Keynote/Invited Presentations
Keynote Speakers

Professor António Gomes Correia
- Emeritus Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering/ Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE)
- University of Minho, Portugal
Experimental and computational model for determining shear modulus of geomaterials by bender element testing and prospects for field evaluation of the stiffness of granular layers

Professor Yeong-bin Yang
- MOE Key Laboratory of New Technology for Construction of Cities in Mountain Area School of Civil Engineering
- Chongqing University, China
Cancellation Conditions for Free Vibration of Damped Simple Beams under Successive Moving Loads

Professor Yu-Jun Cui
- Laboratoire Navier/CERMES
- Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
- Marne La Vallée, France
Modelling the Permanent Deformation and Resilient Modulus of Coarse/Fine Grains Mixture with consideration of Suction Effect

Professor Xuecheng Bian
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Zhejiang University, China
Train Loading Induced Permanent Deformation of Ballast Layer and its Reduction by Asphalt Trackbed

Professor Yoichi Watabe
- Division of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- Hokkaido University, Japan
Soft Soils in Transportation Geotechnics

Professor Geert Degrande
- Department of Civil Engineering
- KU Leuven, Belgium
Prediction and mitigation of railway induced vibration in the built environment

Professor William Powrie
- School of Engineering
- University of Southampton
- Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BJ, UK
Validation Interpretation and Use of Railway Track Acceleration Data
Invited Speakers

Professor Xiaobin Chen
- Geotechnical Engineering Department
- Central South University, China
Slaking Behavior and Nano Lotus Biomimicry Waterproof of Weathered Red Mud Rock (WRM) High-Speed Railway Embankment

Professor Takashi Matsumoto
- Division of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- Hokkaido University, Japan
Fatigue Analysis of RC Slabs and UHPFRC Applications for Strengthening

Professor Jiankun Liu
- School of Civil Engineering
- Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Warm Permafrost Dynamics and its All Season Cooling System

Professor Seong-Wan Park
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Dankook University, Korea
Suction Stress and Mechanical Behavior of Subgrade Soils under Low Confining Pressure

Professor Guoqing Jing
- School of Civil Engineering
- Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Ballast Lateral Resistance-Development, Challenge, and Solutions

Professor Satoshi Nishimura
- Division of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- Hokkaido University, Japan
Cyclic Loading and Wave Propagation in Laboratory Soil Testing: A brief review of history and recent developments