavior of shell domes in the world presented at IUTAM Symposium, UCL, London, 1982. He moved to Toyohashi University of Technology (Toyohashi, Japan) in 1990. He was awarded the prizes from Architectural Institute of Japan in 2000 and Japanese Reinforced Plastics Society in 2002 and 2004. He is currently leading FRP Footbridge Projects in JSCE (Japan Society of Civil Engineers); he has been the chair of the Task Committee on FRP Bridges for five years from 2004 and organized the International Colloquium on Application of FRP to Bridges, Tokyo, 2006. His current interesting themes include buckling of composite shells, civil engineering application of fiber reinforced polymers, and maintenance and sensing of structures.

  • Professor Hiroshi Yokota, Hokkaido University

    Dr. Hiroshi YOKOTA is a Professor of Gradueate School of Engineering at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1978 and obtained a degree of Doctor of Engineering in 1992. His main research interests focus on life-cycle management of civil infrastructure including performance evaluation, assessment, prediction, and life-cycle cost estimation. He is a chairman of JSCE Committee on Hybrid Structures since 2009.