99th TRB Annual Conference
Washington, DC, January 12-16, 2020. Organized by the Transportation Research Board (TRB).
Poster Presentation on “Subway Station Dwell Time Prediction and User-Induced Delay”.
44th DFI Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2019. Organized by the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI).
Oral presentation on “Making Foundation Design Courses More Engaging and Effective for Students”.
53th US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium
New York, NY, June 23-26, 2019. Organized by the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA).
Co-Chair of the Symposium.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA, November 7, 2018.
Invited Speaker. Lecture on “Can we predict ground displacements with simple numerical models?”.
DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations and Ground Improvement
Rome, Italy, June 9-12, 2018. Organized by the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and the European Federation of Foundation Contractors (EFFC).
Oral presentation on “Performance and Analysis of a Braced Secant Pile Wall for a Multistory Building in Manhattan, NY”.
World Tunnel Congress (WTC) 2018
Dubai, UAE, April 23-26, 2018. Organized by International Tunneling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES).
Oral presentation on “An empirical design tool to predict ground surface response to tunneling with TBM”.
North American Tunneling Conference (NAT)
Washington, DC, June 23-27, 2018. Organized by the Underground Construction Association (UCA) of the Society of Mining and Exploration (SME).
Oral presentation and lecture at the workshop for ‘Introducing Tunneling to Undergraduate students’.
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Metropolitan Section Young Members
LANGAN, New York, NY, February 26, 2018.
Invited Speaker. Lecture on “Tunneling in Stiff Clay: Can We Predict Ground Movements?”.
The lecture was approved by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to provide 1 Professional Development Hour (PDH) point. These PDH points are necessary points for professional engineers to maintaining licensure.
ASCE Geotechnical Frontiers 2017
Orlando, FL, March 12-17, 2017. Organized by the ASCE Geotechnical Institute (G-I).
Oral presentation on “Pipeline response to ground deformations induced by tunneling in soft soil”.
51st US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium
San Francisco, June 25-28, 2017. Organized by the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA).
Board meeting.
New York University (NYU)
New York, NY, May 11, 2017.
Invited Speaker. Lecture on “Interpretation of Ground Movements due to the Construction of the Crossrail Tunnels in London UK”.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Newark, NJ, October 18, 2017.
Invited Speaker. Lecture on “Tunneling in stiff clay and Ground movement prediction due to the Crossrail tunnels construction”.
16th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Edinburgh, UK, September 15-19, 2015. Organized by the British Geotechnical Association and the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).
Poster Presentation on “Comparison of free-field ground movements caused by mechanized and open face tunneling”.