KEYNOTE / GUEST SPEAKERS / TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
2025
1. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) Symposium, Tokyo, Japan (Session Chair & Invited Speaker)
2. Oregon Department of Transportation Bridge, Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Geology, and HazMat Design Training, Keizer, Oregon, United States (Plenary Speaker)
3. University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) XII Regional Forum of Civil Engineering Students, Lima, Peru (Keynote Speaker)
4. University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC), Department of Civil Engineering, Lima, Peru (Guest Speaker)
5. New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Conference, Auckland, New Zealand (Invited Speaker)
6. New Zealand Transport Agency / Auckland Bridge Group, Auckland, New Zealand (Guest Speaker)
7. Bridge Engineering Section, Oregon Department of Transportation, United States (Invited Speaker)
8. Bridges Section, HNTB Corporation, United States (Invited Speaker)
9. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
10. Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., United States (Invited Speaker)
2024
1. fib Symposium, Christchurch, New Zealand (Session Chair & Invited Speaker)
2. Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States (Session Chair & Invited Speaker)
3. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) Congress, San Jose, Costa Rica (Invited Speaker)
4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States (Guest Speaker)
5. 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Milan, Italy (Co-Convenor & Invited Speaker)
6. Idaho National Laboratory Joint Appointment “Lighting Talks”, held virtually, United States
7. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States (Invited Speaker)
8. Advanced Manufacturing for Extreme Environments, Center for Advanced Energy Studies, Idaho Falls, United States (Invited Speaker and Panelist)
9. 64th Idaho Academy of Science and Engineering Symposium and 17th Intermountain Conference on the Environment Joint Symposium, Pocatello, Idaho, United States (Invited Speaker)
10. Larsen & Toubro: India, held virtually, (Invited Speaker)
11. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), held virtually, (Invited Speaker)
12. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Convention, Denver, Colorado, United States
2023
1. College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China (Invited Speaker)
2. School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China (Invited Speaker)
3. Bridge and Tunnel Innovation Conference and Bridge Magazine Grand Annual Conference, Changsha, China (US Delegation/Invited Speaker)
4. 1st GCC Engineering Symposium, Kuwait City, Kuwait (Workshop Speaker)
5. Transportation Research Board (TRB) Mid-Year Meeting - AKB50 Committee, Washington, D.C., United States (Virtual)
6. 2nd International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Infrastructure Facilities (MAIREINFRA2), Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
7. Bridge Engineering Institute (BEI), Rome, Italy
8. fib Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey
9. Elevate Idaho (Idaho’s Link to SBIR/STTR Program), held virtually (Guest Speaker)
10. Department of Civil Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Guest Speaker)
11. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan (Guest Speaker)
12. 2nd International Conference on Civil Infrastructure and Construction, Doha, Qatar
2022
1. Department of Civil Engineering, The British University in Egypt, Egypt (Keynote Speaker)
2. Department of Structural Engineering, Ain Shams University, Egypt (Guest Speaker)
3. Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar (Guest Speaker)
4. Department of Civil Engineering, Kuwait University, Kuwait (Guest Speaker)
5. Department of Civil Engineering, Australian University, Kuwait (Guest Speaker)
6. ASCE – India Section (Western Region), New Zealand Group, and Australia Section (Keynote Speaker), held virtually[1]
7. International Online Workshop on Key Technologies for Industrialized Construction and Accelerated Bridge Construction, BRIDGE Magazine, China, (Keynote Speaker), held virtually
8. Christchurch City Council, Christchurch, New Zealand (Guest Speaker)
9. Earthquake Commission (EQC), New Zealand (Guest Speaker), held virtually
10. Civil Defense and Emergency Management (CDEM) - Christchurch, New Zealand (Guest Speaker), held virtually
11. Structural Engineering Society (SESOC) – Canterbury Structural Group, Christchurch, New Zealand (Guest Speaker)
12. Batchelar McDougall Consulting (BMC) Lecture Series, Wanaka, New Zealand
13. Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Department – Structures Cluster Group, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
14. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, presented virtually
15. Idaho State University Graduate Research Symposium[2], United States (Keynote Speaker)[3]
16. Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) Seminar Series “Codebreaker” (Guest Speaker), Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
17. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Convention, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
2021
1. University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC), Peru, (Keynote Speaker), held virtually
2. ASCE – India Section (Western Region) and Builders Association of India (Keynote Speaker), held virtually[4]
