Meet the Team

  • Y. Richard Kim is the Chief Executive Officer of Continuum Infrastructure Solutions, Inc. He is also the Jimmy D. Clark Distinguished University Professor and Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and the Changjiang Scholar in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Chang’an University in China. Changjiang Scholar is the highest academic award issued to an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.

    Dr. Kim has served as PI or Co-PI on 97 research projects with over $21 million in funding and has over 34 years of experience in both the laboratory and field aspects of the performance evaluation of asphalt materials and pavements.

    Dr. Kim is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He is also a board member of International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP) and was the chair of the 2014 ISAP Conference on Asphalt Pavements. Dr. Kim has published over 300 papers in national and international technical journals and proceedings. He is the editor of the ASCE book entitled Modeling of Asphalt Concrete and the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering and International Journal of Highway Engineering. He has spoken at numerous national and international settings, including over 120 invited/keynote speeches.

  • Nooralhuda Saleh is a dedicated engineer and consultant in the field of asphalt pavement engineering. She holds a Ph.D. and MCE from North Carolina State University (NCSU) and a BE from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon. She has contributed to high-profile research projects funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP).

    Her work focuses on diverse areas such as long-term aging of asphalt mixtures, quality assurance aspects of performance-related specifications, the design of energy-harvesting hydronic asphalt pavements, and the use of fibers in asphalt mixtures. Dr. Saleh's research has led to the development of models like the Pavement Aging Model (PAM) and the Asphalt Mixture Aging-Cracking (AMAC) Model.

    Additionally, Dr. Saleh has conducted on-site training and workshops for the Central Federal Lands Highway Division (CFLHD) and at the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). She is a member of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (AAPT) and the vice-chair of AAPT’s Newer Members Committee. Dr. Saleh has received several prestigious awards, including AAPT’s Ward K. Parr scholarship, fellowship of the International Road Federation (IRF), the International Road Educational Foundation Grant, the Bruce E. Matthews graduate award for transportation engineering, and the best scientific paper award of 2020 from the journal of Road Materials and Pavement Engineering.

  • Felipe is a versatile engineer with a background in civil engineering, electrical engineering, and entrepreneurship. Felipe holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University (United States) and a bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Universidade Federal of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).

    He contributed to developing software programs for asphalt pavement performance characterization and simulation funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). He implemented new models and efficient algorithms and created user-friendly interfaces for the asphalt mixture analysis program, FlexMAT™ , and the pavement structural analysis program, FlexPAVE™. In addition, he is proficient in implementing US government section 508 requirements for users with disabilities in software interfaces and documents.

    Felipe is also the developer of a draft version of a program that bridges the gap between performance-related specifications for asphalt pavements and the FlexMAT and FlexPAVE software programs, connecting performance to payment, through material quality-assurance and performance-related specifications protocols. He has recently led projects in Brazil and the Netherlands, delivering customized software packages and consultancy services. His software solutions allow clients to streamline data collection and analysis for tasks such as material analysis, mixture design, and material modeling.