Ximing Cai | Lovell Professor
Youssef Hashash | Hall Professor
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rofessor Ximing Cai was invested April 8 as the Colonel Harry F. and Frankie M. Lovell Endowed Professor. Cai joined the faculty in 2002. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in water resources engineering, surface water hydrology and application of geographic information systems, and river basin management. He is the Ven Te Chow Faculty Scholar in Water Resources and the Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar. He holds a B.S. in Water Resources Engineering (1990) and an M.S. in Hydrology and Water Resources (1994) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and a Ph.D. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (1999) from the University of Texas at Austin. Cai is a research pioneer in integrated hydrologic-economic modeling for river basin management and water systems operations. His current research areas include coupled human-natural system analysis with an emphasis on human interferences in hydrological processes, water-energy-food system modeling especially in dry areas, and sustainable water resources management, particularly in developing countries. He has authored or co-authored more than 110 peer-reviewed journal papers, three books and several monographs. He currently serves as Editor for Water Resources Research, the flagship journal of water resources, published by the American Geophysical Union and is on the editorial board of other major water journals. He has worked as a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations and other international agencies. Harry F. Lovell (BS 32) was born on May 20, 1910, in Fulton County, Ill. He was a member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Illinois and served in the U.S. Army Reserve until World War II, when he was called to active duty and deployed to the Philippines and Japan. After the war, he joined the Army Corps of Engineers. His many tours of duty included construction of airfields in Morocco. After 31 years in the Army, Lovell retired in 1961. He died on Aug. 9, 2005, in Sun City, Ariz. The Lovell Professorship was estabXiming Cai with his wife, Tong Zhang; daughters lished in 2007. i Carolyn, left, and Jane; and son, Jonathan. 18
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rofessor Youssef Hashash was invested April 23 as the William J. and Elaine F. Hall Endowed Professor. Hashash joined the faculty in 1998. He has taught courses in Geotechnical Engineering, Numerical Modeling in Geomechan- Youssef Hashash with, from left, his daughter ics, Geotechnical Dina; wife, So-young Kim; and daughter Sarah. Earthquake Engineering, Tunneling in Soil and Rock, and Excavation and Support Systems. He holds a B.S. (1987), an M.S. (1988) and a Ph.D. (1992), all in civil engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focus includes deep excavations in urban areas, earthquake engineering, continuum and discrete element modeling and soil-structure interaction. He also works on geotechnical engineering applications of visualization, augmented reality, imaging and drone technologies. He has published more than 80 journal articles and is co-inventor on four patents. Professor Emeritus William J. Hall was born in Berkeley, Calif., on April 13, 1926. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, Kings Point, and served in WWII as a Merchant Marine Midshipman from September 1944 until March 1945. After the war, he attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where he completed his B.S. degree in civil engineering in 1948. Hall received his M.S. degree (1951) and Ph.D. (1954) from the University of Hashash with Bill and Elaine Hall. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He then joined the faculty and served for 40 years. He was department head from 1984 until 1991. He retired in 1993. Hall specialized in structures, materials and structural dynamics. His research centered on earthquake engineering and on military structures. He was a member of the original design team for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and was affiliated with the project for the next 35 years. Other work involved blast and shock studies for U.S. military protective facilities. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1968, one of the youngest members ever elected. i
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