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Hosein Naderpour received his Ph.D. degree with high honors in Structural Engineering. He then joined Semnan University where he is presently Professor of Structural Engineering. Since joining the faculty of Civil Engineering at Semnan University, Dr. Naderpour has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of structural engineering, numerical methods, mechanics of materials, structural stability, concrete structures, structural reliability, as well as soft computing. Dr. Naderpour is author of 60 papers published in journals and about 100 papers presented at national and international conferences. He has given several speeches in Switzerland, China, Australia, South Korea, Romania, Turkey, Canada, Hong Kong, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Japan, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic and France. He is currently a chief member of Iranian Earthquake Engineering Association, Iran Concrete Institute (ICI), Iranian Society for Light Steel Framing (LSF), Iran's National Elites Foundation, Safe School Committee, Organization for Development, Renovation and Equipping Schools of Iran (DRES). Furthermore, he is currently the editor-in-chief of three international journals in the area of civil and mechanical engineering including Journal of Soft Computing in Civil Engineering (SCCE), Journal of Computational Engineering and Physical Modeling (CEPM) and Reliability Engineering and Resilience (REngR). His major research interests include: application of soft computing in structural engineering, seismic resilience, structural reliability, structural optimization and damage detection of structures.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
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P. Fakharian received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Civil and Structural Engineering from Semnan University. He is currently a Ph.D. student of Structural Engineering and is working on the reliability of structure with emphasis on code calibration. Furthermore, he is a professional in the area of application of soft computing in Civil Engineering. He is a member of many associations such as American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Iranian Society of Structural Engineering (ISSE), Iran Concrete Institute (ICI), Iranian Society of Steel Structures (ISSS). He serves as deputy editor in two international journals including Journal of Soft Computing in Civil Engineering (SCCE) and Journal of Computational Engineering and Physical Modeling (CEPM). During his academic experience in university, he has performed lots of activity as an executive manager in many parts. His awards include: 1st Top Ranked Ph.D. Student Honor at Semnan University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, a Distinguished student of Semnan University masters student, Top 10% Ranked B.Sc. Student Honor at Semnan University, Faculty of Civil Engineering. He has taught a variety of academic courses including Statics, Construction Machinery, Strength of Materials, Bridge Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Cost Estimating, Principles of Construction Management, Building Construction Techniques, Architecture and Urban Design, Principles of Architecture and Urbanism.
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DANIAL JAHED ARMAGHANI received his Ph.D. degree in Civil-Geotechnics from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia. He is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney. He published more than 300 articles in well-established ISI and Scopus journals, national, and international conferences. His published works have received more than 18000 citations. His research interests include tunneling, rock mechanics, piling technology, blasting environmental issues, applying artificial intelligence, and optimization algorithms in civil-geotechnics. He was among the world’s Top 2% Scientists, in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
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Panagiotis G. Asteris is full professor, Head of the Civil Engineering Department and Director of Computational Mechanics at the School of Pedagogical & Technological Education, Athens, Greece. He received BS, MS and PhD degrees in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece. His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Mechanics, Soft Computing, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Masonry Materials and Structures. Professor Asteris is the author/editor of three books in computational structural engineering. He is also the editor-in-chief of the journals Metaheuristic Computing and Applications and the Open Construction and Building Technology Journal. He has also authored more than 200 publications on peer-reviewed international journals and is member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). Prof. Asteris has recently been included in the list with the world's top 2% scientists for 2019, 2020 & 2021.
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Dr. Faeze Khademi has been a bridge rating engineer with CN Railway since August 2017. In addition to her core responsibilities at the company, she has been an instructor for the Bridge Inspection Workshop series held by CN on a regular basis, entrusted by Human Resources (HR) to serve on the company’s interview panel for employment opportunities, and regularly sought-after to attend university career fairs as an ambassador to both represent CN and inspire interest from potential talent.
She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 2015 and 2017, respectively, in civil (structural) engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. Additionally, she earned her second M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering, from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) in 2022.
Dr. Khademi is the author of multiple top-cited articles in addition to acting as a technical manuscript reviewer for prominent scientific journals, including those published by ASCE and Elsevier. She received the "Publons Peer Review Awards 2018" for being among the top 1% of reviewers due to her extensive peer review records on the platform’s reviewer database. She has also been a member of the SEAOI annual bridge symposiums' organizing committee since 2020. Once established in academia, she was awarded the National Interest Waiver of the United States for her remarkable contributions to the field of civil engineering.
