WOH HUP – Distinguished Lectures

 

Name & Designation of Professor Lecture Topic Date of Visit
Professor Kenichi Soga

Donald H. McLaughlin Chair & Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Director, Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure
Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Recent Advances in Large Deformation Modelling and Its Application 10 November 2026, Tuesday
Professor Yukio Tamura

Professor and Advisory Director, Research Centre for Wind Engineering, Environment and Energy (RCWE3), School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, China

Damping Ratios and Natural Frequencies of Buildings for Wind-Resistant Design: Roles of Various Building Parameters 20 October 2026, Tuesday
Professor Jia-Liang Le

Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering
University of Minnesota

Mechanistic Mapping of Random Fields for Stochastic FE Simulations of Damage and Failure of Heterogeneous Materials 30 September 2026, Wednesday
Professor Venkatesh

University Distinguished Professor & Director, SAFE-D Center
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Michigan State University, USA

Engineering Fire Safety for Next-Generation Materials and Structures 05 August 2026, Wednesday
Professor John Dolbow

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Associate Vice President for Research and Innovation
Duke University

On the Interplay Between Strength and Energetics in the Fracture of Solids(opens in new tab) 06 March 2026, Friday
Professor Burcu Akinci

Hamerschlag University Professor, and Head of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Digital Twins and AI towards Autonomy of the Built Environment(opens in new tab) 21 November 2025, Friday
Professor Robert H. Dodds

Professor Emeritus
Department of Civil, Environmental, M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Modern FADs for Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics(opens in new tab) 22 October 2025, Wednesday
Professor Jia-Liang Le

Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering
University of Minnesota

Integrated Computational-Experimental Study of Graphite Nano-Planet Modified Asphalt Materials(opens in new tab) 08 October 2025, Wednesday
Professor Bassam A. Izzuddin

Professor of Computational Structural Mechanics
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Imperial College London

Rational Assessment of Structural Robustness for Multistorey Buildings(opens in new tab) 23 July 2025, Wednesday
A/Professor Julia Mullarney

Associate Dean (Research), Division STEM, Co-leader - Earth and Environmental Sciences Team, Te Aku Matuatua - School of Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand

 

Flows, turbulence, and sediment transport in and around vegetation in a coastal environment: Predictions, patchiness, and persistence(opens in new tab) 20 June 2025, Monday
Distinguished Professor Jie Yang

School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia

Functionally graded porous structures: Analyses, performances, and applications(opens in new tab) 09 June 2025, Monday
Professor Nemkumar (Nemy) Banthia

University of Killam Professor at The University of British Columbia,
Civil Engineering Department

The Promise of Nano-Materials as Functional Additives in Ultra High-Performance Concrete: From Resilience to Sensing to Artificial Intelligence(opens in new tab) 15 May 2025, Thursday
Professor Burcu Akinci

Hamerschiag University Professor and Head of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

Digital Twins and AI towards Autonomy of the Built Environment(opens in new tab) 17 April 2025, Thursday
Professor Thomas Adcock

Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and
Official Fellow at St Peter's College, Oxford

Some applications of Machine Learning on Ocean Hydrodynamics(opens in new tab) 25 March 2025, Tuesday
Professor Yong Bai

Zhejiang University, China
An academician of the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences (NTVA)

Recent research on offshore pipelines, cables, hydrogen transportation and autonomous vehicles(opens in new tab) 18 Nov 2024, Monday
Professor Chung Kwok-Fei

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong SAR, China 

Advanced numerical simulations on welding and its effects on structural behaviour of steel members(opens in new tab) 27 Mar 2024, Wednesday
10.00 AM - 11.00 PM
Professor C. M. Wang

School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland
Leader of Offshore Engineering Program of the Blue Economy
Cooperative Research Centre
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering,
and Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore

Offshore Aquaculture and
Renewable Energy Production
(opens in new tab)
26 Sep 2023, Tuesday
Professor Michael Oppenheimer

He is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at the High Meadows Environmental Institute and the Director of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment of the School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He is also the Associated Faculty of the Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. 

