Honorary Member of ASME (2019) for distinguished leadership and contributions in risk analysis for the protection and lifecycle management of infrastructure systems using quantitative methods in economics and finances.
Distinguished Member of ASCE (2017) for his leading contributions in uncertainty and risk analysis for infrastructure resilience and sustainability in a changing climate with life-cycle economics.
ASCE President’s Medal “in recognition of your many efforts to bring adaptive design to the profession to help address a changing climate,” upon the recommendation of ASCE President Robin Kemper, 2019.
ASCE Le Val Lund Award for Practicing Lifeline Risk Reduction for “your contributions to resilience enhancement and risk reduction for lifeline networked systems through measurement science and associated economics toward informing policy and decision-making practices,” 2019.
ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division “in appreciation of distinguished service to the Society as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Infrastructure Resilience Division,” October 2016 to September 2018.
ASCE Alfredo Ang Award of Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure “for technical contributions of national and international significance in risk analysis, risk management and lifecycle economics of civil infrastructure, including resilience and sustainability in a changi
Letter of Appreciation, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and National Research Council, in recognition of service as a member of the Committee to Review the Fourth National Climate Assessment of the Division on Earth and Life Studies, 2018.
Speaker on Communities in Harm’s Way: Addressing Environmental Change and Extreme Weather Events at the Board on Environmental Change and Society of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine In collaboration with Inter-Agency Forum on Climate Risks, Impacts &
Engineering News-Record Excellence Award, selected by the editors of the Engineering News-Record for special recognition as one of the top 25 Newsmakers of 2017, April 5, 2018.