Program
The organizing committees of the three co-located events, ICCSTE'23, RTESE'23 and LACP'23, have decided to allow registrants of either conference to attend sessions from both events. As a result, we encourage attendees to study the program and attend the sessions which they may find relevant or interesting.
June 04, 2023 - June 06, 2023 | Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Our program is based on EDT (Eastern Daylight Time - Time zone in Ottawa)
The Conference will be held in Ottawa, Canada, at Carleton University in the Residence Commons building. The room numbers are: 270, 272. Please click here for map of the location.
Scientific Committee Chairs:
09:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Registrations |
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01:00 PM - 02:15 PM |
Session - Virtual
Transportation & Traffic Engineering I |
01:00 PM - 03:00 PM |
Session - Virtual
Water Resources, Pollution, and Treament |
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02:15 PM - 03:30 PM |
Session - Virtual
New Technology in Civil Engineering |
03:00 PM - 05:45 PM |
Session - Virtual
Environmental Protection I |
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03:30 PM - 03:35 PM |
Break |
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03:35 PM - 05:35 PM |
Session - Virtual
Geotechnical Engineering & Construction Management |
RTESE'23 & lACP3'23 Scientific Committee Chair:

Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar
Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada
Conference Chair
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RTESE'23 Scientific Committee Co-Chair:

Dr. Zhi Chen
Concordia University, Canada
Conference Co-Chair
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ICCSTE'23 Scientific Committee Chair:

Dr. Khaled Sennah
Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada
Conference Chair
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Session - Virtual
June 04 | 01:00 PM - 02:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Sameh Al-Shihabi, University of Sharjah, UAE
Transportation & Traffic Engineering I
ICCSTE 111
Time: 01:00 - 01:15
Presenter: Nicholas V. Scott, Riverside Research Institute, Open Innovation Center, Dayton Research Center, USA
Authors: Nicholas V. Scott and Virgil O. Barnard
ICCSTE 182
Time: 01:15 - 01:30
Presenter: Talha Jubair, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
Authors: Talha Jubair, Ashkar Rahman Aquib
ICCSTE 192
Time: 01:30 - 01:45
Presenter: Kareem Othman, University of Toronto, Canada & Cairo University, Egypt
Authors: Kareem Othman
ICCSTE 203
Time: 01:45 - 02:00
Presenter: Yasmany Damián García Ramírez, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador
Authors: Yasmany García-Ramírez
ICCSTE 190
Time: 02:00 - 02:15
Presenter: Abdul Raouf Sakhizada, University of Roehampton, UK
Authors: Abdul Raouf Sakhizada
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Session - Virtual
June 04 | 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Zhi Chen, Concordia University, Canada
Water Resources, Pollution, and Treament
RTESE 137
Time: 01:00 - 01:15
Presenter: Changseog Oh, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, South Korea
Authors: Changseog Oh, Jusuk An, Seungjae Yeon, Hyun je Oh
RTESE 161
Time:01:15 - 01:30
Presenter: Seungjae Yeon, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, South Korea
Authors: Seungjae Yeon, Jusuk An, Changseog Oh, Hyun je Oh
RTESE 165
Time:01:30 - 01:45
Presenter: Yuly Andrea Sanchez Londoño, Julio Garavito University, Colombia
Authors: Yuly Sánchez, Mehrab Mehrvar, Lynda McCarthy, Edgar Quiñones Bolaños , Luis Cheu, Alexander Reuβ, Jairo Romero
RTESE 171
Time:01:45 - 02:00
Presenter: Laura Gjyli, Aleksander Moisiu University of Durres, Albania
Authors: Laura Gjyli, Jerina Kolitari, Fundime Miri
ICCSTE 177
Time:02:00 - 02:15
Presenter: Dineo Mollo, Central University of Technology, South Africa
Authors: Dineo Mollo, George Ndlhovu, Samuel Tetsoane
RTESE 172
Time:02:15 - 02:30
Presenter: Mina Asheghmoalla, Toronto Metropolitan University, canada
Authors: Mina Asheghmoalla, Mehrab Mehrvar
ICCSTE 110
Time: 02:30 - 02:45
Presenter: Nicholas V. Scott, Riverside Research, Open Innovation Center, Dayton Research Center, USA
Authors: Nicholas V. Scott and Dietrick Lawrence
RTESE 128
Time: 02:45 - 03:00
Presenter: Gloria Linda Ndagire, ZadeCAD Limited, Uganda
Authors: Gloria Linda Ndagire, Roice Bwambale Kalengyo
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Session - Virtual
June 04 | 03:00 PM - 05:45 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Zhi Chen, Concordia University, Canada
Environmental Protection I
RTESE 151
Time: 03:00 - 03:15
Presenter: Raul Guerrero Torres, Universidad de Cartagena
, Colombia
Authors: Raul Guerrero Torres, Mehrab Mehrvar
RTESE 160
Time: 03:15 - 03:30
Presenter: Raul Guerrero Torres, Universidad de Cartagena
, Colombia
Authors: Raul Guerrero Torres, Mehrab Mehrvar
LACP3 107
Time: 03:30 - 03:45
Presenter: Diana Marcela Cañas Martínez, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
Authors: Wendy Vargas-Palencia, Diana Vergel-Gordillo, Diana Marcela Cañas Martínez, Juvencio Vázquez-Samperio, José Henao-Martínez,
Julio Pedraza-Avella
LACP3 106
Time: 03:45 - 04:00
Presenter: Julio Andrés Pedraza Avella, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
Authors: María I. Carreño-Lizcano, Andrés D López-Contreras, Jeferson O. Ruiz-Lizarazo, Julio A. Pedraza-Avella, Martha E. Niño-Gómez
RTESE 144
Time: 04:00 - 04:15
Presenter: Daphne Lai Teck Ching, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
Authors: Izzah Amal, Afroz A Shah, Moad Idrissi, A Taufiq Asyhari, Muhd Firdaus Zaini, Muhd Afnan Alizan, Daphne Lai and Ferry Slik
LACP3 101
Time: 04:15 - 04:30
Presenter: Eduardo Pino, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
Authors: Eduardo Francisco Pino, Gloria Cardenas, Pablo Barrias, Jaime Pizarro
