Invited Speaker

 

 

Joseph Kim

California State University Long Beach, USA

 

Dr. Joseph J. Kim, P.E. is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management at California State University Long Beach. Dr. Kim spent several years as a field engineer and safety engineer. He is a registered professional engineer and holds a LEED AP BD+C certification. He is the recipient of 2011 ASCE ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, 2013 ICCEPM Best Paper Award, 2016 KSEA Chapter President Award; 2020 and 2021 USA President’s Volunteer Service Awards. His research interests include artificial intelligence (AI) applications to solve civil infrastructure systems’ optimization problems, green building materials, best sustainability practices in built environments, building information modeling, cost estimating methods, construction robotics, project delivery systems, and statistical methods for construction engineers. Dr. Kim has authored 117 journal articles and conference papers in high-quality engineering and scientific journals such as the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Journal of Green Buildings, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, and Journal of Transportation Research Board. Dr. Kim is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), ASCE's Construction Research Council of the Construction Institute, and Korean American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA). He is a peer reviewer for many technical journals.

 

 

Yukichika Kawata

Kindai University, Japan

 

Dr. Kawata is an assoc. Prof. at Faculty of Economics, Kindai University in Higashi Osaka, Japan. He earned his Ph.D. degree at Kyoto University in 2004. Before joining a faculty member at Kindai University. he was a lecturer and an assistant Prof. at other Japanese universities. His research interests include environmental economics, resource economics, and wildlife management. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed international academic journals such as Ecological Research (Wiley), Ecological Economics (Elsevier), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (De Gruyter), Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (Elsevier), Appetite (Elsevier), and Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management (Springer), and more than 80 other publications.

 

 

 

Anatoly Zinchenko

Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

 

Anatoly Zinchenko is currently an Associate Professor in the Materials and Energy Design unit at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan. He earned his master’s degree from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2001 and received his Ph.D. from Nagoya University in 2004, focusing on the physical chemistry and biophysics of DNA. After completing his Ph.D., he continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow in the Science Department of Kyoto University, Japan, where he worked on constructing artificial systems that mimic DNA assembly in nature.
In 2007, Anatoly accepted a Lecturer position at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, where he began developing materials based on biopolymers such as chitosan and cellulose for environmental cleaning. He was promoted to Associate Professor at the same Graduate School in 2011. In 2019, Anatoly established the Sustainable Materials Laboratory, which focuses on utilizing waste plastics and biomass for environmental and civil engineering applications, including wastewater treatment and soil improvement. Anatoly has authored approximately 100 refereed publications that have received over 2000 citations.