World Symposium on Civil Engineering WSCE 2017

Hong Kong, 15-17 March, 2017

The WSCE 2017 Program Committee

As the WSCE is organized by the International Association of Engineers and the Engineering Letters, some of the editorial board members of the Engineering Letters and the IAENG journals and the committee members of IAENG Societies are taking part in the WSCE 2017 International Program Committee.

As the WSCE conference has been formerly part of The 24th International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS) 2016, the IMECS conferences committee members have been listed for reference as followed:

For reference, recent IMECS Program Committee in 2016

	Yousry H. Abdelkader	Alexandria University, Egypt
	Daoud Ait-Kadi	University Laval, Canada
	Basim Al-Najjar	Vaxjo University, Sweden
	Ali Allahverdi	Kuwait University, Kuwait
	Bala P. Amavasai	Sheffield Hallam University, U.K.
	Carlos Henggeler Antunes	University of Coimbra, Portugal
	Djamel Bouchaffra	Oakland University, USA
	Indranil Bose	The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Anthony Brabazon	University College Dublin, Ireland
	Mietek Brdys	The University of Birmingham, UK
	Fidel Cacheda	University of A Coruna, Spain
	Alan Hoi-shou Chan	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Felix T.S. Chan	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Chin-Chen Chang	Feng Chia University, Taiwan
	Pranay Chaudhuri	University of the West Indies, West Indies
	Chung Shue Chen	INRIA, France
	Mu-Song Chen	Da-Yeh University, Taiwan
	Qingfeng Chen	Deakin University, Australia
	Wallace Choy	The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	T.S. Chung	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Orville Leverne Clubb	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Manuel Jose Damasio	Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
	Chuangyin Dang	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Alexandar Djordjevich	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Yu-fai Fung	Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	G. Ganesan	Adikavi Nannaya University, India
	Robert Gay Kheng Leng	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	Zhao-qiang Ge	Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
	Goh Ong Sing	National Technical University of Malaysia, Malaysia
	Angel Marin Gracia	de la Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
	Nalan Gulpinar	University of Warwick, UK
	Phil Heaton-Adegbile	University of Portsmouth, UK
	Enrique Herrera-Viedma	University of Granada, Spain
	Josep R. Herrero	Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
	Xu Huang	University of Canberra, Australia
	Chi-Kuang Hwang	Chung-Hua University, Taiwan
	Heung Suk Hwang	TongMyong University, South Korea
	Shigekazu Ishihara	Hiroshima International University, Japan
	Limin Jia	Beijing Jiaotong University, China
	Hsueh-Fen Juan	National Taiwan University, Taiwan
	Rajgopal Kannan	Louisiana State University, USA
	George P. Karatzas	Technical University of Crete, Greece
	Hideki Katagiri	Hiroshima University, Japan
	Graham Kendall	University of Nottingham, UK
	Kensaku Kikuta	University of Hyogo, Japan
	Haeng Kon Kim	Catholic University of DaeGu, South Korea
	Sung-il Kim	Korea University, South Korea
	Cartik Kothari	The University of Memphis, USA
	Mohan Krishnamoorthy	CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences Division, Australia
	Tadahiko Kumamoto	Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
	Reggie Kwan	The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Ho Woo Lee	Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
	Layuan Li	Wuhan University of Technology, China
	Xueliang Li	Nankai University, China
	Yiming Li	National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
	Chih-Min Lin	Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan
	Baoding Liu	Tsinghua University, China
	Liping Liu	University of Akron, USA
	Elsa M. Macias Lopez	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University, Spain
	Kazuaki Maeda	Chubu University, Japan
	Prabhat K.Mahanti	University of New Brunswick, Canada
	Qusay H. Mahmoud	University of Guelph, Canada
	Nikolaos Matsatsinis	Technical University of Crete, Greece
	George Mavrommatis	Hellenic Military Academy, Greece
	Michael McGuigan	Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
	Patricia Melin	Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
	Ludmil Mikhailov	The University of Manchester, UK
	Hiroshi Mineno	Shizuoka University, Japan
	Herman Monsuur	Netherlands Defense Academy, The Netherlands
	Chiung Moon	Yonsei University, South Korea
	Alejandro Murua	University of Montreal, Canada
	Nysret Musliu	Vienna University of Technology, Austria
	Didier Nakache	CNAM de Paris, France
	Jun Ni	The University of Iowa, USA
	Lars Nolle	Nottingham Trent University, UK
	A. Alper Ozalp	Uludag University, Turkey
	Wan- Kai Pang	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
	Apostolos N. Papadopoulos	Aristotle University, Greece
	Selwyn Piramuthu	University of Florida, USA
	I.M. Premachandra	University of Otago, New Zealand
	A.B. Rad	Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
	Marina Resta	Universita' degli Studi di Genova, Italy
	Cornel I. G. Resteanu	National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Bucharest, Romania
	Maria Luque Rodriguez	University of Cordoba, Spain
	Raul Rojas	Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
	Carlos Romero	Technical University of Madrid, Spain
	Susumu Saito	The Institute for Science of Labour, Japan
	Tadeusz Sawik	AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland
	Quah Tong Seng	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	Rosemary R. Seva	De La Salle University, Philippines
	Vrijendra Singh	Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India
	Yannis Siskos	University of Piraeus, Greece
	Elhadi Shakshuki	Acadia University, Canada
	Dharmendra Sharma	University of Canberra, Australia
	Jiuh-Biing Sheu	National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
	Shey-Huei Sheu	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
	Yuri Grigoriyevich Stoyan	Institute for Problems in Machinery of National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
	Tan Sui	University Oxford, UK
	Junping Sun	Nova Southeastern University, USA
	Zhaohao Sun	University of Wollongong, Australia
	Manoj Kumar Tiwari	National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT), India
	Dat Tran	University of Canberra, Australia
	Francisco Herrera Triguero	University of Granada, Spain
	Lin-Yu Tseng	Providence University, Taiwan
	Shinichi Tsuda	Tokai University, Japan
	Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng	Kainan University, Taiwan
	Lev V. Utkin	St.Petersburg Forest Technical Academy, Russia
	Ismael Vaz	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
	Jose Luis Verdegay	Universidad de Granada, Spain
	Hsiao-Fan Wang	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
	Long Wang	Peking University, China
	Shyh-Hau Wang	Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
	Toyohide Watanabe	Nagoya University, Japan
	Frank Werner	Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany
	Igor Wojnicki	AGH - University of Science and Technology, Poland
	Ed Xuekui Wu	University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Trong Wu	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA
	Guangming Xie	Peking University, China
	Li Xu	Zhejiang University, China
	Susan H. Xu	Penn State University, USA
	Gi-Chul Yang	Mokpo National University, South Korea
	Xin-She Yang	University of Cambridge, UK
	Ali Riza Yildiz	University of Michigan, USA
	Kun-Ming Yu	Chung Hua University, Taiwan
	Cecilia Zanni	Marc Bloch University, France
	Xiaohua (Douglas) Zhang	Merck Research Laboratories, USA
	Zhe George Zhang	Simon Fraser University, Canada
	Yao Zhao	Beijing Jiaotong University, China
	Yong Zhao	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	Constantin Zopounidis	Technical University of Crete, Greece

