Dr. Arvin Farid is a Professor in the Civil Engineering Department and Director of the SEnS-GPS Program, sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, at Boise State University. He is also the chair of the Geoenvironmental Engineering Technical Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Geo-Institute (GI) and is an editor of the Environmental Geotechnics journal. He also serves on several national and international committees. He received his PhD. in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, MA, and B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from Shiraz (formerly Pahlavi) University, Shiraz, Iran, respectively.