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Dr. Roberto T. Leon is professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Dr. Leon’s research interests center on dynamic behavior and design of composite and hybrid steel-concrete structures, composite action in beam-slab systems, bond of reinforcement under cyclic loads, testing of full-scale and model structures in the laboratory, and field instrumentation of structures. 

Dr. Leon has been/is extensively involved in technical committees, including the Building Seismic Safety Council Provisions Update Committee (BSSC/PUC), the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) TC-5 Composite Design, TC-9 Seismic Design, the AISC Committee on Specification, and American Concrete Institute Committees 408 (Bond and Development length) and 352 (Beam-Column Joints). He is a registered professional engineer in Minnesota, the co-author of a book on composite construction, a non-technical book on bridges and tunnels, and is the author and co-author of over 80 articles in refereed journals. He currently serves as president of the Board of Governors of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of ASCE and is past president of the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE) and the NSF Network for earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).