Presentation title: "Progress of Strong Motion Prediction"

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Kojiro Irikura is Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University, Japan. He became professor of Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University in 1988. He has been a visiting professor at University of Southern California in 1984-1986. Politecnica de Milano in 1989 and a Visiting Scientist of Centro Nacional de Prevencion de Disastrous, Mexico. He served as Director of Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University in 2001-2003. He also served as Vice President of Kyoto University in 2003-2004. In 2003 he became Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University. He continues an active research program as an Adjunct Professor at Aichi Institute of Technology. He is strong motion seismologist. His primary research interest is understanding the earthquake source process and the generation of strong ground motion. He developed an empirical Green’s function method to simulate source model and ground motions. He has developed a recipe of predicting strong ground motions with Hiroe Miyake, Earthquake Research Institute of University of Tokyo.

Presentation title: "Research and Development of Systems for Seismic Damage Mitigation for Life Environment and Industrial Facilities in Japan"

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Prof. Satoshi Fujita, a JSME (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers) Fellow, had ten years of management experience as a director, a dean of school of engineering and a vice-president of Tokyo Denki University. He has been engaged in engineering research and development of seismic isolation systems and vibration control systems for buildings or key industrial facilities for over 35 years at Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo and Tokyo Denki University. In recent ten years, he has been not only a vice chairman of Seismic Design Subcommittee, Nuclear Standards Committee of the Japan Electric Association, but also a committee member of the Panel on Infrastructure Development of Japanese ministry of land, infrastructure and transport (MLIT), and a chair of the Special Committee on Analysis and Evaluation of Lifts, Escalators and Amusement Facilities Accidents and Failures held in MILIT. In addition, he has been a chair of the ISO TC178 Japanese committee.

Presentation title: "The Need to Act Now – Investments and actions to enhance resilience globally"

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Niels Holm-Nielsen is the Head of the Secretariat for GFDRR. This facility is a multi-donor partnership that funds technical assistance and advisory services to improve climate and disaster risk management at country, city and community levels.
He has over 10 years of experience as Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Specialist at the World Bank Group. For the past five years, he has been the World Bank’s Global Technical Lead for Resilience and DRM, a role which focuses on supporting task teams and managers across the World Bank to achieve highest possible technical quality of the services the World Bank offers its clients related to DRM. He has led and co-led the creation and implementation of a series of global technical assistance and knowledge service partnerships, including on risk reduction for education facilities as well as the World Bank Cities Resilience Program.
Previously, Niels was Lead DRM Specialist for the Africa Region and Latin America and Caribbean region, where he led teams of DRM specialists building a growing and innovative line of business in support of DRM in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean with national and subnational clients that spans the use of virtually all the World Bank’s financial instruments as well as client financed, donor financed, and Bank-financed technical assistance and convening services, for issues like urban resilience, coastal resilience, risk financing, hydromet, emergency preparedness, and disaster recovery.
He joined the World Bank in 2006 as Junior Professional Officer in Middle East and North Africa Region.
Before joining the World Bank he worked for the Inter-American Development Bank for five years where he helped create the corporate policy on disaster risk management and establish DRM as a development practice. He holds a M.Sc. in Political Science from the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Presentation title: "Methodology for Seismic Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) for Nuclear Facilities: Current Status and Future Developments."

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Dr. Robert J. Budnitz has been involved with nuclear-reactor safety for many years, with a special emphasis on the seismic safety of nuclear installations. His particular expertise is in analyzing how nuclear safety systems behave in large earthquakes to assure overall facility safety, and developing advanced probabilistic methods for that analysis. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He recently retired from the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From 2002 to 2007 he was at UC’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and before that he ran a one-person consulting practice in Berkeley California for over two decades. In 1978-1980, he was a senior officer on the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, serving as Deputy Director and then Director of the NRC Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. He earned a Ph.D. in experimental physics from Harvard in 1968.

Presentation title: "Opportunities and Challenges for Making Asia Disaster Resilient: an Outlook from a Developing Country"

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Dr. Dixit’s 48 years of professional experience includes stints with the government and private consulting firms, as visiting professor with Tribhuvan and Kathmandu Universities and with the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He served as a member of Scientific Committee and Governing Board of the Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM), and currently chairs the Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN). He founded the National Society for Earthquake technology Nepal (NSET) and serves currently as the General Secretary. He is affiliated with the Digital Belt and Road (DBAR) Program, and the Integrated Research in Disaster Risk (IRDR)
Dr. Dixit has received numerous national and international awards and has published over 100 scientific research papers.

