E D I T O R - I N - C H I E F Hojjat Adeli E D I T O R I A L A D V I S O R Y B O A R D Alfred Ang (University of California, Irvine, USA) James L. Beck (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA) Oreste S. Bursi (University of Trento, Trento, Italy) Enrique Castillo (University of Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain) Wai Fah Chen (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA) David E. Daniel (University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, USA) Bruce R. Ellingwood (Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA) Theodore V. Galambos (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA) John S. Gero (George Mason University, Georgia, USA) Wolfgang Graf (Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany) Lester A. Hoel (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA) Izzat M. Idriss (University of California, Davis, USA) Yoshito Itoh (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan) Ahsan Kareem (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA) Samuel Labi (Purdue University, USA) Ludovic Leclercqe (University of Lyon, Lyon, France) Daniel P. Loucks (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA) Samer M. Madanat (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Herbert Mang (Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria) J. Tinsley Oden (University of Texas, Austin, USA) Jean-Herve Prevost (Princeton University, Princeton, USA) Jerome L. Sackman (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Soroosh Sorooshian (University of California, Irvine, USA) Pol D. Spanos (Rice University, Houston, USA) Viggo Tvergaard (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark S. Travis Waller (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) C. Michael Walton (University of Texas, Austin, USA) Zhishen Wu (Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Japan) Edmundas K. Zavadskas (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania) Jian Zhang (Southeast University, Nanjing, China) Denghua Zhong (Tianjin University, China) I N D U S T R I A L A D V I S O R Y B O A R D John T. Christian (Consulting Engineer, Waban, Massachusetts, USA) Jeremy Eisenberg (Weidlinger Associates, New York, USA) William F. Marcuson (Consulting Engineer, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA) William Allen Marr (Geocomp Corporation, Acton, Massachusetts, USA) Leslie E. Robertson (Leslie E. Robertson Associates, New York, USA) Man-Chun Tang (T.Y Lin International, San Francisco, USA)
About the Founder and Editor-in-Chief HOJJAT ADELI held the Abba G. Lichtenstein Professorship at The Ohio State University for ten years. He holds Honorary/Distinguished Professorship at six Asian and European universities and an academy member in three different countries. He has authored nearly 600 research publications, including 16 ground-breaking high-technology books, since he received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976 at the age of 26. He has presented Keynote/Plenary Lectures at 109 conferences held in 44 different countries. He is the recipient of over 50 awards and honors including the University Distinguished Scholar Award bestowed by The Ohio State University in 1998 “in recognition of extraordinary accomplishment in research and scholarship.” In 2005 he was elected a Distinguished Member of American Society of Civil Engineers “for wide-ranging, exceptional, and pioneering contributions to computing in civil engineering and extraordinary leadership in advancing the use of computing and information technologies in many engineering disciplines throughout the world.” He received the ASCE Construction Management Award in 2006. In 2007 he received the Peter L. and Clara M. Scott Award for Excellence in Engineering Education for sustained, exceptional, and multi-faceted contributions to numerous fields including computer-aided engineering, knowledge engineering, computational intelligence, large-scale design optimization, and smart structures with worldwide impact, and Charles E. MacQuigg Outstanding Teaching Award from The Ohio State University College of Engineering. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, “for distinguished contributions to computational infrastructure engineering and for worldwide leadership in computational science and engineering.” He is also a Fellow of IEEE, the American Neurological Association, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He is a recipient of Eduardo Renato Caianiello Award from the Italian Society of Neural Networks (SIREN), a Special Medal from the Polish Neural Network Society in Recognition of Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Computational Intelligence, and an Honorary Doctorate from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.
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