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Ashraf Habibullah

Ashraf Habibullah is a Pakistani-American structural engineer and software developer. He earned his M.S. (1970) in Civil (Structural) Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and B.S. (1969) in Civil Engineering from the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan. He is a licensed Civil Engineering and Structural Engineer in California. After earning his M.S., he worked at McClure and Messinger (1971-1973), and then Earthquake Engineering Systems (1974).

Ashraf is the founder, president, and CEO of Computers and Structures, Inc.,[https://www.csiamerica.com/] a structural and earthquake engineering software company based in Berkeley, California. Upon founding the privately held company in 1975, Ashraf co-created the first structural-engineering software available to the personal computer, and has since created a suite of products, and developed their capabilities.

ETABS, a multi-story building analysis and design software, was originally conceived by Dr. Edward L. Wilson, a distinguished professor of structural engineering at University of California, Berkeley in the early 1970s, and was subsequently developed by Computers & Structures, Inc. ETABS received recognition as one of the Applied Technology Council and Engineering News-Record Top Seismic Products of the 20th Century. [https://www.csiamerica.com/ CSI] has a global reputation as a pioneer in the development of software for structural and earthquake engineering. CSI's software is used by thousands of engineering firms and is used by sophisticated design professionals in over 160 countries. Provided by Wikipedia