Biography Dr Yuzhu Pearl Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NUS. She is a former Marie-Curie Scholar and a Humboldt Experienced Researcher. Her research covers a broad range of coastal engineering topics, including wave–structure–seabed interaction, breaking waves, sediment transport, liquefaction, and turbulence modelling, with a particular emphasis […]
Biography Dr Ng Hsiao Piau is the Director of the Data and Performance Division and Chief Data Officer at the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS). Previously, he served as Director at the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Built Environment Research and Innovation Institute (BERII), leading the Advanced Construction & Innovation Planning Department (ACIPD) to
Biography Xiaogang He is a Princeton-trained Ph.D. A hydrologist with experience in economics, machine learning, and environmental policy. His research interests focus on the fundamental understanding of how climate change, variability, and human interventions affect drought and flood risk across scales, and how to implement an integrative framework (e.g., hydrological modelling, remote sensing, artificial intelligence,
Biography Simone Fatichi received his BSc and MSc (cum laude) in Environmental Engineering at the University of Firenze (Italy). In 2010, he obtained an International PhD title (outstanding evaluation) joint between the T.U. Braunschweig (Germany) and University of Firenze (Italy). Subsequently, he was a researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Institute of Environmental Engineering,
Biography Dr Du Hongjian is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is the Director of the Centre of Construction 3D Printing Research (C3DPR). His work advances digital construction and low-carbon materials to improve productivity and sustainability in the built environment. Dr Du is
Biography Dr Geng Guoqing received his Bachelor’s degree from Southeast University (China) in 2010, and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in CEE at UC Berkeley (USA) in 2013 and 2017, respectively. His PhD programme was dedicated to investigating the microscale chemistry and mineralogy of modern construction materials. He was then awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at
Biography C.M. Wang graduated from Monash University in Civil Engineering with a First Class Honours in 1978 and was awarded a M.Eng.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree from the same university in 1980 and 1982, respectively. He joined the School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland (UQ) in January 2017 as the Transport and Main Roads
Biography Adjunct Professor Aziz Merchant, is a leading international ship & offshore designer and expert. He obtained his Master for Science (MSc) in Naval Architecture from University College London and Bachelor of Engineering (First Class) in Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering from University of Glasgow. He has also attended the General Management Program (GMP) at
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Biography Dr Anand is a Head of Engineering (Geo Dynamics) at the Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA) and provides technical support for infrastructural developments covering areas such as soft ground improvement, structural design to resist blast effects, dynamic response of buried structures, ground vibrations propagation and effects. He also oversees training, competency development and
Biography Dr Tam studies for his BE (Hons) and ME in Australia and his PhD in Canada. After working for three years with the Hydro-Electric Commission in Hobart and a consultancy firm in Kuala Lumpur, he joined the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Malaya in 1963. Between 1968 and 1972, he was
