Dr. Habib Tabatabai
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA
Plenary Speaker
Habib Tabatabai is a Professor of Structural Engineering and Director of the Structural Engineering Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Prior to that, he served as a Principal Structural Engineer with the CTL Group (1989-1999) and as a bridge engineer with the Florida Department of Transportation (1987-1989). He has conducted research on topics related to bridges, including reliability, durability, corrosion, and repair of structures, stay cable testing and condition assessments, jointless bridges, and survival analysis of structures. He is a licensed Structural Engineer (SE) and Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Illinois. He is a member of the PTI committee on cable-stayed bridges (DC-45) and has served on the ASCE Committee 19 (Structural Applications of Steel Cables for Buildings) (2005-2020). He also served as a member of a committee formed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to investigate the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Dr. Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis
University College London, UK
Keynote Speaker
Prof Stergios A Mitoulis is Head of the Centre of Global Infrastructure Resilience at the Bartlett, University College London, and Director of the MetaInfrastructure and bridgeUkraine initiatives. He is Editor-in-Chief of the ICE Journal of Bridge Engineering and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Future Cities. Trained as a bridge engineer, he has developed a broad, interdisciplinary research profile focused on climate-resilient, sustainable, and digitally enabled infrastructure. At UCL he leads a multidisciplinary team developing holistic, threat-agnostic frameworks for infrastructure adaptation to climate change and emerging risks. He has secured over £9.3 million in UKRI, Horizon Europe, and charitable funding, published 200+ papers, trained more than 30 researchers, and contributed to standardisation through BSI and CEN. He also supports Ukraine’s infrastructure reconstruction and advises policymakers and media.
Dr. Khaled Sennah
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Khaled Sennah is a Professor of Structural Engineering at the Civil Engineering Department at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Sennah’s core area of expertise includes design, evaluation, and rehabilitation of bridges, for which he has more than 390 publications and has supervised over 100 graduate students. He has demonstrated numerous pieces of evidence of impact and contribution to economic design and sustainable construction that led to field applications and standards. Dr. Sennah’s research achievements have been recognized by international awards such as the 1999 Arthur Wellington Prize for best journal paper in transportation-related infrastructure and the 2002 State-of-the-Art in Civil Engineering award for best journal paper, both from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Also, he received the 1998 and 2020 P.L. Pratley Award for best paper in bridge engineering, the 2025 Horst Leipholz Medal, and the 2013 A.B. Sanderson Award for “Outstanding Contributions by a Civil Engineer to the Development and Practice of Structural Engineering in Canada,” all from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. In recognition of his long-term achievements, he was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and Fellow of the Canadian Society of Senior Engineers (CSSE). He is a member of a few Canadian Standards Association Technical Subcommittees for the development of the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code, as well as the American Concrete Institute (ACI). Dr. Sennah has a long history of significant contributions to the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) through committee membership, chairing scientific committees of conferences, Chairing International conferences, and chairing the CSCE Structures Division and others. He is currently an Honorary Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development (English Edition), Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal for Civil Engineering, and Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction. He is the Vice President of the International Association of Jointless Bridges.
Dr. Enrico Tubaldi
University of Strathclyde, Uk
Keynotye Speaker
Enrico Tubaldi is Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where he leads research on the resilience of structures and infrastructure exposed to natural and environmental hazards. After obtaining a PhD in Structures and Infrastructure from the Polytechnic University of Marche (Italy), he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Imperial College London before joining the University of Strathclyde in 2017.
His research combines structural engineering, risk and reliability analysis, and structural health monitoring to improve the assessment, management, and resilience of critical infrastructure systems. His expertise spans infrastructure resilience, probabilistic risk assessment, digital monitoring technologies, and the performance of structures under extreme loading conditions. He has led and co-led numerous UK and European research projects in these areas, attracting more than £5 million in research funding.
Professor Tubaldi has authored around 100 papers in leading international journals and is internationally recognised for his contributions to infrastructure monitoring and resilience. His recent awards include the 2025 ScottishPower Innovation Forum Award (Project of the Year) and the 2026 Scottish Transport Award for Excellence in Technology and Innovation for the development of a Radar-Based Platform for Low-Cost Monitoring of Critical Transport Infrastructure. He is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences and workshops, actively supervises doctoral researchers, and serves as Associate Editor and reviewer for several leading journals in structural and infrastructure engineering.