Plenary & Keynote Speakers

Dr. Mohsen Issa
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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Dr. Muhammad Shafique
Brunel University London, UK
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Dr. Muhammad Shafique is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences at Brunel University London, Since May 2022. Prior to this, he was a Postdoc fellow in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong and his M.Eng in Smart City and Construction Engineering from the University of Science and Technology, Korea. Dr. Shafique’s research uses life cycle assessment, circular economy, and scenario modeling to identify the environmental problems of emerging products and systems. Historically, our society has taken a reactionary approach to the environment. By proactively understanding the environmental issues of technologies that are still under development, we can identify a greater number of optimal options and innovative solutions to avoid or reduce negative consequences. Shafique works on interdisciplinary topics including sustainable construction and transportation systems, green buildings, building information modeling (BIM), carbon-neutrality, sustainable design of energy systems, advanced fuels, sustainable and smart materials, machine learning, energy, environment & economics nexus, and climate change adaptation.

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Dr. Maged A. Youssef
The University of Western Ontario, Canada
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Dr. Kamyab Zandi
Director and CEO at Timezyx Inc., Canada/Sweden
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Dr. Zandi is the Founding Director and CEO of Timezyx (https://www.timezyx.com/), a leading firm in the Infrastructure Management and Risk Assessment industry that utilizes advanced structural modeling and Artificial Intelligence for infrastructure resilience. Under his leadership, Timezyx has been developing Structural Digital Twins for buildings and infrastructures, thereby enhancing resilience and revolutionizing risk assessment in the face of extreme climate events. With a portfolio of over 100 scientific articles, Dr. Zandi has made a profound impact on structural engineering, including structural assessment and analysis, structural simulation and modeling, structural health monitoring, structural forensic engineering, and structural codes and standardization. He is also an affiliated member of the Structures and Composites Lab at Stanford University and the Principal Investigator of the research area Digital Twin of Civil Infrastructures. He serves as the co-convenor of the International Federation for Structural Concrete fib TG3.2 – Modeling of Structural Performance of Existing Concrete Structures, member of fib TG3.5 – Forensic engineering, and member of the technical committee at IWSHM – International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring.

Topic of Keynote: Structural Digital Twins of Structures and Infrastructure
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