{"id":4552,"date":"2020-02-05T14:06:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/?page_id=4552"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:53:05","slug":"woh-hup-distinguished-lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/woh-hup-distinguished-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"WOH HUP &#8211; Distinguished Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul id=\"menu-highlights\"><li id=\"menu-item-13652\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/highlights\/news\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-13653\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/highlights\/events\/\">Events<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-13654\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/woh-hup-distinguished-lectures\/\">WOH HUP &#8211; Distinguished Lectures<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-18119\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/seatriumdistinguishedlectures\/\">Seatrium Public Lectures<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-22372\" aria-haspopup=\"true\"><a aria-expanded=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/highlights\/keppelsymposium\/\">Keppel Sustainable Futures Symposium<\/a>\n<ul>\n\t<li id=\"menu-item-22617\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/highlights\/keppelsymposium2026\/\">Keppel Sustainable Futures Symposium 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\n\t<h2>\n\t\t\tWOH HUP &#8211; Distinguished Lectures\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><strong>Name &amp; Designation of Professor<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Lecture Topic<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Date of Visit<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Kenichi Soga<\/strong>\nDonald H. McLaughlin Chair &amp; Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley<br \/>\nDirector, Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure<br \/>\nFaculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/nus.syd1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_9F7uTcKggXBwKRE?Q_CHL=qr\">Recent Advances in Large Deformation Modelling and Its Application<\/a><\/td>\n<td>10 November 2026, Tuesday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Yukio Tamura<\/strong>\nProfessor and Advisory Director, Research Centre for Wind Engineering, Environment and Energy (RCWE<sup>3<\/sup>), School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, China<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/nus.syd1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_e8TM2G86ur5eqy2?utm_source=sfmc&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=CDE_CEE_Woh+Hup+Lecture+Series&amp;utm_term=here&amp;utm_id=316420&amp;sfmc_id=107724355\">Damping Ratios and Natural Frequencies of Buildings for Wind-Resistant Design: Roles of Various Building Parameters<\/a><\/td>\n<td>20 October 2026, Tuesday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Jia-Liang Le<\/strong>\nDepartment of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering<br \/>\nUniversity of Minnesota<\/td>\n<td>Mechanistic Mapping of Random Fields for Stochastic FE Simulations of Damage and Failure of Heterogeneous Materials<\/td>\n<td>30 September 2026, Wednesday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Venkatesh<\/strong>\nUniversity Distinguished Professor &amp; Director, SAFE-D Center<br \/>\nDepartment of Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering<br \/>\nMichigan State University, USA<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhup20260805\/\">Engineering Fire Safety for Next-Generation Materials and Structures<\/a><\/td>\n<td>05 August 2026, Wednesday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor John Dolbow<\/strong>\nProfessor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science<br \/>\nAssociate Vice President for Research and Innovation<br \/>\nDuke University<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhup20260306\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On the Interplay Between Strength and Energetics in the Fracture of Solids(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>06 March 2026, Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Burcu Akinci<\/strong>\nHamerschlag University Professor, and Head of the Department of Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering<br \/>\nCarnegie Mellon University<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhup20251121\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Twins and AI towards Autonomy of the Built Environment(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>21 November 2025, Friday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Robert H. Dodds<\/strong>\nProfessor Emeritus<br \/>\nDepartment of Civil, Environmental, M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering<br \/>\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhup20251022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modern FADs for Elastic-Plastic Fracture Mechanics(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>22 October 2025, Wednesday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Jia-Liang Le<\/strong>\nDepartment of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering<br \/>\nUniversity of Minnesota<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhup20251008\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Integrated Computational-Experimental Study of Graphite Nano-Planet Modified Asphalt Materials(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>08 October 2025, Wednesday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Bassam A. Izzuddin<\/strong>\nProfessor of Computational Structural Mechanics<br \/>\nDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering<br \/>\nImperial College London<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhup20250723\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rational Assessment of Structural Robustness for Multistorey Buildings(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>23 July 2025, Wednesday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>A\/Professor Julia Mullarney<\/strong>\n<p>Associate Dean (Research), Division STEM, Co-leader &#8211; Earth and Environmental Sciences Team, Te Aku Matuatua &#8211; School of Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand<\/p>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhup20250620\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flows, turbulence, and