Past Seminars

February 28, 2024

Structures and Materials Inspired by Origami

- Professor Zhong You
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Parks Road, Oxford, U.K.
 


February 27, 2024

Advancements in Reaction Engineering: Innovations for Sustainable Solutions

- Dr. Antonio Exposito
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bath, UK
 


February 21, 2024

Publish Successfully - Some Important Aspects

- Professor Michael Beer
Head of the Institute for Risk and Reliability
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany  


February 21, 2024

Modeling and Analysis with Epistemic Uncertainties in Engineering

- Professor Michael Beer
Head of the Institute for Risk and Reliability
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany  


February 19, 2024

Mechanochemistry Enabled Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity for pH-Responsive Adsorptive Membrane

- Dr. XIE Ming
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Bath, UK  


January 17, 2024

Acoustic Emission in Geomaterials

- Dr Qi ZHAO
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University  


January 4, 2024

Ensuring the robustness of link flow observation systems in sensor failure events

- Dr. Dr. NING Zhu
College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University  


January 4, 2024

Experimental Studies on Bicycle Flow Dynamics of Cyclist Loading and Unloading Processes at Bottlenecks

- Dr. WONG Wai
Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury  


December 28, 2023

Research Cases on the Applications of Data-Driven Methods in Smart Cities

- Dr. WANG Hai
School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University
 


December 28, 2023

Time-dependent behavior of Marine Soils and Its Constitutive Modelling Development

- Dr Weiqiang FENG
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
 


December 28, 2023

Markov Decision Processes in Shared Mobility Operation Problems

- Dr. Zheng Zhu
Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, China
 


December 18, 2023

Research on water resistance property of high belite sulphoaluminate inorganic coating and its application

- Prof. Jia-huan YU
Professor, Foshan University
 


December 13, 2023

Solid waste and Eco-materials in China: organization, research and industrial trial

- Professor Dongmin WANG
School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) Beijing, China
 


December 4, 2023

Organic Semiconductor Photocatalysts for Water Splitting, Pollutant Degradation and Tumor Elimination under Visible Irradiation

- Professor Yongfa ZHU
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
 


November 30, 2023

Digital Twin Construction Practice and Exploration in Shenzhen

- Dr. Jinyu Duan
ShenZhen Urban Transport Planning Center
 


November 29, 2023

Nanofiltration membrane swelling phenomenon -
from process regulation to materials innovation

- Professor Jianquan LUO
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 


November 27, 2023

Origin and Evolution of Quorum Quenching Membrane Bioreactor for Wastewater Treatment

- Prof. LEE, Chung-Hak
Seoul National University, South Korea
 


November 9, 2023

Integrated optimization of bus bridging service design and passenger assignment in response to urban rail transit disruptions

- Associate Prof. Yu Zhou
School of Transportation Science and Engineering,
Beihang University, China
 


October 25, 2023

Nature Water: a journal for all water-related research

- Dr. Fabio Pulizzi
Chief Editor, Nature Water UK

 


September 15, 2023

Think out of the Box - Need for interdisciplinary teaching and research in AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction)

- Prof. Frank Petzold
TUM School of Engineering and Design

 


August 22, 2023

Mechanics and modelling of shallow landslide in pyroclastic soils

- Professor Sabatino Cuomo
The University of Salerno, Italy

 


August 8, 2023

On-Demand Shared Mobility Management for Smart Cities

- Professor Xiqun CHEN
Department of Civil Engineering,
Zhejiang University, China
 


July 28, 2023

New Evolutionary Algorithms to Solve the Competitive Maximal Covering Location Problem

- Professor Abdullah Konak
Distinguished Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
the Pennsylvania State University, Berks, USA
 


July 26, 2023

When clay minerals meet natural plant:
Eco-friendly fabrication of mineral functional material

- Professor Aiqin WANG
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 


July 6, 2023

Rapid Enrichment of Methanotrophs Using a Membrane Biofilm Reactor

- Prof. Hee-Deung Park
School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering,
Korea University, South Korea
 


July 4, 2023

Distinguished Public Lecture
Smart Exploitation of the Renewable Energy Situated Under Our Cities

