Organizers
Sponsoring Organizations
- The Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA)
Washington, DC - MCEER
Buffalo, NY - The Transportation Research Board
(TRB)
Washington, DC - California Department
of Transportation (Caltrans)
Sacramento, CA
Honorary Chairs
Myint Lwin
Federal Highway Administration, Director, Office of Bridge Technology Steering Committee
Richard Land
Chief Engineer, Caltrans
Steering Committee
Phillip Yen
Federal Highway Administration (Co-Chair)
Kevin Thompson
California Department of Transportation (Co-Chair)
Jerome O’Connor
MCEER (Conference Coordinator)
Michel Bruneau
MCEERIan Buckle
University of Nevada, Reno
Amr Elnashai
Mid-America Earthquake Center
George Lee
MCEER
Stephen Maher
Transportation Research Board
Stephen Mahin
University of California, Berkeley / PEER
Roland Nimis
Caltrans
Frieder Seible
University of California, San Diego
Arun Shirole’
Arora and Associates, P.C.
Rob Stott
California Department of Transportation
Ed Wasserman
Tennessee Department of Transportation
Technical Committee
Phillip Yen
Federal Highway Administration (Co-Chair)
Mike Keever
California Department of Transportation (Co-Chair)
Hannah Cheng
New Jersey Department of Transportation
Regi DesRoches
Georgia Institute of Technology
Yousef Bozorgnia
University of California, Berkeley
Jeffery Ger
Federal Highway Administration
Hamid Ghasemi
Federal Highway Administration
Bryan Hartnagel
Missouri Department of Transportation
M. John Karshenas
Mid America Engineering Services
E. V. Leyendecker
United States Geological Survey
Stephen Maher
Transportation Research Board
Derrell Manceaux
Federal Highway Administration
Lucero Mesa
South Carolina Department of Transportation
Martha Nevai
Federal Highway Administration
Richard Pratt
Alaska Department of Transportation
Li-Hong Sheng
California Department of Transportation
Glenn Smith
Federal Highway Administration
Paul Somerville
URS Corporation
S. Thevanayagam
University at Buffalo / MCEER
Daniel Tobias
Illinois Department of Transportation
Joe Wang
Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc.






