Professor Shane Snyder
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Biography |
Dr. Shane Snyder is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and is the Executive Director of the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He joined NTU after serving as a Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering and the co-Director of the Water & Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Center at the University of Arizona, USA. For over 20 years, Dr. Snyder's research has focused on the identification, fate, and health relevance of emerging water pollutants. Dr. Snyder and his teams have published over 200 manuscripts and book chapters on emerging contaminant analysis, treatment, and toxicology (h-index = 68 with over 18,000 citations as of February 2018). He currently serves as an editor-in-chief for the international journal Chemosphere. Dr. Snyder has been invited to brief the Congress of the United States on three occasions on emerging issues in water quality. He is a Fellow of the International Water Association and a member of the World Health Organization's Drinking Water Advisory Panel. He has served on several US EPA expert panels and is currently a member of the EPA's Science Advisory Board drinking water committee and the US EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors Sustainable Water committee. He was a member of the US National Academy of Science's National Research Council Committee on Water Reuse and currently serves on the WHO's guiding committee on development of potable reuse guidelines. Dr. Snyder has also worked as a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (2011-2017).
Professor Tan Siew Ann
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Professor Tan Siew Ann was a Colombo Plan Scholar who
graduated from Auckland University with First Class Honors B.Eng. in 1977 as
the top engineering graduate of the school. He joined NUS as a Senior Tutor
and earned his M.Eng. in 1982. His M.Eng. thesis research topic is in the
Geotechnical area on the excess pore pressure behavior of marine clay in
reclaimed land. He was awarded the NUS Overseas Graduate Scholarship to
pursue his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in geotechnical engineering at the
University of California at Berkeley, which he completed 1982 and 1985,
respectively. He has been a staff member of the Department of Civil
Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) since May 1980. He
retired from NUS end of June 2020. He is now an Honorary Fellow of NUS
Engineering faculty.
He had served on the editorial board of “Geotextiles and Geomembranes”, of
the International Society of Geosynthetics, and the Journal of “Geotechnical
Engineering” of the South East Asian Geotechnical Society since 1997. He
also serves as reviewer of several Geotechnical journals and Conferences
over the past three decades. He has published over 300 technical papers
covering topics such as Numerical Geotechnics for Deep Excavations, Pile
Foundations, Geosynthetics, Ground Improvement of Soft Clays, and Land
Reclamation challenges.
He has served as a committee member of several technical committees,
including the US Transportation Research Board committee A2K06 on subsurface
drainage in highway pavements, TC-09 Technical Committee on Earth
Reinforcement for the International Society of Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering, SPRING Singapore technical assessor on
geotechnical testing and site investigations, SPRING committee on earthworks
and geotechnical engineering. Prof Tan had served as Chairman of TR26 the
Technical Reference for Deep Excavation Works in Singapore from 2005 to
2010.
Prof Tan has been an expert user of Plaxis since 1992. He was actively
involved in teaching Advanced Plaxis courses in industry since 2000. He has
taught the use of Plaxis in Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, India, Thailand,
Hong Kong, Australia and the Netherlands over the last 20 years. He was the
course leader for the 1st Asian Experienced Users Plaxis course held in
Singapore in August 2003, and again in Thailand in April 2006. He serves on
the Scientific Network committee for the Plaxis code development, training
and applications since 2002. He is now part of Bentley academy for advancing
education in Computational Geotechnics in the Australia Asian region.
He is a registered professional engineer, since 1992, and a specialist
Geotechnical engineer in Singapore since 2008 when it was first created
after the Nicoll Highway incident. He has been involved in several major
consulting jobs in Singapore and the region. His acted as leader of the
State “Expert Witness Team” comprising of four international experts in the
COI (Committee of Inquiry) for the Nicoll Highway tunnel collapse incident
of 20th April 2004. He also served as the State Expert Witness for the No.3
Church Street 31-storey Tower pile foundation excessive settlements case.
Prof Tan also served on the GeoSS-BCA Working Group for the implementation
of EC7 for Ground Investigations and Pile Foundations in Jan 2015. He was
one of the Keynote Speaker for the GeoSS-BCA Seminar on Deep Foundations on
24 April 2015, focusing on the use of EC7 for pile foundations design.
Prof Harry Tan was awarded the “GeoSS Outstanding Geotechnical Engineer of
the year Award in December 2018”, in recognition of his sustained
contributions to the geotechnical engineering profession in Singapore, in
particular to research, education, and improving the standard of
geotechnical practice in Singapore and the region.
