Appendix

Committee Member Biographical Information

David A. Dzombak (NAE) (Chair) is the Hamerschlag University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His professional focus is on water quality engineering, water resource sustainability, and energy–environment issues. At Carnegie Mellon he has served as the head of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2013–2022), associate dean for Graduate and Faculty Affairs for the College of Engineering (2006–2010), and as director of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research (2007–2013). Dzombak received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He also holds an M.S. in civil engineering (1981) and a B.S. in civil engineering (1980) from Carnegie Mellon, and a B.A. in mathematics (1980) and Honorary D.Sc. (2010) from Saint Vincent College. He is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania, a board-certified environmental engineer, a board-certified water resources engineer, a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Among various professional service contributions, he has served on the Industry Leaders Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers (2020–2023), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability (2013–2021), the National Academies’ Water Science and Technology Board (2014–2019), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board (2002–2016).

W. Wynne Fuller currently serves as the president of the Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association, advocating for the resources to operate and maintain a safe, reliable waterway and serving as a liaison to federal and state agencies. He retired from a 46-year career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in 2021. In the last 30 years of this career, he operated and maintained five inland waterways and coastal deep and shallow-draft channels serving the central Gulf of Mexico. Fuller’s expertise includes the maintenance of inland and coastal waterways, including locks, dams, and hydropower facilities. He has been awarded the U.S. Department of Defense’s Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Superior Civilian Service Award, the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service, and the Legion of Merit Award. He was recognized as the USACE Emergency Manager of the Year for 1989 and as the USACE Civilian of the Year for 1991. He received both the Bronze and Silver De Fleury awards. His memberships include the Society of American Military Engineers, the Propeller Club, and Tau Beta Pi. His professional training includes structural engineering, emergency management, project management, operations, and leadership. Fuller holds an M.S. in national resources strategy from the National Defense University, a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of South Alabama, and a B.S. in natural science from the University of Tennessee.

E. Bora Gencturk is a professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the founding director of the Structures and Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Southern California. Gencturk’s research focuses on the durability and extreme event resilience of reinforced concrete structures with an emphasis on the application of high-performance materials. He specifically studies the degradation of cementitious materials due to environmental aging (e.g., alkali-silica reactivity and corrosion of reinforcing steel) and investigates the application of higher-performance materials (e.g., engineered cementitious composites and high- and ultra-high-performance concretes) to mitigate these issues. He combines his material degradation studies with structural-scale tests to investigate the impacts of material performance on the response of structures under extreme events. To date, Gencturk has been awarded $14.9 million total in research funding as a principal investigator (PI) or co-PI in 27 research projects (including both young investigator awards and BRIGE and CAREER given by the U.S. National Science Foundation). Gencturk has authored or co-authored close to 180 technical publications, including more than 110 refereed papers in prestigious journals and 3 book chapters. He is also the holder of two provisional U.S. patents. He supervised 9 postdoctoral research associates, 11 Ph.D. and 5 M.S. students (with theses). He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American

Concrete Institute, and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Gencturk is also a registered professional civil engineer in California.

Liv M. Haselbach is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Lamar University (LU). Haselbach previously was the director for the Center for Resiliency and the chair at LU and faculty at Washington State University and the University of South Carolina in the departments of civil and environmental engineering. She has authored numerous papers on sustainability and pervious concrete and developed learning modules in environmental life-cycle assessment. She leads a regional, multi-entity Flood Coordination Study in Southeast Texas. She is a licensed professional engineer, an American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists board-certified environmental engineer with a specialty in environmental sustainability, and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. In 2019, Haselbach was named Engineer of the Year by the Sabine Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. Prior to her academic career she worked for Stauffer Chemical Company and Sohio, and then founded an engineering consulting company in Connecticut, specializing in site development for retail petroleum facilities. Her degrees include a B.S. with Distinction in civil engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Jeanine Hoey is retired, currently serving as a consultant for the Port of Pittsburgh Commission, a state agency that connects businesses and enterprises with local, state, and federal resources to expand and develop commercial use of the region’s waterways. Hoey is an Army veteran who served in Hanau, Germany, and Savannah, Georgia, before beginning her career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. She served as a structural engineer for the Pittsburgh District and continued into project management. She also served for 2 years as the deputy district engineer and for her last 5 years as the chief of the Engineering and Construction Division. Hoey worked primarily on navigation projects including Point Marion Lock and Dam, Grays Landing Lock and Dam, the Lower Monongahela River Navigation Project, and the Upper Ohio River Navigation Project. Her expertise in navigation led to her being selected to lead a national team working with the navigation industry to develop the Capital Investment Strategy. This effort changed the way navigation projects are prioritized and funded and resulted in legislative changes that significantly improve the nation’s navigation infrastructure. She received the 2016 Waterways Counsel Award for this work and has been involved in the subsequent efforts to continue to improve and update the Capital Investment Strategy. Hoey earned a B.S. in civil engineering in 1983 and an M.S. in 1995 from Carnegie Mellon University.

Edward Kavazanjian, Jr. (NAE) is a Regents Professor and the Ira A. Fulton Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University (ASU). Kavazanjian joined the faculty at ASU in August 2004 after 20 years as a practicing geotechnical engineer. He has a B.S. and an M.S. in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Kavazanjian is recognized internationally for his work on geotechnical earthquake engineering for civil infrastructure systems, design and construction of landfills and waste containment systems, and the emerging field of biogeotechnical engineering. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for his work on landfill engineering and seismic design and was recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) as a Distinguished Member in 2018. Kavazanjian is the recipient from ASCE of the 2009 Ralph B. Peck Award, 2010 Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award, and 2011 Karl Terzaghi Award. In August 2015, he became the director of the Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics, Gen-3 National Science Foundation engineering research center.

Christopher P. Knotts has 40 years of engineering and leadership experience in private practice, state government, and industry. Currently he is the director of business development at Neel-Schaffer, Inc., a private civil engineering consulting firm, after retiring as the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) chief engineer in October 2023. Prior to his 6 years as DOTD chief engineer, he served 5 years as the deputy assistant secretary of public works and water resources at DOTD and 12 years as the chief of engineering at the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. Knotts is a licensed professional engineer in Louisiana. He is also a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a board-certified water resources engineer. He has served as a Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board member (2013–2019) and the president of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (2020–2021). Knotts holds an M.Eng. in civil engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in civil engineering and a bachelor of engineering technology from Louisiana State University.

Luna Lu is the Reilly Professor of the Lyles School of Civil Engineering and the founding director of the Center for Intelligent Infrastructure at Purdue University. Lu is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in the United Kingdom. Lu has extensive research expertise in functional nanomaterials, concrete and cementitious materials, and advanced sensing technologies for civil infrastructure testing and monitoring. Her research integrates the elements of civil engineering, electrical

engineering, and materials science disciplines to provide smart infrastructure solutions from materials to device-level integration. Lu has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, 2 books, and 6 book chapters, and has 10 pending and provisional patents. Her work has garnered several prestigious awards and recognitions, including the 2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2019 Purdue Faculty Scholar, 2020 Vebleo Scientist Award, 2021 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Gamechanger, 2022 ASCE Alfred Noble Prize, TIME Best Invention of 2023, and the Edison Award of 2024. As an educator, innovator, and entrepreneur, Lu founded WaveLogix, a Purdue spinoff providing smart digital infrastructure solutions. She has also developed and transferred several nanomaterials-based technologies from the research laboratory to the concrete industry to improve the quality and durability of the nation’s civil infrastructure.

Aleksandra Radlińska is a professor at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to her appointment, she was an assistant professor at Villanova University and a guest scientist at BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing) in Berlin. Her research focuses on developing innovative materials and construction methods to enhance infrastructure durability and reduce CO₂ impact for terrestrial and extraterrestrial applications and has been supported by major funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Federal Highway Administration. She is the recipient of the 2015 Walter P. Moore, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award from the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the 2012 ACI Young Member Award for Professional Achievement. She was named ACI Fellow in 2018. Radlińska received a Ph.D. from Purdue University (2008) and an M.S. and a B.S. in civil engineering from the Western Pomeranian University of Technology in Poland.

David P. Rice is currently a materials science subject-matter expert at Hepburn and Sons LLC. He retired from Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) in 2019 after a career that spanned more than 45 years. Rice held various leadership positions at NNS. He was responsible for research and development programs funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR)/ManTech, the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP), ONR, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Small Business Innovation Research, and other funding organizations. Rice is a member of the Materials Science and Engineering Department Advisory Board at Virginia Tech. He served as the chair of Virginia’s Advanced Materials Sector Steering Committee and the chair of the Executive Steering Committee for the Navy’s ManTech Composite Center. Additionally, he served on the boards of the Navy

Metalworking Center and Jefferson National Laboratory. Rice served as the NSRP Ship Design & Materials Technology Major Initiative team leader. Rice is a graduate of the Newport News Shipbuilding Apprentice School (Machinist) and a materials engineering graduate of Virginia Tech. In 2019, Rice was elected a fellow of ASM International.

Abdul-Hamid Zureick is a professor of structural engineering, mechanics, and materials in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Zureick is renowned for his expertise in using innovative materials in civil engineering, focusing on developing structural engineering design criteria and specifications for polymer composite systems. He is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Structural Engineering Institute Fiber Composites and Standards Committee and serves on the editorial boards of the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction and the Structural Engineering and Mechanics, International. Additionally, he founded and chaired the ASTM International Technical Subcommittee on Composites for Civil Engineering and Marine Applications. In 2007, Zureick led the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Project 10-73, culminating in the inaugural AASHTO Guide Specifications for Design of Bonded FRP Systems for Repair and Strengthening of Concrete Bridge Elements, published in 2012. Additionally, he contributed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee that issued a 2019 report on the performance of bridges funded under the Innovative Bridge Research and Construction program. Throughout his career, Zureick has received numerous awards, including the 1989 ASCE Norman Medal, the highest honor granted by the ASCE for a technical paper judged worthy of special commendation for its merit as a contribution to engineering science. He earned his B.C.E. from Tishreen University in Syria and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.