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EDUCATION - Potential of the candidate
2012 Ph. D. in computer science, University of Maribor (UM), Slovenia
2008 M. Sc. in computer science, University of Maribor (UM), Slovenia
2006 B. Sc. in computer science, University of Maribor (UM), Slovenia
WORK POSITIONS - Potential of the candidate
2014 – Assistant Professor (Docent), UM, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2006 – Teaching Assistant, UM, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
before 2006 student-paid works (laboratories at UM and other companies), see http://cv.aleszamuda.si
PROJECTS
2018- EU project employed member: SmartVillages - Smart digital transformation of villages in the Alpine Space
2017 worked under EU ERC project AI4REASON with team based in Prague
2017- COST (Cooperation in Science & Technology) Actions member: IC1406 High-Performance Modelling
and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet), CA15140 Improving Applicability of Nature-
Inspired Optimisation by Joining Theory and Practice (ImAppNIO); also vice-leader for CA15140 WG3:
Benchmarks and leader of IC1406 CS9: Forecasting Cryptocurrency Value by Sentiment Analysis
2017 project lead (national project): Interactive Multimedia Bulletin Boards - Adin DS: Upgrading the
Transformation Server, Display Widgets, and Marketing Structures
2015 project co-lead (national project): Adding new sales routes and the introduction of a new labeling
shipments technology
2015 project co-lead (national project): Developing a model for the demonstration of the APS system on the
test data of the company
2012- Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) research programme (stable funding) employed group member: P2-
0041 Computer Systems, Methodologies, and Intelligent Services
2006 – research group member: 0796-001 Computer Architecture and Languages Laboratory
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS - Scientific excellence and innovative approach of the academic work
2017, 2018 Publons top 1% reviewer
2016 Danubius Young Scientist Award, IDM (Austria)
2012 gold medal at SIIF, Seoul (2012)
2011 most important scientific results of national research programme P2-0041 at UM FEECS
2012 most important socio-economic results of national research programme P2-0041
2007–2010 several Top 5 rankings at IEEE CEC world competitions on Evolutionary Algorithms;
2007 IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Competition vice champion
2008 Andrej Perlach UM research award
2006–2014 four UM FEECS research awards; UM bronze award for research, education, and profession
2007 – international research society member: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
other several other national awards (available at http://aleszamuda.si/w/awards)
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Structural Engineering
Soft Computing
Earthquake Engineering
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Dr Yiannis Tsompanakis is a civil engineer specialized in computational dynamic methods in engineering. He is Assoc. Professor in the School of Environmental Engineering of the Technical University of Crete, Greece, and Head of Computational Dynamics & Energy (CODEN) Research Group. He teaches undergraduate & postgraduate courses and has supervised PhD, MSc and Diploma theses. He is expert in development and application of advanced simulation techniques and computational methods for structures and infrastructures. His research and engineering interests and expertise include structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering, geoenvironmental engineering, soil-structure interaction, structural optimization, probabilistic mechanics, structural integrity assessment & monitoring, life-cycle analysis & performance-based design, and artificial intelligence methods. As an internationally recognized researcher he has published more than 200 publications (journal papers, international conference papers, book chapters, edited books and conference proceedings). He has also prepared special issues in journals and organized several conferences, special sessions and mini-symposia. He is reviewer in many archival scientific engineering journals. Dr Tsompanakis has excellent leadership, interpersonal and negotiating skills and many international cooperations with other scientific groups and engineering firms in Greece and abroad (USA, UK, Italy, Germany, France, Serbia, etc). He is highly skilled in implementation and management of quantitative/qualitative state-of-the-art research. He has significant practical and scientific experience from his participation in many national and international projects, working either with his group or jointly with other collaborating teams. He is Secretary of Technical Committee TC4: Life-cycle performance, cost and optimization ηηρ International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR). He is Organizer of the International Conference Series on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering. Moreover, he is Technical Editor of the Structure and Infrastructure Engineering Journal (Taylor & Francis Publ.).