- Prof. Lyesse Laloui
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL
 


July 3, 2023

An aggregate matching and pick-up model for mobility-on-demand services

- Dr. LI Xinwei
School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, China
 


July 3, 2023

Planning of Substitute Bus Service for Metro Disruption Management

- Dr. ZHANG Shuyang
Wuhan University of Technology, China
 


June 26, 2023

The Prediction and Warning of Debris Flow Hazards in ChinaPlanning of Substitute Bus Service for Metro Disruption Management

- Professor CHEN Ningsheng
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment,
Chinese Academy of Sciences China  


June 13, 2023

Multi-phasic Approaches for Estimating the Hydro-Mechanical Properties of Heterogeneous Rocks

- Professor A.P.S. Selvadurai
Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics
McGill University, Canada
 


June 8, 2023

Car-following Modelling in Smart Transportation

- Dr. ZHU Feng
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
 


June 6, 2023

Tuning nanostructure of thin-film composite membrane to enhance removal of trace organic contaminants

- Professor Wang Zhiwei
Tongji University
 


June 1, 2023

Geological processes modelling and simulation: phase-transition, dynamic fracture propagation, and compaction band formation

- Professor Victor Calo
Curtin University Australia
 


May 31, 2023

Distinguished Public Lecture (ONLINE)
Engineering for Extremes: A Nexus of Simulation, Stochastics, Virtualization, and Scientific Machine Learning

- Professor Ahsan Kareem
NatHaz Modeling Laboratory
University of Notre Dame, USA
 


May 23, 2023

New Developments in Resilient and Sustainable Lightweight Steel Structures

- Professor Iman Hajirasouliha
The University of Sheffield, UK
- Dr Seyed Mohammad Mojtabaei
Aston University, UK
 


May 19, 2023

Distinguished Public Lecture (ONLINE)
Membrane-Based Minus Approach to Minimize Safety Risks in Treated Drinking Water

- Professor Yongsheng CHEN
Bonnie W. and Charles W. Moorman IV Professor and Director
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
 


May 15, 2023

Large-scale Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide

- Professor Michael Celia
Princeton University
 


May 4, 2023

Evaluation of building design variants in early phases on the basis of adaptive detailing strategies Data-driven evaluation of design variants

- Mr. Ata Zahedi
Research Associate at the Chair of Architectural Informatics
The Technical University of Munich Germany
 


May 3, 2023

Distinguished Public Lecture (ONLINE)
Active Rheology and Stiffening Control of Cementitious Materials

- Professor Geert De Schutter
Head of Department of Structural Engineering and
Building Materials, Ghent University, Belgium
 


April 6, 2023

Suspension Tuning for Bridge-Friendly Vehicles:
Challenges and Opportunities

- Professor Chin-An TAN
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Wayne State University
USA
 


March 16, 2023

Anchoring systems for the next generation of floating infrastructures

- Dr Yinghui TIAN
Department of Infrastructure Engineering
of the University of Melbourne, Australia
 


March 15, 2023

Electrically Regenerated Deionization Processes and Applications

- Professor Q Shiang FU
Sichuan University Suzhou Research Institute
 


March 15, 2023

Vehicle-bridge interaction dynamics and applications to monitoring of bridges

- Professor Yeong-Bin YANG
Honorary Dean, School of Civil Engineering,
Chongqing University, China
 


November 22, 2022

Distinguished Public Lecture (PHYSICAL AND ONLINE)
Understanding and Mitigating Direct Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Wastewater Systems to Support Net Zero Urban Water Management

- Professor Zhiguo YUAN AM
Honorary Professor
Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology,
The University of Queensland
 


July 21 2022

Urban Hydrology and Hydrometeorology: the characteristics of flood-producing storms and how cities modify them

- Dr. Long Yang
Nanjing University
China
 


June 29 2022

Distinguished Public Lecture (Online)
Getting to the Right Answer:
The Role of Constitutive Models and Numerical
Schemes in Solving the Boundary-Value
Problems of Soil Mechanics

- Professor Rodrigo Salgado
Charles Pankow Professor in Civil Engineering
Purdue University
 


