Rob Shepherd (Ph.D., D.Sc., P.E.) is one of the principal experts of Forensic Expert Advisers, Inc. as well as serving as President of the Company. He has had more than forty years experience in the analysis and design of structures. He has consulted and published extensively in the area of behavior of buildings and bridges, specializing in the dynamic response to earthquakes.

He has been involved in several high profile cases, presented expert testimony in Federal and Superior Courts and is a Senior Member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers.

Recent professional activities Dr. Shepherd had been engaged in include the ATC-33 Task Force on standards for seismic retrofit of timber buildings and the SAC Joint Venture project Management Committee overseeing investigations into problems of welded moment resistant steel framed buildings. He was awarded the Stephenson B. Barnes' Award by SEASOC for service as immediate past chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Testing Standards for Structural Systems and Components.

Dr. Shepherd is an Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, University of California and was a part-time Faculty Member at the California Institute of Technology from 1993-1998. Currently he is a Member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers' Technical Council for Forensic Engineering and the ATC-50.