Associate Editor Changes

With this issue of the Journal of Bridge Engineering we would like to formally welcome nine new associate editors to the Journal.

Dr. Anil K. Agrawal (Fig. 1) is a professor of civil engineering at the City College of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in August 1997 and joined the City College of New York in September 1998. He has published more than 40 journal papers and more than 100 conference papers and is currently a member of the executive committee of The U.S. Panel of the International Association of Structural Control and Health Monitoring, an executive committee member of the Northeast Region of the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS-NE), secretary of the ASCE Committee on Structural Control, and associate editor of the Journal of Structural Engineering. His areas of interest include earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, structural control, smart materials and systems, dynamical behavior of structures subject to blasts/explosive loads, structural health monitoring, bridge management systems, and asset management of physical infrastructures.

Dr. Issam E. Harik (Fig. 2) is the Raymond-Blythe Professor of Civil Engineering and program manager of the Structures and Coatings Section at the Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. degree from Wayne State University in 1982 and joined the University of Kentucky the same year. His research interests are in the areas of fiber-reinforced polymer composite components and structures, seismic analysis and retrofit of bridges, vessel impact on bridges, and homeland security and hazard management of highway structures. He currently serves as a member of 11 societies and holds offices in 4 of them. He has authored and coauthored more than 230 technical publications and has directed the work on more than 70 research projects and the research for more than 30 undergraduate students, 70 graduate students, and 25 visiting professors and scholars.

Reagan Sentelle Herman, Ph.D., (Fig. 3) is currently on the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests focus on the design and behavior of steel bridges, and her recent projects have included studies of innovative bracing approaches for steel plate girder bridges, impacts of thermal effects on steel plate and box girder bridges, and effects of web and flange imperfections on the behavior of steel girder bridges. She is chair of the ASCE/SEI Steel Bridges Committee and is a member of the Transportation Research Board Steel Bridges (AFF20) and Fabrication and Inspection of Metal Structures (AFH70) committees and the Structural Stability Research Council committees on Plate and Box Girders and Horizontally Curved Girders. Her awards include the Robert J. Dexter Memorial Lecture from the AISI Steel Bridge Committee and the AASHTO Technical Committee for Structural Steel Design Awards (2006), the Vinnakota Paper Award from the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC) for a paper entitled “Strength of Metal Deck Forms Used for Stability Bracing of Steel Bridge Girder” (2005), and the Top Research Innovation Award from the Texas Department of Transportation for a project entitled “Lateral Bracing of Bridge Girders Using Permanent Metal Deck Forms” (2004–2005). Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Herman was on the faculty at the University of Houston, where she had a close working relationship with the Texas Department of Transportation. Dr. Herman received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in structural engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and her B.S. degree in civil engineering from North Carolina State University.

Dr. Santiago Hernandez Ibanez (Fig. 4) started teaching in the school of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 1975 and was a vice chancellor of that university during 1986–1989. Since 1993 he has been a full professor in the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Coruna (Spain), where he is the leader of the structural analysis team and held the position of vice dean during 1993–1999. He has more than $25\text{years}$ of experience in structural optimization, including university teaching, research, software production, authoring and editing of books, and chairmanship of conferences. He set up the biannual OPTI conference in 1989 in collaboration with the Wessex Institute of Technology that had its tenth edition in 2007. He has also conducted research in aeroelastic design of cable-supported bridges and has pioneered an approach for linking aeroelasticity phenomena studies, sensitivity analysis, design optimization, and computer animation to reproduce virtually the dynamic and aeroelastic behavior of bridges. He is in charge of the aerodynamic wind tunnel at the University of Coruna and has carried out aeroelastic analysis, both experimentally and computationally, of quite a few cable-stayed and suspension bridges in The United States, Canada, and Europe. In 2004 he was deeply involved in the competition for the construction of the future world record bridge over the Messina strait in Italy.

He was visiting researcher at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom) in 1984 and the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1989. He is an ASCE Fellow and in 1995 received the Eminent Scientist medal from the Wessex Institute of Technology in Southampton and is currently in the Director Boards of such institution. Dr. Hernandez has given courses and lectures in many European, Asian, and American countries and has been leader of several European training programs in structural engineering involving up to 11 countries in the European Union.