LACP3 102
Time: 04:30 - 04:45
Presenter: Marcela Frías Ordóñez, University of Milan, Italy
Authors: Marcela Frías Ordóñez, Carolina Peverelli, Ermelinda Falletta, Claudia L. Bianchi
LACP3 103
Time: 04:45 - 05:00
Presenter: Marcela Frías Ordóñez, University of Milan, Italy
Authors: Marcela Frías Ordóñez, Ermelinda Falletta, Claudia L. Bianchi
RTESE 119
Time: 05:00 - 05:15
Presenter: Mohammad Karbalaei Akbari, Ghent University, South Korea
Authors: Mohammad Karbalaei Akbari, Nasrin Siraj Lopa, Serge Zhuiykov
LACP3 117
Time: 05:15 - 05:30
Presenter: María I. Jaramillo Gutiérrez, Julio A. Pedraza Avella, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
Authors: María I. Jaramillo Gutiérrez, Julio A. Pedraza Avella, Eligio. Pastor Rivero, Martín. Rogelio Cruz Díaz
RTESE 109
Time:05:30 - 05:45
Presenter: Falak Naeem, Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Karachi, Pakistan
Authors: Falak Naeem, Lubna Ghazal
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Session - Virtual
June 04 | 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Francesco Calvetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
New Technology in Civil Engineering
ICCSTE 174
Time: 02:15 - 02:30
Presenter: Amit Kumar, TRIPC, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Authors: Amit Kumar, Kumar Neeraj Jha, Geetam Tiwari
ICCSTE 175
Time: 02:30 - 02:45
Presenter: Omnia R. AbouEl-Hamd, UAE University, UAE
Authors: Omnia R. AbouEl-Hamd, Amr M.I. Sweedan, Bilal El-Ariss, Khaled M. El-Sawy
ICCSTE 204
Time: 02:45 - 03:00
Presenter: Sameh Al-Shihabi, University of Sharjah, UAE
Authors: Ali Fares , Ashraf Elazouni, Sameh Al-Shihabi, Mubarak Al-Alawi
ICCSTE 206
Time: 03:00 - 03:15
Presenter: Shady Adib, Newcastle University, UK
Authors: Shady Adib, Vladimir Vinogradov, Peter Gosling
ICCSTE 226
Time: 03:15 - 03:30
Presenter: Mortaza Fadaeem, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Authors: Morteza Fadaee, Khaled Sennah
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Session - Virtual
June 04 | 03:35 PM - 05:35 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Kareem Othman, University of Toronto, Canada
Geotechnical Engineering & Construction Management
ICCSTE 181
Time: 03:35 - 03:50
Presenter: Sung-Mo Choi, University of Seoul, South Korea
Authors: Hansol Lee, Jinwon Shin, Min Jeong-ki , In-Rak Choi, Sung-Mo Choi
ICCSTE 176
Time: 03:50 - 04:05
Presenter: Abdulkader El-Mir, United Arab Emirates University, UAE & University of Balamand, Lebanon
Authors: Ponalagappan Chokkalingam, Abdulkader El-Mir, Hilal El-Hassan, Amr El-Dieb
ICCSTE 165
Time: 04:05 - 04:20
Presenter: Remilekun Abduladi Shittu, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, UAE
Authors: Remilekun Shittu, Akram AlFantazi, Tae-Yeon Kim
ICCSTE 135
Time: 04:20 - 04:35
Presenter: Maatouk Khoukhi, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Authors: Maatouk Khoukhi, Abeer Dar Saleh
ICCSTE 212
Time: 04:35 - 04:50
Presenter: Francesco Calvetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Authors: William Boffelli, Francesco Calvetti
ICCSTE 214
Time: 04:50 - 05:05
Presenter: Marco Antonio Maldonado-Garcia, Tecnologico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca, México
Authors: Gildardo Gómez-Hernández, Marco Antonio Sánchez Medina, Marco Antonio Maldonado-García
ICCSTE 207
Time: 05:05 - 05:20
Presenter: Roozbeh Panahi, Jacobs Solutions Inc., Canada
Authors: Roozbeh Panahi, Katia Rizkallah, Ahmed Abbas
ICCSTE 217
Time: 05:20 - 05:35
Presenter: Abobakr Al-Sakkaf, Concordia University, Canada
Authors: Ghasan Alfalah and Abobakr Al-Sakkaf
08:00 AM - 9:00 AM |
Registrations |
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09:00 AM - 09:15 AM |
Official Opening
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09:15 AM - 10:00 AM |
ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical
Assessment of Existing RC Bridges with Spatially-Variable Pitting Corrosion Subjected To Increasing Traffic Demand
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09:15 AM - 10:05 AM |
RTESE'23 Plenary Lecture - Virtual
On The Importance of Airborne Nano-Size Particles: Air Quality, Health, Sustainability, and Climate Change
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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM |
ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical
Rock-Support Interaction for Transportation Tunnels in Squeezing Ground
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10:05 AM - 10:50 AM |
LACP3'23 Plenary Lecture - Physical
Photocatalytic Materials Immobilized On Recycled Supports as Alternative In the Degradation of Water Contaminants
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10:45 AM - 11:05 AM |
Coffee Break |
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11:05 AM - 11:55 AM |
ICCSTE'23 Plenary Lecture - Virtual
Strategies for Enhancing Resiliency of Modern Concrete Structures under Fire Hazard
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11:10 AM - 11:55 AM |
LACP3'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical
Photocatalysis A Sustainable and Versatile Technique for Indoor Air Purification
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11:55 AM - 01:10 PM |
Session
Building Material I |
11:55 AM - 12:55 PM |
Session
Water & Waste water management & Treatment I |
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01:10 PM - 01:15 PM |
GROUP PHOTO |
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01:15 PM - 02:15 PM |
Lunch Break |
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02:15 PM - 03:15 PM |
Session
Building Material II |
02:15 PM - 03:15 PM |
Session
Water & Waste water management & Treatment II |
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03:15 PM - 04:00 PM |
ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Virtual
The Role of Soil in Seismic Response of Bridges
