Dr. Mohsen Shahandashti is a professor and associate chair in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Dr. Shahandashti leads the North Texas Institute for Resilient Infrastructure (NTIRI), a diverse group of experts in North Texas, including social scientists, engineers, planners, architects, economists, and educators to enable human-centric, resilient, and sustainable infrastructure system design, construction, operation, and maintenance. Dr. Shahandashti’s research enhances theory and applications of operations research and data analytics to improve the resilience of infrastructure systems.