Keynote Speakers

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Markus Oeser

Keynote speech topic: Road Traffic and Road Infrastructure: digital, environmental friendly and safe

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Markus Oeser studied Civil Engineering at the TU Dresden with a focus on structural engineering. In 2004, he completed his doctorate in Dresden with the topic "Numerical simulation of the non-linear behavior of multi-layered flexible transport pathways". This was followed in 2010 by his habilitation with the topic "Nonlinear numerical simulation models for traffic pathways with regard to mechanical, thermal and hydraulic effects“. In 2006, Markus Oeser was a Research Member of the Technical University of Delft University, the Netherlands, and from 2007 to 2011 he was a University Lecturer at the Institute of Geotechnics, Road Construction and Traffic Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. In 2011, he became Head of the Chair of Highway Engineering and Director of the Institute of Highway Engineering, and in 2016, Dean at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen (RWTH). He took up a visiting professorship at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), in Harbin, Heilongjang, China in 2015, which ended as per contract in 2022. In 2021, he was appointed to the professorship of Pavement Engineering and Construction, TU Dresden. He has been President of the Federal Highway Research Institute since November 2021.

Prof. Andrew Dawson

Keynote speech topic: Main Roads with Minor Surfacing

Prof. Dawson started his career in civil engineering as a technician with major civil engineering contractors. After university study he spent 5 years with civil engineering consultants on a wide variety of geotechnical work as a geotechnical, then senior geotechnical engineer. This included design of projects in the UK, Africa & Asia involving earth dams, mine pit slope stability assessments, highway schemes, water resource and hydraulic studies, advanced laboratory testing of soils, earthworks design, finite element analysis and many sites investigation contracts. Since joining the University of Nottingham he has been retained as an expert consultant on several road materials projects. He's engaged in many research studies in pavement foundations, materials recycling and pavement design, performance and maintenance. He is responsible for undergraduate teaching in geomechanics, including courses on geo-environmental engineering and geology.

Prof. Linbing Wang

Keynote speech topic: An Overview on Sensor and Sensor Network for Integrated Pavement and Traffic Monitoring

Dr. Linbing Wang is a professor in civil engineering materials and transportation infrastructure, and the director for the Sensing and Perception Lab at University of Georgia. He is the founding chair of the Committee on Mechanics of Pavements, former Chair of the Nanomechanics and Micromechanics committee, a Fellow of ASCE, and a Fellow of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE. Dr. Wang has led more than 70 research projects funded by NSF, NCHRP, FHWA, DoD, DoA, DoTs, MOST and CNSF. His research centers on smart, resilient and sustainable transportation infrastructures. Specific foci of his research include multiscale characterization, modeling and simulation; smart and sustainable technologies; energy harvesting and sensor development; laser interferometry for material characterization and pavement assessment; innovative infrastructure assessment and performance predictions; high performance and multifunctional materials; smart and resilient infrastructures; pavement testing and mechanistic pavement design; infrastructure preservation and management; and IoT sensor network for structural health monitoring and safety. Dr. Wang has served as a member of committees of TRB and ASCE, and panels of NCHRP and NSF. He is the author of Mechanics of Asphalt, Microstructure and Micromechanics, McGraw Hill, and author/co-author of more than 270 journal and proceeding publications. Dr. Wang has organized/co-organized a number of international workshops, symposiums, conferences and hosted visiting students and faculty members from universities in China and Europe.