CODEN Research Group consists of several under-graduate and post-graduate students and post-doc research associates. The scientific expertise of the CODEN Research Group focuses mainly in the broad area of Computational Dynamics. Main research and scientific fields with strong know-how of CODEN are related with this area. In particular, innovative computational tools and methodologies are developed and applied for the analysis and design of structures and infrastructures under static or dynamic/seismic loading. CODEN group main expertise is the development and application of advanced simulation techniques and computational methods for structures and infrastructures (buildings, geostructures, lifelines, etc). Research interests of CODEN group include structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil-structure interaction, structural optimization, probabilistic mechanics, structural integrity assessment & monitoring, mitigation of geohazards, life-cycle analysis & performance-based design, artificial intelligence methods in engineering, etc. CODEN group has many cooperations with other scientific groups in Greece and other countries and has participated in national and international projects. CODEN group has given particular emphasis on various engineering problems related to geohazards for structures and energy infrastructure, aiming to assist in the protection of the environment, population and energy infrastructures (transportation networks, pipelines, plants, tanks, etc) from natural and man-made disasters. Indicative research fields: a) design of onshore and offshore gas pipelines against geohazards (active faults, landslides, soil liquefaction, etc), b) seismic design of liquid fuel tanks and storage terminals, c) onshore and offshore wind turbine design with emphasis on dynamic soil-structure interaction, d) seismic vulnerability of dams, waste landfills, tailings dams, etc.
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He was born on December 26, 1968 in Gdynia. Graduate of the High School at the Consulate of the People's Republic of Poland in Benghazi, Libya (1987), student at the Gdańsk University of Technology (uniform master's studies, 1987-1991 and 1992-1993), University of Sheffield, England (engineering studies, 1991-1992), University of Roskilde, Denmark (Master's course, 1993) and University of Tokyo, Japan (doctoral studies, 1994-1997).
From the beginning of his professional career associated with the Gdańsk University of Technology: assistant-trainee (1992-1993), assistant (1993-1994), assistant professor (1998-2010), associate professor of PG (2010-2017), full professor of PG (from 2018). At the Gdańsk University of Technology he also obtained the degree of habilitated doctor (2007) and the title of professor of technical sciences (2014).
His research interests are related to seismic and paraseismic engineering and the dynamics of metal structures. He is the author / co-author of nearly 300 scientific publications, and his Hirsch index is: 21 (Web of Science - Core Collection), 25 (Scopus), 28 (Google Scholar). He also has 2 patents granted. He participated in the implementation of 10 research projects financed from domestic and foreign sources (including twice as project manager, once as deputy manager and once as team leader). He promoted 8 doctors (including 2 times as a co-promoter abroad), currently he is a promoter in 3 open doctoral dissertations and a supervisor of 1 doctoral student. He is a member of the editorial committees of 11 scientific journals and a member of 5 expert teams and committees.
He held a number of functions at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Gdańsk University of Technology: dean's representative for vocational studies (2002-2005), dean's representative for the implementation of teaching in foreign languages (2008-2012), deputy dean for education (2012-2016), deputy Head of the Department of Metal Structures and Construction Management (2016-2017). Currently, he is the head of the Department of Management in Construction and Seismic Engineering and the head of Doctoral Studies. He was also a member of the Rector's Commission for ECTS (2002-2003), the University Recruitment Commission (2000-2005) and the Senate Committee on Education (2012-2016). In addition, the chairman, vice-chairman and member of the Board of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2009-2010, 2011-2012, 2013-2018),
He was awarded 20 individual prizes by the Rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology for scientific and didactic activities. He received the award of the Minister of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry (1994), the award of the Gdańsk Scientific Society (1998), the scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science (1999), the award of the IV Department of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2008), the prize of W. Nowacki for outstanding scientific achievements of the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2015). He was awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit (2006) and the Medal of the National Education Commission (2011).
Privately, husband of Monika, father of two sons: Kacper and Kajetan. His hobbies are sports (volleyball, cycling, tennis, skiing).
