International Conference on Civil & Structural Engineering June 21-22, 2018 | Paris, France

Professor Nasser Khalili is the Head of Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Unsaturated Soil Mechanics Computational Mechanics Mechanics of Multi Phase Multi Porous media

Gouranga Banik, Ph.D., P.E., PMP., F.ASCE, is currently serving as professor of construction engineering and management for the school of civil and environmental engineering at Oklahoma State University. Prior to this, Dr. Banik served as division head at Oklahoma State University, and departmental chair and professor for civil and architectural engineering at Tennessee State University. He is a registered professional engineer (PE) in the state of Wisconsin and a project management professional (PMP). Dr. Banik has consulted for federal and several state agencies, and major national and international construction and design companies including the World Bank.

His research and consuting work is in the area of construction safety, big data, smart materials, sustainable construction, project delivery systems and AEC education. Dr. Banik has more than 50 articles in the refereed journals and conference proceedings in the area of civil engineering and construction management. He has presented his research in several well-known and peer-reviewed conferences, such as ASEE, ASCE, ASC, WEFTEC and CIB, all over the world, including the United States, Japan, Canada, Greece, Italy, Brazil, and the Philippines.

Fellow of the British Royal Academy of Engineering Amr Elnashai is Vice Chancellor and Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer at the University of Houston, Texas. Prior to his current position, he was Dean of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, and the Harold and Inge Marcus Endowed Chair of Engineering. As dean, Amr was responsible for all aspects of operation and leadership of the College of Engineering, with 11,000 students, 300 professors, 400 staff, $240M total budget, $137M research expenditure, over $210M endowment, 12 departments, 2 institutes and 20 research centers. He is member of the Academic Leadership Council and chairs the university Committee on Inclusive Penn State. Amr served as the chair of one of five Penn State research thrusts development committees, focused on Managing Resources. During his time as dean, Amr initiated a one-year MS and MEng program comprising 16 disciplinary and interdisciplinary degrees that are transforming the profile of the college and significantly expanding its graduate student populations. He has targeted biomedical and mechanical engineering for growth and secured 22 new faculty lines between the two departments.He was previously head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (June 2009 to December 2013) and the Bill and Elaine Hall endowed professor. During his tenure as department head, research expenditure increased by 30% and graduate tuition income increased by more than 500%. He created three interdisciplinary majors, minors, MS and PhD programs that have attracted large percentages of students.

Amr’s research interests are multi-resolution distributed analytical simulations, network analysis under stress and disruption, large-scale fire ignition and spread modeling, hybrid testing and field investigations of the response of complex networks and structures to earthquakes. He is currently the sole advisor of one PhD student at Penn State and serves on the PhD committee of another student at Illinois. He has produced more than 250 research publications, comprising 146 refereed journal papers and many conference papers, keynote and prestige lectures, research reports, 3 books and several book chapters, magazine articles and earthquake investigation reports. His Google-based H-index is 41, with 7760 citations. His highest downloaded publication is his report to FEMA/DHS on impact of earthquakes on the central USA, with 51,813 unique downloads from the Illinois digital database (IDEALS). Amr has supervised 46 Doctoral and over 100 Master of Science theses. Many of his students hold significant positions in industry, academia and government around the world.

Lu Aye is an Associate Professor in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at The University of Melbourne. A/Prof. Aye obtained his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering at the Rangoon Institute of Technology and Graduate Certificate in Computing, at the Rangoon Institute of Computer Science. He received his Masters of Engineering Science (Mechanical), PhD (Advanced Energy Systems) and Graduate Certificate in University Teaching at the University of Melbourne.

Renewable energy, Energy efficiency technologies,Biomass gasification ,Green buildings,Energy system simulation and optimisation,Thermal storage,Advanced energy systems,Heat pumps,Life cycle analysis of energy systems

Dr Ali Akbar Nezhad is Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He was awarded with Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, The University of New South Wales; 2014, Skilled Builder and BIM Award (Education-Engineering Category), Building and Construction Authority of Singapore; 2012, SCI Excellence Awards 2013 by Singapore Concrete Institute in recognition of innovations in Designed for Disassembly Building Systems Project (led by Prof. KCG Ong) , JCI OWICS Award, Japan Concrete Institute; 2006, ASTAR IGS Scholarship, A-Star Agency for Science, Technology and Research, NUS Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore. Having Field of Interests in Construction Materials, Construction Engineering, Sustainable Development, Sustainability Accounting and Reporting, Civil Engineering, Building Construction Management and Project Planning, Optimization, Built Environment and Design.

Construction Materials Construction Engineering Sustainable Development Sustainability Accounting and Reporting Civil Engineering Building Construction Management and Project Planning Optimisation Built Environment and Design

Gintaris Kaklauskas is a Professor of Department of Reinforced Concrete Structures and Geotechnical Engineering and Director of Research Institute of Building Structures at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU). He received his PhD and DrSc (Habilitation doctor) degrees from VGTU. He is Member of Lithuanian Academy of Science and recipient of ASCE best paper Moisseiff Award 2013, Lithuanian Science Prize 2013 and Marie Curie (Senior Research category) grant. He is Visiting Professor (under Fulbright fellowship) at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include service ability analysis and constitutive modeling of concrete structures.

