Hojjat Adeli is Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering and Geodetic Science and Lichtenstein Professor in
Infrastructure Engineering at The Ohio State University. A
contributor to 70 different scholarly journals, he has authored
over 400 research and scientific publications in diverse areas of
engineering, computer science, and applied mathematics since he
received his PhD from Stanford University in 1976 at the age of 26.
He has authored/co-authored eleven pioneering books such as
Machine Learning – Neural Networks,
Genetic
Algorithms, and Fuzzy Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,
1995;
Neurocomputing for Design Automation, CRC Press, 1998;
Distributed Computer-Aided Engineering, CRC Press, 1999;
High-Performance Computing in Structural Engineering, CRC
Press, 1999;
Control, Optimization, and Smart Structures –
High-Performance Bridges and Buildings of the Future,
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 1999;
Construction
Scheduling, Cost Optimization, and Management – A New
Model Based on Neurocomputing and Object Technologies,
Spon Press, 2001; and
Wavelets in Intelligent
Transportation Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005. He
has also edited 12 books including
Intelligent Information
Systems, IEEE Computer Society, 1997. He is the Editor-in-Chief
of two research journals,
Computer-Aided Civil and
Infrastructure Engineering, which he founded in 1986, and
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, which he
founded in 1993. He has been a Keynote/Plenary Lecturer at 56
international conferences held in 33 different countries and has
served on the advisory/editorial/organizing board of 262 national
and international conferences held in 55 different countries. On
September 29, 1998, he was awarded a patent for a ‘Method and
apparatus for efficient design automation and optimization, and
structures produced thereby’ (United States Patent Number
(5,815,394) (with a former PhD student). He is the recipient of
numerous academic, research, and leadership awards, honors, and
recognition. In 1998, he was awarded the University Distinguished
Scholar Award by The Ohio State University ‘in recognition of
extraordinary accomplishment in research and scholarship’ and
the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio passed a
resolution honoring him as an ‘Outstanding Ohioan’. He
is the quadruple winner of The Ohio State University College of
Engineering Lumley Outstanding Research Award. In 2005 he was
elected an Honorary Member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers ‘for wide-ranging, exceptional, and pioneering
contributions to computing in many civil engineering disciplines
and extraordinary leadership in advancing the use of computing and
information technologies in civil engineering throughout the
world’. In 2006 he was awarded The American Society of Civil
Engineers’ Construction Management Award ‘for
development of ingenious computational and mathematical models in
the areas of construction scheduling, resource scheduling, and cost
estimation’. His research has been sponsored by 20 different
organizations including government funding agencies such as the
National Science Foundation, US Air Force Flight Dynamics
Laboratory, and US Army Construction Engineering Research
Laboratory, Federal Highway Administration, state funding agencies
such as the Ohio Department of Transportation, Ohio Department of
Development, and the State of Ohio Research Challenge Program,
professional societies such as the American Iron and Steel
Institute and the American Institute of Steel Construction, and
corporations such as Cray Research Inc., US Steel, and Bethlehem
Steel Corporation.
Kamal C. Sarma is a Senior Bridge Engineer at Barr &
Prevost in Columbus, Ohio. He is a registered Professional Engineer
in the state of Ohio. He has more than 25 years of work experience
in Civil and Structural Engineering and has designed numerous
multi-span highway bridges in the state of Ohio. He obtained his
Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1976 from Jorhat Engineering
College in India and obtained his Master of Structural Engineering
degree from University of Roorkee, India in 1984. He received his
PhD in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2001. He
worked as a Lecturer and an Assistant Professor in Assam
Engineering College for 12 years where he taught courses on design
of reinforced concrete and steel structures. As an expert
consultant, the Government of Assam selected him as a member of a
three-member committee assigned to investigate the development of
cracks in the foundation of a thermal power station in Chandrapur,
Assam, India. In the United States he also worked as a Senior
Software Development Engineer for Qwest Communications and a Field
Engineer for K&S Engineers in Highland, Indiana. He performed
construction inspection of several multi-storied structures in the
Chicago area. He has also consulted in the areas of geotechnical
and foundation engineering including slurry wall construction. He
is the co-author of 10 research articles in the areas of structural
optimization, genetic algorithms, fuzzy systems, and
high-performance computing including parallel processing, published
in several international research journals.
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