Dr. Devin Harris is professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia (UVA). He is also a member of UVA’s Link Lab, a leading research center focused on cyber-physical systems. He earned his BS in civil engineering from the University of Florida and his MS and PhD from Virginia Tech. His research centers on large-scale civil infrastructure systems with an emphasis on smart cities and technology integration. His work spans image-based measurement techniques, virtual and augmented reality, crowdsourcing, artificial intelligence, data analytics, structural health monitoring, and the use of innovative materials in infrastructure. Recently, his research advanced applications of digital twins and immersive technologies in civil infrastructure and engineering education. Through these efforts, Dr. Harris seeks to enhance resilience, sustainability, and the role of emerging technologies in shaping future infrastructure systems.
Host Institution USA: National Institute of Technology
Millard Keith
Dr. Ladd Keith is an associate professor in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning, director of the Heat Resilience Initiative, associate research professor at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, and a distinguished scholar at the University of Arizona. His transdisciplinary research focuses on heat planning, policy, and governance to help increase the heat resilience of communities, regions, and nations across the world. He is the University of Arizona lead of the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL); the heat research lead of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-funded Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS); co-investigator of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE); and co-investigator of the U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change and Health (SCORCH). Dr. Keith also serves on the Management Committee for the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN), a World Health Organization and World Meteorological Organization joint initiative to protect global populations from the health risks of extreme heat. He has a PhD in arid lands resource sciences and an MS in planning from the University of Arizona.