sediment transport in and around vegetation in a coastal environment: Predictions, patchiness, and persistence(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>20 June 2025, Monday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Distinguished Professor Jie Yang<\/strong>\nSchool of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhup20250606\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Functionally graded porous structures: Analyses, performances, and applications(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>09 June 2025, Monday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Nemkumar (Nemy) Banthia<\/strong>\nUniversity of Killam Professor at The University of British Columbia,<br \/>\nCivil Engineering Department<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhupdistlect20250515\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Promise of Nano-Materials as Functional Additives in Ultra High-Performance Concrete: From Resilience to Sensing to Artificial Intelligence(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>15 May 2025, Thursday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Burcu Akinci<\/strong>\nHamerschiag University Professor and Head of the Department of Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhuplect20250417\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Twins and AI towards Autonomy of the Built Environment(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>17 April 2025, Thursday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Thomas Adcock<\/strong>\nProfessor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and<br \/>\nOfficial Fellow at St Peter&#8217;s College, Oxford<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhup20250325\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some applications of Machine Learning on Ocean Hydrodynamics(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>25 March 2025, Tuesday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Yong Bai<\/strong>\nZhejiang University, China<br \/>\nAn academician of the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences (NTVA)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhup_20241118\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recent research on offshore pipelines, cables, hydrogen transportation and autonomous vehicles(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>18 Nov 2024, Monday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Chung Kwok-Fei<\/strong>\nThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University<br \/>\nHong Kong SAR, China<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/event-detail\/wohhupdistect_20240327\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advanced numerical simulations on welding and its effects on structural behaviour of steel members(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>27 Mar 2024, Wednesday<br \/>\n10.00 AM &#8211; 11.00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor C. M. Wang<\/strong>\nSchool of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland<br \/>\nLeader of Offshore Engineering Program of the Blue Economy<br \/>\nCooperative Research Centre<br \/>\nFellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering,<br \/>\nand Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/08\/Woh-Hup-Distinguished-Lecture-Prof-CM-Wang.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Offshore Aquaculture and<br \/>\nRenewable Energy Production(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>26 Sep 2023, Tuesday<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Michael Oppenheimer<\/strong>\nHe 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.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/Woh-Hup-Distinguished-Lecture-by-Prof-Michael-Oppenheimer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confronting Rising Sea Levels and the Swelling Risk of Coastal Flooding(opens in new tab)<\/a>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>25th July 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor J.N. Reddy<\/strong>\nProfessor, Mechanical Engineering<br role=\"presentation\" \/>O&#8217;Donnell Foundation Chair IV Professor<br role=\"presentation\" \/>Director, Center of Innovation in Mechanics for Design and Manufacturing (CiMDM)<br role=\"presentation\" \/>University Distinguished Professor<br role=\"presentation\" \/>Regents&#8217; Professor<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/Woh-Hup-Announcement-13July2023.pdf\">A Robust Shell Finite Element and A Nonlocal Approach to Model Architected Structures<\/a><\/td>\n<td>13 July 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Chan Siu-Lai<\/strong>\nDirector, Nida Technology Limited, Science Park<br \/>\nRetired Chair Professor in Computational Structural Engineering<br \/>\nThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/Woh-Hup-Announcement-11.05.2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advances in Direct Analysis: Ensuring Safety and Economy in Semi-Rigid Structures(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>11 May 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Chuyang Y.Tang<\/strong>\nDepartment of Civil Engineering,<br \/>\nThe University of Hong Kong<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/Woh-Hup-Announcement-16.11.2022_Hybrid_Flyer-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Membranes for Water, Energy, and a More Sustainable World(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>16 Nov 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Emeritus Antoine E. Naaman <\/strong>\nDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/Seminar-Announcement-24.02.2021_Hybrid_Flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferrocement and Thin Reinforced Cement Composites: from Lambot to Nervi to the present(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>22 Feb 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Emeritus Antoine E. Naaman <\/strong>\nDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/Woh-Hup-Announcement-18.02.2022_Hybrid_Flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Path to Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete: Five Decades of Progress(opens in new tab)<\/a>\n<a href=\"\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Prof-Quek-presenting-plaque-to-E-Prof-Antoine.