Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Asia Urban Geoengineering

Prof. RenpengChen is a Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Hunan University. He works as the Dean of the college of civil engineering at Hunan University. His research interests and expertise includes characterization of pavement and railroad geomaterials, i.e., subgrade soils and foundation soils, soft soil improvement using piles, offshore pile foundation, and TBM tunneling technologies.  He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers about his research projects. Prof. Chen is the associate editor-in-chief of China Journal of Highway and Transport, and the editorial board member of 5 Journals. He is a member of Committee of Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering (TC307), Asian Regional Technical Committee of Urban Geotechnics, of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and vice chair of 3 technical committees of Soft Soil Engineering, Soil Constitutive Relationship and Strength Theory, Transportation Geotechnics, of Chinese Institute of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Prof. Chen received Best Paper Awards of 2013ISEV, 2015 Outstanding Journal Paper Awards of Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities-ASCE, China Youth Science and Technology Award (200 persons every two years in China). He also received National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and was elected as the Leading Researcher of Ten Thousand Talent Program in China (2016).