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03:15 PM - 04:00 PM |
Session
Air Pollution & Treatment |
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4:00 PM - 04:20 PM |
Coffee Break |
4:00 PM - 04:20 PM |
Coffee Break |
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04:20 PM - 05:35 PM |
Session
Bridge Engineering |
ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical
June 05 | 09:15 AM - 10:00 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Assessment of Existing RC Bridges with Spatially-Variable Pitting Corrosion Subjected To Increasing Traffic Demand
Dr. Luigi Di Sarno, University of Liverpool, UK
Dr. Di Sarno holds a PhD in Structural Engineering, MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Design and MSc in Structural Steel Design. Dr. Di Sarno is Visiting Professor at the Mid-America Earthquake Center, headquartered at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, since 2002. He is Honorary Member Staff at the College of Engineering, University of Bristol, UK, since 2011 and Adjunct Professor in Seismic Engineering at INTEC, Dominican Republic. Dr. Di Sarno’s research interests include: (i) analysis, design and retrofitting of critical structures and infrastructure, (ii) use of innovative low-carbon materials for sustainable and resilient infrastructure (iii) engineering solutions for climate change adaptation and (iv) advanced experimental testing and numerical simulations, including digital twins for asset management. Dr. Di Sarno has authored about 250 research publications, including refereed journals, conference papers, research reports, book chapters and field investigation reports. He has co-authored with Professor A.S. Elnashai the book: Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering, edited by Wiley & Sons. He is also Associate Editor of prestigious international journals by Elsevier and Springer. Dr. Di Sarno is member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Performance Based Design for Structures Committee and also Seismic Effects on Structures Committee. He is also part of the prestigious Disaster Management Advisory Group of the Pan American Health Organization, part of the World Health Organization. Additionally. He is also a member of the Working Group 11 of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering dealing with the seismic design of bridges and member of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction of the United Nations. Dr. Di Sarno is the Founder and Leader of the Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Group at University of Liverpool, Department of Civil Engineering. He is also global consultant in disaster risk analysis and response mitigations. Further details on Dr. Di Sarno’s academic activities at the following link: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/engineering/staff/luigi-di-sarno/
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RTESE'23 Keynote Lecture - virtual
June 05 | 9:15 AM - 10:05 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

On The Importance of Airborne Nano-Size Particles: Air Quality, Health, Sustainability, and Climate Change
Dr. Parisa A. Ariya, McGill University, Canada
Professor Ariya is James McGill Chair in Chemistry, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Her physical-analytical chemistry laboratories explore particles, bridging chemical, physical and biological-health processes in air, and interfaces with water/snow, soil, and building surfaces. This lab currently designs novel analytical chemistry technologies at McGill University to track individual single and clusters of particles, including airborne virus droplets and aerosols, without needing particle trapping in milliseconds. They also develop ultra-trace chemical detection capabilities and remote-sensed (AI) recyclable nano-sensors. This lab contributes to solving the pollution enigma by developing sustainable remediation-recycling methods and technologies for pollutants (gaseous and particles, including bioaerosols such as airborne viruses, and emerging contaminants) with zero-net energy. It allows understanding of feedback mechanisms between atmospheric, biogeochemical and microphysical processes. Dr. Ariya has published >150 internationally peer-reviewed publications, four patents, a book, and > 300 proceedings. She has presented >140 invited lectures on four continents. Several of her research contributions have been distinguished internationally. She has had the privilege of mentoring over 180 bright, highly qualified personnel in her laboratories who all follow their career of choice; many have become global leaders in academia (26 faculty members), governments, industries (4 CEO), or start-ups. Dr. Ariya has served in several leadership positions, e.g., the principal investigator of major grant applications, leading or acting as a member of grant agencies in Canada, the U.S., the EU, Asia and South America, notably serving as the chairperson of the Joint European Union Panel on Arctic Climate Change. She has served as an Editor and on the Editorial Boards of several international journals, including Analytical Chemistry (ACS), Cambridge Press and the Royal Society for Chemistry- CSR (U.K.). Dr. Ariya has also served as the chairperson of McGill’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Professor Ariya has served as the lead author of two United Nations Environmental Protection (UN-EP) chapters on metal transformation in the environment. In addition, she has contributed to policy-related scientific reports on toxic contaminants, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, the Clean Air Regulatory Agenda, an advisor to the House of Commons (CEPA revisions), Arctic assessment reports. Her numerous interviews have been distributed through major international mainstream and web-based media, from Spiegel and Washington times, translating science to the public and stakeholders.
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ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical
June 05 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Rock-Support Interaction for Transportation Tunnels in Squeezing Ground
Dr. Marte Gutierrez, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Dr. Marte Gutierrez is the James R. Paden Distinguished Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the US DOT Tier 1 Center for Underground Transportation Infrastructure (CUTI) at Colorado School of Mines. Formerly, he was Post-Doctoral Fellow, Senior Engineer, and Program Leader at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), and Associate Professor/Professor at Virginia Tech. He was Founding Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He has also held visiting professorship and researcher positions in China, Chile, France, Japan, and South Korea. He has published more than 360 papers in book chapters, journals, and conference proceedings, and has given keynote and invited lectures at several conferences. He has been involved in several landmark and groundbreaking Civil Engineering projects while working in Norway. He is an Associate Editor of three international journals and is an Editorial Board Member of four other international journals. He is the recipient of the Geotechnical Research Medal from UK’s Institute of Civil Engineers, the Peter A. Cundall Honorable Mention Award, the Applied Rock Mechanics Research Award from the American Rock Mechanics Association, the 18th Advanced Powder Technology Distinguished Paper Award from the Society of Powder Technology Japan, and the Kwanghua Visiting Professorship from Tongji University. Dr. Gutierrez has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chile
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LACP3'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical
June 05 | 10:05 AM - 10:50 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Photocatalytic Materials Immobilized On Recycled Supports as Alternative In the Degradation of Water Contaminants
Dr. Vicente Rodríguez-González, Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Dr. Vicente is Senior Researcher at IPICyT (Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C,). He has published more than 135 papers, cited 2631 times H index 31 scopus (cited 3115 times H index 34 google scholar). Research Interests: New nanostructures for green chemistry: heterogeneous catalysis, AOPs for water treatment; renewable energy and environment; Photocatalysis; nanomaterials for inactivation of pathogens and agricultural applications. He is a member of the editorial board of the Chemical Engineering Journal and was guest editor for journals such as Catalysis Today, Topics in Catalysis, and the Journal of Hazardous Materials.
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ICCSTE'23 Plenary Virtual
June 05 | 11:05 AM - 11:55 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Strategies for Enhancing Resiliency of Modern Concrete Structures under Fire Hazard
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur, Michigan State University, USA
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur, is a University Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre on Structural Fire Engineering and Diagnostics at Michigan State University. He is an an internationally recognized scholar for his contributions in structural, material and fire engineering fields. His research interests include Fire resistance analysis and design of structural systems, material performance at elevated temperatures and Building collapse investigations. Dr. Kodur has published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences, and has given numerous plenary and key-note presentations at major international conferences. As per Google Scholar, he has more than 17,300 citations with an “h” index of 72.
Dr. Kodur’s contributions to the Civil Engineering and Fire Protection Engineering professions have been recognized by peers through prestigious honors and awards. He has been elected as Fellow of six Institutes/Academies: Canadian Academy of Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Indian National Academy of Engineering, Structural Engineering Institute, American Concrete Institute, and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. He is a professional engineer, Associate Editor of Journal of Structural Engineering, and Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, editorial board member of five leading journals, Chairman of ASCE(SEI)-SFPE 29 (Fire) Standards Committee, and a member of UK-EPSRC College of Reviewers. He has won many awards and prestigious appointments, including Michigan State University “University Distinguished Professor” Award; American Institute of Steel Construction Faculty Fellowship Award; MSU Distinguished Faculty Award; NRCC (Government of Canada) Outstanding Achievement Award; Fulbright Scholar award; “INFOSYS Visiting Chair Professor” appointment at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; Government of India “VAJRA Faculty Award for Collaborative Research” at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi; and NATO Award for collaborative research. Most notably, Dr. Kodur was part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and American Society of Civil Engineers/Society of Fire Protection Engineers high profile “Experts Team” that investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings as a result of September 11 attacks.
