Nenad Gucunski, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers. He is director of CAIT’s Infrastructure Condition Monitoring Program (ICMP) and P.I. on the Automated Nondestructive Evaluation and Rehabilitation System (ANDERS) for Bridge Decks project, a nearly $18 million R&D joint venture project funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce. He also leads a Strategic Highway Research Program II (SHRP2) project for the National Academies, National Academy of Sciences.

Gucunski is an internationally recognized expert in nondestructive evaluation (NDE/NDT) technologies and an elected member of NDT Academia International. In addition to his extensive work in various seismic, ultrasonic, and electromagnetic NDE techniques, he has conducted research in the areas of geotechnical earthquake engineering and dynamic soil-structure interaction.

Gucunski has served as a technical consultant to many agencies including NJDOT, the New York City Department of Transportation, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, U.S. Army Marine Corps, and the United Nations Development Program for India.

He is actively involved in a number of ASCE technical committees, is a reviewer of several highly regarded technical journals, and active in the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), Transportation Research Board (TRB), Ground Penetrating Radar for Transportation and Asset Management (GPR TEAM), and International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (ISHMII), among others.