Invited SpeakerS
Lan Lin | Concordia University, Canada
Dr. Lin joined the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Concordia University in 2011. She received her M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in structural engineering from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa. Her Ph.D. thesis was nominated for Governor General’s Gold Medal as the most outstanding Ph.D. thesis in the Sciences at the University of Ottawa. Her research is in the fields of structural and earthquake engineering and focuses on the improvement of the seismic design and performance of buildings, bridges, and infrastructure systems. Dr. Lin has published about 40 technical publications. In addition to her research expertise, she has extensive practical experience in the design of buildings and bridges. Dr. Lin has received a number of prestigious awards including the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, and Visiting Researcher Fellowship at Stanford University.
Shieh-Kung Huang | National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan
Shieh-Kung Huang got his Ph.D. degree
in the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Taiwan
University (NTU) and is currently an associate professor at the
National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan. He has published
over 20 technical papers in high-impact SCI journals such as
Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Structural Health
Monitoring, and Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics;
moreover, he has been invited to many seminars, workshops, and
international conferences for his speeches.
His research interests are primarily in the areas of smart
structure, structural health monitoring, structural control, and
earthquake early warning. His recent research topics include
automated structural health monitoring, vibration-sensitive
equipment, and seismic isolation devices.
Saman Tavakoli | Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Norway
Saman Tavakoli holds a PhD in Exploration Geophysics from Luleå University of Technology (Sweden). He has earlier worked as senior lecturer in exploration geophysics and also as an advisor in consulting and mineral exploration companies. Dr. Tavakoli has work experience from several countries including Sweden, Norway, Iran, Portugal and Russia. He currently works as Technical Lead in geophysics at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Norway. He is currently Technical Coordinator for the Horizon Europe Project MINEYE (Home - MINEYE Project - Earth Observation for Sustainable Mining) and also Work Package leader for "Exploration and Geomodelling" WP for another European project, Dinamine (Homepage - Dinamine Project). His main areas of research interests include exploration geophysics, Environmental engineering, arctic geophysics, petrophysical research, 3D modelling and multidisciplinary data fusion with applications in geoscience.