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LACP3'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical
June 05 | 11:10 AM - 11:55 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Photocatalysis A Sustainable and Versatile Technique for Indoor Air Purification
Dr. Iliana Medina-Ramírez, Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico
Iliana E. Medina-Ramírez got her Ph.D. in chemistry (organometallic and materials chemistry) from Tulane University in 2005. She has more than 10 years of research experience in the field of nanostructured materials (metallic, metal oxides, and metal-chalcogenides), with a particular interest in photocatalytic materials for environmental remediation and biomedical applications. She has published 56 papers in international peer-review journals, 4 book chapters, and is the co-editor of the book “Photocatalytic Semiconductors. Synthesis, characterization, and environmental applications” Springer (Ed), She has participated in more than 40 international conferences. She has supervised 100 BSc students, 10 MSc students, and 6 doctorate students. She was awarded the best junior researcher prize (2007), advanced researcher award (2nd place, 2011) and consolidated researcher award (2019) at her current academic institution. She is a member of the System of National Researchers (Mexico) and co-organizer of the Mexico-China Workshop on Renewable Energy and Environment Remediation.
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Session
June 05 | 11:55 AM - 01:10 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada
Building Material I
ICCSTE 113
Time: 11:55 - 12:10
Presenter: Hilal El-Hassan, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Authors: Mohammad Zuaiter, Hilal El-Hassan, Tamer El-Maaddawy1, Bilal El-Ariss
ICCSTE 114
Time: 12:10 - 12:25
Presenter: Andrés Restrepo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Authors: Sofía Rodriguez, María Guarín, Andrés Restrepo, César Echavarría
ICCSTE 115
Time: 12:25 - 12:40
Presenter: Hilal El-Hassan, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Authors: Joud Hwalla, Hilal El-Hassan, Joseph J. Assaad, Tamer El-Maaddawy, Jad Bawab
ICCSTE 116
Time: 12:40 - 12:55
Presenter: Hilal El-Hassan, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Authors: Faiz Habib Anwar, Abdulkader El-Mir, Hilal El-Hassan, Mohamed Hamouda, Kim Hung Mo
ICCSTE 224
Time: 12:55 - 01:10
Presenter: Husham Almansour, National Research Council of Canada, canada
Authors: Gilbert Bélec, Husham Almansour
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Session
June 05 | 11:55 PM - 12:55 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada & Dr. Mohamed Hamouda, UAE University, UAE
Water & Waste Water Management & Treatment I
RTESE 121
Time:11:55 - 12:10
Presenter: Mona Shojaei, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Authors: Mona Shojaei, Mohsen Nosrati, Reza Attarnejad
RTESE 124
Time: 12:10 - 12:25
Presenter: Alireza Ranjbari, Center for Environmental and Energy Research, South Korea & Ghent University, Belgium
Authors: Alireza Ranjbari, Ju Ho Kim, Jiyun Kim, Jihee Yu, Philippe M. Heynderickx
ICCSTE 112
Time: 12:25 - 12:40
Presenter: Rohit Goyal, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India
Authors: Gyaniram Kumawat, Rohit Goyal, Sumit Khandelwal
LACP3 108
Time: 12:40 - 12:55
Presenter: Enrique Vega, Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico
Authors: Carlos Javier Escudero Santiago, Jorge Alexis Hurtado Martin, Enrique Vega Sánchez
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Session
June 05 | 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada & Dr. Narinder Singh, University of Salerno, Italy
Building Material II
ICCSTE 144
Time: 02:30 - 02:45
Presenter: Leandro Harries, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Authors: Leandro Harries, Maximilian Schütz, David Kempf, Jia Liu
ICCSTE 169
Time: 02:45 - 03:00
Presenter: César Echavarría, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Authors: Andrés Restrepo, César Echavarría
ICCSTE 149
Time: 03:00 - 03:15
Presenter: Hernan Dario Cañola, Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia, Colombia
Authors: Hernan Dario Cañola, Andres Fernando Urrego
ICCSTE 141
Time: 03:15 - 03:30
Presenter: Arash Behzadipour, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
Authors: Hernan Dario Cañola, Andres Fernando Urrego
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Session
June 05 | 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada
Water & Waste Water Management & Treatment II
RTESE 133
Time: 02:15 - 02:30
Presenter: Willie Nheta, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Authors: Nompumelelo Nkosi, Willie Nheta
RTESE 134
Time: 02:30 - 02:45
Presenter: Willie Nheta, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Authors: Lucky Tloubatla, Willie Nheta, Michel Kalenga
RTESE 159
Time: 02:45 - 03:00
Presenter: Isabela Falconi Brandolis Alv, University of Sao Paulo
, Brazil
Authors: Isabela Falconi Brandolis Alv, Marcela Baltazar, Jorge Tenório
RTESE 142
Time: 03:00 - 03:15
Presenter: Rajiv Gupta, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India
Authors: Soumya Kar, Rajiv Gupta, Zhi Chen
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RTESE'23 Keynote Lecture
June 05 | 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

The Role of Soil in Seismic Response of Bridges
Dr. Nawawi Chouw, Concordia University, Canada
Dr Nawawi CHOUW is an Associate Professor and was Director of the University of Auckland Centre for Earthquake Engineering Research. Before joining the University of Auckland, he worked at universities in Germany, Japan and Australia. He received his doctorate in Civil Engineering from the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. He has twice been awarded the Gledden Fellowship of the University of Western Australia, the Fritz-Peter-Mueller Prize of the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, the Best Research Award of Chugoku Denryoku Research Foundation, Japan, and received two recognitions for excellence in research supervision from Chinese Scholarship Council. He has been invited by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, the Qatar Science Foundation, the SA National Research Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service and other European Research Institutions to assess applications and international standing of peers. He has published more than 400 publications including 138 international journal papers. He was invited to teach at several universities in Europe, China and Japan. He was guest editor of several journals, e.g., Protective Structures, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. He is associate editor of Materials, Shock and Vibration and Frontiers in Build Environment – Earthquake Engineering and serves on the editorial board of several international journals. He was visiting and guest professor at several universities in China, Germany, Canada, Australia, Serbia, Macedonia and Japan.
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Session
June 05 | 03:15 PM - 04:00 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Willie Nheta, UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Air Pollution & Treatment
RTESE 120
Time: 03:15 - 03:30
Presenter: Luis Eduardo Garza Castañón, Aixware Technologies SAS de CV, México
Authors: Lydia A. Garza-Coello, Luis A. Garza-Elizondo, Luis E. Garza-Elizondo, Edisson A. Naula-Duchi, Alfa Budiman3, Luis E. Garza-Castañón, Pierre Payeur, José I. Martínez-López
RTESE 122
Time: 03:30 - 03:45
Presenter: Alfa Budiman, University of Ottawa, Canada
Authors: Alfa Budiman, Wenbo Wu, Edisson A. Naula-Duchi, Patricia Portillo Jiménez, Hanifeh Imanian, Pierre Payeur, Luis E. Garza-Castañón, Abdolmajid Mohammadian, Eric Lanteigne
RTESE 163
Time: 03:45 - 04:00
Presenter: Charles Lee, Newcastle Australia Institute of Higher Education, Singapore
Authors: Charles Lee
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Session
June 05 | 04:20 PM - 05:35 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Sennah, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada & Dr. Pan Lu, North Dakota State University, USA
Bridge Engineering
ICCSTE 164
Time: 4:20 - 04:35
Presenter: Mohammed El-Diasty, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Authors: Mohammed El-Diasty, Maryam Al Mazrouai, Mosbeh Kaloop
ICCSTE 184
Time:04:35 - 04:50
Presenter: Nicola-Ann Stevens, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Authors: Nicola-Ann Stevens, Myra Lydon, Adele H Marshall
ICCSTE 195
Time:04:50 - 05:05
Presenter: Istemi F. Ozkan, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Authors: Istemi F. Ozkan, Husham Almansour, and Shahroz W. Shaikh
ICCSTE 179
Time: 05:05 - 05:20
Presenter: Istemi F. Ozkan, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Authors: Istemi F. Ozkan and Husham Almansour
ICCSTE 223
Time: 05:20 - 05:35
Presenter: Ahmed Deifalla, Future University, Egypt
Authors: Amr El-said, Ahmed F. Deifalla, Nehal M. Ayash and Maged Tawfik
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9:00 AM - 9:50 AM |
ICCSTE'23 Plenary Lecture - Physical
Recent Developments in Structural Health Monitoring
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9:50 AM - 10:35 AM |
ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical
Multi-Level Modelling Strategies for Accurate Assessment of Masonry Arch Bridges
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ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical
Resilience-Enhancement of Bridge Infrastructure in Changing Climate
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11:40 AM - 12:55 PM |
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Geotechnical & Strutural Engineering I |
11:40 AM - 12:40 PM |
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Environmental Protection II |
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12:55 PM - 01:55 PM |
Lunch Break |
12:40 PM - 01:25 PM |
Lunch Break |
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01:55 AM - 03:40 PM |
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Transportation & Traffic Engineering II |
01:25 PM - 02:10 PM |
RTESE'23 Keynote Lecture - Virtual
Hurricane Hazards and Risk in a Changing Climate
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02:10 PM - 02:45 PM |
RTESE'23 Keynote Lecture - Virtual
Integrated Water Management & Development of Yangtze River Simulator
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02:45 AM - 03:15 PM |
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Environmental Protection III |
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03:40 PM - 04:00 PM |
Coffee Break |
03:15 PM - 03:35 PM |
Coffee Break |
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04:00 AM - 05:00 PM |
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Geotechnical & Strutural Engineering II |
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
GALA DINNER |
ICCSTE'23 Plenary Lecture - Physical
June 06 | 9:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Husham Almansour, National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada

Recent Developments in Structural Health Monitoring
Dr. Tribikram Kundu, The University of Arizona, USA
Professor Kundu’s major research area is nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring. On this topic he has published 9 books and 386 technical papers – 202 of those in peer reviewed scientific journals with about 9000 citations according to Google Scholar with an h-index of 50 (Google Scholar), 43 (Scopus) and 37 (Web of Science). He received Humboldt Research Prize (Senior Scientist Award) in 2003 and Humboldt Fellowship award in 1989 and 1996, from Germany. He was also recognized through 2012 NDE Life Time Achievement Award from SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics), 2015 Research Award for Sustained Excellence from ASNT (the American Society for Nondestructive Testing), 2017 Founders Award from Nondestructive evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics Division (NDPD) of ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers), 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award and 2008 Person of the Year Award from the Structural Health Monitoring Journal, Satish Dhawan Chair Professorship from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a number of Invited & Honorary Professorships from France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, South Korea, Poland, Singapore, India, China and Japan. He is a Fellow or a Distinguished Fellow of six professional societies (ASME, ASCE, SPIE, ASNT, ASA & IIAV) and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems (JNDE). He has served as the Associate Editor of four other journals.
