Dr. Mahmoud Reda Taha, PE, is a Distinquished Professor and Regents' Lecturer at the Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering at the University of New Mexico, USA where he has worked for past 20 years. He was the founding director of the UNM Resilience Institute. He authored and co-au-thored more than 400 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings; he has thirteen issued US-Patents and has advised more than 50 students toward their MS and PhD degrees. He is a Fellow of the American Concrete lnstitute, a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Chairman of the ACI Committee on Nanotechnoloay, Chairman of the ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division, and Section Editor of ASCE Journal of Materials. He is a licensed professional engineer in the US and Canada, and an entrepreneur. He received his BS (Honors) and MS in Structural Engineering from Ain Shams University, Egypt, and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada.