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Curtin University, Australia
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Mohamed Shahin is a Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Director of Geomechanics and Pavements at Curtin University, Australia. He received his BSc and MSc from Cairo University (Egypt) and his PhD from the University of Adelaide (Australia). He has over 30 years of academic and industrial experience with research interests spanning Computational Geomechanics, Ground Improvement and Transportation Geotechnics. Professor Shahin is an Elected Fellow Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Engineers Australia. He serves as Editor and Associate Editor for several international Journals and is a Board Member of multiple international societies. Professor Shahin is recognized as a leading expert listed in the top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering by Web of Science, top 2% of World Scientists by Stanford University Ranking, top 0.5% of the Worldwide Scholars by ScholarGPS and Oceania's top 100 Civil Engineering Scientists by AD Scientific Index. He received several prestigious research awards, including the Scientist Medal by the International Association of Advanced Materials, Fredlund Award by Canadian Science Publishing, Editor’s Choice Paper Award by Canadian Geotechnical Journal and Prix Quigley Award by Canadian Geotechnical Society.
University of Leeds, UK
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Hai-Sui Yu is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leeds, UK, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011. Professor Yu worked at the University of Newcastle, Australia from 1990-2000 before taking up the foundation Professorship of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Nottingham in 2001, where he founded the Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics (NCG). He also served as Head of the School of Civil Engineering, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor there. Professor Yu’s main research activities have focused on theoretical and computational geomechanics, constitutive modelling, in-situ soil testing, and pavement & railway geotechnics. Professor Yu is very active in professional activities and services and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Geomechanics and Geoengineering. He has been awarded many prestigious international medals and prizes for his research work, which include the British Geotechnical Association Medal for 2015, the Outstanding Contributions Medal of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) in 2014, the Chandra Desai Medal of IACMAG in 2008, the first James K Mitchell Lecture of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in 2004, Shamsher Prakash Foundation’s Research Award in 2003, the Institution of Civil Engineers’ highest research paper award, the Telford Medal, in 2000, and Australian Geomechanics Society’s Trollope Medal in 1998.
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Keynote Speaker
Shideh Dashti is a Professor in Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) and the Associate Chair for Administration in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering. She also directs a college-funded interdisciplinary research theme titled RISE: Resilient Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity. Shideh obtained her undergraduate degree at Cornell University in 2004 and graduate degrees at the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. She worked briefly with ARUP and Bechtel on several engineering projects in the U.S. and around the world, spanning seismic design of underground structures, foundations, and slopes. Her research team at CU studies: the interactions and interdependencies among infrastructure systems during earthquakes and climatic extremes; seismic performance of underground structures; triggering, consequence, and mitigation of the liquefaction hazard at local and regional scales; impact of compound climatic-seismic hazards on geotechnical infrastructure; and the intersection of resilience, environmental sustainability, and justice. She is the recipient of the 2018 Arthur Casagrande Award and the 2021 Walter Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE as well as the 2025 Distinguished Lecture Award from EERI, among other recognitions.
University of Bristol, UK
Keynote Speaker