June 28 2022

Ride-Sourcing Systems & Multiple-Objective Online Ride Matching

- Professor Rodrigo Salgado
Charles Pankow Professor in Civil Engineering
Purdue University
 


May 11 2022

Distinguished Public Lecture (Online)
Multiscale X-ray Tomography of Construction Materials

- Prof. Paulo J.M. Monteiro
Roy W. Carlson Distinguished Professor in
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
Member of The U.S. National Academy of Engineering
 


April 25 2022

Distinguished Public Lecture (Online)
Nanofluidic membranes for fast molecular and ionic separations

- Professor Huanting Wang
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Director,
Monash Centre for Membrane Innovation
Monash University, Australia
 


April 22 2022

Distinguished Public Lecture (Online)
Development of Novel Reverse Osmosis Membranes for Water Reuse and Seawater Desalination

- Professor Rong WANG
Professor and President’s Chair,
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
 


April 7 2022

Distinguished Public Lecture (Online)
Fresh Cement-based Materials: from Rheology to 3D Prining

- Professor Nicolas Roussel
Senior Researcher at the Navier Laboratory in France
 


March 30 2022

Distinguished Public Lecture (Online)
Compact Folding of Flat Arrays Composed of Panels with Uniform Thickness

- Professor Zhong You
Professor of Engineering Science
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
 


February 26, 2022

RESEARCH SEMINAR (online)
Predictive geomechanics for regional-scale landslide hazard assessment

by Prof. Giuseppe Buscarnera
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northwestern University


December 17, 2021

HALF-DAY WEBINAR on
Design and installation of post-installed reinforcements

by Prof. Andrew Livingston
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Queen Mary University of London


May 21, 2021

DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC LECTURE (ONLINE)
Wrinkles and Aging Membranes for Molecular Separations (ONLINE)

by Prof. Andrew Livingston
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Queen Mary University of London


March 24, 2021

Shaping the Future of Hong Kong (ONLINE)

by Ir HON Chi Keung, Chief Executive and Secretary,
Hong Kong Institution of Engineers


March 24, 2021

DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC LECTURE (ONLINE)
Isogeometric Analysis of Solids and Structures: Breakthroughs in Shell Modeling

by Prof. Yuri Bazilevs, School of Engineering, Brown University


August 26, 2020

DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC LECTURE (ONLINE)
Challenges of Emerging Pollutants in Water Management

by Prof. Shane Snyder,
Nanyang Environment &Water Research Institute (NEWRI),
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


August 12, 2020

DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC LECTURE (ONLINE)
An Overview of Method of Fundamental Solutions:
Solvability, Convergence, and Applications

by Prof. Alexander H.-D. Cheng,
Dean Emeritus of School of Engineering,
University of Mississippi


July 28, 2020

DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC LECTURE (ONLINE)
Achieving high durability with new sustainable cements

by Prof. John Provis
Cement Materials Science & Engineering,
University of Sheffield, UK


July 22, 2020

DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC LECTURE (ONLINE)
Membrane Materials for Desalination and Water Purification

by Prof. Menachem Elimelech
Roberto Goizueta Professor,
Yale University


July 16 ,2020

DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC LECTURE (ONLINE)
The Breakage Mechanics of Granular Systems

by Prof. Itai Einav
Professor and Director of SciGEM,
The University of Sydney


November 25, 2019

Observing the Terrestrial Water Cycle from Space

by Prof. Venkataraman Lakshmi
Engineering Systems and Environment,
University of Virginia, USA


November 09, 2019

Urban Flood Resilience: What to Do?

by Prof. Nigel Wright
Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation,
Nottingham Trent University, UK


November 08, 2019

Introduction of the Archimedean screw to East Asia (China, Korea, Japan)

by Prof. Albert Koenig
Department of Civil Engineering,
The University of Hong Kong


November 01, 2019

Durability design and cracking control of concrete structures

by Dr. Shengjun Zhou
Principal Engineer – Civil/Materials,
BCRC Australia


October 31, 2019

In-Pursuit of Hybrid Anaerobic Membrane Biotechnology for Wastewater Reuse and Resource Recovery

by Prof. Jeonghwan Kim
Department of Environmental Engineering,
Inha University


October 25, 2019

Historical development of physical river models (1755-1949): From the Rhine to the Yellow River

by Prof. Albert Koenig
Department of Civil Engineering,
The University of Hong Kong