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>18 Feb 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Scrivener, Karen L.<\/strong>\nEPFL, Switzerland<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/Woh-Hup-Distinguished-Lecture-by-Professor-Scrivener-Karen-L-on-10-May-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LC3: A Breakthrough technology to reduce CO2 from cement based materials(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>10 May 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Honorary Fellow Dr Harry Tan Siew Ann<\/strong>\nDepartment of Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, NUS<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/2020\/10\/05\/25-sep-2020-honorary-fellow-dr-harry-tan-siew-ann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Practice (Virtual Dream becoming Reality)(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>25-Sep-20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Honorary Fellow Dr Tam Chat Tim<\/strong>\nDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NUS<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<p><strong>Dr Du Hongjian<\/strong><\/p>\nDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NUS<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<p><strong>Dr Geng Guoqing<\/strong><\/p>\nDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NUS<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/2020\/10\/05\/5-aug-2020-honorary-fellow-dr-tam-chat-timdr-du-hongjian-dr-geng-guoqing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linking Science and Technology in Concrete Research(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>5-Aug-20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Ian Jefferson<\/strong>\nGeotechnical Engineering, School of Engineering,<br \/>\nUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/2020\/07\/30\/30-jan-2020-professor-ian-jefferson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evaluating Our Buried Infrastructure with Dynamic Asset Monitoring, Sensing and Data Integration(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>30-Jan-20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Miroslaw Jan Skibniewski<\/strong>\nConstruction Engineering and Project Management, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,<br \/>\nUniversity of Maryland, College Park, USA\n<em>WOH HUP Visiting Professor, NUS<\/em><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/2020\/07\/30\/14-jan-2020-professor-miroslaw-jan-skibniewski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recent Developments in Construction Automation and Robotics Applications(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>14-Jan-20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Torgeir Moan<\/strong>\nNorwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)<br \/>\nFormer Keppel Chair Professor, NUS<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/2020\/07\/30\/18-apr-2019-professor-torgeir-moan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Design and Analysis of Very Large Floating Bridges and Submerged Tunnels(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>18-Apr-19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Zden\u011bk P. Ba\u017eant<\/strong>\n<p>McCormick Institute Professor, WP Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University<\/p>\n<em>WOH HUP Visiting Professor, NUS<\/em><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/2020\/07\/30\/recent-advances-in-creep-hygrothermal-deformations-and-size-effects-in-concrete-and-their-impact-on-design-professor-zdenek-p-bazant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recent Advances in Creep, Hygrothermal Deformations and Size Effects in Concrete and Their Impact on Design(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>04-Apr-19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Hitoshi Furuta<\/strong>\nProfessor, Department of Informatics, Kansai University,<br \/>\nOsaka, Japan\n<em>WOH HUP Visiting Professor, NUS<\/em><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/2020\/07\/30\/bridge-maintenance-and-new-technologies-in-japan-professor-hitoshi-furuta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bridge Maintenance and New Technologies in Japan(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>18-Feb-19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Mark Randolph<\/strong>\nProfessor of Civil Engineering,<br \/>\nCentre for Offshore Foundation Systems,<br \/>\nUniversity of Western Australia<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/2020\/07\/30\/damage-and-premature-refusal-of-driven-piles-professor-mark-randolph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Damage and premature refusal of driven piles(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>03-Sep-18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Michael A. Hicks<\/strong>\nHead of the Section of Geo-Engineering<br \/>\nChair of the Department of Geoscience and Engineering<br \/>\nFaculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences,<br \/>\nDelft University of Technology, Netherlands<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/2020\/07\/30\/recent-developments-in-the-modelling-of-slope-failure-for-flood-defences-professor-michael-a-hicks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recent developments in the modelling of slope failure for flood defences(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>20-Jul-18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Isam SHAHROUR<\/strong>\nTongji University (China) and Lille University (France)<br \/>\nCoordinator of SunRise project &#8220;Large-Scale demonstrator of the Smart City&#8221;<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/cee\/2020\/07\/30\/could-the-smart-city-improve-the-resilience-and-sustainability-of-urban-systems-professor-isam-shahrour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Could the Smart City improve the resilience and sustainability of urban systems?(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/td>\n<td>30-May-18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Professor Kourosh Kayvani<\/strong>\nGlobal Director Excellence &amp; Expertise, Aurecon<\/td>\n<td>The Future of Engineering &amp; Engineers<\/td>\n<td>26-Sep-17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Raymond Paul Giroux, Dist.M.ASCE<\/strong>\nSenior Engineer, Kiewit Bridge and Marine<br \/>\nKiewit Infrastructure West Co. 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