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Education
Degree: Ph.D., National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2000
Major: Structural Engineering
Doctoral Dissertation: Structural design optimization based on evolutionary algorithms and neural networks
Degree: Dipl. Eng., Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1994
Major: Structural Engineering
Diploma Thesis: Application of neural networks in the analysis and designs of structures
Employment History
National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Associate Professor, 2017-present
ACE HELLAS, technical software company, Athens, Greece, Consultant, 1999-present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, Visiting Professor, January-March 2014
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Visiting Professor, October-December 2013
National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Assistant Professor, 2012-2017
National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Lecturer, 2007-2012
School of Corps of Engineers of the Hellenic Army (SCEHA), Lecturer, 2007-2013
University at Thessaly, Volos, Greece, Assistant Professor, 2000-2007
Hellenic Ministry for Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works, Consultant, 1999-2001
National Technical University of Athens, (2007-present)
Dr. Lagaros is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Structural Analysis and Antiseismic Research in the School of Civil Engineering in the National Technical University of Athens. He teaches Structural Analysis I, Structural Analysis II, Structural Analysis V-Plastic Analysis of Framed Structures, Introduction in Systems Optimization and Computer Applications in Civil Engineering. Dr. Lagaros is an active member of the structural-engineering research community, focusing on (a) nonlinear dynamic analysis of concrete and steel structures under seismic loading, (b) performance-based earthquake engineering, (c) structural design optimization of real-world structures, (d) seismic risk and reliability analysis, (e) neural network in structural engineering, (f) fragility evaluation of reinforced concrete and steel structures, (g) inverse problems in structural dynamics, (h) parallel and distributed computing – Grid computing technologies, (i) evolutionary computations and (j) geotechnical earthquake engineering.
Consultant, (1999-present)
Dr. Lagaros has provided consulting, peer-review and expert-witness services to private companies and federal government agencies in Greece. A focus of his consulting work is the assessment of buildings after earthquake events and the development of technical software for structural analysis and design.
School of Corps of Engineers of the Hellenic Army (SCEHA), (2007-2013)
Dr. Lagaros was a Lecturer at the School of Corps of Engineers of the Hellenic Army. He has joined the School in September 2007 and has taught Structural Analysis I, Structural Dynamics, Plastic Analysis of Framed Structures and Theory of Plates.
University at Thessaly, (2000-2007)
Dr. Lagaros was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering in the University of Thessaly. He has joined the Department in October 2000. He has taught the junior-level classes on Strength of Material III, the senior-level classes on Structural Dynamics I and the graduate class on Structural Dynamics II.
Structural Optimization
Topology Optimization
Shape Optimization
Sizing Optimization
Reliability-based Design Optimization
Robust Design Optimization
Computational Mechanics
Software Engineering
Material Design
Mesh Generation
Stochastic FE Analysis
Earthquake Engineering
Fragility Analysis
Performance-based Design
Soft Computing
Neural Networks
Radial Basis Networks
Support Vector Machines
Metaheuristic Search Algorithms
Fuzzy Logic
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Qualifications
Journal Editorial Board Membership:
Computers & Structures – Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-structures/editorial-board)
Advances in Engineering Software – Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-engineering-software/editorial-board)
Soft Computing in Civil Engineering (http://www.jsoftcivil.com/journal/editorial.board)
Conferences (http://www.cstconference.com/), (http://www.ectconference.com/)
Current Teaching Module
Research Interest
Other Achievements/ Most Prominent Publications
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Professor Qing Quan (Stephen) Liang is an Associate Professor of Structural Engineering in the College of Engineering and Science at Victoria University, Australia. He's also the Founder and President of the Australian Association for Steel-Concrete Composite Structures (AASCCS), a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and has served on the ASCE Technical Committees on Optimal Structural Design and Composite Construction. In 2005 Dr Liang received the State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award from ASCE.
He has been a Guest Professor at Changsha University of Science and Technology, Central South University and Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology in China since 2003 and is also a member of the editorial boards of several international journals, including Steel and Composite Structures ― An International Journal.
Before joining Victoria University in 2008, Dr Liang was a Lecturer in Structural Design, Associate Head and Program Coordinator at the University of Southern Queensland, ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate at the University of New South Wales and Research Associate at University of Western Sydney.
His research focuses on developing efficient computational methods and computer simulation technologies for the optimal structural design and nonlinear inelastic analysis of steel-concrete composite structures, steel structures and concrete structures. He has published over 90 books, book chapters, journal articles and refereed conference papers. Dr Liang is the sole author of the research book Performance-Based Optimization of Structures: Theory and Applications and of the textbook Analysis and Design of Steel and Composite Structures published by Taylor and Francis Group. He also co-authored the research book Nonlinear Analysis of Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Columns. More than 85% of his journal articles were published in SCImago Journal Rank Q1 international journals.
Dr Liang's teaching is directly informed by the latest research in structural engineering.
Patel, V. I., Liang, Q. Q. & Hadi, M. N. S. (2015) Nonlinear Analysis of Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Columns(external link), Scholars’ Press, Germany, ISBN 978-3-639-66536-9.
Liang, Q. Q. (2014) Analysis and Design of Steel and Composite Structures(external link), CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York, ISBN 9780415532204.
Liang, Q. Q. (2005) Performance-Based Optimization of Structures: Theory and Applications(external link), Spon Press, Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York, ISBN 0-415-33594-9.
Liang, Q. Q. & Patrick, M. (2001) Design of the Shear Connection of Simply-Supported Composite Beams, Design Booklet DB1.2, Composite Structures Design Manual, OneSteel, Sydney.
Liang, Q. Q. (2018) Numerical simulation of high strength circular double-skin concrete-filled steel tubular slender columns, Engineering Structures, 168: 205-217. SCImago Journal Rank = Q1. Impact Factor = 2.258.
Kamil, G. M., Liang, Q. Q. and Hadi, M. N. S. (2018). Local buckling of steel plates in concrete-filled steel tubular columns at elevated temperatures, Engineering Structures, 168: 108-118. SCImago Journal Rank = Q1. Impact Factor = 2.258.
Patel, V. I., Liang, Q. Q. and Hadi, M. N. S. (2017). Nonlinear analysis of biaxially loaded rectangular concrete-filled stainless steel tubular slender columns, Engineering Structures, 140: 120-133. SCImago Journal Rank = Q1. Impact Factor = 2.258.
Liang, Q. Q. (2017). Nonlinear analysis of circular double-skin concrete-filled steel tubular columns under axial compression, Engineering Structures, 131: 639-650. SCImago Journal Rank = Q1. Impact Factor = 2.258. Citations = 3.
Patel, V. I., Liang, Q. Q. and Hadi, M. N. S. (2017). Nonlinear analysis of circular high strength concrete-filled stainless steel tubular slender beam-columns, Engineering Structures, 130: 1-13. SCImago Journal Rank = Q1. Impact Factor = 2.258.
View the full list of Associate Professor Liang’s publications(external link).
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View Associate Professor Liang’s ResearchGate profile(external link).
Currently, Associate Professor Liang teaches the following units:
He has previously taught the following units:
Currently supervising 2 PhD students as Principal Supervisor at Victoria University.
Associate Professor Liang has many years of industry experience as a structural design engineer and has designed many multi-storey buildings.
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Research Areas
Education
Banaras Hindu University (B.H.U.), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Banaras Hindu University (B.H.U.), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Banaras Hindu University (B.H.U.), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Prof Tshilidzi Marwala is the Vice-chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg (UJ). Previously he was the deputy vice-chancellor for Research and Internationalisation and the executive dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, both at UJ.
He progressively held the positions of Associate Professor, Full Professor, the Carl and Emily Fuchs Chair of Systems and Control Engineering, as well as the SARChI Chair of Systems Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Tshilidzi, who's PhD specialised in Artificial Intelligence and Engineering, has published 11 books on artificial intelligence, one of which has been translated into Chinese, more than 280 papers in journals, proceedings, book chapters and magazines and holds three international patents.
He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Systems Science (Taylor and Francis Publishers), has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, University of California at Berkeley, Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge and Nanjing Tech University, as well as member of the programming council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology in Poland.
He has received more than 45 awards, including the Order of Mapungubwe.
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Dr. Kaan Yetilmezsoy is a Professor of Environmental Engineering Department, Civil Engineering Faculty, at Yildiz Technical University, Davutpasa Campus, Esenler, Istanbul, TURKEY. He received BSc in both Environmental Engineering (First Rank Graduate in both Department of Environmental Engineering and Faculty of Civil Engineering, 2002, GPA: 3.86/4.00) and Civil Engineering (graduated as High Honor Student, 2004, GPA: 3.60/4.00) from Yildiz Technical University (2nd rank graduate). He also obtained MSc (Numerical Analysis Approach to Absorption Tower Design, 2004, GPA: 3.79/4.00) and PhD (Treatability of Poultry Manure Wastewater Using Anaerobic Sludge Bed Reactor, 2008, GPA: 3.90/4.00) in Environmental Engineering from Yildiz Technical University.
His areas of interest include design of water and wastewater treatment plants, post-treatment technologies, fluid mechanics and hydraulics, environmental modeling, linear/non-linear regression analysis-based modeling, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS), statistical analysis, verification and validation methods, parametric and non-parametric tests, numerical analysis, anaerobic digestion processes, post-treatment technologies, MAP precipitation, Fenton's oxidation, composite desirability functions, empirical modeling, absorption tower (packed tower) design, kinetic modeling, RSM-based experimental design, multi-objective optimization techniques, MATLAB® programming, and scientific computation for engineers.
He has served as the Peer Reviewer of 85 Journals (total peer reviews: 183) including Water Research (Elsevier), Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier), Water and Environment Journal (Wiley), Environmental Technology (Taylor & Francis), Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer), Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier), CLEAN - Soil, Air, Water (Wiley), Environmental Engineering Science (Mary Ann Liebert), Biochemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier), Fluid Phase Equilibria (Elsevier), Bioresource Technology (Elsevier), Applied Mathematical Modelling (Elsevier), Neural Computing & Applications (Springer), Environmental Engineering and Management Journal (Gh. Asachi, Technical University of IASI), and Applied Clay Sciences (Elsevier). He has also served as the Ad Hoc Reviewer for two project proposals submitted to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (Small and Mid-Size Farms, Phase I and II).
He has 148 publications including 114 refereed international journal papers, 10 national journal papers, 18 conference proceedings, 1 international book chapter, and 5 books entitled Water Supply and Sewerage Applications (Turkish Water Foundation Publications, ISBN: 975-6455-16-0, 1st Edition, 2004, and ISBN: 978-975-6455-16-6, 2nd Edition, 2008, 3rd Edition, 2015), Operating Principles of Water Treatment Plants (Turkish Ministry of Forest and Water Affairs), and Statistics and Experimental Design for Environmental Engineers (ISTAC, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Environmental Protection and Waste Materials Recycling Industry and Trade Company, ISBN: 978-605-6326-974). According to Google Scholar Citations, his papers got 2837 citations including peer-reviewed journal papers, conference proceedings, thesis and scientific books. His h-index and i-index are 26 and 52, respectively.
In the last 14 years, he has performed research in the areas of anaerobic digestion technology artificial intelligence-based modeling and computation in Environmental Engineering. He has been Supervisor for 12 graduate theses (3 PhD and 9 MSc). He also developed two new courses (Graduate Degree: Application of Prediction Models in Environmental Engineering – 0416126 and Undergraduate Degree: Projection and Application in Environmental Engineering – 0412071) and taught at Department of Environmental Engineering, Yildiz Technical University. He also developed several new empirical equations (prediction models) dealing with optimum body diameter of air cyclones, required retention time in hindered settling, volume of completely mixed activated sludge reactor, packed tower design in physical ammonia absorption, dimensionless kinetic coefficient (inhibition parameter) for poultry wastes, waste sludge flow rate and aeration parameters in the steady-state completely mixed activated sludge process.
Prof. Yetilmezsoy teaches undergraduates (Wastewater Treatment Plant Hydraulics, Water Supply and Sewerage, Wastewater Treatment Plant Design, Water Treatment Plant Design, Biological Unit Operations, Projection and Application in Environmental Engineering, Technical Drawing and Design Geometry, Advanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies, Computer Applications in Environmental Engineering, Materials in Environmental Engineering) and graduates (Application of Prediction Models in Environmental Engineering, Optimization Applications in Environmental Engineering, Filtration) of Environmental Engineering Department at Yildiz Technical University.
He has been a Coordinator, an Adviser, and a Researcher of 1001 Turkish Scientific and Technologic Research Association (TUBITAK) Project and Yildiz Technical University KAP and GEP Projects. He has headed the Quality and Strategic Planning Committee of Department of Environmental Engineering, Yildiz Technical University since September 2009. He has served as a member of the Committee of Continuous Quality Improvement Education Project (EKSIP Project), Revolving Fund Team, Accreditation Committee, Inspection Committee, MUDEK Committee, Dicipline Investigation Committee, and the Committee for inspection of historical water galleries and cisterns in Davutpasa Campus at Yildiz Technical University. He has also served as the Panel Examiner and the External Adviser in the Turkish Scientific and Technologic Research Association (TUBITAK) for examining of the Scientific Reseach Project Proposals submitted to TUBITAK-CAYDAG, TUBITAK-3001, TUBITAK-2223, and the External Examiner in the Examining Committee for Doctoral Proficiency and MSc Thesis Defence Examinations. He is a recipient of 80 major awards from Turkish Scientific and Technologic Research Association (TUBITAK), Rectorship of Yildiz Technical University, Elsevier, Wiley, and other institutions. He is also a receipient of the Outstanding Young Scientist Award (GEBIP) of the year 2018 from Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA).
