Porous Media in the Environment-Energy-Resources Fields: Microscopic Pore Structure and Macroscopic Fluid Flow

- Professor Qinhong HU
China University of Petroleum (East China), China
Associate Professor

How can Construction and Engineering Smart Contracts help streamline contract administration?

- Dr Jim Mason
Associate Professor
Department of Architecture and Built Environment
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Navigating Emerging Contaminants:
Key monitoring in aquatic systems and their removal strategies

- Professor C.T. Aravindakumar
School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, India

Advancing the energy potential of offshore wind

- Professor Lidija Zdravkovic
Computational Geomechanics at Imperial College London

Elastoplastic Damage Model and Numerical Implementation of Nano-Silica Incorporated Concrete

- Professor Jiann-Wen Woody JU
Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA, US

The impact of occasional activities on travellers’ preferences for mobility-as-a-service bundles and mode choice behaviour

- Prof. Chenyang Wu
School of Aviation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC LECTURE
Digital Transformation of Construction and Infrastructure – the story so far….

- Professor Tim Broyd
Professor of Built Environment Foresight,
University College London Past President, ICE

Automated Infrastructure Inspection and Management Using UAV, AI and Digital Technologies

- Dr. Yang Zou
Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Western Sydney University

Construction Digitalisation and Decarbonisation through MetaBIM and EasyCarbon

- Prof. Jun WANG
Western Sydney University

The Path to Reshaping Human-Machine Collaboration in Building Sector

- Prof. Chao MAO Chongqing University

High-fidelity Hazard Modeling for Enhancing Disaster Resilience

- Professor Grace YAN
Missouri University of Science and Technology,
the United States of America

Distinguished Public Lecture
Large-scale Modeling and Perimeter Control for Congested Transport Networks

- Professor Nikolaos Geroliminis
EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

Dynamics of Debris Flows:
Analysis of Seismic Signals from Laboratory Experiments and Field Observations

- Dr. Yifei CUI
Tsinghua University, China

Mileage-Based Tax in the US: Theory, Research and Practice

- Prof. Peng Chen
School of Public Affairs,
University of South Florida, USA

Tempospatially confined catalytic membranes for recalcitrant wastewater remediation

- Prof. Liu Fu
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (Nimte),
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Cognitive Hierarchy in Day-to-day Network Flow Dynamics

- Prof. Feng Xiao
Business School, Sichuan University, China

ASCE Greater China Distinguished Lecture
Man-made Extreme Hazard Effects on Bridges

- Prof. Anil Agrawal
Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Civil Engineering
at the City College of New York

Toward nature-based stormwater management – Finnish lessons

- Professor Harri Koivusalo
Aalto University School of Engineering
Finland

Knowledge Matters: Integrating Additive Manufacturing into BIM-Based Design through Knowledge Formalization and Robotic Simulation

- Prof. Frank Petzold and Mr. Chao Li
Technical University of Munich

The numerical modeling of dynamic process and forecasting for mountain hazards

- Professor Ouyang Chaojun
State Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and
Engineering Resilience
China

Large Deployment of Connected Vehicles in Australia

- Prof. Majid Sarvi
Melbourne School of Engineering,
University of Melbourne, Australia

Intelligent Generation of Subway Construction Risk Response Measures Driven by Knowledge and Deep Learning

- Prof Hong Zhou
Professor
School of Architecture and Civil Engineering,
Xiamen University, China

Economic Analysis of Curb Parking with Urban Delivery

- Prof. Zhengtian Xu
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
George Washington University, USA

Recent Advance in Dendrimer Mediated Thin-Film Composite (TFC) Desalination Membrane

- Prof. Qingshan J. Niu
Shenzhen University, China

Leveraging Advanced Simulation, Modeling, and Analysis Techniques for Sustainable, Resilient, and Smart Infrastructure Design and Optimization

- Dr Jürgen Hackl
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Princeton University, US

Expected Bipartite Matching Distance in An L^p Space: Approximate Closed-form Formulas and Applications to On-Demand Shared Mobility Services

- Prof. Yanfeng Ouyang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Optimizing the performance of low-carbon cement and concrete

- Dr. Jiaqi Li
Incoming Assistant Professor
University of Michigan, United States

Human-Machine Intelligence Integration for Resilience Civil Infrastructure and Construction Production Systems

- Dr Pingbo Tang
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University, US

Principal Stress Rotations and Their Applications in Geotechnical Engineering

- Dr. Yunming Yang
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

Fighting Climate Change with Super-hygroscopic Hydrogels

- Professor TAN Swee Ching
National University of Singapore
 

Does Dockless Bikesharing Create a Competition for Losers?

