Bahram Ravani is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of California – Davis. He is also a Co-Director of the AHMCT Research Center – A Collaborative research Center between the University and California Department of Transportation performing research in applications of Robotics and Digital Technologies for the Civil Infrastructure. He has been a faculty member at UC-Davis since 1987. He is currently the Chair of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and was the chair previously from 1996 – 2001. He was also the Interim Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from 2005-2008. His areas of current research include Robotics and Mechatronics including applications of Robotics, Mechatronics and Digital Technologies in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Highway Safety, Mechanical Design and Manufacturing, and Dynamics and Biomechanics. He was a former chief Technical Editor of ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science and Engineering and ASME Journal of Mechanical Design as well as a past member of the management committee of the ASME/IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics. He was also the past chair of the board of editors for all ASME Transaction Journals. He is a fellow of ASME and a past recipient of several achievement awards including the Machine Design Award, Mechanisms and Robotics Award, Design Automation Award, Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications Achievement Award from ASME and the Gustus Larson Memorial Award of Pi Tau Sigma and ASME. He has published over 160 technical publications, four patents, and a graduate level text book. Dr. Ravani received his BS degree Magna Cum Laude from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA in 1976; the MS degree from Columbia University in New York in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1982, all in Mechanical Engineering. He was a tenured faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before moving to UC-Davis.