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Reginald DesRoches (born April 30, 1967) was named the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering at the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University in July 2017. From 2012-2017, he served as the Karen and John Huff Chair of the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Early Life & Career

Reginald DesRoches was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and grew up in Queens, NY. He attended St. Francis Preparatory High School in New York City. He attended the University of California, Berkeley,, and graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1990, an M.S. in Civil Engineering in 1992, and Ph.D. in 1998 in Civil Engineering. In 2015, he was inducted into UC Berkeley’s Civil & Environmental Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni.

Rice University

Reginald DesRoches is the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. In this position, he provides leadership to a top ranked engineering school with nine departments, more than 125 faculty, and 2000 students. His primary research interests are in design of resilient infrastructure systems under extreme loads and the application of smart and auto-adaptive materials. His research is highly interdisciplinary and spans micro- to macro-scale. He has published approximately 300 articles and delivered over 100 presentations in more than 30 different countries.

A fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the society's Structural Engineering Institute, Dr. DesRoches served as the key technical leader in the United States’ response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, taking a team of 28 engineers, architects, city planners, and social scientists to study the impact of the earthquake. He also has participated in numerous congressional briefings to underscore the critical role that university research must play in addressing the country’s failing infrastructure and enhancing the nation’s resilience to natural hazards. Dr. DesRoches has served as thesis advisor to 30 doctoral candidates (including current students) and 17 master’s thesis students.

Dr. DesRoches serves on the National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee (NCST), National Academies Resilient America Roundtable (RAR) and the Board on Army Science and Technology (BAST) as well as on the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Advisory Committee, the Global Earthquake Modeling Scientific Board, and the advisory board for the Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management Research Center. He previously chaired the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Seismic Effects Committee as well as the executive committee of the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering.

In recent years, Dr. DesRoches has testified before U.S. House and Senate subcommittees on earthquake resilience and the state of the science, and he has participated in Washington, D.C. roundtables for media and congressional staffers on topics ranging from disaster preparedness to challenges for African-American men in STEM fields. National media outlets frequently contact him for expert analysis following earthquake events, including CNN, CNN International, LiveScience, National Geographic, and Asia Times online.

Dr. DesRoches received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2002 — the highest honor bestowed upon scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers. Most recently, he was a recipient of the 2015 ASCE Charles Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Award, the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award (2010), the 2007 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, and the Georgia Tech ANAK Award (2008). The ANAK award is the highest honor the undergraduate student body can bestow on a Georgia Tech faculty member.

Georgia Institute of TechnologyIn his tenure as Karen and John Huff School Chair at Georgia Tech, Dr. DesRoches guided the development of a new minor in global engineering leadership open to all Georgia Tech engineering undergraduates, doubled the number of named chairs/professors, led a strategic interdisciplinary research initiative, developed a Corporate Affiliates Program, and led a comprehensive strategic planning process. He also oversaw a $13.5 million renovation of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s main facility, the Jesse W. Mason Building. In 2014, he became Georgia Tech’s Faculty Athletics Representative, serving as the liaison between the Institute and the Athletics Association. As Faculty Athletics Representative, he worked closely with the Athletic Director and university leadership — including the president, provost, and senior vice provost for academic affairs — to formulate policies affecting intercollegiate athletics on campus. His responsibilities also include representing the Institute to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the National Collegiate Athletic Associate (NCAA). He was appointed to the ACC leadership team as vice president of the conference for 2016-2017.

Notable Awards

• 2018 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Distinguished Lecturer Award
• 2016 Elected, Fellow, Structural Engineering Institute
• 2015 Elected, Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
• 2015 Inducted into UC Berkeley Civil & Environmental Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni
• 2015 ASCE Charles Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Award - “For outstanding contributions to the development of new methods and approaches for seismic risk assessment of highway bridges and his leadership in lifeline earthquake engineering research and teaching.”
• 2012 Georgia Engineer of the Year in Education Award (Georgia Engineering Alliance)
• 2011 GEM Consortium Alumni of the Year Award
• 2011 Richard Carroll Distinguished Lecturer, John’s Hopkins University
• 2010 Subaru Professor of Excellence Award
• 2010 John A. Blume Distinguished Lecture and Shah Family Fund Lecture, Stanford University
• 2010 Georgia Institute of Technology Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award.
• 2007 ASCE Walter L. Huber Prize - for contributions in the field of seismic design and retrofit of bridges in the central and southeastern regions of the United States.
• 2007 Georgia Tech ANAK Award for Outstanding Research, Teaching, and Service. Awarded to one faculty member at Georgia Tech who has demonstrated outstanding service to the Institute and to the student body through teaching, research, advisement, and general involvement in campus life
• 2002 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE)
• 2001 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• 2001 School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Outstanding Teacher Award

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