Serviceability analysis and constitutive modeling of concrete structures.

Dr Ozbakkaloglu is currently on the lookout for bright and hardworking graduate research students (i.e. MPhil and PhD). A number of scholarships are available and applications from the current Honour's and Coursework Master's students are particularly encouraged.

Enhancing Structural Sustainability Through Development And Application Of Smart, High-Performance, And Eco-Efficient Construction Materials

Dr.Shahir Liew obtained his BSCE and PhD from Texas, USA, in 1983 and 1988, respectively. Having practicing in the offshore industries for 23 years, he is now the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. His focus is on MetOcean and design of offshore facilities as well as on the dynamic aspect of offshore facilities. He is currently supporting several business units of PETRONAS Carigali as well as other oil and gas outfits. As a strong advocate in research with industrial applications, he has innovate several technological advancement in the areas of digital processing in monitoring offshore facilities for its integrity and reliability.

Structural Dynamics, Floating Structures, Moored Structures, Fixed Platforms, Meteorology and Oceanography (MetOcean)

Zeki Ayag, Ph.D., P.Eng. is currently as a Full Professor of Industrial Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Kadir Has University. Before, he served as Director of the Graduate School of Science and Engineering and Founding Chairman of Industrial Engineering at the same university. He holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering, a Master’s in Engineering Management, and a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering. In addition to his academic experience, he has national and international industrial experience such as; Design Engineer in Magna International, Inc. (Canada), Engineering Designer in Mold-Masters Ltd. (Canada), Cutting Tool Design Department Head in Makina Takim Endustrisi A.S., and Quality Assurance Engineer in Pimas A.S. He taught various courses in the field of industrial engineering. He has also published many articles in the leading periodical journals mainly in the field of industrial engineering, indexed by SCI®) and SCI-E®. In addition, he is an active referee for the leading journals. Moreover, he has given many seminars on his interest fields with numerous publications in conference and congress proceedings. He is also a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) from the Society of Professional Engineers in Ontario (PEO) in Canada. He is Senior Member of Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). He was Area Editor of Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, and currently is Associate Editor in Advances in Fuzzy Systems, former EBM of International Journal of Production Research, and in different capacities for other journals. He also serves as Program Evaluator for MÜDEK (Association of Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs), and Institutional External Evaluation Team Leader/Evaluator for YÖK (Council of Higher Education in Turkey) Quality Council.

Analysis of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) systems, Simulation, Multiple criteria decision making and fuzzy logic, AHP/ANP, Concept evaluation

Paul Uno is the Director of Engineering Training Institute Australia (ETIA. He has a Master’s Degree in Building Science (from Sydney University) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering (from Sydney University). He is Charted Professional engineer in Australia and am on the National Engineering Register (NER) in Australia. He has retired from teaching at Sydney University and only teach part time at UNSW (ie University of New South Wales). He is a Specialist consultant - Cement & Concrete Materials and Structural Analysis with Over 40 years’ experience: structural & civil engineering design, building, construction, testing. He is a member of ) ACI – American Concrete Institute (since 1992) (2) IE Aust – Institution of Engineers Australia (since 1983) (3) CIA – Concrete Institute Australia (since 1982) (4) AGS – Australian Geomechanics Society (since 2014) (5) ASI – Australian Steel Institute - prev AISC (since 1987). He is a co author for two text books and delivered many Lecture and Workshop Topics presented throughout Australia for CCS & ETIA (since 1998).

Structural & civil engineering design, building, construction, testing

Dr Li received his B.Eng. degree in Structural Engineering from Tong Ji University, Shanghai, and his Ph.D. from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Dr. Li has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the area of structural design, including courses on the behavior, design, and assessment of reinforced concrete structures. Dr. Li has research interests primarily in the areas of seismic performance of reinforced concrete building structures. Most recently, Dr Li is actively working in the areas of anti-terrorist design and evaluation for government and commercial facilities, and research & development blast testing for explosive effects on conventional reinforced concrete structures and buildings made from precast concrete.

Earthquake and Blast Resistant Design, Structural Concrete, Structural Dynamics

Jui-Sheng (Rayson) Chou specializes in project analytics and engineering management. Chou received his BS and MS at the Department of Civil Engineering - National Taiwan University and his PhD in Construction Engineering and Project Management program at the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering - The University of Texas at Austin. Currently, he is a Full Professor in the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech). He holds registered professional engineer licenses and serves on several professional committees. He has provided consulting services to a number of private and public engineering sectors. He is the author or co-author of hundreds of journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports related to engineering management and is a member of several international journal editorial boards. His main teaching and research interests are engineering issues related to data mining, knowledge discovery in databases, engineering data analytics, project behavior management, decision, risk and reliability, simulation, cost management, and hazard mitigation in spatial planning practices.

Construction Project Management Data Mining in Civil Engineering Project Quantitative Analytics Decision, Risk & Urban Disaster Management