3. Western Bridge Engineers Seminar, United States, held virtually
4. United States – Japan Bridge Engineering Workshop, held virtually
5. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Professor Seminar, California, United States
6. International Bridge Conference, Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania, United States, held virtually
7. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
8. Idaho National Laboratory Resilience Optimization Center (Guest Speaker), United States, held virtually
9. National University Consortium – Center for Advanced Energy Studies (NUC/CAES) (Guest Speaker), United States, held virtually
10. ASCE Southern Idaho Section Meeting (Guest Speaker), United States, held virtually
11. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) Congress, New Zealand, held virtually
12. Caribou County Local Emergency Planning Committee, (Guest Speaker), held virtually
13. Alumni Association Town Hall, Idaho State University, held virtually
2020
1. American Concrete Institute (ACI) Fall Convention, United States, held virtually
2. Bridge Technological Innovation Achievement EXPO & Bridge Development Conference, China, held virtually
3. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Committee Days and Technical Conference, United States, held virtually
4. International Online Workshop on Key Technologies for Industrialized Construction and Accelerated Bridge Construction, BRIDGE Magazine, China, held virtually
5. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Convention, Fort Worth, Texas, United States
6. Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) Winter Collaboration Meeting (Guest Speaker), Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
2019
1. International Accelerated Bridge Construction Conference, Miami, Florida, United States
2. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Committee Days and National Bridge Conference, Rosemont, Illinois, United States
3. Western Bridge Engineers’ Seminar, Boise, Idaho, United States
4. Bridge Engineering Institute Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
5. ASCE – Structures Congress, Orlando, Florida, United States
6. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Convention, Louisville, Kentucky, United States
7. Idaho Conference on Undergraduate Research (Guest Speaker), Boise, Idaho, United States
8. ASCE Southern Idaho Section Annual Civil Engineering Conference, Boise, Idaho, United States
9. National Precast Concrete Association Technical Webinar (Keynote Speaker), held virtually[5]
10. Pocatello City Council[6] (Expert Speaker), Pocatello, Idaho, United States
11. Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting - AKB50 Committee, Washington, D.C., United States
12. ASCE Snake River Branch Meeting (Guest Speaker), Blackfoot, Idaho, United States
2018
1. Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) Seminar Series “Codebreaker” (Guest Speaker), Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
2. Joint Engineers Conference, Helena, Montana, United States
3. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Convention and National Bridge Conference, Denver, Colorado, United States
4. ASCE Snake River Branch Meeting (Guest Speaker), Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, United States
2017
1. Western Bridge Engineers’ Seminar, Portland, Oregon, United States
2. Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Foundation Professor Seminar, Denver, Colorado, United States
2015
1. ASCE - Structures Congress, Portland, Oregon, United States
2014
1. National Accelerated Bridge Construction Conference, Miami, Florida, United States
2. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering Symposium, Madrid, Spain
3. 10th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Anchorage, Alaska, United States
4. Australasian Structural Engineering Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
5. New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
2013
1. Opus Bridge, Civil Structures and Marine Conference, Tauranga, New Zealand
2. New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Conference, Wellington, New Zealand
2012
1. 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal
2011
1. New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand
2010
1. Fulbright Enrichment Seminar, Chicago, Illinois, United States
2. Fulbright “Lab to Market” Seminar for students in Science and Technology fields (Guest Speaker), Austin, Texas, United States
[1] More than 600 registered for the webinar. More than 350 participants from 23 countries attended the livestream keynote. A recoding of the webinar was made available to ASCE members.
[2] Donated the entire honorarium ($1,000) for the keynote to the ISU’s ASCE Student Chapter. Impressed by the donation, the Dean of Graduate School at ISU provided an additional $500 (total of $1,500) to the ASCE Student Chapter at ISU.
[3] “ISU Graduate School Symposium” (Link)
[4] More than 250 participants from around the world were in attendance. Participants received a certificate of attendance and a recording of the webinar has been made available on YouTube for others (Link)
[5] More than 300 people registered for the webinar and 193 attended live. Attendees earned 2 Professional Development Hours (PDHs). A recording of the presentation is available on the NPCA website under their Class Catalog (Link)
[6] Pocatello City Work Session of March 14, 2019 (Link)