Presentation title: "Towards a New Paradigm in Seismic Soil-Foundation–Structure Interaction"

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George Gazetas has been Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (Greece) for 30 years, following an academic career in the US, where he taught at SUNY-Buffalo, Rensselaer (RPI), and Case Western Reserve University. His main research interests have focused on Soil Dynamics and Soil-Structure Interaction. Much of his research has been inspired by observations after destructive earthquakes. An active writer and teacher, he has been a consultant on a variety of (mainly dynamic) geotechnical problems. He is recipient of many awards, including the James Croes Medal, the Alfred Noble Prize, and the Walter Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He has given several prestigious lectures sponsored by international geotechnical societies, including the 2009 "Coulomb", the 2013 "Ishihara", and the 2019 "Maugeri" Lectures. In 2015 he received the "Excellence in University Teaching" award from the Institute of Science and Technology of Greece, and in March 2019 he delivered the 59^th Rankine Lecture in London.

Presentation title: Harnessing the Power of Data to Reduce Earthquake Risk: Challenges and Opportunities

Tracy Kijewski-Correa is Linbeck Collegiate Chair and Associate Professor, jointly appointed in College of Engineering and Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Her research is dedicated to enhancing the resilience and sustainability of communities in response to the challenges posed by increased urbanization and hazard vulnerability. As the co-founder of the Integration Lab (i-Lab) and Engineering2 Empower (E2E), she has worked most notably in Haiti on issues of long-term recovery following the 2010 earthquake. Her transdisciplinary scholarship closes the gap between research and practice by conceiving holistic responses to identified infrastructure vulnerabilities and supporting science-informed decision making by diverse stakeholders. She currently serves as the inaugural director of the Structural Extreme Event Reconnaissance (StEER) network, which organizes networks of engineers to assess damage after hazard events globally and then use this knowledge to drive recovery and future resilient construction policy and practices.

Presentation title: "Seismic Design and Response Control of Tall Buildings"

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Dr. Xilin Lu is a distinguished professor at the Department of Disaster Mitigation for Structures in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.He received his PhD. degree in Structural Engineering at Tongji University in 1984, and worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta in 1990, and as a research associate at the University of Hong Kong in 1992. His main researchareas aredynamic testing, seismicanalysis and design, and vibration controlof tall buildings. He is a recipient of Nathan M. Newmark Medal by ASCE in 2017.He was elected as a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2019. He is currently the vice president of International Associationfor Experimental Structural Engineering, and theChief Editors oftwo prestigious SCI-indexed International Journals: "The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings", and "Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering".

Presentation title: "Promoting Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration and Earthquake Resilience Through High-Resolution Performance-Based Simulations"

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Greg Deierlein is the John A. Blume Professor and Director of the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University. He currently co-directs the SimCenter of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) and from 2000 to 2007 was the Deputy Director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER). Deierlein specializes in the design and behavior of structures, nonlinear structural analysis, computational damage mechanics, and performance-based earthquake engineering. He is a registered professional engineer (NY) and is active in development of building code standards and policies to promote seismic resilience. He is a former board member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineering, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Presentation title: "Seismic Design, Retrofit and Repair of Road Bridges in Japan"

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Dr. Hoshikuma is the Research Coordinator for Road Structure, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management(NILIM), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Japan. He is currently responsible for strategy of utilization of advanced techniques to the periodical inspection for bridge, tunnel and soil structure. He was the head of Kumamoto Recovery Division from 2017 to 2019 and the head of Bridge Division in 2016 in NILIM, and he involved the revision of bridge design codes and the field projects of bridge repair damaged by the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake. Before joining NILIM, he worked with the Public Works Research Institute where he researched on the seismic design and retrofit of bridges, the ductility estimation of the flexural reinforced concrete columns, the seismic performance of the rubber bearing and the tsunami effect on the bridge performance based on damage experiences due to past earthquake.

Presentation title: "Challenges of Computational Earthquake Engineering - from Fault Failure to Social Responses"

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Muneo Hori is Director General at Research Institute for Value-Added-Information Generation, Japan Agency for Marine Science and Technology. He is a project professor at i-Construction System Study, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, as well as a senior visiting researcher, Research Center of Computational Science, RIKEN. He is serving as a program director of Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, related to natural disaster mitigation.
His research filed includes computational earthquake engineering, the achievement of which is the development of high-performance-computing finite element method and integrated simulation of earthquake hazard and disaster. He has written more than 200 peer reviewed articles and more than 10 books; noted is Introduction to Computational Earthquake Engineering that goes to the third edition. He has received several awards for his works, including Kobayashi Medal, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (2013), Finalist of ACM Gordon Bell Prizes (2014, 2015, 2018), and Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2020).
Hori received his Ph.D. (1987) from University of California, San Diego. He was appointed to a professor, Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo the University of Tokyo (2001-2019). He was a department Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University and a visiting professor, University of California, Davis.