On 25 September 2020, Prof Tan was the invited speaker for the “Woh Hup
Distinguished Lecture” series at NUS which attracted over 1000 attendees on
the Zoom and YouTube platform. His lecture on “Numerical modelling in
geotechnical practice (a dream to reality) was very well received by many
engineers in Singapore and the region.
On 16 December 2020, his lecture in the “Bentley Webinar on Ground
Improvement” on the topic of “Applications of the Concrete Model in recent
Singapore projects” was also attended by more than 700 engineers. These
attest to the fact that Numerical Geotechnics is now an indispensable tool
for modern geotechnical design and practice that requires high level
expertise to realistically capture the nature of soil behaviour to optimise
on cost-effective engineering.
Though retired, Prof Tan continue to actively teach Graduate Geotechnical
modules at NUS CEE Department, and acts as an independent Geotechnical
Expert Consultant serving industry in Singapore and the region to do
advanced design and value engineering with State-of-the-art knowledge and
capabilities to meet the exacting demands and challenges of green
engineering that minimise resource consumption impact on our fragile
environment.
Professor
C.W. Lim
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Biography |
(FASME, FASCE, F.EMI, FHKIE, RPE, 2020 JN Reddy Medalist)
Currently a fellow of ASME, ASCE, EMI and HKIE, Ir Professor Lim received a
B.Eng. from University of Technology of Malaysia, M.Eng. and PhD from
National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University,
respectively. Prior to joining City University of Hong Kong, he was a
post-doctoral research fellow at The University of Queensland and The
University of Hong Kong. He is also a visiting professor at various
universities worldwide. He has expertise in theory of plates and shells,
dynamics of smart piezoelectric structures, nanomechanics, metamaterials and
symplectic elasticity. He is currently the subject editor for Journal of
Sound and Vibration, joint-editor for Journal of Mechanics of Material and
Structures, subject editor for Applied Mathematical Modelling, Managing
Editor (Asia-Pacific Region) for Journal of Vibration Engineering &
Technologies, Associate Editor for International Journal of Bifurcation and
Chaos, etc. and also on the editorial board of some other top-ranked
international journals. He has published one very well-selling title
entitled “Symplectic Elasticity”, co-authored with W.A. Yao and W.X. Zhong
from Dalian University of Technology, as recorded by the publisher, World
Scientific, in Engineering Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering. He has
published more than 370 international journal papers and have more than
13,000 citations. Recently Professor Lim was awarded the prestigious 2020 JN
Reddy Medal as a recognition “for significant and original contributions to
vibration of plates and shells, smart piezoelectric structures,
nanomechanics, and symplectic elasticity”. He will deliver a plenary lecture
and chair another plenary lecture at WCCM-APACM 2022, the largest biennial
meet for computational scientists worldwide. In another scientific forum of
four speakers organized by Chinese Science Bulletin and broadcasted on five
online platforms, Professor Lim presented the opening lecture and the forum
attracted accumulatively over 30,000 audience. He was also previously
awarded Top Referees in 2009, Proceedings A, The Royal Society. Professor
Lim is a registered professional engineer in Hong Kong.
Professor
Pen-Chi Chiang
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Biography |
Dr. Chiang began engaging in teaching and research activities in National Taiwan University since he obtained PhD degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, USA in 1982. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor of Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, a Director of Carbon Cycle Research Center of National Taiwan University, a BCCE of American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES), a Fellow of Water Environment Federation (WEF), and a Diplomat of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He has been actively involved the international and national academic associations served as the Board of Director (1987-2007), Executive Committee (2001), Academic Committee (2008-present), WEF; Chairman, IAWQ Specialized Conference (2001); President, Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering (2004-2006); and AIChE Local Chapter (2009-present). Dr Chiang is known for his work in physicochemical treatment such as carbon adsorption, membrane and ozonation processes. In addition, he was also devoted to the research projects in the area of carbon capture technology, integrated watershed management, and sustainability for energy and industrial development. He has received numerous awards for research achievements, including Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council (1988-1999), Distinguished Chinese Institute of Engineer Research Award (1993), Outstanding Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering Research Award (1993, 1995), Best Paper Award, Environmental and Water Resource Institute, ASCE (2005), and Best Paper Award, Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering (2011, 2014). Dr Chiang has published more than 200 paper papers in the above area since 1990.