KEYNOTE SPEAKER I IN ICCEA 2025

Prof. Thomas Kang, Seoul National University, Korea

 

 

Dr. Kang is a Professor in the Department of Architecture & Architectural Engineering and Director for Engineering Education Innovation Center at Seoul National University, Korea. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA. He has held various affiliated positions in the U.S. and Japan, including Adjunct Professor at the University of Oklahoma, Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Lecturer at UCLA, the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of Tokyo. Prof. Kang received his PhD from UCLA, his MS from Michigan State University, and his BS from Seoul National University.

Prof. Kang is a Fellow of Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI) and a Fellow of American Concrete Institute (ACI). Prof. Kang received the Kenneth B. Bondy Award for Most Meritorious Technical Paper as Lead Author from PTI in 2012, and the Wason Medal for Most Meritorious Paper as Lead Author from ACI in 2009 with the subject of post-tensioned concrete. He regularly teaches the course of Post-Tensioned Concrete Structures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign every other summer (both on campus and online) and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa every fall (live online lectures). Prof. Kang is an Editor-in-Chief for three journals: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials, Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance, and Advances in Computational Design; and Associate Editor for PTI Journal of Post-Tensioning Institute. He is one of the founding and voting members of PTI DC-20 Committee, Building Design, and has been a voting member for ACI Committee 369, Seismic Repair and Rehabilitation; Joint ACI-ASCE Committees 335, Composite and Hybrid Structures, 352 Joints and Connections in Monolithic Concrete Structures, and Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 423, Prestressed Concrete; and Joint ACI-ASME Committee 359, Concrete Containments for Nuclear Reactors, as well as various committees in Korea.

Prof. Kang published more than a hundred international journal papers and more than a hundred international conference proceedings, including 40 in ACI Structural Journal and 10 in PTI Journal. He has chaired many sessions/symposiums of structural engineering; delivered many keynote/invited speeches; and organized international conferences/workshops as a Chair. Additionally, Dr. Kang has done a lot of practice as a consulting engineer in Korea and the U.S. Prior to joining the academia, he had a working experience in California, USA (e.g., John A. Martin & Associates), and was a licensed Professor Engineer (PE) in California.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER II IN ICCEA 2025

Prof. Dr. Ir. Herlien D. Setio, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

 

Professor Dr. Ir. Herlien D. Setio is a professor in Structural Dynamics and Control and Head of the Structural Engineering Research Group at the Faculty of Civil and Environment Engineering Institut Teknologi Bandung (FCEE-ITB), Indonesia. She graduated from the Civil Engineering Department at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in 1981 and received her doctoral degree in Structural Dynamics from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, in 1990. She has been a lecturer at Institut Teknologi Bandung since 1982, where Structural Dynamics and Control are her main specialties. She is also active as a guest lecturer in the field of infrastructure forensics engineering in relation to corruption cases at the University of Indonesia (UI) for a Magister Collaboration Program of the Faculty of Law UI with the Indonesian Police Department. Throughout her service as a lecturer and government officer at ITB, Professor Setio has held various positions, including Head of the Civil Engineering Department, Head of the Structural Engineering Research Group FCEE-ITB, member of the Academic Senate ITB, and Head of the Senate FCEE-ITB. In addition, she is a member of AARGI, the Indonesian Earthquake Engineering Association. For her expertise, in 1994, she was awarded "The Best Paper Award" from the Society of Experimental Mechanics, USA, based on her publication in The International Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis. Professor Setio’s research focuses on Structural Dynamics and Control, where stabilizing structures excited by dynamic loading is the main interest. She has published more than fifty papers in various national and international journals, including the Journal of Sound and Vibration, the Journal of Applied Mechanics, the ASME Transaction, the Journal of the American Institute of Aeronautic and Aerospace (AIAA), The International Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis, and the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc., USA. Prof. Setio is also active as a researcher in the field of Forensic Infrastructure Engineering, which is a branch of engineering that combines technical, legal, and forensic principles to investigate and analyze infrastructure failure. Over the last 10 years, she has served as an invited expert for the Indonesia Anti-Corruption Commission, KPK, providing critical insights into infrastructure projects, especially in Infrastructure Forensic Engineering.

 

Keynote Speech Title: Forensic Engineering for Infrastructure Quality Improvement

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER III IN ICCEA 2025

Prof. Young (Youngchul) Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea

 

Prof. Young (Youngchul) KIM, Ph.D. is an urban designer, licensed architect, researcher and educator, currently serving as an associate professor of urban design at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in South Korea. He teaches theory and design in architecture and urbanism. His current research interests include investigating planning and design strategies within the context of smart cities and climate change and employing deep learning and artificial intelligence approaches for urban analytics to capturing urban invisible characteristics. His urban research and urban design practice both explore roles of built environments in human being's daily challenges to continuously sustain their urban life. He leads the KAIST Smart City Research Center and KAIST Urban Design Lab.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER IV IN ICCEA 2025

Dr.-Ing. Andry Widyowijatnoko, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia

 

Dr.-Ing. Andry Widyowijatnoko is an architect, lecturer, and researcher at the School of Architecture, Planning, and Policy Development, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. He has been working with bamboo since 1999, initially focusing on using bamboo for low-cost housing. In 2006, he was sponsored by the Environmental Bamboo Foundation to travel to Colombia to learn about bamboo construction techniques. This experience transformed his approach, leading him to promote bamboo by designing high-end buildings to increase its perceived value. One of his notable achievements is the award-winning Great Hall OBI, an oval bamboo structure with spans ranging from 20 to 30 meters. He earned his doctoral degree in 2012 from the Chair of Structures and Structural Design, Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His dissertation, titled Traditional and Innovative Joints in Bamboo Construction, focused on bamboo joints. It began with a classification of bamboo construction types, followed by a detailed classification of bamboo joints, and concluded with a proposal for customized lashing-based bamboo joints with exceptional tensile strength. The patented joint, known as the Bamboo Radial Compression Joint (Barcom Joint) and its variation with multi-knots, was applied to improve the renowned Three Mountain Building in Bali. He is regarded as a pioneer of tensegrity structures in Indonesia, combining them with bamboo construction. Drawing on his experience with tensegrity and reciprocal frames, he invented a new structural system called Rection (Reciprocal Tension). Unlike conventional reciprocal frames, where rigid elements touch, Rection features elements that lift each other reciprocally without direct contact, similar to tensegrity principles. Two temporary bamboo Rection domes were built: one at Indonesialand in 2016 with a 13-meter diameter, and another at ITB in 2017 with a 10-meter diameter, followed by additional structures in Lampung and Malang. To promote proper bamboo construction techniques to architecture students and professionals worldwide, he cofounded the AA-ITB BambooLab Course with John Naylor in 2018, a joint workshop between ITB and the AA School of Architecture, London. He has delivered numerous lectures and conducted hands-on workshops on bamboo construction across Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.