Distinguished Lecture Series : Sustainable Urban Development

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Harianto Rahardjo is a full professor since 2004 at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Geotechnical Engineering from University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and his B.Eng. degree in Civil Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia. He has close to 40 years of working experience in consulting, teaching and research in geotechnical engineering. He has served as Vice-Dean/Associate Chair (Research) School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Director of NTU-PWD Geotechnical Research Centre, Head of Division of Infrastructure Systems and Maritime Studies, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has published over 400 technical publications and presented his research works in over 60 keynote / invited lectures in various countries. Among the prizes and awards that he received include The 2019 Korean Geotechnical Society (KGS) Awards Lecture, Minister for National Development’s R&D Special Mention Award in 2017, and Winner of the Inaugural Asia-Pacific Distinguished Lecture on Unsaturated Soils, in 2015. He is the co-author of the first textbook on unsaturated soils “Soil Mechanics for Unsaturated Soils“, published in 1993 and has been translated into various languages in various countries. Other books that he co-authored include “Unsaturated Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice”, published by John Wiley in 2012, and “Unsaturated Soils Guidelines – Volume 1: Soil-Water Characteristic Curves for Materials Classified according to the Unified Soil Classification System” in 2019.