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University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA
Symposium Chair
Habib Tabatabai is a Professor of Structural Engineering and Director of the Structural Engineering Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Prior to that, he served as a Principal Structural Engineer with the CTL Group (1989-1999) and as a bridge engineer with the Florida Department of Transportation (1987-1989). He has conducted research on topics related to bridges, including reliability, durability, corrosion, and repair of structures, stay cable testing and condition assessments, jointless bridges, and survival analysis of structures. He is a licensed Structural Engineer (SE) and Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Illinois. He is a member of the PTI committee on cable-stayed bridges (DC-45) and has served on the ASCE Committee 19 (Structural Applications of Steel Cables for Buildings) (2005-2020). He also served as a member of a committee formed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to investigate the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Symposium Co-Chair
Dr. Khaled Sennah is a Professor of Structural Engineering at the Civil Engineering Department at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Sennah's core area of expertise includes design, evaluation, and rehabilitation of bridges, for which he has more than 370 publications and supervised over 100 graduate students. He has demonstrated numerous pieces of evidence of impact and contribution to economic design and sustainable construction that led to field applications and standards. Dr. Sennah’s research achievements have been recognized by international awards such as the 1999 Arthur Wellington Prize for best journal paper in transportation-related infrastructure and the 2002 State-of-the-Art in Civil Engineering award for best journal paper, both from the American Society for Civil Engineers, ASCE. Also, he received the 1998 and 2020 P.L. Pratley Award for best paper in bridge engineering, the 2025 Horst Leipholz Medal, and the 2013 A.B. Sanderson Award for “Outstanding Contributions by a Civil Engineer to the Development and Practice of Structural Engineering in Canada,” all from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. In recognition of his long-term achievements, he was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). He is a member of a few Canadian Standards Association’s Technical Subcommittees for the development of the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code. Dr. Sennah has a long history of significant contributions to the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) through committee membership, chairing scientific committees of conferences, Chairing International conferences, and chairing the CSCE Structures Division and others. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal for Civil Engineering, an Editorial Board member of the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, and Vice President of the International Association of Jointless Bridges.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Barcelona Tech (UPC), Spain
Symposium Co-Chair
Dr. Joan R. Casas is a Professor of Bridge Engineering and Structural Management in the School of Civil Engineering of UPC-BarcelonaTech in Barcelona (Spain). His area of expertise is design, construction, and management of bridges and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) with a main focus on Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors (DFOS). His research field includes bridge safety and durability, reliability-based inspection and management of concrete bridges, bridge traffic load modelling and load testing and life-cycle assessment of bridges. He is co-founder member and Secretary General of IABMAS (International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety), since 1999 and was vice-president of EUROSTRUCT (2017-2022). Managing Editor for Europe and associate editor of the Journal Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, associate editor of the Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE), specialty chief editor of Frontiers in the Built Environment-Bridge Section and member of the Editorial Board of the journal Infrastructures. In recognition of his long-term achievements, he was elected Fellow of FIB (International Association of Structural Concrete). Among other awards he is the recipient of the Bill Curtin Medal 1998, awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers of United Kingdom, to the best paper presented to the Institution describing innovative design in civil engineering, the 2012 IABMAS Senior Prize, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the application of advanced bridge inspection, assessment and monitoring techniques and the T.Y. Lin Medal-IABMAS 2022 awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to bridge engineering. Author or co-author of 39 books and book chapters, 180 papers in refereed technical journals and over 350 papers in conference proceedings. He has supervised 30 Ph.D. thesis and participated in several projects founded by the European Commission and in more than 100 consulting and advising works related with bridges for private companies and Public Institutions.
Fuzhou University, China
Symposium Scientific Committee Chair
Dr. Bruno Briseghella is a Distinguished Professor and the Dean (2015-2024) of the College of Civil Engineering at Fuzhou University, China. An elected member of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) and the Academy of Engineering of Mexico (AIM), he is also the Founding Director of two major research centers: the MOST-supported National Platform “Joint International Research Center of Bridge Technology Innovation and Risk Mitigation” and the “Sustainable and Innovative Bridge Engineering Research Center” (SIBERC). Dr. Briseghella chairs the International Association for Jointless Bridges and was awarded the prestigious 2023 China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award for his work in advancing global scientific collaboration. He has published more than 150 papers in prominent international journals and holds 11 invention patents. He has led or participated in international cooperation projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the European Union Research Program, the European Horizon 2020 and 2023, the National Science Foundation of the United Kingdom, and the National Research Program of Italy. Additionally, he has contributed to nearly 20 English versions of Chinese specifications. His expertise is demonstrated on a global scale through landmark projects, including several steel-concrete hybrid bridges, the world’s longest integral abutment bridge in Verona, Italy, the Maputo–Katembe Suspension Bridge (the longest in Africa), and the IV Bridge over the Canal Grande in Venice.
National Natural Science Foundation of China, China
Symposium Scientific Committee Co-Chair
Huang Fuyun, male, born in July 1979, from Fengcheng, Jiangxi, doctor, researcher (exceptional), doctoral supervisor (exceptional), National Natural Science Foundation of China review expert, outstanding talent in the new century of Fujian Province universities, member and director of Fujian Mechanics Society, member of the Young Expert Committee of China Highway Society, secretary-general of the International Association of Expansion Jointless Bridges. He has published more than 200 academic papers as the first author or main completer; More than 100 authorized patents such as PCT; He participated in the editing of "Examples of Reinforced Tube Concrete Arch Bridges (II)", "Bridges without Expansion Joints" (2nd Edition), and the national industry or local specifications "Technical Specifications for Reinforced Tube Concrete Arch Bridges" (GB 50923-2013) and "Technical Regulations for Highway Bridges without Expansion Joints" (T/CECS G:D60-01-2020). He has won the 2008 "Lu Jiaxi Outstanding Graduate Student" Award, the third prize of the 2010 Fujian Province Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, the first prize of the 2012 Fujian Provincial Construction Science and Technology Award (ranked fifth), the third prize of the 2019 Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Award (ranked first), the second prize of the 2020 Jiangsu Provincial Construction Science and Technology Award (ranked fourth), the first prize of the 2024 Fujian Provincial Highway Science and Technology Award (ranked first), and second prize of 2025 China Highway Science and Technology Award (ranked third). He is currently the deputy director of the Experimental Teaching Center of the School of Civil Engineering of Fuzhou University, mainly responsible for the construction and operation of the three-stage array system of the earthquake simulation shaker.