Zenon Medina-Cetina, Past Hon Chairman 2015-2021

Dr. Zenon Medina-Cetina is Associate Professor at Texas A&M University (TAMU), and holder of the Zachry Career Development Professorship II in the Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. He was selected as a recipient of the College of Engineering Excellence Award Outstanding Contributions and of the Zachry Excellence in Teaching Award in March and December 2022, respectively. He holds joint appointments in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, the Department of Ocean Engineering, the Department of Geography and the Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering. At TAMU he leads the Stochastic Geomechanics Laboratory (SGL) conducting research in probabilistic applications in engineering to improve current practices on risk assessment and management related to natural and anthropogenic threats, to map their associated social, economic and environmental impacts. He also leads the largest and most active international faculty driven project called the "Yucatan Initiative Project" a collaboration between Texas A&M and Yucatan’s System of Research, and Technological Development (SIIDETEY) in Mexico, developing research, academic, and service projects to generate well-being and sustainable regional economic development for both countries and regions. Currently, he is leading two major trinational projects sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD), on Bayesian risk modeling of U.S. supply chains in North America (Mexico-U.S.-Canada). Dr. Medina-Cetina serves as Vice-Chair of the GEO- Institute Risk Assessment and Management Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE-GI RAM (2021-Present), Chair of the Network-to-Network for the Gulf of Mexico N2N-GoM (2021 – Present), and Elected Board Member of the Geotechnical Safety Network GEOSNet (2023 - Present).

 

Dr. Medina-Cetina served twice as Chair of the Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics Committee (OSIG) of the Society for Underwater Technology SUT (2012-2015). In 2013 he was named ‘SUT Fellow’, and from 2015 - 2021 he served twice as President & Chair of the SUT branch in the U.S.