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CEO Ruben Boroschek and Associate, Professor University of Chile, Chile

Dr. Rubén Boroschek earned his engineering degree from the University of Costa Rica and his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. He is Professor of the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Chile since 1992 and has published more than 300 articles in journals and congress.  His areas of work are seismic hazard, experimental dynamics and structural health monitoring, vulnerability assessment of critical facilities and seismic isolation and passive energy dissipation. He is CEO of RBA consulting with more than 400 projects in past years working in Chile, Peru, Argentina, Germany, Pakistan and Indonesia among others.  He has developed extensive consulting in the areas of structural health monitoring and structural review of industrial facilities. In 2017 he was named Engineer of the Year by the Chilean Association of Structural Engineers and the Best Industrial Project of the year 2019 by the same association. He is an honorary professor at the National University of San Antonio Abad in Cusco Peru, a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Engineering, and representative of the International Society of the Anti-seismic System for Central and South America. He is the former chair of the Organization for Strong Motion Observing Systems (COSMOS) Consortium USA.

Senior Vice President, Chief Bridge Engineer - TYLin, United States

Marwan Nader is a Senior Vice President and TYLin’s Chief Bridge Engineer. With 31 years of experience, Dr. Nader provides leadership and strategic direction for TYLin’s global bridge practice. He works with Global Infrastructure to promote collaboration across TYLin and their affiliate companies, providing integrated services to clients worldwide. 

With over 31 years of experience in all phases of bridge design, construction engineering, and forensic engineering, Dr. Nader is known worldwide as an industry leader in ground-breaking seismic engineering technologies. He has also led TYLI teams on some of the world’s most complex and iconic bridge projects. 

Currently, Dr. Nader is the Chief Engineer for the Bataan-Cavite Interlink Bridge, a project comprised of two cable-stayed bridges with main spans of 900 and 400 meters, and 25 kilometers of marine viaducts in Manila, Philippines. 

He is the Engineer of Record for the cable-stayed main span and the Design Manager for the 3.4km, Samuel De Champlain Bridge in Montreal, Canada. His global bridge expertise extends from his hometown of San Francisco where he was the Engineer of Record for the award-winning, single-tower Self-anchored Suspension Span (SAS) of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which lies in a high seismic zone. Utilizing leading research on the use of shear link beams used in eccentrically braced building frames, Dr. Nader designed the signature tower to comprise four separate, steel legs connected by seismic movement-absorbing shear link beams, an industry first. He also led the design of the SAS’s unique, three-dimensional, single-cable, looped suspension cable system, which uses the largest cable saddle in the world.

Dr. Nader earned his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992, followed by a Post Doctorate in the institution’s Structural Engineering, Management and Materials (SEMM) Program. Following his doctoral research on the seismic performance of steel structures, Dr. Nader’s dissertation guidelines on the design of semi-rigid steel connections were adopted by the American Institute of Steel Construction in its Seismic Design Manual.

In 2014, Dr. Nader was selected for the Distinguished Alumni of the Year by American University of Beirut. In 2015, He was appointed to UC Berkeley’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Council, a committee of leaders in business, higher education, and government dedicated to furthering engineering education and research. In 2016, Dr. Nader received IABMAS’ Senior Prize in recognition of his contributions to the bridge engineering field.