Arizona Pavements and Materials Conference 2024

Professor Ram Pendyala is the director of ASU’s the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment  in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering . He teaches and conducts research in transportation systems engineering, design, modeling and simulation, travel behavior analysis, multimodal transport policy analysis, freight and passenger travel demand forecasting, travel survey methods and transportation economics and finan... Read More →

Steve BoschenInfrastructure Delivery and Operations, DirectorSteve Boschen currently serves as the division director for Infrastructure Delivery andOperations, which oversees all statewide project delivery including ADOT and Local PublicAgency projects, and statewide operations and... Read More →

Jesse Gutierrez serves as the Director of the Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) as well as the County Engineer and brings over 30 years of experience in transportation construction and roadway maintenance. Before joining MCDOT in July 2020, Jesse served as the Globe... Read More →

Dr. Yao-Jan Wu is a professor of transportation engineering in the Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics Department and the Executive (Founding) Director of the Center for Applied Transportation Sciences (CATS) at the University of Arizona (UA). He holds PE licenses in... Read More →

In July 2019, Hari Kalla was selected for SES position of Associate Administrator for Infrastructure with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).  As the Associate Administrator for Infrastructure, Hari serves as a member of FHWA's leadership team and participates in developing... Read More →

Chris Evers is a Technical Representative with Pavement Technology Inc. a company hejoined in 2012. He also serves as the Executive Coordinator of the Florida PavementPreservation Council (FPPC). He has 28 years of experience in the heavy highwayconstruction industry. Chris has been... Read More →

Greg Halsted, P.E., is a Senior Director for Local Paving with the NationalReady Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA). He is responsible for increasingthe paving market share for ready mixed concrete products throughpromotion, design, technical services, and construction activities... Read More →

Narayanan Neithalath is the Fulton Professor of Structural Materials in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University, USA. He obtained his PhD from Purdue University in 2004 in the area of infrastructural materials.  He has extensively... Read More →

Bob McGennis is the Asphalt Technical Manager for the HF Sinclair Corporation, a position he has held since 1998. He has management authority over quality control, PG binder and asphalt emulsion formulations, raw materials, and technology for the HF Sinclair asphalt group. Bob has... Read More →

Dr. Jhony Habbouche is the Asphalt Institute's new Regional Engineer for the Western Region, which includes California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, where he currently resides. He joins AI from the Virginia Transportation Research Council (VTRC), the research division... Read More →

Derek Nener-Plante is a Pavement and Materials Engineer for the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Pavement and Materials (P&M) Team. He is responsible for leading implementation and deployment efforts in the areas of asphalt materials, asphalt pavement construction, materials... Read More →

Dr. Amy Epps Martin has more than 27 years of experience teaching civil engineering materials courses and conducting research on safe, sustainable asphalt technologies at Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute where she is the A.P. & Florence Wiley Professor... Read More →