Dr. Chia-pei Chou

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Dr. Chia-pei Chou received her MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. She joined National Taiwan University in 1989. Since then she has been actively conducting researches in the areas of automatic inspection, evaluation, and management of highway and airport pavement facilities, motor vehicle size and weight studies, and roadway safety for the past 35 years. She has developed pavement management systems for the National Freeway Bureau, the General Highway Bureau, and the Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan. The Taiwan’s Civil Aviation Administration specification of runway skid resistance inspection and measurement was established through her research work. Moreover, the heavy vehicle size and weight regulations of Taiwan have been revised by the Congress Legislators based on her research findings and recommendations. She invented the response-based roughness measuring hardware as well as software for highway network inspection, and the technical development has been adopted by the Ministry of Interior for city roadway networks. Most recently, her research work concentrates on road marking materials and construction specifications that can sufficiently provide marking’s retroreflectivity and skid resistance. She drafted two Chinese National Standards for verifying the inertial profiler and developed a Center for Pavement Profiler Verification in Taiwan. She owns four Taiwanese patents related to pavement roughness inspection. She has published more than 290 journal and conference papers, and 88 research technical reports. Dr. Chou was awarded the Outstanding and Excellent Teaching Awards of NTU four times and has been promoted as the distinguished professor since May 2009. In addition, she has awarded the National Outstanding Engineering Professor by Chinese Institute of Engineers in 2010 and National Excellent Teacher Award by Ministry of Education in 2019. She also received 13 Annual Best Paper Awards offered by international and domestic professional engineering societies. In additional to her professional specialties, she was appointed numerous university administrative positions, including the Executive Vice President between 2019 and 2023. From 2011 to 2016 she was appointed as a scientific diplomat and worked as the Director of Science and Technology Division in both Houston and Washington, D. C. offices in the U.S.A.