Farhad Ansari is a distinguished professor and the Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Chair in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Colorado, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, respectively. Professor Ansari’s main areas of research are structural health monitoring and the development of fiber-optic sensors. He has conducted basic research that has led to three patents in the field of fiber-optic sensing. Among his patents are a fiber-optic air bubble detector for use during the construction of fresh concrete pavements, a fiber-optic scour sensor, and a large-displacement sensor for use during seismic activities. Along with his students and technicians, he designed and installed structural monitoring systems for bridges worldwide, including the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, the Lingotto Bridge in Turin, Italy, the Manhattan Bridge in New York, and several cable-stayed bridges in China. Professor Ansari’s team has also installed Bridge Weigh-in-Motion (BWIM), scour monitoring, and distributed dynamic sensors on several bridges across the U.S., including in California, New Jersey, Illinois, Oregon, and Georgia. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring (Springer) and past president of the Society for Civil Structural Health Monitoring (formerly ISHMII). University website: https://cme.uic.edu/profiles/farhad-ansari/ Journals https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WFI6XRIAAAAJ&hl=en