Presentation title: "Rising challenges of coping with both structure dynamics to behavior dynamics through innovative approaches."

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Dr. Li holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the National Central University, where he specializes in structure dynamics, seismic design, and earthquake engineering. Currently, he leads international collaboration and conducts research on large-scale urban disasters and disaster risk management in the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR). As having been a disaster manager in case of typhoons or earthquakes, he applied his engineering knowledge and backgrounds for facilitating emergency operation at the Central Emergency Operation Center, formulating policies of seismic risk reduction and designing disaster management system in Taiwan.
Dr. Li have very active involvements in international collaborations including three terms of Co-chair APEC Emergency Preparedness Working Group (EPWG), a member of Scientific Committee of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and a member of Board of Directors of the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI). His responsibilities include building capacity in the region through engaging public-private partnership to better mitigate and respond to emergencies and natural disasters in the Asia Pacific.

Presentation title: "From Earthquake Risk to Earthquake Insurance"

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Mustafa Erdik is a Professor Emeritus of Earthquake Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, and currently serves as the President of the Turkish Earthquake Foundation and the Board Member of Türk-Reinsurance. He has received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University, USA. He has been working with UN organizations and several international foundations around the world on earthquake engineering problems and has authored and co-authored 5 books and about 300 scientific publications.
He is the recipient of the United Nation's Sasakawa Disaster Prevention Award; NATO’s Science for Peace Summit Prize; Bruce Bolt Medal given by Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, USA; Prof. Nicholas Ambraseys Distinguished Lecture Award given by the European Association for Earthquake Engineering and; Science Award by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
His current research and professional involvement encompass earthquake hazard and risk assessment and earthquake insurance modeling.

Presentation title: "Identification and Mitigation of Seismic Hazards from Inherited Vulnerabilities"

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Misko Cubrinovski is a Professor of Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He holds a BSc degree in Civil Engineering, MSc degree in Earthquake Engineering, and a PhD degree in Geotechnical Engineering (from the University of Tokyo).

His research interests and expertise are in geotechnical earthquake engineering and in particular problems associated with liquefaction, seismic response of earth structures and soil-structure interaction. Cubrinovski has authored or co-authored over 350 technical publications, and has worked as a geotechnical specialist and advisor on over 50 significant engineering projects. He had a leadership role in the research efforts supporting recovery following the 2010-2011 Christchurch earthquakes. His honours include the 2019 Ralph B. Peck Medal (ASCE), 2018 Geomechanics Lecture Award (NZGS), 2016 Norman Medal (ASCE), 2014 Outstanding Paper Award (ASCE), 2014 Outstanding Paper Award (EERI), and Ivan Skinner Award (EQC and NZSEE). He is a Faculty Member of the Rose School, Pavia, Italy, and Fellow of the University of Tokyo.

Presentation title: "Evaluation of Earthquake Resistance of Steel Moment Resisting Frame Based on the Realistic Behavior of Steel Members"

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Dr. Satoshi Yamada is a professor in the University of Tokyo. He graduated from dept. of architecture, the University of Tokyo in 1988. He received Dr. Eng. degree with the thesis of "Deteriorating Behavior of Steel Members Governed by Local Buckling and Ultimate Earthquake Resistance of Multi Story Moment Frame" from the Univ. of Tokyo in 1994.
His main research interests are seismic analysis of steel buildings and experimental studies of steel materials, members and connections. In the related fields, he published more than 150 of journal papers. He received AIJ Prize 2014 in the research paper revision and AIJ Young Researcher Award 1994 from Architectural Institute of Japan.
He has been an active member of AIJ, Japanese Society of Steel Construction (JSSC), Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering (JAEE) and Japan Society of Seismic Isolation (JSSI).

Presentation title: "Problems and Perspectives in Seismic Risk Analysis of Major-Hazard Industrial Facilities"

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Graduated in Civil Engineering in 1992 at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering in 1997, He is currently Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at University Roma Tre – Department of Engineering. His main scientific interests are focused mainly on seismic risk and resilience of civil and industrial structures and mitigations strategies, particularly focused on chemical plants is seismic prone areas. He gained a long standing experience in the management of research projects about experimental assessment of the seismic response of structures.
He has been Visiting Scholar in 1999 at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of University of California at Berkeley. From 2008 to 2013, he assumed the role of scientific coordinator of the Laboratory of Testing Materials and Structures of the Department of Structures of the University Roma Tre. Currently he is the chair of the Seismic Engineering Technical Committee of the PVP division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering. He is also Chair of the working group of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering on seismic risk and resilience of industrial facilities. Recently has been awarded for the prestigious Chinese National High-end Foreign Experts Recruitment Plan. He is finally author of more than 100 publications on International peer-reviewed Journals and conferences.