Ibrahim Hathout received a Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is currently the senior manager of transmission engineering at Hydro One Inc. Hathout has extensive experience in design, maintenance and rehabilitation of transmission structures. His research interests include reliability assessment as well as applications of fuzzy logic and neural networks to damage assessment of existing structures. He serves on several CSA and IEEE committees and was the 2012 recipient of Hydro One’s President Award for Innovation.