Infrastructure Systems Committee
Purpose:
To study, evaluate and report on current practices and promote new developments in the science of infrastructure management. The committee's focus is on broad infrastructure related practices such as, Planning & Development, Operations & Maintenance, and improving Infrastructure Management Strategies as they relate to transportation, public works, and parks and recreation infrastructure systems. Scientific and civil engineering disciplines include inventory management, condition assessment, deterioration modeling, evaluation of impacts of deteriorating infrastructure, decision making and financing strategies. The committee activities include the promotion of new and cross-cutting technologies such as, computer-aided decision support, the development of analytical models, automated data collection techniques and other products via specialty conferences, web pages, white papers and other special projects.
International Conference on Transportation and Development (ICTD) 2025
ASCE’s flagship conference in transportation and development, co-located with ASCE’s longstanding specialty conference on airfield & highway pavements for an invaluable experience of two conferences in one. Held in partnership with the Arizona Department of Transportation.
Meet the chair
Zhe Han, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Dr. Zhe Han is a Research Engineer in Center for Transportation Research (CTR) at The University of Texas at Austin and a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the state of Texas. His research focuses on large-scale infrastructure system management, optimal resource allocation, resilience analysis, asset valuation, and cutting-edge interdisciplinary research.
Dr. Han earned two Bachelor degrees in civil engineering and law from Tsinghua University. He joined the civil engineering program at The University of Texas at Austin, where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, respectively. Dr. Han is the recipient of Walter L. and Reta Mae Moore Graduate Fellowship and Robert Herman Endowed Scholarship from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Han was selected to receive the Best Paper Award at the 103rd Annual TRB meeting in 2024 by Standing Committee on Disaster Response, Emergency Evacuations, and Business Continuity (AMR20). He also has been awarded the best paper award at the 5th World Transport Convention (WTC) (Xi'an, China) in 2021 and 9th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets (ICMPA) (Alexandria, United States) in 2015.
Dr. Zhe Han is an author or co-author of 34 technical papers, reports, and articles as well as 2 books. He has delivered more than 48 oral presentations nationally and internationally. He is the Section Editor-in-Chief of Current Social Sciences, the Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Transportation Engineering and Technology and Transportation Management, and the Guest Editor of Computation. Dr. Han serves as the chair of JC0l joint technical committee of World Transport Convention (WTC). Dr. Han is an active member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), where he is also a current member of the Infrastructure Systems Committee.
Membership
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Zhe Han,
Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Chair -
Carlos Chang,
Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Past-Chair
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Muhammad Sultan Amer,
ENV SP, M.ASCE
ASCE Staff Contact -
Baabak Ashuri,
Ph.D., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
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Mohammad Zobair Ibne Bashar,
Ph.D.
Member -
Deepak Benny,
C.Eng, S.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
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Michael Blair Cremin,
P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member -
Qingbin Cui,
Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Member
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Michael S Ellegood,
P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
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Gerardo W Flintsch,
Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
Member
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James Francis Gallagher,
P.E., F.ASCE
Corresponding Member -
lu Gao,
Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Member -
Nasir Gharaibeh,
Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
Member
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Shahidul Islam,
Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Member
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Michael D Johnson,
P.E.
Corresponding Member
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Ruimin Ke,
Ph.D.
Member -
Nathan Abay Kebede,
P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member -
Venu Madhav Kukkapalli,
Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
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Samuel Labi,
Ph.D., F.ASCE
Member -
Jacob Lamb,
Member -
Hosin Lee,
P.E., M.ASCE
Member -
Joshua Qiang Li,
Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
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Sue McNeil,
P.E., Dist.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member -
Diniece Danielle Mendes,
EIT, A.M.ASCE
Member
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Maqsood Mohammad Nasir,
P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member -
Andrzej S Nowak,
F.ASCE
Corresponding Member
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Mehmet Egemen Ozbek,
A.M.ASCE
Member
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Juan Diego Porras-Alvarado,
Ph.D., EIT, Ing., M.ASCE
Past-Chair -
Aristeidis Pantelias,
Ph.D., C.Eng, M.ASCE
Member -
Laxmikanth Premkumar,
P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
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Cesar A. Queiroz,
Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Member
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Md Tahmidur Rahman,
P.E.
Corresponding Member -
William Edward Robert,
A.M.ASCE
Member
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Kristen L Sanford,
P.E., M.ASCE
Member -
Seyed Mohsen Shahandashti,
Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Member -
Sarbjeet Singh,
Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
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Omar St Aubyn Thomas,
Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member -
Cristina Torres-Machi,
Ph.D., M.ASCE
Member
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Melissa Willis,
A.M.ASCE
ASCE Staff Contact -
Kelvin Chen-Ping Wang,
Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member -
Wubeshet Woldemariam,
Ph.D.
Member
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Shunde Yin,
Ph.D., P.Eng, F.ASCE
Corresponding Member -
Yoojung Yoon,
Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
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Raymond Zee,
P.E., M.ASCE
Member -
Mustafa Zeybek,
Ph.D.
Corresponding Member
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