Bilal M. Ayyub is a University of Maryland Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Center for Technology & Systems Management. He is a chair professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Dr. Ayyub’s main research interests are risk, uncertainty, decisions, and systems applied to civil, mechanical, infrastructure, energy, defense and maritime fields. Dr. Ayyub is a distinguished member of ASCE, and a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, ASME, and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.