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Fabio Mazza, born in Cosenza (Italy) in 1968, graduated in Civil Engineering with honours at the University of Calabria (Italy) in 1993. He is Associate Professor of "Structural Engineering" (ICAR/09) at the University of Calabria (Cosenza). He is Ph. Doctor of Computational Mechanics. He previously was: C.N.R. scholarship holder (1994-95), tutor of the National Group for Protection against Earthquakes to evaluate the seismic vulnerability of buildings inn Calabria (1998-99), research fellow (1999-2003); researcher of "Structural Engineering". He is giving the course of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Engineering of Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete at the University of Calabria. He is a member of the Ph. Doctorate of Civil and Industrial Engineering. He is author of about 150 scientific papers, for the most part regarding topics of Earthquake, Wind and Fire Engineering: modelling and nonlinear dynamic analysis of fire-damaged r.c. framed structures; passive control of seismic or wind vibrations through isolation and/or energy dissipation; modelling and nonlinear static and dynamic analysis of two- and three-dimensional reinforced concrete (r.c.) structures; modelling and nonlinear analysis of composite steel-concrete beam-column sub-assemblages; assessment of the seismic vulnerability of r.c. buildings. He has been scientific responsible for projects financed by the University of Calabria (projects "Young Researchers", for years 2001 and 2003) and M.I.U.R. ( Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research) since 2005. He is responsible of a research unit for Re.L.U.I.S. (Italian network of university laboratories of earthquake engineering) for a research line regarding “Control of seismic vibrations of structures”. He also participated to research units for P.R.I.N. (Scientific Research Program of Relevant National Interest) in 1999, 2003 and 2007. He presented papers at several national and international conferences. He has been referee of the many International Journals (e.g. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Engineering Structures, Smart Structures and Systems, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Recent Patent on Computer Science, Wind and Structures). He is member of many technical and scientific associations. Among these: Italian Association of Wind Engineering (AA.N.I.V.), Italian Association of Earthquake Engineering (A.N.I.D.I.S.), Italian Working-Group of Seismic Isolation (G.L.I.S.), Anti--Seismic Systems International Society (A.S.S.I.S.I.), Italian Association of Concrete Structure (A.I.C.A.P.), Italian Association of Steel Structures (C.T.A.).
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Dr. Sánchez-Silva main area of research is structural reliability and risk analysis. His work is directed mainly towards risk assessment and management of physical infrastructure related problems. His work includes stochastic modeling and optimization. His research also includes problems where the socioeconomic context and the environment play a significant role, and consequently, traditional risk analysis models can only be used partially.
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Eisuke Kita was born in Japan in 1964. He moved straight from high school to School of Engineering of Mie University. After getting the bachelor and the master degree, he moved to Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering of the Nagoya University and graduated with the Doctor of Engineering in 1991. He spent 9 years in the School of Mechanical Engineering as a lecturer and an assistant professor, and 11 years in the School of Informatics and Science as an associate professor. He became, in 2009, the full professor of the Graduate School of Information Science of the Nagoya University. His publications include numerical analysis schemes, multi-agent traffic simulation, artificial market simulation, application of Bayesian network and so on. He earned the honor as Encouraging prize of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering in 2000, Encouraging prize of Computer Science Committee of Information Processing Society of Japan in 2007 and 2009.
There are many things that you do not know how it will happen to various objects in nature and society, such as environment, buildings, stock prices, transportation, ecosystems, networks, and the phenomena found there. Therefore, by simulating natural phenomena and social phenomena on a computer together with scientific knowledge of mathematics · computer and literary knowledge such as economics and psychology, and by taking advantage of these results, We are conducting research on stock price forecasting, data mining, traffic congestion mitigation and so on. While actively discussing, both the teacher and the students are learning together. People who are interested in various things are welcome. 1) Stock price forecast, company analysis, artificial market simulation, 2) easing traffic congestion, running in rows, 3) evolutionary calculations such as grammar evolution and so on.
