BRIGHT SPARKS LECTURES - 2nd International Conference on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies (CREST2023), Fukuoka, Japan
The YMPG in collaboration with the Organising Committee for the International Conference on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies (CREST2023), Fukuoka, Japan would like to announce the winners of the Bright Spark Lecture Award to threr distinguished young geotechnical engineers/academics: Shintaro Miyamoto, Navila Tabassum, and Chengjiong Qin. They were invited to give keynote lectures on 20-22 November 2023.
Dr Shintaro Miyamoto, Associate Professor, National Defense Academy of Japan, Japan
Bright Spark Lecture Title: "Laboratory Evaluation of Geocell Reinforcement Technology for Road Restoration"
Dr Navila Tabassum, Postdoctoral Resesarcher, Yokohama National University, Japan
Bright Spark Lecture Title: "Some Insight into Effects of Primary Curing Conditions on the Strength Development of Soils Treated with Paper Sludge Ash-based Stabilizer"
Mr Chengjiong Qin, Ph.D. Student, Kyushu University, Japan
Bright Spark Lecture Title: "Centrifuge Modeling of Highway Embankment Improved by Hybrid Type Reinforcement"
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
Shintaro Miyamoto
Dr. Shintaro Miyamoto is an associate professor of civil engineering department of the National Defense Academy of Japan (NDA). He received his Dr. Eng. from Kyushu University in 2016. During his doctoral program, he was a research fellowship of young scientists at the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS). After receiving his Dr. Eng., he became an assistant professor in 2016, a lecturer in 2020, and an associate professor in 2023 at NDA. He has received several presentation awards and paper awards for young researchers from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), the Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS), and the Japanese Chapter of International Geosynthetics Society (JC-IGS), Presentation award: JSCE(2011, 2012, 2015), JGS(2014, 2015, 2023), Paper award: JGS(2016), JC- IGS(2022). He is a member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and a secretary of the Japanese Technical Committee of Transportation Geotechnics (TC202) of ISSMGE. He is also a member of the academic research committees of JGS and JSCE and a member of the electronic information committee of JC-IGS.
Navila Tabassum
My name is Navila Tabassum, and I work at Yokohama National University as a postdoctoral researcher and part-time faculty member with a focus on geotechnical engineering. I successfully finished my Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Engineering degree from the same prestigious institution in September 2023. My commitment to academia and research was recognized during my PhD studies with the "Excellent Student Award" from the Department of Urban Innovation at Yokohama National University. The Mitsubishi Corporation International Scholarship (2021-2023) was another honor bestowed upon me. In 2020, I earned a Master of Engineering from Saitama University, Japan, prior to earning my PhD. During my master's program, I was awarded an ADB-JSP (Asian Development Bank-Japan Scholarship Program) scholarship. Prior to my endeavors in Japan, I contributed as a Lecturer at a university in Bangladesh for a duration of two years. In 2016, upon completing my undergraduate studies, I was recognized for exceptional academic performance and included in the Deans list of honor. In the future, I hope to contribute to the field of Geotechnical Engineering, with a focus on research and education. I hope to continue making substantial contributions to academia and to leave a lasting impression on future generations of scholars.
Chengjiong Qin
Chengjiong Qin is a doctoral student at Kyushu University in Japan. His interest in disaster prevention and reduction was sparked after he visited the Wenchuan earthquake site in Sichuan in 2012. He obtained a BE degree in Management from Anhui University of Science and Technology in China in 2016, and earned a MS degree in Engineering from Kyushu University in 2021. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Kyushu University. His research has focused on the design and evaluation of hybrid pile system for reinforcing highway embankments located above liquefiable sand layers during seismic loadings. His research includes laboratory studies (centrifuge tests) and computer modeling, and he has actively collaborated with engineers from K's Lab Inc., IMAGEi Consultant Corporation, and Giken Ltd. He was honored to achieve one Best Paper Award and one Best Presentation Award at CREST 2020 in Japan, as well as an Outstanding Student Award and one Best Presentation Award from The Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS).
