BRIGHT SPARKS LECTURES - 11th International Symposium of Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground (IS-Macau 2024), Macau SAR, China
The YMPG in collaboration with the Organising Committee for the 11th International Symposium of Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground (IS-Macau 2024) in Macau SAR, China would like to announce the winners of the Bright Spark Lecture Award to one distinguished young geotechnical engineers/academics: Zhongkai Huang. They were invited to give keynote lectures on 14-17 June 2024.
Dr Zhongkai Huang, Assistant Professor, Tongji University, China
Bright Spark Lecture Title: "Resilience assessment of tunnels: framework and application for tunnels
exposed to seismic hazard"
The Bright Spark Lecture Award was established to promote young members of the ISSMGE to play a major role in various international and regional conferences. Recipients of this award are invited to give a keynote lecture at ISSMGE conferences. All Technical Committee conference organisers and Member Society conference organisers are encouraged to select Bright Spark Lecturers at their conferences. Details regarding the award can be found on the ISSMGE website: https://www.issmge.org/the-society/awards/bright-spark-lecture-award.
We invite everyone, especially young geotechnical engineers, to come and enjoy the lectures. We hope these lectures can inspire and motivate us further to excel in our beloved field, geotechnical engineering.
Winners Bio
Zhongkai Huang
Dr. Zhongkai Huang is currently serving as an Assistant professor at the Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University, China. Dr. Huang obtained his BA and Ph.D. degrees from the Tongji University, China. His research interest is in using advanced techniques to conduct risk and resilience assessment and control of geotechnical infrastructure. He has hosted five scientific research projects crossing from the national awarded grant to industrial-related projects. Utilizing recent advances in computational geotechnical engineering, he has established a research reputation in using multi-disciplinary techniques to solve practical risk and resilience assessment of underground structures and tunnels problems. He is author of more than 30 scientific papers (h-factor 12) published in peer review scientific journals, and proceedings, while he was co-author of one book. He has been invited to present his work in more than ten international and national level academic conferences, and served as guest editor and reviewer for several top tier journals. He has been awarded Youth Talent Support Project of China Association for Science and Technology (2023), Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Tongji University (2020), three Best Conference Paper (2016, 2020, 2021) and 1 First-class of Shanghai Science and Technology Award (2017), etc.
