The 63rd Rankine Lecture – From Geo-monitor to Geo-adapt: leveraging distributed sensing and data analytics for performance-based design, construction, and maintenance

Speakers

• Professor Kenichi Soga

  University of California, Berkley USA

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  Professor Kenichi Soga

  University of California, Berkley USA

  Kenichi Soga is the Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering and a Distinguished Professor at the University of California Berkeley. He earned his BEng and MEng from Kyoto University in Japan and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Berkeley in 2016, he was a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He has authored more than 450 journal and conference papers and co-authored the book “Fundamentals of Soil Behavior”. His research focuses on infrastructure sensing, performance-based design and maintenance of underground structures, energy geotechnics, and geotechnics from micro to macro. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He has received numerous awards, including the George Stephenson Medal and Telford Gold Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is also a Bakar Fellow of UC Berkeley, working to promote the commercialization of smart infrastructure technologies.

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