Presenter’s profile Prof. Masaki Kitazume graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1979, and obtained Master of Engineering from Tokyo Institute Technology in 1981. Since then, he had worked in the Port and Harbour Research Institute, Ministry of Transport for 30 years, where he was in charge of the head of the Soil Stabilization laboratory for giving technical support to construction projects and establishing design code of ground improvement techniques. In 1994, he got a Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute Technology on the stability of Deep Mixing improved ground. In 2011, he was invited to professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was involved in many land reclamation and ground improvement projects in Japan and in overseas projects including the Design Review on Detail Design of Soil Improvement in Cai Mep - Thi Vai International Port Construction Project in 2006. He was invited as a member of the CEN / TC 288 - Working Group 11 – Vertical Drainage in 2002 - 2008.He has published many papers, mainly on the geotechnical aspects of soil stabilization, ground improvement and centrifuge model testing. He also published three books from Balkema Publishers and Taylor & Francis, on Deep Mixing Method and Sand Compaction Pile Method. He was awarded the Geotechnical Engineering Development award from the Japanese Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation engineering in 1992, the Minister of Transport Award in 2000, and Continuing International Contribution Awards, Japan Society of Civil Engineers in 2006. Dr.Seah Tian Ho - Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Alfa Geotech Co.,Ltd and Visiting Faculty of Asian Institute of Technology. Seah Tian Ho has obtained Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with First-Class honor, 1985, King’s college, University of London, Great Britain and Doctor of Science in Geotechnical Engineering in 1990 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Since then, as Geotechnical Engineer, he was involved many project such as “Prefabricated vertical drain ground improvement of the Second Bangkok International Airport in Bangkok”, “Outer Bangkok Ring Road” in responsible for design, supervision, geotechnical investigation and project management in Thailand and other countries mainly in South East Asia. In his recent experience in Vietnam, he was responsible for design of ground improvement and construction supervision of ground improvement for “Ho Chi Minh-Long Thanh Expressway” and re-evaluation of ground improvement for the project of “Hanoi-Hai Phong expressway in Package EX-7” and design for “Tan Son Nhat- Binh Loi – Outer Ring Road Project” in Vietnam. Also he has published many papers, recently, in 2007, he was published “Simulation of Pressure meter Shearing Mode by True Triaxial Apparatus (Seah,T.H and Shrestha,D.)” in Geotechnical Testing Journal, American Society for Testing and Materials, Vol.30,No.2. Assistant Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hoang Giang - National University of Civil Engineering in Hanoi, Vietnam. Dr. Nguyen Hoang Giang has graduated National University of Civil Engineering in 2003, and he has obtained Master of Civil Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, in 2006 and Doctor of Civil Engineering at Saitama University, Japan in 2010. At this moment, he is an Assistant professor of National University of Civil Engineering in Building and Industrial Engineering and he is the director of International Cooperation Department at National University of Civil Engineering. In his recent jobs in Vietnam, he has been involved in a number of projects soil reinforcement such as: Thai Binh power plant, Nghi Son 1 Power plant. As the consultancy job, he was responsible for bidding consultancy for waste treatment plant in Nam Son, Soc Son, Hanoi in 2013. As the inspection job, he was responsible for soil investigation work; structure analysis; piling work evaluation of the Nghi Son 1 Thermal power plant; Waste water treatment pond’s performance and bearing capacity of Mong Duong 1 thermal power plant. He has published many papers in soil - geogrid interaction, reinforced soil wall stability. He is also an editor for proceedings of several international conferences. He was awarded best papers at the 10 International Summer Symposium, JSCE, Tokyo, Japan 2008 and International Symposium of “New Technology for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia”, 2012 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 10-12 Oct, 2012. And he has created the Center of Promoting Japan-Vietnam Civil Engineers (CJV) and he was appointed the director. Also, he created the Vietnam Chapter of International Geosynthetics Society (VCIGS) which he was appointed the president. |