Name: Dr. Luis Miguel González
Affiliation: Universidade de Vigo, Escola de Enxeñaria Aeronáutica e do Espazo
Biography: Luis Miguel González is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Vigo (Spain). His current research is focused on the development of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Systems) for infrastructure inspection tasks, specifically in the development of payloads for contact inspection tasks in large infrastructures such as bridges or dams, as well as in the development of path planning algorithms for UAV navigation in the neighbourhood of structures.
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Name: Professor John T. Harvey
Affiliation: University of California (USA)
Biography: John Harvey is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis, Director of the UC Pavement Research Center (UC Davis and Berkeley), and Director of the City and County Pavement Improvement Center. He is Principal Investigator for projects for research, development, and implementation for a wide range of pavement materials, design, asset management, cost, and environmental topics for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), FHWA, FAA, CalRecycle, the California Air Resources Board, the Transportation Research Board, other state DOTs and industry. He has previously been a researcher and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and worked in pavement consulting in Nigeria and Texas. He has a BSCE from Oregon State University, and MS and PhD from UC Berkeley. He is the founder of the International Symposia for Life Cycle Assessment of Pavements. He is a professional civil engineer in California.
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Name: Dr. Linh Truong-Hong
Affiliation: Optical and Laser Remote Sensing Group, Department of Geoscience & Remote Sensing, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology
Biography: Dr. Linh Truong-Hong is a researcher at the Department of Geoscience & Remote Sensing, the Delft University of Technology after he finished a Marie Curie Fellowship at the same Department. He obtained BEng. and MEng. from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Ph.D. degree from University College Dublin. He was a senior researcher at University College Dublin (2013-2018) after finishing his post-doctoral researcher at the Dublin Institute of Technology (2011-2013). His research interests are to develop integrated frameworks to deploy LiDAR and Photogrammetry in 3D objection reconstruction and change detection for infrastructure inspection and assessment, construction management, and a smart city. Dr. Truong-Hong has published more than 60 scientific papers (with a total citation +1300) and filed 2 patents. His research activity has been recognized through 6 peer-reviewed international awards. His research projects were recently funded by Ireland and European Research Council.
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Name: Mr. Sebastian Esser
Affiliation: Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Biography: Sebastian Esser (M.Sc.) is a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Chair of Computational Modeling and Simulation, Technical University of Munich (TUM). His research focuses on new BIM-based collaboration methods and data exchange using vendor-open data standards. He has recently received the buildingSMART international award 2021 in the student research category and was involved in several international projects aiming to extend the IFC standard towards its application for civil infrastructure projects (including IfcRoad, IfcRail, and IfcCommonSchema).
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Name: Prof. Dr. Guang Ye
Affiliation: Microlab/Section Materials & Environment, Department of 3MD Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG), Delft University of Technology
Biography: Dr. Ye is an associate professor and chairperson on materials behavior and concrete modelling, in the Section of Materials and Environment within the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He is a guest professor in the Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research, Ghent University, Belgium. Dr. Ye’s interests focus on the properties of cementitious materials and alternative binders for concrete. He is the author/co-author about About 246 refereed journal papers, 150 conference papers and 15 books, or contributions to books, and editorial of conference proceedings. Dr. Ye is associate editor of Journal of Materials and Structures, associate editor in chief of Journal of Structural Concrete and editorial advisory board of the Journal of Cement and Concrete Research. Dr. Ye is a senior RILEM member and Chairperson of the RILEM Technical Committee on Mechanical Properties of Alkali-activated Materials (TC-MPA).