Dr. Dongzhou Huang, P.E. (Fig. 5) is currently with PBSJ, Inc. as a general engineering consulting engineer for the Florida Department of Transportation. He is also a professor at Fuzhou University, China, and received his Ph.D. degree from Tongji University, China. Dr. Huang has been engaged in bridge engineering for over $30\text{years}$ and has gained extensive professional and research experience in bridge design, dynamic behaviors, stability, nonlinear analysis, and load distribution, as well as bridge performance evaluation and practical analytical methods for different types of bridge structures, especially steel box girder, curved girder, and arch bridges. He has authored or coauthored more than 70 technical papers, over 40 of which have appeared in peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the ASCE Technical Committee, the AASHTO/NSBA Analysis of Steel Bridge Task Group, and the IABSE Vibration of Structures Working Group. Dr. Huang has been an associate professor, visiting professor, and professor at Tongji University, Florida International University, and Fuzhou University for more than $16\text{years}$ .

Dr. Zhongguo John Ma, P.E., (Fig. 6) is currently an associate professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln in 1998. Prior to his current position, he was a faculty member at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for $6\text{years}$ . His primary research interests are in the areas of behavior and design of prestressed concrete bridges, mechanics and applications of high-performance concrete and fiber-reinforced polymer composites, and accelerated construction in highway bridges. Dr. Ma is a member of the ASCE-ACI Committee on Concrete Bridge Design and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) committees on Concrete Bridges and Structural Fiber-Reinforced Plastics. Dr. Ma has been the principal investigator for several federally funded projects (NSF CAREER and NCHRP) and state government-funded projects.

Dr. Wei-Xin Ren (Fig. 7) is currently a changjiang distinguished professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Central South University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in bridge engineering from Central South University, China in 1993, followed by $2\text{years}$ of postdoctoral research in Tsinghua University, China. He was promoted to full professor in 1995. In the past $10\text{years}$ , Dr. Ren has been a visiting professor in Japan, Belgium, the United States, and Australia. His research interests include the following broad areas of bridge and structural engineering: stability and dynamics, cable-stayed bridges, damage detection, finite-element model updating, structural condition assessment, and health monitoring. He has published three books and more than 180 publications, including 40 refereed international journal papers. He is now serving an editorial board member for Engineering Structures, an international journal.

Dr. Sougata Roy (Fig. 8) is currently a research scientist with the ATLSS Center, Lehigh University, and obtained his Ph.D. degree from Lehigh University. Dr. Roy has more than $11\text{years}$ of industry experience in bridge engineering consultancy and $8\text{years}$ of experience in conducting academic research in the area of bridge engineering, with particular emphasis on fatigue fracture of steel bridges, large-scale experimentation, field investigation, health monitoring, and evaluation of aging infrastructure. Dr. Roy has been published in many peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and is currently serving on the TRB Committee on Fabrication and Inspection of Metal Structures AFH70, the TRB Committee on Sign Structures AFH10(1), the ASCE/SEI Fatigue and Fracture Committee, and the ASCE/SEI Steel Bridges Committee.

Dr. Majid Sarraf, Ph.D., P.E., P.Eng., (Fig. 9) is currently a manager of bridge engineering and seismic specialist with Stantec Consulting Inc. in California. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of California and Ontario, Canada. He has received his Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada, where he conducted research in innovative seismic retrofit and testing of major steel bridges and taught steel design. He joined the National Bridge Research Organization in Nebraska in 2000, where he conducted live-load testing and condition assessments of bridges. He later joined Imbsen and Associates and then Stantec Consulting in California, where he led the design of the East South Detour Structure of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and other long-span structures and has been a seismic specialist, inspector, and technical director on various bridge projects in many parts of the United States and Canada. Dr. Sarraf has over $13\text{years}$ of experience in bridge engineering practice and seismic research with more than 25 technical publications and is a member of several ASCE committees.