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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
National University of Singapore
Biography:
Jat-Yuen Richard Liew, PhD, PEng, CEng, ACPE, FSEng, is Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore. He is a Professional Engineer in Singapore, a Chartered Engineer in U.K, a Chartered Professional Engineer of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and Past President of the Singapore Structural Steel Society and a fellow of academy of Engineering Singapore.
He received his B.Eng (First Class) and MEng from the National University of Singapore and PhD from Purdue University where his research on advanced analysis for frame design has influenced recent steel structural design codes and specifications. Dr Liew’s main research focus is on steel and composite materials and structures with applications to high rise and large span structural systems covering defence, offshore, and building sectors. Hs research has garnered more than 2669 cites (h-index 30) in Google scholar.
Dr Liew serves in the editorial board of the 10 journals. He has authored and co-authored more than 400 scientific papers, including 5 books, 13 edited books and 15 book chapters. He has delivered about 50 keynote and invited lectures in 22 cities around the world in topics related to design and construction of steel structures. He received numerous teaching awards and was placed in the Teaching Honour Roll in 2008.
Dr Liew was appointed as a honorary professor and the Academy of Engineer of the Nanjing Tech University, China in April 2015. He was conferred the "Honorary Fellow" by the Singapore Structural Steel Society in 2010 and by the Hong Kong Institute of Steel Construction in 2011 because of his leadership roles in structural steel professional and business communities in Singapore and Hong Kong. He was one of the code writers and international advisors for the Hong Kong’s structural steel codes. He is the key person responsible for developing the Singapore national annexes for Eurocodes 3 and 4, the latest codes of practice for design steel and composite structures in Singapore. He is a member of the Singapore Specification committee on steel building products, advisory committee on the Hong Kong Code of Practice of Steel Structures, IABSE Working Commission 2 on Steel, Timber and Composite Structures, technical committee for Singapore performance based fire engineering design, Member of IStructE, Fire Engineering Task Group, London, and International Structural Steel Research Advisors (ISSRA) of the American Institute of Steel Construction. He chairs numerous international and national conferences, workshops and seminars including committees related to standards and specifications of steel and composite structures. He was invited as an honourable judge to select entries for structural excellent awards by the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, Singapore Structural Steel Society and Singapore Building Construction Authority.
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Prof. J.Y. Richard Liew
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