Invited Presentations at Conference or Symposium

  • Autonomous Characterization of Full-Scale Field Response of Municipal Solid Waste, Geoenvironmeet State of the Art Lecture, Geotechnical Frontiers, March 3 2025.
  • Revolutionizing Geotechnical Engineering Practice Through Automation, CalGeo Annual Conference,  April 3-5-2024, Hawaii.
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Surface and Subsurface Characterization Following Natural Disasters, 72nd Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference, February 22-23 2024.  University of Minnesota.
  • An Integrated monitoring and computational modeling Framework for community resiliency against landslides, Keynote Lecture #3 in Emerging and Disruptive Technologies to Enhance Disaster Resilience, NATO Advanced Research Workshop, 23-24 October, 2023.
  • Revolutionizing Geotechnical Engineering Practice through Autonomy, International Conference on Advances in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, March 8 2023, Hurghada, Egypt.
  • Towards Community-Scale Landslide Resiliency: From 3D Mapping & Modeling of past Natural Disasters to Preparing for Future Disasters, 2nd International Conference on ACE Forensic Engineering, Korea University, January 10 2023 (online).
  • Multi-Scale Monitoring of Landslides Using Satellites, UAVs and On-The-Ground Deployment Following Natural Disasters: The example of Lefkada 2015 Earthquake, 54th Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference, Kansas University, November 10 2022
  • Autonomy is Revolutionizing Geotechnical Engineering, Powerful Informative Talks, 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, May 1-5 2022, Sydney, Australia.
  • Big Data Frameworks to Enhance Community Resiliency Against Landslides, International Conference on Natural Hazard and Infrastructure, Athens, July 5-7 2022 (keynote).
  • Technology and Automation Revolutionizing Geoprofessional Practice, Geoprofessional Business Association Spring Conference, San Diego, April 9 2022.
  • Application of Multi-scale monitoring of landslides using satellites, UAVs and on-the-ground deployment following natural disasters: The example of Lefkada 2015 earthquake” 1st US-Korea Workshop: Urban geotechnical engineering and geohazard, March 20 2022, Charlotte, NC.
  • “The January 28 2021 Highway CA-1 Embankment Failure at Rat Creek, Big Sur, California”, Geo-Extreme, Savannah, Georgia, November 7-10 2021 (keynote Presentation)
  • Moving on From Waste Containment to Energy Harvesting, October 28 2021, GeoWeek, 3rd Congresso Internacional de Ingeneria Geotechnica (online)
  • Coupled process modeling for energy generation from municipal solid waste degradation: Laboratory-scale and field-scale simulations, 3rd International Symposium on Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics, 20-21 October 2021, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Emerging Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geotechnical Engineering Practice, Arizona Geo-Institute Southwest Symposium: Advancements in Geotechnics, September 22, 2020
  • Using Big Data to Learn more about Landslides Caused by Natural Disasters, Geo-PIT: Powerful, Informative Talks on Geotechnical Topics ASCE Virtual Conference , Sep. 14-18 2020.
  • Integrated Satellite, UAV and ground-based assessment of landslides following the November 17 2015 Mw 6.5 earthquake in Lefkada, Greece, International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering, ICGE’20, Hammamet, Tunisia, March 8-10 2020.
  • “Applications of Robotics in Geotechnical Engineering”, 8th Hellenic Conference in Geotechnical Engineering, 6-8 November 2019, Athens, Greece.
  •  “Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the Characterization of Ground Instability”, Workshop on Urban Geotechnics, Geotechnical Society of Singapore. March 11 2019, Singapore. 
  • “Recent Advances on Municipal Solid Waste Properties, Degradation and Implications in Design”, 19th Annual Michigan Solid Waste Conference, April 11-12 2018, Lansing, MI.
  • “Applications of Aerial and Land-Based Robotic Platforms in Landfills”, 19th Annual Michigan Solid Waste Conference, April 11-12 2018, Lansing, MI.
  • Opportunities for professional networking through GeoWorld, Geotechnical Women Faculty Network Workshop, April 11 2017, Washington DC.
  • ISSMGE Innovations for a cyber-interconnected Geo-profession” Monday February 15 2016, “Geo-Structures 2016: Phoenix, AR.
  • “Ground Improvement Technologies in Landfill Engineering”, 24th Annual Solid Waste Technical Conference, Lansing, MI, March 17-18 2014. 
  • “Experimental Evidence of Anisotropy in Municipal Solid Waste,”  Proc., Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, July 1-3, 2013 (invited keynote presentation).
  • “Case Histories of Geological, Rock and Mining Engineering, Underground Structures and Excavations – General Report for Session 5.” Seventh International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, April 29-May 4, 2013, Chicago, IL.
  • “From Waste Containment to Energy Harvesting: Ongoing Research.” Texas A&M University International Geo-Engineering Symposium in Honor of ISSMGE Board Members, April 26, 2013, College Station TX.
  • “Life after Graduation in Industry and Academia.”  Student Symposium, Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) & Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research MCEER Annual Meeting: Quake Summit 2011, Buffalo, NY, June 9, 2011.
  • “Use of Case Histories and Technology in Geotechnical Engineering Education,” 6th Hellenic Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Conference, September 27-30, 2010, Volos, Greece.
  •  “Engineering Considerations for Post-Closure Development of Landfills.”  21st Annual Solid Waste Conference, Michigan Solid Waste Industries Association and Engineering Society of Detroit April 10-11, 2011, Lansing, MI.
  • “Stability of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills: Fundamentals and Recent Advances.”  20th Annual Solid Waste Conference, Michigan Solid Waste Industries Association and Engineering Society of Detroit,March 23-24, 2010, Lansing, MI. 
  • “Engineering Seismology, Ground Motions, & Local Site Effects: General Report on Session 3.”  5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, May 24-29, 2010, San Diego, CA.
  • “Geological, Rock and Mining Engineering, Including Underground Structures and Excavations, and Subsidence of Deltas – General Report for Sessions 6a and 6b.” 6th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, August 11-16, 2007, Arlington, VA.

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