Himan Hojat Jalali, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Arlington

• Faculty member at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Texas at Arlington.
• Research areas: resilient design of infrastructure, service life estimation of buried infrastructure, meta-material & structural control.
• Over $400k funded research by United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) through TranSET, Tarrant Regional Water District and Water Research Foundation.
• Member of ASCE, AWWA and is also committee member in UESI Technical Committee on Seismic Design of Buried Water & Wastewater Pipelines.

Jane M Peter, Ph.D.

Geotechnical EIT at Thurber Engineering Ltd.

• EIT at Thurber Engineering Ltd. with over three years of experience in the consulting industry.
• Working as a member of the geotechnical design team to provide technical advice on tunneling and pipeline projects across Ontario.
• Gaining understanding of soil-structure interaction using design models.
• Graduated from Queen’s University with a PhD in Civil Engineering.
• Research focused on deterioration and rehabilitation effects on buried underground infrastructures like pipes & maintenance hole structures.