October 18, 2019

The ancient Shanghai water sluice dating from the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368): Ren Renfa 任仁發 (1254-1327), hydraulic engineer and painter

by Prof. Albert Koenig
Department of Civil Engineering,
The University of Hong Kong


September 19, 2019

The cover effect on the cracking of concrete prisms with various arrangements of bar reinforcement

by Dr. Viktor Gribniak
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU),
Vilnius, Lithuania


September 18, 2019

Modulation rather than mitigation of membrane fouling layers for improved permeability during membrane ultrafiltration

by Dr. Peter Desmond, MMS AG, Zurich Switzerland


September 10, 2019

Waste Conversion and Resource Recovery from Wastewater by Ion Exchange Membranes

by Prof. Yang ZHANG,
Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT)


September 9, 2019

Progressive Soil Arching Development under Different Ground Movement and Surface Loading

by Prof. Jie Han,
Glenn L. Parker Professor of Geotechnical Engineering,
University of Kansas, USA


August 15, 2019

MICRO-SCALE MODELLING OF ONE FORM OF INTERNAL EROSION

by Dr. Tom Shire,
School of Engineering,
University of Glasgow, UK


July 22, 2019

Recent Advances in Improving Resilience of Built Infrastructure through Hybrid Simulation/Testing Techniques

by Prof. David Lau,
Director of Ottawa-Carleton Multi-Hazard Research Centre (OCMHRC) and
Ottawa-Carleton Bridge Research Institute (OCBRI), Carleton University,
Ottawa, Canada


July 18, 2019

The European Experience on the Quality Control of Bridges Outcomes from COST Action TU1406

by Prof. Jose Campos e Matos,
Minho University, Portugal


July 17, 2019

On the coseismic landslides occurring on tephra slopes triggered by the 2016 and 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake in Japan

by Dr. Gonghui Wang,
Research Center on Landslides at Disaster Prevention Research Institute,
Kyoto University, Japan


July 11, 2019

Transmission Line Structures Under Tornadoes and Downbursts- Numerical Development, Testing and Code Implementation

by Prof. Ashraf El Damatty,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Research Director, WindEEE Research Institute
The University of Western Ontario, Canada


June 28, 2019

Ground improvements over the sea: An overview with focus on the gaps between design, construction, and computer simulation

by Dr. Chao LI,
Deputy Technical Manager,
China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC), Hong Kong

June 24, 2019

INNOVATIVE SUBCONTRACTING MODELS: Advantages, Disadvantages and Lessons Learned from their Use - A US Perspective

by Prof. Giovanni C. Migliaccio,
Ph.D., Dott., Ing.,Executive Director, Center for Education,
Research in Construction (CERC), University of Washington, Seattle, USA


June 20, 2019

Some experiences from tunnelling through erratic 'soft rock'

by Dr. Chung Siung CHOO,
PDiscipline Leader for the Civil Engineering undergraduate program,
Swinburne University of Technology, Malaysia


June 20, 2019

First seismic design code for Malaysia: Experience and lesson learnt

by Dr. Daniel LOOI,
Lecturer, Civil Engineering (Structural),
Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak campus), Malaysia


June 17, 2019

Nanotechnology for Water Treatment: Towards Low Energy Desalination and Water Purification

by Prof. Qilin Li,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center forNanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment, Rice University, USA


June 10, 2019

ADVANCES IN THE PREDICTION AND CONTROL OF GROUND DEFORMATIONS

by Prof. Andrew Whittle,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA


June 5, 2019

Modular and Offsite Construction Practice the Move to Fabrication or Manufacturing

by Prof. Mohamed Al-Hussein,
Professor in Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Hole School of Construction Engineering, The University of Alberta, Canada


May 30, 2019

Computing and Machine Learning Applications in Civil and Construction Engineering

by Prof. Kincho H. Law,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Structural Engineering and Engineering Informatics, Stanford University, USA