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SPEAKER BIOS
SPEAKER BIOS

Emrah Türer, CE. Emrah Türer is a Civil Engineer who has MSc. Degree on Geotechnical
Engineering. Emrah works for an EPS Company: Austrotherm Turkey as Civil Engineering
Applications Department Executive for three years. They are designing roadways, bridge
approachs ramps, retaining walls and buried culverts with EPS Block (Geofoam) projects
and providing site supervision and instrumantation services in geofoam applications.

Jan Vaslestad, PhD. Dr. Vaslestad has 40 years of geotechnical research, design and
construction experience. He is working in Norwegian Public Roads Administration, and has
also private practice for 10 years with geotechnical consultancy, buried structures and
geosynthetics. He has been adjunct professor at Norwegian University of Life Sciences since
2008, and visiting associate professor at University of Utah from 2014 to 2018. Dr Vaslestad
has been involved with several projects using lightweight fill materials, buried structures and
geosynthetics. He has delivered geotechnical guest lectures and seminars in 25 countries.

Diego Villegas. Diego is the Vice President of Cell-Crete’s Cellular Concrete Division, he has
been with Cell-Crete for 14 years. He started his construction career in a small home-building
company his brother started during the housing boom in 2005. He began at Cell-Crete as
a draftsman in 2007 when he was a sophomore in college, The first major project he was
tasked with when he was hired was the City Center project in Las Vegas it required LWICC on
most of the casino roof’s and Cellular Concrete at all the pool, plazas, and main entryway’s.
Since then he has been involved with some of the largest LCC projects in the country. He
likes working for this family-run company since it has allowed him to make a lot of his own
decisions and be involved in every aspect of the business, which has helped him grow professionally. He has
been a part of several technical papers and research of cellular concrete most notably the collaboration of
Dr. Tiwari’s Mechanical and Dynamic properties of LCC in addition to the current research being completed
as a pooled fund study for DOT’s at Brigham Young University.

Ryan Wilkinson. Ryan is a Graduate Research Assistant investigating lightweight cellular
concrete as a backfill material for cantilever retaining walls. Ryan received his MS degree
in Civil Engineering from Brigham Young University in April 2020 and is expecting to complete
his MS degree in April 2021. Ryan will go to work for a structural engineering consulting firm
upon graduation.

Jeff Wycoff, PE. Jeff is the business development and marketing manager at Cell-Crete
Corp. Jeff Wykoff provides technical and education resources, conceptual and budget cost
assistance to infrastructure owners, engineers, and developers to benefit from the versatility of
Lightweight Cellular Concrete (LCC). Jeff’s LCC experience is diverse, extending to tunnels,
dams, levees, ports, embankments, and other infrastructure. Jeff is active in professional
societies including ASCE, CalGeo, SEAOC, and SME. Jeff received his bachelor’s degree
in Civil Engineering With Distinction at the University of Minnesota. Jeff is licensed as a Civil
Engineer in the state of California and is also licensed as a Civil, or Structural, or Professional
Engineer in 4 other states.