Yi-Lung Mo
Chair Professor - University of Houston, USA
Biography
Dr. Yi-Lung Mo, F.ASCE, F.ACI, F.Humboldt is Professor at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, the University of Houston (UH). He is also Tsinghua Chair Professor, Institute of Future City and Infrastructure, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His technical interests are multi-resolution distributed analytical simulations, large-scale concrete structure testing and field investigations of the response of complex structures, on which he has more than 400 research publications, including 201 refereed journal papers, many conference, keynote and prestige lectures, research reports, books and book chapters, magazine articles and earthquake field mission reports. In the past several years, he has focused on energy material research, especially the application of carbon nanofiber material for sustaining resilience of nuclear power plants to multi-hazards.