Bright Sparks Lectures - 8th International Symposium for Geotechnical Safety & Risk (ISGSR 2022) in Newcastle, Australia
The YMPG in collaboration with the Organising Committee for the 8th International Symposium for Geotechnical Safety & Risk (ISGSR 2022) in Newcastle, Australia would like to announce the winners of the Bright Spark Lecture Award to threr distinguished young geotechnical engineers/academics: Hui (Jack) Wang, Johan Spross, and Wenping Gong. They are invited to give keynote lectures on 14-16 December 2022.
- Hui (Jack) Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA
Bright Spark Lecture Title: "Uncertainty quantification in data-driven geotechnical stratigraphic modeling" - Johan Spross, Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden..
Bright Spark Lecture Title: "Risk management of cost overrun and delay in underground excavation" - Wenping Gong, Professor, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China.
Bright Spark Lecture Title: "Coupled Characterization of Stratigraphic and Geo-properties Uncertainties and Evaluation of the Influences on Geotechnical Performance"
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
Hui (Jack) Wang
Dr. Hui (Jack) Wang joined the University of Dayton in 2018 as an assistant professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He obtained his BS and MS degrees in civil engineering from Tongji University and received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Akron in geotechnical engineering. Before his faculty appointment, Dr. Wang has three years of research experience in machine learning and computational geosciences at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. His research focuses on the opportunities in the multidisciplinary fields spanning machine learning, geotechnical/geological subsurface modeling, smart infrastructure, and reliability & risk assessment. He is a member of ISSMGE TC304 (Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management), and ASCE\Geo-Institute Technical committee: Risk Assessment and Management. He is a reviewer for all major international journals of geotechnical engineering, civil and infrastructure engineering, and engineering geology. He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Pipeline Science and Engineering.
Johan Spross
Johan Spross has a master degree in civil engineering (2011) and a PhD in soil and rock mechanics (2016), both from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, where he also is currently employed as a researcher. In 2019, Johan visited the Engineering Risk Analysis group at the Technical University of Munich as a guest researcher. His current research concerns the use of probabilistic tools for design of geotechnical structures, often in combination with the observational method. Recently, however, Johan has broaden his research efforts toward management of economic and contractual risks in underground projects. In addition to doing research, Johan is teaching geotechnics on bachelor and master level, as well as supervising doctoral students. He is also very active in the revision work of Eurocode 7 both on national and European level.
Wenping Gong
Dr. Wenping Gong is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). He received his PhD from Clemson University (USA), and his research focuses primarily on engineering geology, geohazards, site characterization, tunnel engineering, risk and reliability, uncertainty modeling, and remote sensing. He has published more than 70 international journal papers. Dr. Gong is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Geology. He also serves on the editorial boards of several international journals such as Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, and Marine Georesources & Geotechnology. In addition, he is a member of the ASCE/G-I technical committee on Risk Assessment and Management (RAM) and Technical Committee TC304 of ISSMGE.
