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Monitoring and Sensing

Technologies of Earthquake
Engineering in Japan
23 September 2021, Thursday
2.00 PM (BKK Time)

Dr. Fumio Yamazaki

Professor Emeritus, Chiba University,
Japan, and Research Fellow at
National Research Institute for Earth
Science and Disaster Resilience,
Tsukuba, Japan

SPEAKER PROFILE:
Dr. Fumio Yamazaki is currently Research
Fellow at the National Research Institute for
Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED),
Tsukuba, Japan and Professor Emeritus at
Chiba University, Japan. He received M.S.
degree in civil engineering from the University
of Tokyo in 1978. After working for Shimizu
Corporation, Japan and serving as a visiting
scholar at Columbia University, USA, he
earned his Ph.D. degree in civil engineering
from the University of Tokyo in 1987. He
joined the Institute of Industrial Science at
University of Tokyo in 1989 as Associate
Professor and had been there until 2003. He
also served as a team leader of Earthquake
Disaster Mitigation Research Center (EDM) in
Kobe, Japan in the period of 1998 to 2004.
Dr. Yamazaki was dispatched as a JICA
expert to Thailand and served as Professor
at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
from 2001 to 2003. He joined Graduate
School of Engineering at Chiba University
as Professor in 2003 and stayed there until
his retirement in March 2019. His research
interests include earthquake engineering,
stochastic mechanics, and more recently,
application of GIS and remote sensing to
disaster management. He is a member of
many professional organizations in Japan and
USA including ASCE, EERI, JSCE, JAEE. He
received Doctor Honoris Causa from National
University of Engineering, Peru in 2007, and
he was designated as Distinguished Adjunct
Professor at AIT in 2015.

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