Robert Kayen is President of Geosystems Engineering International, a California-registered engineering services corporation. The company specializes in seismic soil liquefaction, slope stability, and erosion of tailings dams and hydroelectric dam facilities; geotechnical earthquake engineering, and risk to infrastructure. Kayen is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Adjunct Faculty, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure, board of the Geo-Engineering Foundation, and is a retired Senior Research Scientist from the United States Geological Survey with four decades of research expertise. Dr. Kayen has received many honors that include the Thomas Middlebrooks Award from ASCE.

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