Technical Presentations

Keynote Lecture - "Some key aspects influencing the liquefaction potential of gravelly soils: insights from laboratory investigations" - GeoMandu 2024, 29-29 November 2024, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Special Theme Lecture - "Gravel-rubber mixtures: macro- and micro-scale engineering properties": 2nd International Conference on Construction Resources and Environmentally Sustainable Technology (CREST 2023), 21 November 2023, Fukuoka, Japan.

Keynote Lecture - "Macro- and micro-scale engineering response of rigid-soft gravel-rubber inclusions: insights from detailed laboratory and DEM numerical investigations": 1st International Conference of Construction Materials and Environment (ICCME 2021), 3 June 2021, Waknaghat, India. 

State-of-the-Art-and-Practice Lecture - "Cyclic resistance and large deformation characteristics of sands under sloping ground conditions: insights from large-strain torsional simple shear tests": 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (7ICRAGEE), 13 July 2021, Roorkee, India.

QuakeCoRE NZSEE Pre-Conference Workshop "Earthquake Engineering Research for the Residential Sector", Apr 13, 2021, Christchurch, NZ 

20th Symposium of the NZGS, Nov. 24-25, 2017, Napier, NZ - Session Reporter

JST J-RAPID Kumamoto Earthquake Symposium, March 4, 2017, Kumamoto, Japan 

Disastrous Doctorates Annual Conference, March 21, 2017, Christchurch, NZ  

NZ-Japan Geotechnical Colloquium, March 16, 2016, Auckland, NZ 

JSPS Science Dialogue Lecture Series, Feb. 24, 2015, Chiba, Japan

"Geotechnical and geological aspects of the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, Japan", NZSEE LFE Seminar Series, 6 Sept. 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand

"Geotechnical and geological aspects of the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, Japan", NZSEE LFE Seminar Series, 17 Aug. 2016, Auckland, New Zealand

JGS Briefing of the damage caused by the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, 1 June 2015, Sengoku, Tokyo, Japan 

JSCE Briefing of the damage caused by the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, 13 May 2015, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan 

Preliminary Damage Survey Reporting Seminar on Nepal Gorkha Earthquake 2015, 7 May 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal

"Geochemical characterisation of NZ volcanic soils", 11 Dec 2023, The Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, Nuku'alofa, Tonga

"Reuse and recycle of granular waste materials in geotechnical engineering applications", 4 July 2019, Nanyang  Technological University, Singapore

"Reuse of waste tyres: issues, challenges and opportunities – a New Zealand perspective", 26 Apr. 2019, University of Tokyo, Japan

"Catastrophic earthquake-induced slope failure in volcanic soil deposits: the Takanodai landslide, Kumamoto, Japan", Apr. 16, 2019, QuakeCoRE FP2 Seminar, Christchurch, NZ 

"Site characterization and liquefaction potential of Blenheim gravelly deposits", 22 Aug. 2018, QuakeCoRE FP2 Seminar, Christchurch, NZ

"Geotechnical and geological aspects of the 14 November 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake, NZ", 14 Sept. 2017, Tokyo, Japan

"The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, Japan: insights from earthquake damage survey", DPRI-QuakeCoRE Seminar Series, 19 Aug 2016, Christchurch, NZ

"The 2015 Gorkha Nepal Earthquake: insights from earthquake damage survey", CNRE Seminar Series, 25 Sept. 2015, Christchurch, NZ

"Reuse of granular industrial by-products for sustainable geotechnical projects", 20 Oct. 2014, Christchurch, NZ

"New insights into the failure mechanisms of liquefiable sandy sloped deposits", 21 Aug. 2014, Yamaguchi, Japan

"Effective reuse of granular industrial by-products for a sustainable port reclamation project in Australia", 31 July 2014, Tokyo, Japan

"Reuse of granular industrial by-products for a sustainable port reclamation project in Australia", 11 Feb. 2014, Cassino, Italy

"Failure mechanisms of liquefiable sand within sloped ground during earthquakes", 14 Nov. 2013, Tokyo, Japan

"Prediction of earthquake-induced liquefaction and shear failure of sandy sloped ground", 9 May 2013, Christchurch, NZ

"Prediction of liquefaction and failure mechanisms of sandy sloped ground during earthquakes", 22 Nov. 2012, Cassino, Italy

"Liquefaction and failure mechanisms of sandy sloped ground during earthquakes: laboratory observation and field prediction", 11 Oct. 2012, Hong Kong 

"Deformation properties of sand with initial static shear in undrained cyclic torsional shear tests and their modeling", 12 Aug. 2010, Tokyo, Japan

1st International Symposium on Construction Resources and Environmentally Sustainable Technology (CREST 2020), 9-11 March, 2021, Fukuoka, Japan (online due to Covid-19)

7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, June 17-20, 2019, Rome, Italy

11th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Apr. 4-6, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand

13th ANZ Geomechanics Conference, Apr. 1-3, 2019, Perth, Australia

International Conference on GIS and Geoinformation Zoning for Disaster Mitigation, Nov. 15-16, 2018, Auckland, New Zealand

QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting, Sept. 4-6, 2018, Taupo, New Zealand

5th Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering & Soil Dynamics Conference, June 10-13, 2018, Austin, TX, USA

19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, TC203 Session, Sept. 17-22, 2017, Seoul, South Korea

QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting, Sept. 3-6, 2017, Taupo, New Zealand

US-New Zealand-Japan International Workshop on Effects of Liquefaction, Nov. 2-4, 2016, Berkeley, CA, USA

QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting, Aug. 31 - Sept. 2, 2016, Taupo, New Zealand

6th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-BA), Nov. 15-18, 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina

6th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Nov. 1-4, 2015, Christchurch, New Zealand

Annual Conference of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering (NZGS), Apr. 10-12, 2015, Rotorua, New Zealand

International Symposium on Geohazards, Nov. 19-21, 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal 

16th International Summer Symposium of JSCE, Sept. 10,2014, Osaka, Japan 

6th Japan-Taiwan Joint Workshop on Geotechnical Natural Hazards, July 12-14, 2014, Kitakyushu, Japan 

19th Symposium of the New Zealand Geotechnical Society, Nov. 19-21, 2013, Queenstown, New Zealand 

Annual Conference of the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, Dec. 7-9, 2012, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia 

International Conference on Ground Improvement and Ground Control, Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, 2012, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

2nd International Symposium on Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials, Oct. 15-16, 2012, Beijing, China

5th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-Seoul), Sept. 1-3, 2011, Seoul, South Korea 

5th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Jan. 10-13, 2011, Santiago, Chile 

12th International Summer Symposium of JSCE, Sept. 18, 2010, Funabashi, Japan

Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Conference, 17th ICSMGE, Oct. 2-3, 2009, Alexandria, Egypt 

11th International Summer Symposium of JSCE, Sept. 11, 2009, Tokyo, Japan