Keynote Speakers

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Koichi Kusunoki
The University of Tokyo

Koichi Kusunoki is a Professor and vice-director of the Earthquake Research Institute (ERI), the University of Tokyo. He has also served as the Secretary-General of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering since 2014. His research subjects are 1) Structural Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete, 2) Structural Health Monitoring, 3) Seismic Design, and 4) Field investigation in the earthquake-affected area. 

He manages the building monitoring system at ERI, which monitors approximately 40 buildings in Japan, El Salvador, Peru, New Zealand, and Turkey. He got awards such as the “Excellence Award of Technical Design Competition of Architectural Institute of Japan” (Architectural Institute of Japan, AIJ), “Encouraging Prize” (AIJ), “Encouraging Prize” (Japan Concrete Institute), and AIJ Prize.

Ellen M. Rathje
University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Ellen M. Rathje is the Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering and a Senior Research Fellow at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin.  She is an expert in the areas of engineering seismology, seismic ground response, and earthquake-induced ground failure.  

Dr. Rathje is the current President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and she is a founding member and previous Co-Chair of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association. She leads the DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure that supports research in natural hazards engineering.  Her awards include the 2022 Peck Lecture Award from the ASCE Geo-Institute and the 2018 William B. Joyner Lecture Award from the Seismological Society of America and EERI. She was elected the National Academy of Engineering in 2025. 

Ying Zhou
Tongji University

Prof. Ying Zhou is a Professor at the College of Civil Engineering and Executive Director of State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University. The focus of her research is in the area of structural and earthquake engineering, particularly on understanding and improving the seismic performance of tall buildings under seismic loads. Recent research has examined the physics-informed data-driven earthquake response prediction for building structures.

Prof. Zhou’s research was awarded as Distinguish Young Scholars of National Natural Science Foundation of China. She serves as the Director of International Joint Research Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering (ILEE). She is a founding editor-in-chief of Resilient Cities and Structures and editor of Engineering Structures

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