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Name: Prof. Dr. S. Sonny Kim
Affiliation: Associate Professor and Graduate Director; Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Biography: Dr. S. Sonny Kim is an associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Georgia. Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2004. Before joining academia, Dr. Kim has been an integral contributor to several nationwide highway/airport pavement improvement projects. His primary research has focused on transportation geotechnics, Resilient/Sustainable Infrastructure monitoring using nondestructive testing, remote sensing, and machine learning. Dr. Kim is Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and was named Distinguished Faculty Fellow by College of Engineering from the University of Georgia. In 2021, Dr. Kim was named Georgia Engineer of the Year by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE) and Civil Engineer of the Year by ASCE Georgia Section. Dr. Kim is a former president of Korean Geotechnical Society – North America and an active ASCE member of G-I Highway Pavement Committee, ASCE T&DI Committee, and Transportation Research Board (TRB) AKP 20 and AKM 80 Committee. He also serves FWD User Group (FWDUG) as Board of Director and academic representative of FHWA Pavement and Materials Technical Feedback Group.
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Name: Dr. Hosin “David” Lee
Affiliation: University of Iowa, USA
Biography: Dr. Lee is a Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Director of Laboratory for Advanced Construction Technology (LACT), Iowa Technology Institute, University of Iowa. Dr. Lee is an internationally recognized expert in pavement engineering and infrastructure asset management. Dr. Lee currently serves Associate Editor of MDPI Infrastructures Journal and Editorial Board of ASCE Journal of Infrastructure System. He is a Member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea. He served Presidents of iSMARTi, KSEA, KSCEE and KOTAA, Board of Trustees of Seoul Institute of Technology, and Chairman of ASCE Highway Pavements Committee. He received the awards from Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea, Asphalt Paving Association of Iowa (APAI), Utah Engineers Council, iSMARTi, KSEA, KOFST, KSRE, and ASCE-Utah Section. He received the Otto Monsted Professorship and COWI Foundation Fellowships in Denmark. He served as Chairman of the First International Conference on Smart Cities, First International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Constructed Infrastructure Facilities, 24th US-Korea Conference, and Fifth International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements.
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Name: Dr. Salvatore Antonio Biancardo
Affiliation: Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Eng. in University of Naples
Biography: Salvatore Antonio Biancardo is Assistant Professor in Roads, Railways and Airports at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) of the University of Naples Federico II. His main research areas are BIM for infrastructures, construction and management of roads, road pavement materials. From 2021 he is a Bentley Qualified Trainer for the BIM-based tool OpenRoads De-signer. From 2020, he is DICEA Principal Investigator of the Research Project “Stone Pave-ments. History, Conservation, Valorisation and Design” - PRIN: Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale, Italy. He serves as Member of: •AED80 Standing Committee on Visualization in Transporta-tion, • AED80 (1) Standing Subcommittee on BIM for Infrastructure, • AFB80 Standing Committee on Geospatial Data Acquisition Technologies in Design and Construction, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, •S.I.I.V. “Soci-età Italiana di Infrastrutture Viarie”, •AIIT “Associazione Italiana degli Ingegneri del Traffico e dei Trasporti”, •C.I.F.I. “Collegio Ingegneri Ferroviari Italiani”. He served as Scientific Committee Member and Chairman for several International Conference in civil engineering area as also as Editorial Board Member/Reviewer and S.I. Lead/Guest Editor for numerous indexed journal. He is author/co-author of more than 70 refereed journal/conference publication.
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Name: Prof. Maria Pina Limongelli
Affiliation: Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (DABC), Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Biography: Maria Pina Limongelli is Associate professor of Seismic and Structural design at Politecnico di Milano in Italy and Guest Professor of Digital Structural Health Monitoring and Integrity Management at Lund University in Sweden. Her research activity deals with Structural Health Monitoring of civil structures and infrastructures, with a particular focus on vibration-based monitoring, and Value of information analysis. Prof Limongelli serves with leading roles in several pre-standardization committees focused on SHM and structural safety such as ISHMII, fib, IABSE and JCSS. She is a member in the Scientific Committee of several international conferences and of the editorial board of international peer-reviewed journals in the SHM and structural safety field. She is the author of more than 180 papers published in scientific journals and presented at international conferences.
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