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Technical Program Representatives

Codes and Standards

TPR

Anees Udyawar
Fellow Engineer
Westinghouse Electric Company
1000 Westinghouse Drive, Bldg. 1, 203M
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Mobile: (724) 272-0580
Email: udyawaa@westinghouse.com

Co-TPR

Pierre Dulieu
Tractebel
Boulevard de Merckem, 60
Namur, 5000, Belgium
Phone: +32 472 568 464
Email: pierre.dulieu@tractebel.engie.com

TC Chair

Kiminobu Hojo
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
1-1 Wadasaki-cho 1-chome
Hyogo-ku, Kobe, 652-8585, Japan
Phone: +81-50-3849-4032
Email: kiminobu.hojo.dr@nu.mhi.com

Outgoing TPR

Valery Lacroix
Tractebel Engineering
Boulevard Simon Bolivar, 34-36
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32-477-52-15-54
Email: valery.lacroix@tractebel.engie.com

Outgoing TC Chair

Ryan Crane
ASME
2 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016-5990, USA
Phone: +1-212-591-7004
Email: craner@asme.org

Computer Technology and Bolted Joints

TPR

Satoshi Nagata
Toyo Engineering Corporation
2-8-1 Akanehama, Narashino
Chiba, Japan
Phone: +81-47-454-1937
Email: satoshi.nagata@toyo-eng.com

Co-TPR

Anita Bausman
VSP Technologies
Tennessee Regional Office
108 E. Main Street, Suite 214
Kingsport, TN 37660, USA
Phone: +1-423-534-0693
Email: Anita.Bausman@vsptechnologies.com

TC Chair

Reza Adibi-Asl
Kinectrics
393 University Ave, 4th Floor
Toronto ON M5G 1E6 Canada
Phone: +1-416-806-9484
Email: reza.adibiasl@kinectrics.com

Outgoing TPR

Hubert LeJeune
CETIM
74 Route de la Jonelière
44000 Nantes, France
Phone: +33-0-3-44-67-36-82
Email: hubert.lejeune@cetim.fr

Outgoing TC Chair

Jerry Waterland
VSP Technologies
8140 Quality Drive
Prince George, VA 23875, USA
Phone: +1-804-541-0812
Email: Jerry.Waterland@vsptechnologies.com

Design and Analysis

TPR

Phillip Wiseman, P.E.
LISEGA INC United States
370 East Dumplin Valley Road
Kodak, TN 37764, USA
Phone: +1 (865) 940-5249
Email: Phillip.Wiseman@us.lisega.com

Co-TPR

Shunji Kataoka
JGC Corporation
2-3-1, Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku
Yokohama, Kanagwa 220-6001 Japan
Phone: +81-45-682-8615
Email: kataoka.shunji@jgc.com

TC Chair

Alicia Avery
A.C. Avery Projects Inc.
424 – 99 Ave SE
Calgary, Alberta T2J 0J9 Canada
Phone: +1-403-630-6438
Email: alicia_avery@hotmail.com

Outgoing TPR

Nathan Barkley
Becht Engineering Co., Inc.
2736 Medina Road, Suite 211D
Medina, OH 44256, USA
Phone: +1-330-451-5283
Email: NBarkley@becht.com

Outgoing TC Chair

Jaan Taagepera
Chevron Energy Technology Co.
841 Chevron Way
Richmond, CA 94801, USA
Phone: +1-510-242-3405
Email: jaant@chevron.com

Fluid-Structure Interaction

TPR

Trey Walters, P.E.
President and Founder, ASME Fellow
Applied Flow Technology
2955 Professional Place, Suite 301
Colorado Springs, CO 80904 USA
Phone: +1-719-686-1000
Email: treywalters@aft.com

Co-TPR

Murthy Lakshmiraju
VIAS3D
1400 Broadfield Blvd #325
Houston, TX 77084, USA
Phone: +1-931-349-2557
Email: mlakshmiraju@viascorp.com

TC Chair

Kazuaki Inaba
Tokyo Institute of Technology
2-12-1-I6-5 Ookayama Meguro-ku
Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
Phone: +81-3-5734-2156
Email: inaba.k.ag@m.titech.ac.jp

Outgoing TPR

Pierre Moussou
EDF – Lab Paris Saclay
Département Electrotechnique et Mécanique des Structures / IMSIA UMR 9219
7 rue Gaspard Monge
91120 Palaiseau, France
Phone : +33-1-78-19-38-66
Email: pierre.moussou@edf.fr

Outgoing TC Chair

Tomoyo Taniguchi
Tottori University
Department of Civil Engineering 4-101 Koyama-Minami
Tottori, 680-8552, Japan
Phone: +81-857-31-5287
Email: t_tomoyo@cv.tottori-u.ac.jp

