David D. L. Mascareñas earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in structural engineering at the University of California San Diego, in La Jolla, CA in 2008 and 2006 respectively.  He received the B.S. in mechanical engineering at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO in 2004.  He worked as a laboratory manager at SAIC/Sullivan International in 2009 to develop systems health monitoring software for ground-based robots.  In 2010 he was a Director’s funded postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  During his time as a postdoc David focused on developing tools and techniques for ensuring the cyber-physical security of unattended robots.  In 2012 he was converted to a technical staff member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory where he currently performs research on cyber-physical systems at the Engineering Institute.  He currently performs research on structural health monitoring, and cyber-physical systems.  In 2016 he was the recipient of a United States Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering.  David is particularly interested in applying structural health monitoring technologies to address sustainability issues arising from rapid urbanization and climate change.  In 2015 he led the research team that wrote the paper, “Potential Structural Health Monitoring Tools to Mitigate Corruption in the Construction       Industry            Associated with Rapid Urbanization.” This paper won the best paper award at the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development at Columbia University, held in anticipation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015.  David is also deputy director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory-Engineering Institute where he helps direct the laboratory’s educational and recruitment programs.