Keynote Speakers

1. Prof. Matt EVANS, Oregon State University, USA

Prof. Matt Evans joined Oregon State University in 2012 from the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University, USA, where he was an Assistant Professor from 2006-2012. Prof. Matt Evans was a practicing engineer working on alternative approaches for waste encapsulation before pursuing his graduate degrees.

Prof. Matt Evans’ research interests include granular mechanics, image analysis, numerical methods, and unsaturated soil mechanics, with applications to renewable energy, multiphysics problems, waste isolation, and sustainable infrastructure. His work is broadly multidisciplinary and has applications in fields such as materials handling, pharmaceuticals, biomechanical engineering, physics, and geology. Website: https://cce.oregonstate.edu/evans

Topic: Geotechnical engineering

2. Prof. Yasuhiro DOSHO, Meijo University, Japan

Prof. DOSHO Yasuhiro has been working for Meijo University in Nagoya City, Japan since 2014. He is also a part time lecturer at Graduate School of Science and Engineering in Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan from 2011. Prof. Dosho was a specialist working on structure maintenance and recycled construction material technology for 26 years before started researching in university. Practical knowledge and experience help a lot in his research as well as inspire students and researchers. Prof. DOSHO Yasuhiro’s research interests include in recycling construction material especially the application of recycled aggregates as well as general purposes admixtures such as fly ash and ground granulated blast-furnace slag fine powder in concrete. With the purposes of assuring safety and quality, reducing environmental impact and improving cost effectiveness of construction, Prof. Dosho aim to develop and disseminate the application of recycling technology for construction work which creates a sustainable society.

Topic: Contributions of the concrete recycling technology toward sustainable development - Standards and technologies of recycled aggregate concrete

3. Prof. Jose Campos e Matos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Prof. Jose Campos e Matos graduated in civil engineering in 2002, obtained his Master in structures of civil engineering in 2008, and his PhD in civil engineering in 2013, in the field of probabilistic-based safety assessment of existing structures. Being developing his teaching activities, as well as the supervision of MSc and PhD thesis, since 2007, at School of Engineering of University of Minho, he is member of ISISE – Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering, since 2007. His research fields are asset management systems, life-cycle costs (LCC), safety assessment, risk evaluation and sustainability. He is author or co-author of more than 50 publications in international conferences and journals. Participates in several international committees, coordinating several international working groups, he is also coordinating the research project SustIMS – Sustainable Infrastructure Management System (Portugal 2020) and the project SAFEWAY – GIS_Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimized Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks (Horizonte 2020), as well as the Action COST TU 1406 – Quality specifications for roadway bridges, standardization at a European level (BridgeSpec).

Topic: Quality control of existing bridges

4. Prof. CHEONG Siew Ann,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Prof. CHEONG Siew Ann joined the Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in August 2007. He received his B.Sc. (Hons) in physics from the National University of Singapore, M.Sc.'s from the National University of Singapore and Cornell University, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Prior to joining Nanyang Technological University, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Cornell Theory Center. He is a member of the American Physical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Assoc. Prof. CHEONG Siew Ann's areas of expertise are in computational physics, complex system dynamics, and bioinformatics. He is currently working on the development of self-consistent stochastic boundary conditions for ab initio and molecular dynamics simulations, methods to accelerate Monte Carlo simulations and high-dimensional optimization. He is also interested in developing automatic coarse-graining algorithms to perform data-driven identification of effective degrees of freedom in financial markets, very-large-scale computer simulations. He is also working on applying ideas from the Renormalization Group in statistical physics to the mining of very-large-scale databases

Topic: Big data in transportation

5. Prof. Sang - Woong LEE, Gachon University, Korea

Prof. Sang-Woong Lee received his BS degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Korea University, Seoul, Korea, in 1996 and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Korea University, Seoul, Korea, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. From June 2006 to May 2007, he was a visiting scholar in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. From September 2007 to February 2017, he worked as a professor in Department of Computer Engineering at Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea. Currently he is an associate professor in Department of Software at Gachon University. He published 25 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and published many other papers and patents. His present research interests include face recognition, computational aesthetics, machine learning, bioinformatics, and medical imaging analysis. Website: http://pr.gachon.ac.kr/ALPR.html

Topic: Multinational License Plate Recognition using Generalized Character Sequence Detection

6. Prof. Nasser Khalili, University of New South Wales, Australia

Nasser Khalili is the head of geotechnical engineering and brings to this position an international reputation for innovation and setting industry standards. Professor Khalili’s publications are prolific, awarded, often cited and highly regarded, particularly his work in unsaturated soil mechanics and computational geo-mechanics. In the last two years alone, he has contributed to over 25 peer reviewed articles and is credited with the development of the first thermodynamically consistent framework for constitutive modelling of unsaturated porous media. Similarly, his research into the mechanics of double porosity media has set an international benchmark in numerical modelling of fractured porous media. Nasser is regularly invited to speak at conferences, deliver specialised workshops for practicing engineers and consult widely on engineering matters within his area of expertise, maintaining vital ties with industry, other academic institutions, peak bodies and government. He sits on 3 international editorial boards, keeping his finger on the pulse of the latest research. Nasser is generous with his time, sitting on numerous industry and university bodies and organising international conferences, further strengthening CVEN’s global reputation as a hub of excellence and innovation.  He has been a visiting or honorary academic in China, France, the UK, USA and Canada. He has recently been honoured for his consistent and excellent contributions to the fields of computational geomechanics, as his 2018 election to the ARC College of Experts confirms.

7. Prof. Yasuyuki NAKAGAWA, Port and Airport Research Institute, Japan

Prof. Yasuyuki NAKAGAWA graduated PhD in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 2015. Currently Prof. NAKAGAWA is Director of Coastal and Estuarine Environment Department, Port and Airport Research Institute, Yokosuka, Japan. He research on Coastal Engineering, Sediment Transport Analysis, Field Monitoring, Sedimentary process in coastal and estuarine environments. He became Research Professor at Department of Joint Research on Environment and Disaster in Coastal and Port Area, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan from 2017 to 2020. He is member of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, The Oceanographic Society of Japan, PIANC, American Geophysical Union. He published more than 30 papers in international journals.

Topic: Field measurements for modeling of fine sediment transport process in Japanese estuaries.

8. Prof. Jisheng ZHANG, College of Harbour, Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Hohai University, China

Prof. Jisheng Zhang has been working for the College of Harbour, Coastal and Offshore Engineering at Hohai University since 2011, leading a research group of Marine Renewable Energy Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in engineering from University of Aberdeen in 2009, and worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee between 2009 and 2011. He has devoted himself into energy assessment and site selection of marine renewable energy, layout optimization of turbine array, hydrodynamics and sediment transportation around tidal stream farm. He is also working on wave-seabed-structure interaction, wave-induced soil liquefaction and prevention technology. He is the Guest Editor of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, and the member of editorial board of Applied Ocean Research.

Topic: Development of Tidal Stream Energy in Zhoushan Water, China