Mir M AliMir M. Ali is professor emeritus and former long-time chairman of the Structures Division in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He was the chairman of CTBUH's Committee 30-Architecture and Group PA-Planing and Architecture overseeing eight committees of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), and the Founding Editor of the Council's first online CTBUH Review Journal. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and CTBUH. He was a TOKTEN Fellow of the United Nations. He was awarded ASCE's Millennium Challenge Prize for his winning essay on skyscrapers in a worldwide competition. He was invited by Fulbright Foundation who bestowed on him a Fulbright Award to study the feasibility of constructing tall buildings in Malta. He has authored/co-authored/ edited seven books and published numerous research papers and articles. He was interviewed by radio, television, and print media outlets including the New York Times, Toronto Star, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Architectural Record, Rolling Stones, Popular Science, Associate Press, Public Radio International, and many more. Read More Read Less