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ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical
June 06 | 09:50 AM - 10:35 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Husham Almansour, National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada

Multi-Level Modelling Strategies for Accurate Assessment of Masonry Arch Bridges
Dr. Lorenzo Macorini, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Lorenzo Macorini is a Reader in Structural Engineering with a particular interest in computational structural mechanics and the response of masonry structures. He joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London as a Marie Curie Research Fellow in 2008. Since then, he has been developing within the Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM) group at Imperial advanced modelling approaches for brick/block-masonry components at different scales of representation with robust strategies for the calibration of model material parameters. He led different research projects funded by research councils and industry, where the developed models were used for accurate simulations of masonry components and systems gaining an improved understanding of the complex behaviour under serviceability and ultimate loading conditions including dynamic actions induced by earthquakes.
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Session
June 06 | 10:35 AM - 10:55 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Husham Almansour, National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada
Posters Session
RTESE 141
Presenter: ShengLi Tzeng, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Authors: ShengLi Tzeng, Hsin-Cheng Huang
RTESE 169
Presenter: Hyeongrak Cho, Kookmin University
, South Korea
Authors: Hyeongrak Cho, Yongjun Choi, Sangho Lee
LACP3 104
Presenter: Ariadna A. Morales-Pérez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, México
Authors: Ariadna A. Morales-Pérez, Daniela D. Suárez-Quiroz, Hugo J. Ávila-Paredes
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ICCSTE'23 Keynote Lecture - Physical
June 06 | 10:55 AM - 11:40 AM | Session Chair: Session Chair: Dr. Lorenzo Macorini, Imperial College London, UK

Resilience-Enhancement of Bridge Infrastructure in Changing Climate
Dr. Husham Almansour, National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada
Husham Almansour, Ph.D., P.Eng. is a Senior Research Officer in the Sustainable Resilient Infrastructures and Communities Research Unit, the Construction Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, and an Adjunct Professor in the area of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Ottawa, and Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto. Dr. Almansour’s expertise is in the area of structural mechanics with a focus on the performance, protection, and rehabilitation of aging structures and infrastructure against extreme loads and innovative structural systems using advanced materials. He is leading the NRC research teams in the area of climate-resilient bridge infrastructure and the area of innovative high-performance structural systems using advanced materials. Dr. Almansour supervised more than twenty Ph.D. and M.A.Sc research theses. Dr. Almansour is a member of many national and international committees, including NBCC, CSA committees S6, S 850, S806, ASCE Blast and impact loads on structures, and TAC Structure Standing Committee.
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June 06 | 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Ying Huang, North Dakota State University, USA & Dr. Rohit Goyal, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India
Geotechnical & Strutural Engineering I
ICCSTE 109
Time: 11:40 - 11:55
Presenter: Yaseen Shayah, 1Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Authors: Yaseen Shayah
ICCSTE 126
Time: 11:55 - 12:10
Presenter: Moritz Middendorf, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Authors: Moritz Middendorf, Cristin Umbach, Stefan Böhm, Jia Liu, Bernhard Middendorf
ICCSTE 159
Time: 12:10 - 12:25
Presenter: Narinder Singh, University of Salerno, Italy
Authors: Narinder Singh, Ada Amendola
ICCSTE 191
Time: 12:25 - 12:40
Presenter: Alok Madan, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Authors: Suresh Bhalla, Alok Madan, Mahesh B. Adala
ICCSTE 194
Time: 12:40 - 12:55
Presenter: Ashfaq Khan, University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar
Pakistan
Authors: Ashfaq Khan, Amjad Ali, Taimur Malik, Adil Khan, Amjad Khan
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Session
June 06 | 11:40 AM - 12:40 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada
Environmental Protection II
RTESE 132
Time: 11:40 - 11:55
Presenter: Dimitrios Rakopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece
Authors: Maria Fotopoulou and Dimitrios Rakopoulos
RTESE 143
Time: 11:55 - 12:10
Presenter: Mohamed A. Hamouda, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Authors: Beenish Tahir, Mohamed A. Hamouda, Ashraf Aly Hassan
RTESE 135
Time: 12:10 - 12:25
Presenter: Willie Nheta, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Authors: Duncan Goqwane, Willie Nheta, Derek Hugh Rose
RTESE 150
Time: 12:25 - 12:40
Presenter: Ugochukwu Dominion Eze, University of South Africa, South Africa
Authors: Raymond Oriebe Anyasi; Harrison Ifeanyichuku Atagana; Zulu, Andile Wiseman; Eze, Ugochukwu Dominion; Isiofia, Didacus Chinedu; Akporokah, Andrew
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RTESE'23 Keynote Lecture - Virtual
June 06 | 01:25 PM - 02:10 PM | Session Chair: Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Hurricane Hazards and Risk in a Changing Climate
Dr. Ning Lin, Princeton University, USA
Ning Lin is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Lin’s research areas include natural hazards and risk analysis, climate change impact and adaptation, wind engineering, and coastal engineering. Her current primary focus is hurricane risk analysis. She integrates science, engineering, and policy to study hurricane-related weather extremes, how they change with changing climate, and how their impact on society can be better mitigated. She has published in high-impact journals including Science, Nature Climate Change, and PNAS on these topics. Lin is a recipient of CAREER award from National Science Foundation (NSF), Natural Hazards Early Career Award and Global Environmental Change Early Career Award from American Geophysical Union (AGU), and and Huber Research Prize from American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Lin received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University in 2010. She also received a certificate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy in 2010 from Princeton. Before rejoining Princeton as an assistant professor in 2012, she conducted research in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT as a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow.