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Jolanta Tamošaitiene. Doctor, Associate professor, working in the Institute of Sustainable Construction, Dept. of Construction Management and Real Estate, of Civil Engineering Faculty at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.
The author of 5 Highly Cited Papers and Hindex-18 of the author ISI Thomson Reuters Web of Science database. Since 2013 is a member of Editorial Board “The Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management”, Member since 2011 is a member of Editorial Board „Technological and Economic Development of Economy” journal. Since 2009 is a member of EURO Working Group OR in Sustainable Development and Civil Engineering, EWG-ORSDCE. She published about 50 scientific papers. Research interests: many miscellaneous management areas (enterprise, construction project and etc.), risk assessment, construction project administration, building life-cycle, construction technology and organisation, decision-making and grey system theory, Decision Making (DM), statistics, optimization, strategies, game theory, intelligent support system, Sustainable Development: developing of alternative construction processes, economic and other aspects, sustainable development challenges for business and management in construction enterprises, environmental impact processes and etc.
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PhD (Structural Engineering) Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan
MSc (Technical Education), Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
BE (Hons), Cairo University, Egypt
The International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (or IALCCE)
Member
The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ)
Member
ENBU603 Building Construction
ENBU705 Concrete Structures
ENBU800 Structural Engineering Design
ENBU801 Structural Dynamics
Structural health monitoring and damage detection
Earthquake engineering
Dynamic testing of bridges
Large-scale field testing
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| Education 2018-2019 |
| course unit | function |
| Bachelor's thesis - Construction(3524) | Co-lecturer |
| Integrated project - Construction(3554) | Co-lecturer |
| Introduction to building engineering(2587) | Co-lecturer |
| Master's thesis - Construction(2865) | Member of the teaching team |
| Research and communication: construction(2582) | Co-lecturer |
| Road design and road ergonomics 1(2669) | Co-lecturer |
| Road design and road ergonomics 2(2871) | Co-lecturer |
| Road safety evaluation: methods and applications(3145) | Coordinating lecturer |
| Road safety evaluation: methods and applications_DL(3053) | Coordinating lecturer |
| Road safety evaluation: methods en applications(3043) | Coordinating lecturer |
| The construction site from A to Z 3 (internship)(3569) | Member of the teaching team |
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Area of Interest
Hydrology, Hydrodynamics, wave mechanics, stochastics, soft computing
Research Interest
Soft Computing Applications in Hydrology, Ocean Engineering
Effect of climate change on Oceanic and Hydrologic variables
Technical Skills
Software used: MATLAB, Discipulus, GP Kernel, LS-SVM, WEKA,
Teaching
UG: Engineering Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Fluid Mechanics I and II, Hydrology, Dams and Hydraulic Structures, Systems Approach in Civil Engineering, Mechanics of waves
PG (Water Resources): Fluid Mechanics, Open Channel Hydraulics, Optimization Techniques, Hydrology, Design of Hydraulic Structures
Projects
Column buckling load using ANN
Preliminary beam design using ANN
Runoff forecasting using ANN
Rainfall-runoff modeling using ANN
Modeling stage-discharge relationship using soft and hard tools
Hydrological Behavior of Green Roofs under UK Climatic conditions
Rainfall-runoff modeling using SVR
Online tide prediction using Neural Networks
Modeling evaporation using M5 model trees
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Jalil Kianfar, Ph.D., joined Parks College of Engineering, Aviation, and Technology in January 2014 as Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. He received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Azad University-Najaf Abad, M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Azad University-Tehran South and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri.
Over the past 10 years, Dr. Kianfar has conducted work and research in the field of transportation engineering in a variety of environments. He has been involved in development of simulation models for connected vehicles, evaluation of active traffic management strategies, development of travel demand forecasting models, and analysis of pedestrian and transit facilities. Dr. Kianfar’s research interests include traffic operations, traffic modeling and simulation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, connected vehicles, transportation safety, optimization and heuristic techniques.
Dr. Kianfar’s research interests include traffic operations, traffic modeling and simulation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, connected vehicles, transportation safety, optimization and heuristic techniques.
While studying at University of Missouri, Dr. Kianfar developed a connected vehicle simulation test-bed. The simulation test-bed provided a foundation to further investigate the various applications of connected vehicle technology. The test-bed was used to develop a framework for the placement of roadside equipment units (RSEs) in an urban network.
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