Keynote Speakers of ISRMES2019

Alfredo H-S. Ang

NAE Member, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and University of California, Irvine, USA
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Title of Speech/
Reliability-based Optimal Design of Civil Infrastructure Systems

Jianbing Chen

Professor, School of Civil Engineering & State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering
Tongji University, China

Title of Speech/
​A new PDEM-consistent functional perspective to the response and reliability of structural systems involving uncertainty parameters

Jui Sheng Chou

Distinguished Professor,  in Project Management,, Dept. of Civil and Construction Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
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 Title of Speech/
Toward Reliable Design for Mitigating Operational Risk in Wind Energy Projects

Jianye Ching

Distinguished Professor, Geotechnical Group, Dept of Civil Engineering
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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 Title of Speech/
Constructing Site-specific Multivariate Probability Distribution Model: Hybridization versus Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis

Bruce R. Ellingwood

NAE Member,
Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Colorado State University, USA

Title of Speech/
Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings For Natural Hazards: Practical Implementation of Reliability and Risk-informed Decision

Dan M. Frangopol

Professor, Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture
Lehigh University, USA
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Title of Speech/
Reliability, Risk, Resilience And Sustainability of Infrastructure Systems

​Armen Der Kiureghian

NAE Member
Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering Emeritus, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
 Structural Engineering, Mechanics & Materials Program
 University of California at Berkeley
President Emeritus, American University of Armenia, Yerevan
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Title of Speech/
Measures of Component Importance in System Reliability Analysis

Jie Li

Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Structural Engineering
Director, Research Group of Modern RC Structures and Life Engineering
Tongji University, China
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Title of Speech/
Life-Cycle Reliability Analysis of Engineering Structures

Zhao-Hui Lu

Professor, College of Architecture and Civil Engineering 
​Beijing University of Technology, China, 

Title of Speech/
Time-Dependent Reliability Assessment Of High-Speed Railway Ballastless Track-Bridge Structural System

Kok Kwang Phoon

Distinguished Professor & Vice Provost (Academic Personnel),
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Title of Speech/
Chicken (Method) and Egg (Data) - Which Comes First?

Junho Song 

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Seoul National University, Korea

 
Title of Speech/
Gaussian Mixture Based Equivalent Linearization Method (GM-ELM): Genesis, Developments and Earthquake Engineering Applications

Billie F. Spencer, Jr.

​Professor, Nathan M. and Anne M. Newmark Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering
Director, Multi-Axial Full-Scale Sub-Structured Testing & Simulation Facility
Director, Smart Structures Technology Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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 Title of Speech/
Min-Max Formulation for Topology Optimization of Structures subjected to Stochastic Excitation

John Dalsgaard Sørensen

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Aalborg University, Denmark

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 Title of Speech/
Reliability Assessment of Wind Energy Structures

Yan-Gang Zhao

Professor, Dept. of Architecture, faculty of Engineering
Chair, Dept. of Architecture and Building Engineering, Graduate school of Engineering
Kanagawa University, Japan

 Title of Speech/
Structural Reliability Analysis Without Exclusion of the Epistemic Uncertainty in Distribution Parameters