Dr. Tatsuya Ishikawa is Professor of the Faculty of Engineering at the Hokkaido University, Japan. After graduation from Kyoto University, Japan, he worked at East Japan Railway Company as Engineer for about 15 years, including about 7 years’ temporary transfer to Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan. In 2002, he became Faculty Member of Hokkaido University. So far, he mainly has studied transportation geotechnics, including disaster prevention against heavy rainfall and frost-heave, from the viewpoints of experimental and analytical research. In the 2022-2026 term, he is Chair of Technical Committee 202 (TC202) on Transportation Geotechnics, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), after being Secretary of ISSMGE TC202 during 8 years from 2013 to 2021. Also, from 2013, he is Chair of TC202 Japanese Domestic Committee of Japanese Geotechnical Society. In addition, he is Editorial Board Member of Transportation Geotechnics Journal and Associate Editor of Journal of Soils and Foundations.
Dr. Erol Tutumluer is Abel Bliss Professor specializing in Transportation Geotechnics in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Professor Tutumluer holds the Paul F. Kent Endowed Faculty Scholar and serves as Director of International and ZJUI Education Programs. He received his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Tech in 1995 and, shortly after, joined UIUC as Assistant Professor in the summer of 1996. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002 and Full Professor in 2008. Dr. Tutumluer is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Transportation Geotechnics Elsevier journal and Immediate Past Chair of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee 202 on Transportation Geotechnics (2013-2022). Dr. Tutumluer is Member of the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) and Geo-Institute and served as Chair of the ASCE Geo-Institute’s Pavements Committee (2006-2012).
Dr. Shintaro Miyamoto is Associate Professor of civil engineering department of the National Defense Academy of Japan. He received his Dr. Eng. from Kyushu University in 2016. During his doctoral program, he was Research Fellowship of young scientists at the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS). After receiving his Dr. Eng., he became Assistant Professor in 2016, Lecturer in 2020, and Associate Professor in 2023 at National Defense Academy of Japan. He is a member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and a secretary of the Japanese Technical Committee of Transportation Geotechnics (TC202) of ISSMGE.
