10 June 2025

Prof Quek Ser Tong receives research award from IASSAR

Prof Quek Ser Tong receives award from IASSAR
Professor Quek Ser Tong (second from left) with IASSAR Executive Board Officials [Distinguished Prof Chen Jianbing (Chair), Stanley C Moore Chair Prof Jamie Padgett (Vice President), Tryon Chair Prof Roger Ghanen (President)]

Professor Quek Ser Tong from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering was conferred the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR) Distinguished Research Award 2025.

IASSAR promotes the study, research, and applications of scientific principles of safety, risk and reliability in the analysis, design, construction, maintenance and operations of structures and other engineering systems.

The award is presented every four years to up to three eminent senior researchers by the Association in recognition of sustained quality research in the general field of Structural Safety and Reliability. The other winner for 2025 is Professor George Deodatis from Columbia University.

The award was first conferred in 1993 and winners include renowned academics such as Professors V V Bolotin (Russia), Alfredo H S Ang (UIUC, USA) and Christian Soize (France).

Professor Quek represents the first academic from Southeast Asia to be awarded such recognition. He has published about 250 technical papers covering topics such as reliability analysis, stochastic simulation and mechanics, smart materials, structural health monitoring, systems identification, and protective structures. He was Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 2016-2020, Vice Dean, Faculty of Engineering 2010-2015 and was appointed the 4th Keppel Chair Professor from 2018-2020. Prior to joining NUS in 1982, he worked at the Ministry of Defence as a systems engineer in the Defence Science Organisation in 1980-81 and as a civil engineer in the Lands and Estates Division in 1981-82.

As a registered professional engineer, he has consulted across areas such as in-situ concrete strength assessment, performance tests on architectural concrete surfaces, dynamic analysis of tall buildings, assessment of forces on crane structures and finite element analysis of complex components

“I appreciate the support provided by NUS to pursue over 40 years of research, enabling me to be elected to join the distinguished group of academics in the field of structural safety and reliability, said Professor Quek.

View Professor Quek’s bio at: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/cee/staff/quek-ser-tong/

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