High-Pressure Technology

TPR

Matt Edel
Baker Engineering and Risk Consultants, Inc.
3330 Oakwell Court
San Antonio, TX 78218, USA
Phone: +1 210-721-7211
Mobile: +1 210-885-0065
Email: Medel@BakerRisk.com

Co-TPR

Dusan Spernjak
LANL
P.O Box 1663
Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Phone: +1-505-695-8181
Email: spernjak@lanl.gov

TC Chair

Kannan Subramanian
Structural Integrity Associates, Inc.
602 Carmenere Drive
Kenner, LA 70065, USA
Phone: +1-504-812-7091
Email: ksubramanian@structint.com

Outgoing TPR

Melanie Sarzynski
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
4321 West Sam Houston Parkway North, Suite 190
Houston, TX 77043, USA
Phone: +1 346-312-8528
Email: msarzynski@wje.com

Outgoing TC Chair

David Gross
Dominion Engineering, Inc.
12100 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 220
Reston, VA 20191, USA
Phone: +1-703-657-7311
Mobile: +1-301-580-3066
Email: dgross@domeng.com

Materials & Fabrication

TPR

Peter Gill Jacobs
Walton House, Birchwood Park Warrington
Cheshire WA36GA
UK Phone: +44(0)1925 462656
Email: peter.gill@jacobs.com

Co-TPR

Sylvain Pillot
ArcelorMittal Global R&D
Industeel Creusot
56 rue Clemenceau, BP 19
71201 Le Creusot cédex
France
Phone: +33(0)3-858-05862
Email: sylvain.pillot@arcelormittal.com

TC Chair

Do Jun Shim
EPRI
3420 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Phone: +1-650-855-1029
Mobile: +1-614-937-6857
Email: dshim@epri.com

Outgoing TPR

Paul Korinko
Savannah River National Laboratory
Savannah River Site
Aiken, SC 29808, USA
Phone: +1-803-646-6238
Email: paul.korinko@srnl.doe.gov

Operations, Applications, and Components

TPR

Nicholas Klymyshyn
PNNL
3200 Innovation Blvd, K9-89
Richland, WA 99354
Phone: 1 (509) 375-3772+
Email: Nicholas.Klymyshyn@pnnl.gov

Co-TPR

Ayman Cheta
Shell Global Solutions US Inc.
3333 Hwy 6
Houston, TX 77082, USA
Email: ayman.cheta@shell.com

TC Chair

Alton Reich
StreamLine Automation
3100 Fresh Way SW
Huntsville, AL 35805, USA
Phone: +1-256-713-1220
Email: areich.asme@gmail.com

Outgoing TPR

Mustafa Hadj-Nacer, Ph.D
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, PE219
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89557 USA
Ph: (775) 682-7480
Email: mhadjnacer@unr.edu

Outgoing TC Chair

Georges Bezdikian
Georges Bezdikian Consulting Co.
13 Avenue Marceau
Le Vesinet 78110, France
Phone: +33-6-2024-6216
Email: georges.bezdikian@orange.fr

Seismic Engineering

TPR

Keisuke Minagawa
Saitama Institute of Technology 1690 Fusaiji, Fukaya
Saitama 369-0293, Japan
Phone: +81-48-585-6833
Email: mina@sit.ac.jp

Co-TPR

Sukru Guzey
Assistant Professor
Lyles School of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
550 Stadium Mall Drive, Room 4127
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051
Phone: 765-496-0157
Email: guzey@purdue.edu 

TC Chair

Osamu Furuya
Tokyo Denki University
Ishizaka Hatoyama-cho
Hiki-gun, Saitama, 3500394 Japan
Phone: +81-49-296-5705
Email: osamu.furuya@mail.dendai.ac.jp

Outgoing TPR

Taichi Matsuoka
Meiji University
1-1-1 Higashimita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki
Kanagawa 214-8571, Japan
Phone: +81-44-934-7365
Email: matsuoka@meiji.ac.jp

Outgoing TC Chair

Fabrizio Paolacci
Roma Tre University
Department of Engineering
Via Vito Volterra 62 00146
Rome, Italy
Phone: +39-329-0570703
Email: fabrizio.paolacci@uniroma3.it

ASME Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnosis and Prognosis (NDPD) Division

TPR

Vivek Agarwal
Idaho National Laboratory
2525 N Fremont Ave
Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USA
Phone: +1-208-526-1107
Email: vivek.agarwal@inl.gov

Co-TPR

Min Zhang
Praxair, Inc., a Linde Company
175 East Park Dr.
Tonawanda, NY 14150
Phone: +1-716-879-2548
Email: hitzhangmin@gmail.com