treasurer

Dr. Yu Wang FASCE

is a Registered Professional Engineer and Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, a Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Past President of ASCE (HK). He specializes in geotechnical engineering, and his expertise spans into analytics and statistics of geo-data, geotechnical uncertainty, reliability and risk, soil and rock property characterization using laboratory and in-situ tests, soil-structure interaction, and risk assessment of critical civil infrastructure systems. His research has earned several international recognitions, including the Highly Cited Research Award by the International Journal of Engineering Geology in 2017, the GEOSNet Young Researcher Award in 2015 in the Netherlands, and the Wilson Tang Best Paper Award in 2012 in Singapore. Dr Wang has authored/co-authored about 150 technical publications, including 2 books and about 90 journal papers.