Lufthansa R. Kanta (PhD, PE) is a practicing Civil Engineer in Houston, TX with more than 17 years of technical, consulting, and teaching experience. She is a Senior Project Engineer at Torres & Associates. She also has a distinguished academic career and has served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University. She holds MS and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University and a BS degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). She has been serving on the Executive Board of the Spreeha BUET ‘88 Foundation (a.k.a. BUET ‘88 Welfare Foundation). She has been a Co-founder of Lamiya Memorial Children’s Fund and has been engaged in collaboration with Ankur International on various projects since 2007. She joined as a member of SONGJOGFOUNDATION in 2021 to help promote their mission. Dr. Kanta currently lives in Houston, TX with her husband and daughter.