Dr. Taha is Professor, Regents’ Lecturer and Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, USA. Dr. Taha authored and co-authored more than 300 articles in scholarly journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (FACI). His research interests include smart materials and structures and emerging construction technologies to enable resilient and sustainable infrastructure. His research focus is on experimental investigations of materials at the different length scales for developing next generation cementitious and polymer composites that enable adaptive, multi-functional, self-healing and self-sensing capabilities. Dr. Taha was awarded the Ralph Powe Junior Faculty Award (2004), Egypt State Award of Encouragement (2005), Stamm Lectureship Award (2007) UNM Regents’ Lecturer (2007), ACI Faculty Achievement Award (2010), ACI Faculty Ambassador (2015) and ACI Fellow (2017). Dr. Taha’s research is funded by NSF, DOD, DOE and FHWA in excess of US$ 12 million in the last 14 years. He graduated more than 40 MS and PhD students. Dr. Taha is a bridge engineer by training and has participated as an international profession engineer in design of numerous structures in the US, Canada, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.