- Dr. Yu (Macro) NIE
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Northwestern University
 

The shape of the Himalayan “Arc”:
an ellipse pinned by syntaxial strike-slip fault tips

- Dr. Liqing JIAO
Researcher, SinoProbe Lab, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences,
Beijing, China
 

Engineering Next-Generation Membranes for a Sustainable Future

- Professor Nicholas LOW
Nanjing Tech University,
China
 

Distinguished Public Lecture (ONLINE)
Atmospheric Water Harvesting – Can we produce enough water of the right quality in arid regions?

- Professor Paul Westerhoff
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
at Arizona State University
 

Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamic Analysis Method for Slope Behavior under Earthquake Excitation

- Professor HUANG Yu
Tongji University
China
 

Effect of tunnelling on adjacent ground and existing tunnels: a Crossrail’s case history

- Dr. Michael WAN
Associate Director, Geotechnical Consulting Group LLP
London, UK
 

Structures and Materials Inspired by Origami

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

Advancements in Reaction Engineering: Innovations for Sustainable Solutions

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

Publish Successfully - Some Important Aspects

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

Modeling and Analysis with Epistemic Uncertainties in Engineering

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

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

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

Acoustic Emission in Geomaterials

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

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

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

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  

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

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

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

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

Markov Decision Processes in Shared Mobility Operation Problems

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

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

- Prof. Jia-huan YU
Professor, Foshan University
 

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
 

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

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

Digital Twin Construction Practice and Exploration in Shenzhen

- Dr. Jinyu Duan
ShenZhen Urban Transport Planning Center
 

Nanofiltration membrane swelling phenomenon -
from process regulation to materials innovation

- Professor Jianquan LUO
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 

Origin and Evolution of Quorum Quenching Membrane Bioreactor for Wastewater Treatment

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

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
 

Nature Water: a journal for all water-related research

- Dr. Fabio Pulizzi
Chief Editor, Nature Water UK

 

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

 

Mechanics and modelling of shallow landslide in pyroclastic soils

- Professor Sabatino Cuomo
The University of Salerno, Italy

 

On-Demand Shared Mobility Management for Smart Cities

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

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
 

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

- Professor Aiqin WANG
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 

Rapid Enrichment of Methanotrophs Using a Membrane Biofilm Reactor

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

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

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

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

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

Planning of Substitute Bus Service for Metro Disruption Management

- Dr. ZHANG Shuyang
Wuhan University of Technology, China
 

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  

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
 

Car-following Modelling in Smart Transportation

- Dr. ZHU Feng
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
 

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

- Professor Wang Zhiwei
Tongji University
 

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

- Professor Victor Calo
Curtin University Australia
 

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
 

New Developments in Resilient and Sustainable Lightweight Steel Structures

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

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
 

Large-scale Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide

- Professor Michael Celia
Princeton University
 

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
 

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
 

Suspension Tuning for Bridge-Friendly Vehicles:
Challenges and Opportunities

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

Anchoring systems for the next generation of floating infrastructures

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

Electrically Regenerated Deionization Processes and Applications

- Professor Q Shiang FU
Sichuan University Suzhou Research Institute
 

Vehicle-bridge interaction dynamics and applications to monitoring of bridges

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

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
 

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

- Dr. Long Yang
Nanjing University
China
 

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

Ride-Sourcing Systems & Multiple-Objective Online Ride Matching

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

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
 

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
 

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
 

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

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

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
 

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

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

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

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

Shaping the Future of Hong Kong (ONLINE)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Prof. Menachem Elimelech
Roberto Goizueta Professor,
Yale University

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

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

Observing the Terrestrial Water Cycle from Space

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

Urban Flood Resilience: What to Do?

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

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

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

Durability design and cracking control of concrete structures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Dr. Peter Desmond, MMS AG, Zurich Switzerland

Waste Conversion and Resource Recovery from Wastewater by Ion Exchange Membranes

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

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

MICRO-SCALE MODELLING OF ONE FORM OF INTERNAL EROSION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ADVANCES IN THE PREDICTION AND CONTROL OF GROUND DEFORMATIONS

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

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

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