Professor, Provost and Vice President Academic, McMaster University. tighes1@mcmaster.ca

Dr. Tighe’s research includes sustainable pavement engineering and management, evaluation of climate change of roads, long life infrastructure, life cycle economic analysis as a tool for infrastructure management and evaluating materials,  development and evaluation of infrastructure management system components, and solar technology in roads and pavement infrastructure..  https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/sltighe  

Frederick L. Olmsted  Professor and Associate Chair, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. adjo.amekudzi@ce.gatech.edu 

 Dr. Amekudzi-Kennedy’s research interests include system performance evaluation, sustainability planning and evaluation, systems engineering for sustainable development, infrastructure resilience, asset valuation and enterepreneurship.  She coauthored the textbook Fundamental of Systems Engineering with Economics, Probability and Statistics, J. Ross Publishing, Inc., 2012.

https://ce.gatech.edu/people/faculty/391/overview 

Dan Pletta Professor, Director of the Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech.  gflintsch@vtti.vt.edu 

Dr. Fintsch has worked in the areas of asset management, pavement engineering, and sustainability since the mid-1980s. His main areas of technical experience are pavement design, construction, evaluation and management, and infrastructure management. He has taught classes and workshops on pavement and infrastructure design, evaluation, and management in eleven countries and has more than 150 publications. 

https://www.vtti.vt.edu/research/csti/index.php 

Senior Scientist, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Delaware. palesezt@udel.edu 

Dr. Palese has more than 30 years of experience working with the rail industry as a consultant and developer. His work in data analytics, track inspection maintenance planning has been widely used throughout the rail industry. 

Associate Professor, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Principal Investigator at the Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN). achamorro@ing.puc.cl

 Dr. Chamorro’s areas of expertise include pavement engineering and management, infrastructure sustainable management, risk and resilience evaluation and management of critical infrastructure systems exposed to natural hazards. She has led the development of infrastructure management and risk management systems and tools applied to road networks and water systems. She is co-author of the book Gestión de Infraestructura Vial (2018), textbook in Spanish on road infrastructure management.

https://www.ing.uc.cl/academicos-e-investigadores/marcela-alondra-chamorro-gine/   

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder. Cristina.TorresMachi@colorado.edu 

Dr. Torres-Machi’s research interests include infrastructure asset management, sustainability and resilience applied to transportation infrastructure, decision making and optimization for infrastructure management systems, and pavement management systems. She serves as Vice-Chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) committee on Transportation Asset Management (AJE30). 

https://www.colorado.edu/ceae/cristina-torres-machi 

Associate Professor, University of Houston gaolu1504@gmail.com

·        Professor Gao’s research interests include civil infrastructure management, transportation system analysis, pavement maintenance and rehabilitation, and construction safety. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has completed research projects for the Texas Department of Transportation and published on a variety of infrastructure topics.

http://uh.edu/technology/departments/cm/people/?l=gao&f=lu  

Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University

labi@purdue.edu  

Dr. Samuel Labi’s research uses analytical tools in economics, finance, operations research, statistics and econometrics to carry out tasks of system description and control at each phase of the infrastructure development process.  He coauthored the textbook Highway Infrastructure Management Systems: Tools and Techniques for Developing Optimal Policies to Preserve Highway Assets, 2009.

https://engineering.purdue.edu/~labi/Welcome.html 

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa

skytrust@gmail.com

Dr. Hosin "David" Lee is a director of Laboratory for Advanced Construction Technology (LACT) and a faculty researcher at the Center for Computer-Aided Design (CCAD). He is the President of International Society for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transport Infrastructures (iSMARTi). His research interests include: Sustainable Civil Infrastructure, Pavement Recycling, Warm Mix Asphalt, Asset Management and Automated Pavement Imaging System.

http://www.cee.engineering.uiowa.edu/Faculty/lee.php  

Professor and Chair,  A. James Clark School of Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland 

niiokine@umd.edu 

Dr. Attoh-Okine’s research interests are in the area of big data, in particular railroads. He is also interested in resilience and related theoretical models. He has authored two books “Resilience Engineering: Models and Analysis” and “Big Data and Differential Privacy: Analysis Strategies for Railway Track Engineering.” He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and currently the Interim Academic Director of the UD Cybersecurity Initiative at UD. 

https://cee.umd.edu/clark/faculty/1722/Nii-O-Attoh-Okine 

Emeritus Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Visiting Professional Fellow, RCITI, University of New South Wales.

smcneil@udel.edu

 Dr. McNeil’s research interests include transportation asset management, life-cycle costing, application of advanced technologies, economic analysis, condition assessment and deterioration modeling, risk and resilience, natural hazards and decision support. She is Editor-In-Chief of ASCE’s Journal of Infrastructure Systems.  

https://sites.google.com/view/suemcneil/home

Associate Director of the Institute for Public Administration and the Coordinator of the Conflict Resolution Program, University of Delaware.

knmurphy@udel.edu 

Kathy Murphy is the Associate Director of the Institute for Public Administration and the Coordinator of the Conflict Resolution Program at UD. She holds a secondary faculty appointment in the Joseph R. Biden School of Public Policy and Administration where she teaches conflict resolution and organizational leadership courses.

https://www.bidenschool.udel.edu/Documents%20Bios%20CVs/Kathy-Murphy-CV.pdf 

Professor Zhanmin Zhang was a founding instructor for the Advanced Infrastructure Management Bootcamp.  He passed away on December 30, 2022.  He was the Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professor, and  Director, Resilient Infrastructure and Smart Cities (RISC) Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. z.zhang@mail.utexas.edu

Professor Zhang’s research interests included analysis and simulation of  large-scale infrastructure systems, risk and resilience of infrastructure systems, optimal resource allocation, innovative financing mechanisms, and intelligent infrastructure for smart cities.

His passing is a huge loss for our community.