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Robert Gilbert joined the University of Texas at Austin faculty in 1993 and holds the Brunswick-Abernathy Regents Professorship in Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Engineering. He is a recognized expert in assessing and managing risk for a variety of high-profile projects, including flood protection in New Orleans, the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, and nuclear waste disposal in Nevada, as well as offshore oil and gas facilities worldwide. He has been awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Award by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and served on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ External Review Panel for forensic analysis of levee failures during Hurricane Katrina. In 2011, he received the Norman Medal, the highest award given by ASCE for a journal paper, and in 2016, he was honored with the E.B. Burwell Award for his work with the National Science Foundation on the 2014 landslide in Oso, Washington.
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