Ashraf Habibullah


Ashraf Habibullah is a Pakistani-American structural engineer and software developer. He earned his M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and B.S. 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, and then Earthquake Engineering Systems.
Habibullah founded Computers and Structures, Inc. in Berkeley, California in 1975. He and Dr. Edward L. Wilson, a professor of structural engineering at University of California, Berkeley created ETABS, a building analysis and design software. ETABS received recognition as one of the Applied Technology Council and Engineering News-Record Top Seismic Products of the 20th Century.

Awards and citations

Habibullah co-founded the Diablo Ballet in 1993 and was its main sponsor until his departure in March 2007. He also founded the Engineer’s Alliance for the Arts, an organization that involves school children with technology, focusing on the artistic aspects of bridge engineering, in 1997. He also received the 1998 Arts Recognition Award from the Arts and Culture Commission of Contra Costa County for Diablo Ballet and the American Society of Civil Engineers George Winter Award in 2005. for "commitment to the social and artistic needs of the community",
For his involvement with both Diablo Ballet and the Engineers' Alliance for the Arts, Habibullah received the San Francisco Business Arts Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Arts Community in 2004.