Confronting Rising Sea Levels and the Swelling Risk of Coastal Flooding(opens in new tab)  25th July 2023
Professor J.N. Reddy

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
O'Donnell Foundation Chair IV Professor

Director, Center of Innovation in Mechanics for Design and Manufacturing (CiMDM)

University Distinguished Professor

Regents’ Professor

A Robust Shell Finite Element and A Nonlocal Approach to Model Architected Structures 13 July 2023
Professor Chan Siu-Lai

Director, Nida Technology Limited, Science Park
Retired Chair Professor in Computational Structural Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Advances in Direct Analysis: Ensuring Safety and Economy in Semi-Rigid Structures(opens in new tab) 11 May 2023
Professor Chuyang Y.Tang

Department of Civil Engineering,
The University of Hong Kong

Membranes for Water, Energy, and a More Sustainable World(opens in new tab) 16 Nov 2022
Professor Emeritus Antoine E. Naaman

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan

Ferrocement and Thin Reinforced Cement Composites: from Lambot to Nervi to the present(opens in new tab) 22 Feb 2022
Professor Emeritus Antoine E. Naaman

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan

The Path to Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete: Five Decades of Progress(opens in new tab)

Prof Quek ST presenting our appreciation plaque to Professor Emeritus Antoine E. Naaman after the hybrid event at e-Cube, NUS.(opens in new tab)

18 Feb 2022
Professor Scrivener, Karen L.

EPFL, Switzerland

LC3: A Breakthrough technology to reduce CO2 from cement based materials(opens in new tab) 10 May 2021
Honorary Fellow Dr Harry Tan Siew Ann

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, NUS

Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Practice (Virtual Dream becoming Reality)(opens in new tab) 25-Sep-20
Honorary Fellow Dr Tam Chat Tim

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NUS

Dr Du Hongjian

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NUS

Dr Geng Guoqing

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NUS

Linking Science and Technology in Concrete Research(opens in new tab) 5-Aug-20
Professor Ian Jefferson

Geotechnical Engineering, School of Engineering,
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Evaluating Our Buried Infrastructure with Dynamic Asset Monitoring, Sensing and Data Integration(opens in new tab) 30-Jan-20
Professor Miroslaw Jan Skibniewski

Construction Engineering and Project Management, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Maryland, College Park, USA

WOH HUP Visiting Professor, NUS

Recent Developments in Construction Automation and Robotics Applications(opens in new tab) 14-Jan-20
Professor Torgeir Moan

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Former Keppel Chair Professor, NUS

Design and Analysis of Very Large Floating Bridges and Submerged Tunnels(opens in new tab) 18-Apr-19
Professor Zdeněk P. Bažant

McCormick Institute Professor, WP Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

WOH HUP Visiting Professor, NUS

Recent Advances in Creep, Hygrothermal Deformations and Size Effects in Concrete and Their Impact on Design(opens in new tab) 04-Apr-19
Professor Hitoshi Furuta

Professor, Department of Informatics, Kansai University,
Osaka, Japan

WOH HUP Visiting Professor, NUS

Bridge Maintenance and New Technologies in Japan(opens in new tab) 18-Feb-19
Professor Mark Randolph

Professor of Civil Engineering,
Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems,
University of Western Australia

Damage and premature refusal of driven piles(opens in new tab) 03-Sep-18
Professor Michael A. Hicks

Head of the Section of Geo-Engineering
Chair of the Department of Geoscience and Engineering
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences,
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Recent developments in the modelling of slope failure for flood defences(opens in new tab) 20-Jul-18
Professor Isam SHAHROUR

Tongji University (China) and Lille University (France)
Coordinator of SunRise project “Large-Scale demonstrator of the Smart City”

Could the Smart City improve the resilience and sustainability of urban systems?(opens in new tab) 30-May-18
Professor Kourosh Kayvani

Global Director Excellence & Expertise, Aurecon

The Future of Engineering & Engineers 26-Sep-17
Raymond Paul Giroux, Dist.M.ASCE

Senior Engineer, Kiewit Bridge and Marine
Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. Vancouver, WA  98661

Great Builders 27-Apr-17