Archive for the ‘Speakers’ Category

Ir. Djoko Kirmanto, Dipl. HE.
Indonesian Minister of Public Works

Djoko Kirmanto graduated from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta and completed his masters in land and water development at IHE-DELFT in the Netherlands in 1977. He was appointed in 1997 as assistant to the residential development department head at the Ministry of Public Works during the Soeharto administration. Since 2001, he has held the post of director general of residential affairs at the Ministry of Settlement and Regional Infrastructure, Minister of Public Works.

Dr. Bambang Susantono
Vice Minister of Transportation Department, Indonesia

Dr Susantono is the Vice Minister for Ministry of Transportation, Republic of Indonesia. He is the President of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Indonesia and a Board Member of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Asia-Pacific. He serves as the President of Civil Engineering Alumni Association of Bandung Institute of Technology (ALSI-ITB) and a Board of Trustee of the Southsouth North Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dr. Bambang Susantono holds a Bachelor in Civil Engineering from the Bandung Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering (MSCE) in Transportation Engineering, a Master of City and Regional Planning (MCP), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), all from the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches at the Graduate Program and is the program coordinator of Master’s program in Infrastructure Management in Civil Engineering at the University of Indonesia.

Dr. Susantono writes academic journals, books and articles in his fields of expertise in infrastructure planning, transportation engineering, and regional development. He speaks in his areas of research in both national and international events.

Gregory E. Diloreto, P.E., F.ASCE
ASCE President 2013

Greg DiLoreto is the Chief Executive Officer of the Tualatin (To-wal-a-tin) Valley Water District located in metropolitan Portland Oregon. He has worked in the public works field for 34 years, 17 years as a public works director/city engineer. Mr. DiLoreto holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University and a Masters degree in Public Administration from Portland State University. He is registered as a civil and environmental engineer and a professional land surveyor in Oregon. Mr. DiLoreto is a fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers. He served on the ASCE Board of Direction 2004-06. He has received the 1986 ASCE Edmund Freidman Young Engineer Award, the 1995 ASCE Oregon Section Outstanding Civil Engineer award and the 2005 ASCE Government Engineer of the year award. In 2003 he was inducted into the Oregon State University Academy of Distinguished Engineers. In October 2012 he will be installed as ASCE’s President.

Prof. Sang-Ho Lee
Yonsei University, South-Korea

Prof. Sang-Ho Lee is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He is the Head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and Director of the Research Center for Asset Management of Civil Infrastructure and Small and Medium Business Promotion Center of Yonsei University.
He has received B.S. and M.S. degrees in the Civil Engineering from Yonsei University (Korea), and Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University (USA). His former area of expertise was Computational Mechanics such as Meshfree Method and eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM), and current research interests are Building Information Modeling (BIM) of Infrastructure and BIM-based Asset Management of Infrastructure. He serves and has served as the committee chair or key member in the areas of Construction CALS-EC, Construction-IT convergence, BIM, International Standards, etc.

Prof Gwo-Fong Lin
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Dr. Gwo-Fong Lin is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Taiwan University.  He was the Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department and Director of the Hydrotech Research Institute at National Taiwan University. He has received various honors and awards.

He is also active in international and national academic activities serving as committee members or chairmen, and member of editorial boards, associate editor, and editor-in-chief of scientific journals. Research interests of Professor Lin include Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, Hydroinformatics, Computational Hydraulics, Risk and Reliability Analysis, and ANN.

Prof. Masyhur Irsyam
Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia

Currently, Prof. Masyhur Irsam is a professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. His research interests include Soil Behavior, Ground Improvement, Foundation Engineering, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Stability of Slope and Excavation, Soft Ground Tunneling, Offshore Geotechnics, Computational Geotechnics, Instrumentation and Testing in Geotechnical Engineering.

Prof. Mete A. Sozen
Purdue University, USA

Prof. Mete A. Sozen is the Kettelhut distinguished professor of structural engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. His research interests include development of professional design codes for reinforced and pre-stressed concrete structures, and for earthquake-resistant design of reinforced concrete structures.

He has received several honors and awards: Honorary Doctorate, Bogazici University, Turkey, 2004; John Parmer Award, Structural Engineers Association of Illinois, 2003; Distinguished Lecturer, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 2002; Noel Nathan Memorial Lecturer, University of British Columbia, 2002; Outstanding Paper Award, ASCE Council on Forensic Engineering , 1998; Honorary Doctorate, Johann Pannonius University, Hungary, 1998; Honorary Doctorate, Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, 1998; and Illinois Section Structural Group Lifetime Achievement Award, 1998.

Prof. Yozo Fujino
University of Tokyo, Japan

He is a professor of civil engineering, at the University of Tokyo, since 1990. He has also served as science adviser (adjunct) to Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, in 2002-2004. Prof. Fujino was a Melchor Chair Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, in 1997, a Visiting Associate Professor inAsian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, in  1987, and a Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, in 1980.

His fields of expertise inlcude bridge and structures, bridge design, bridge aerodynamics, bridge loading analysis, cable dynamics, wind effects on structures, control and monitoring of bridges and tower-like structures, bridge maintenance and management, earthquake effects on structures, nonlinear dynamics, passive control and active control of bridges and tower-like structures, and safety and security of urban environments.