Dr. Mai (Mike) Tong is a senior physical scientist of National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) under FEMA Earthquake and Wind Program Branch and is responsible for FEMA NEHRP projects for new buildings. He served as the FEMA project officer for the 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures (FEMA P-2082), Procedures for Developing Multi-Period Response Spectra at Non-Conterminous United States Sites (FEMA P-2078), Short-Period Building Collapse Performance and Recommendations for Improving Seismic Design (FEMA P-2139), FEMA Fact Sheet: Seismic Building Codes for New Buildings to Create Safer Communities, Assessing Seismic Performance of Buildings with Configuration Irregularities (FEMA P-2012), Seismic Design of Rigid Wall-Flexible Diaphragm Buildings (FEMA P-1026), and Recommended Simplified Provisions for Seismic Design Category B Buildings (FEMA P-1091). Before joining FEMA, Tong was a senior research scientist at the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) at State University of New York at Buffalo.