Susumu Yasuda
Professor, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Lecture Topic:
Hazard maps on liquefaction-induced damage to houses in Tokyo Bay area evaluated by representative soil profile models
Prof. Dr. Susumu YASUDA is senior faculty of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tokyo Denki University. Born in 1948, Prof. Yasuda received his B.S. in civil engineering from Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan), and his Doctor of Engineering in civil engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1975. Following his Doctor of Engineering degree, he worked at Kiso-Jiban Consultants Co. as a geotechnical consulting engineer. He then joined Kyushu Institute of Technology in 1986, and moved to Tokyo Denki University in 1994.
Prof. Yasuda’s main research interest is soil liquefaction during earthquakes. He has visited many different countries to investigate the damage due to liquefaction. He has served the Japanese Geotechnical Society as Vice President from 2006 to 2007, and has been serving Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering as the President since 2013. In the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, he was the chairman of the Asian Technical Committee (ATC) No. 10 on Urban Geo-informatics from 2002 to 2006, and the chairman of the ATC No.3 on Geotechnology for Natural Hazards from 2006 to 2010.
