Prof. Soheil Nazarian, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, Vice President and Subcommittee Lead of ISIC

Professor, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

Dr. Nazarian is the McIntosh Murchison Chair Professor of Civil Engineering and the Director of the Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

Dr. Nazarian has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of materials and nondestructive testing as related to geotechnical and transportation infrastructure. He has been the PI and co-PI of more than 100 research projects funded by federal and state agencies such as Texas Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration and Strategic Highway Research Program. Throughout his career at UTEP, he has supervised more than 80 Master’s and PhD students.  A large number of them working for TxDOT and other private and public transportation entities.