Ahsan Kareem, Dist. FASCE, NAE, is the Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) at the University of Notre Dame. He served as the President of the American Association of Wind Engineering (AAWE) and International Association of Wind Engineering (IAWE). The focus of his work is on quantifying load effects caused by various natural hazards on structures and to develop innovative strategies to manage and mitigate their effects. This includes characterization and formulation of dynamic load effects due to wind, waves and earthquakes on tall buildings, long-span bridges, offshore structures and energy related structures that is carried out via fundamental analytical computational methods, and experiments at laboratory, and full-scale. He directs NatHaz Group (NatHaz Modeling Laboratory) which focuses on developments in cyberspace virtual collaborative research platforms, e.g., virtual organizations, IoT, edge computing, crowdsourcing, computational intelligence, living laboratories, sensing and actuation, citizen sensing, web-enabled analysis and design, scientific machine learning (SciML) and cloud-based computing to address challenges posed by natural hazards to the built environment. He has received several medals for his distinguished contributions in a number of areas including the von Karman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Engineering, the Japan Academy of Engineering, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the European Academy of Sciences.