Dr. Cox is a professor in School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. His research focuses on community resilience to coastal hazards, tsunami and hurricane surge and waves impacts on the built environment, tsunami evacuation and life safety, sediment transport and erosion, and nature-based solutions for coastal hazards mitigation. He is a member of the NIST-supported Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning at Colorado State University, a member of the DHS-supported Coastal Resilience Center at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, serves on the council for the Network for Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program of the National Science Foundation and as the principle investigator for the NHERI Experimental Facility at Oregon State University. For the American Society of Civil Engineering, he serves as chair of the ASCE 24 Flood Resistant Design committee, chair of the ASCE 7 Flood Loads subcommittee, and secretary of the Coastal Engineering Research Council. https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/people/dan-cox