Meet Our Keynote Speakers
Prof Kenichi Soga, UC Berkeley
Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing Technologies for Infrastructure Monitoring
Kenichi Soga is the Donald H. McLaughlin Professor and a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He obtained his BEng and MEng from Kyoto University in Japan and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He was Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge before joining UC Berkeley in 2016. His current research activities are infrastructure sensing, performance based design and maintenance of infrastructure, energy geotechnics, and geomechanics. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Dr. Atsushi Yashima, Gifu University, Japan
Challenge to Health Monitoring of Road Embankment Slope
Dr. Atsushi Yashima is a Professor of Gifu University, Japan. He earned his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from Kyoto University in 1986. Dr. Yashima’s areas of expertise are geo-disaster mitigation, earthquake engineering and numerical analysis. He has developed many numerical codes to predict geo-disaster and design new countermeasures. He has more than 300 publications and got 8 awards for contributions to research. He has served as a key member in various professional engineering associations, including Vice President of the Japanese Geotechnical Society, a Board member of the Japan Landslide Society and the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.