WSCE Conference Co-Chairs and Committee Members:

Prof. M. Shahria Alam
Associate Professor, School of Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Md. Shohel Reza Amin
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Canada

Prof. Ata Amini
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Kurdistan, Iran

Prof. Rola Assi
Assistant Professor, Department of construction engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada

Prof. Eyübhan Avci
Asisstant Professor, Department of Construction, Hitit University, Turkey

Prof. Mohammad Bagherbandi
Associate Professor, Department of Surveying Engineering, University of Gävl, Sweden

Dr. D. Bolkas
Instructor, Department of Surveying Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.

Prof. Alan Carter
Associate Professor, Department of Construction Engineering, Ecole de technologie supérieure, Canada

Dr. Tawee Chaipimonplin
Senior lecturer, Department of Geography, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Dr. Krisada Chaiyasarn
Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Thammasat University, Thailand

Prof. Leszek Chybowski
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Marine Engineering, Maritime University of Szczecin, Poland

Prof. M. Ebrahimi
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maragheh, Iran

Prof. Sadegh Etedali
Assistant Professor, Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Birjand University of Technology, Iran

Prof. Michele Fabio Granata
Assistant Professor, University of Palermo, Italy

Prof. F. Farhatnia
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Iran

Dr. D. Garbiec
Department of Advanced Forming Technologies, Metal Forming Institute, Poland

Prof. Rosa Galvez (co-chair)
Professor; Head, Departement of Civil and Water Engineering, Université Laval, Canada

Dr. Khaled Ghaedi
Research Assistant, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Jalan Universitiy, Malaysia

Prof. Tahir Gonen
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering , Usak University, Turkey

Prof. M.O. Hamzah
Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Universitiy Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr. Linh Truong-Hong
Research Scientist, School of Civil Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland

Dr. Mohammad Hooshmand
Instructor, Department of Engineering, Nabi Akram University, Iran

Dr. Fu-yun Huang
Associate Researcher and Tutor, Department of Civil Engineering, Fuzhou University, China

Prof. Mohamed A. Ismail
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, Curtin University, Malaysia

Dr. Ludovic Jason
Research Engineer, CEA, Deputy director, Institute of Mechanical Science and Industrial Applications, France

Prof. A. W. Jayawardena
Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, H.K.

Prof. M. P. Karthik
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, SSM Institute of Engineering and Technology, India

Prof. A. Kaveh
Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

Prof. Yongjie Lin
Assistant Professor, Technical Director, Center for Comprehensive Transportation Science and Technology, Shandong University, China

Dr. Mojtaba Maghrebi
Posdoctoral Reasearch Fellow, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Research Center for Integrated Transport Innovation, Australia

Prof. D. Mazurkiewicz
Associate Professor, Head of the Metrology and Computerization in Production Engineering Chair, Lublin University of Technology, Poland

Prof. Smruti Sourava Mohapatra
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India

Prof. J. Mucha
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland

Prof. T. Muthuramalingam
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, SRM University, India

Prof. Hosein Naderpour
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Iran

Dr. Fadzli Mohamed Nazri
Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Prof. M. Noori (co-chair)
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, U.S.A.

Dr. Manish Pandey
Research scholar, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Dr. Nantiwat Pholdee
Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Prof. Giuseppe Quaranta
Assistant Professor, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Dr. Hugo Rodrigues
Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal

Prof. H.M. Sedighi
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran

Prof. Himanshu Sharma
Asssitant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Uttarakhand Srinagar, Uttarakhand

Dr. Sara Shirowzhan
Post doctoral Writing Fellow, Faculty of Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Prof. Mirosław J. Skibniewski (co-chair)
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental, Engineering, University of Maryland, USA

Prof. Tomasz Tański
Professor, Head of Scientific and Didactic Laboratory of Nanotechnology and Materials Technologies, Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Dr. Kong Fah Tee
Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering Science, University of Greenwich, U.K.

Prof. Víctor Yepes
Professor, Department of Construction Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain