Michel Bruneau, Ph.D., P.Eng., is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo, a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Emeritus Director of an NSF-funded Earthquake Engineering Center that focused on enhancing the disaster resilience of communities. His body of research developing engineering strategies to enhance the resilience of infrastructure has been instrumental to the inclusion, in national and international standards, of specifications for multiple innovative structural systems. He has received more than 20 awards for his work, including an AISC Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Bruneau has conducted numerous reconnaissance visits to disaster-stricken areas, is a member of AISC and CSA code-writing committees, and has served on many expert peer review panels. He has authored more than 600 publications and is one of the most cited researchers in structural engineering and earthquake engineering. He is also the lead author of the 2003 seminal paper that has formulated a concept and expression of disaster resilience that today is at the foundation of most research on this topic.
Chia-Ming Uang, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is a member of the AISC Committee on Specifications and Committee on Research. Professor Uang is a recipient of the Special Achievement Award in 2007, the T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award in 2015, and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 from AISC. He received a Distinguished Teaching Award from Academic Senate of UCSD in 2004 and four research awards from American Society of Civil Engineers: Raymond C. Reese Research Prize in 2001, Moisseiff Award in 2004 and 2014, as well as the Best Paper Award in Computation and Analysis in 2023. Professor Uang also coauthors the textbook Fundamentals of Structural Analysis.
Rafael Sabelli, S.E., is a Senior Principal and Director of Seismic Design at Walter P Moore. Rafael has earned a Lifetime Achievement Award and a Special Achievement Award from AISC, as well as the T.R. Higgins Lectureship award. He is a member of the AISC Committee on Specifications, where he is vice-chair of the Technical Committee on the Seismic Provisions, and a member of the AISC Committee on Manuals, where he is chair of the Seismic Design Manual committee. He is a member of the ASCE 7 Seismic Task Committee and the NIST Building Seismic Safety Council’s Provisions Update Committee. Rafael was coeditor for the SEAOC Structural/Seismic Design Manual. Rafael has written extensively on the design and behavior of steel seismic systems. He has published technical papers on braced frames, connection design, and structural stability. He is a past President of the Structural Engineers Association of California.
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