Ayse Hortacsu is Director of Projects at the Applied Technology Council (ATC), a non-profit structural engineering organization headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over her 16 years at ATC, she has managed projects on various structural engineering issues that have resulted in nearly 60 publications to date. Her projects have earned Excellence in Structural Engineering awards from the Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) and have led to preparation of seismic mitigation policy in the U.S. and abroad. Following the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes, she served as the co-lead for the Learning from Earthquakes program of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). She is currently serving as a Vice President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and has served on the Boards of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) and EERI Northern California Chapter.