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RTESE'23 Keynote Lecture - Virtual
June 06 | 02:10 PM - 02:45 PM | Session Chair: Session Chair: Dr. Mehrab Mehrvar, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada

Integrated Water Management & Development of Yangtze River Simulator
Dr. Jun Xia, Wuhan University, China
Dr. Jun Xia is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Chair Professor & Director, The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University. He has ample experiences on hydrology, water resources management in China and international since 1987, severed as the President of International Water Resources Association (IWRA, 2009-2012), Co-Chair, InterAcademy Council for Water Programme (2004-2010), Bureau Member of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG, 2019-2023) etc. He was awarded “International Hydrological Prize -Volker Medal”, given jointly by IAHS, UNESCO and WMO in 2014, the 2017’s State Natural Science Award in China, 2019’s IUGG Elected Fellow and 2022’s ICWRER Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Session
June 06 | 01:55 PM - 03:40 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Rohit Goyal, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India & Dr. Satyendra Mittal, IIT ROORKEE, India
Transportation & Traffic Engineering II
ICCSTE 150
Time: 01:55 - 02:10
Presenter: Milad Abolhassani, Carleton University, Canada
Authors: Milad Abolhassani, Yasser Hassan, Ali Kassim
ICCSTE 151
Time: 02:10 - 02:25
Presenter: Sorousha Saffarzadeh, Carleton University, Ottawa
Authors: Sorousha Saffarzadeh, Yasser Hassan, Ali Kassim
ICCSTE 162
Time: 02:25 - 02:40
Presenter: Ying Huang, North Dakota State University, USA
Authors: Ying Huang, Xingyu Wang, Shuomang Shi, and Nita Yodo
ICCSTE 163
Time: 02:40 - 02:55
Presenter: Pan Lu, North Dakota State University, USA
Authors: Xinyi Yang, Ying Huang, Pan Lu
ICCSTE 173
Time: 02:55 - 03:10
Presenter: Nnecdem Padison, University of Yaounde, Cameroon
Authors: Nnecdem Padison
ICCSTE 209
Time: 03:10 - 03:25
Presenter: Koohyar Faizi, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Authors: Koohyar Faizi, John Allsop, Paul Beetham, and Rolands Kromanis
ICCSTE 172
Time: 03:25 - 03:40
Presenter: Konstantinos Ntafloukas, University College of Dublin, Ireland
Authors: Konstantinos Ntafloukas, Liliana Pasquale, Beatriz Martinez-Pastor, Daniel P. McCrum
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Session
June 06 | 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Dimitrios Rakopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece
Environmental Protection III
LACP3 105
Time: 04:45 - 03:00
Presenter: Lorena Cerezo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Authors: Lorena Cerezo, Agileo Hernández-Gordillo, Sandra E. Rodil
LACP3 116
Time: 03:00 - 03:15
Presenter: Zahra Parsa, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Authors: Zahra Parsa, Ramdhane Dhib, Mehrab Mehrvar
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Session
June 06 | 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Narinder Singh, University of Salerno, Italy
Geotechnical & Strutural Engineering II
ICCSTE 186
Time: 04:00 - 04:15
Presenter: Seulgi Han, University of Seoul, South Korea
Authors: Seulgi Han, Dashdemberel Norovbadam, Junyoung Gwak, Jinwon Shin2, Sungmo Choi
ICCSTE 198
Time: 04:15 - 04:30
Presenter: Ronald Stephan Alvarez Reyes, Tohoku University, Japan
Authors: Ronald Alvarez and Shigeki Unjoh
ICCSTE 185
Time: 04:30 - 04:45
Presenter: In-Rak Choi, Hoseo University, South Korea
Authors: In-Rak Choi, Ji-Hye Park, Jun-Kyu Kim, Jin-Won Shin, Sung-Mo Choi
ICCSTE 227
Time: 04:45 - 05:00
Presenter: Satyendra Mittal, IIT ROORKEE, India
Authors: Satyendra Mittal, Sonam Ladol, Nehul Tyagi, Sangeeta Singh
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