Plenary Lectures


Plenary Lecture 1:
Recent Advancements in Risk Analysis and Management

Terje Aven
Professor of Risk Analysis and Risk Management, Centre for Risk Management and Societal Safety, University of Stavanger, Norway
President-Elect of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) 2017
Chairman of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA) 2014-2018

Plenary Lecture 2:
Managing Uncertain Ground Truth Using Bayesian Machine Learning

Kok Kwang Phoon — Distinguished Professor and Vice Provost, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award Winner 2018
Interim Director of Lloyd's Register Foundation, Institute on Public Understanding of Risk Academic Adviser to the Global Risks Report 2017 of the World Economic Forum
Jianye Ching — Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Plenary Lecture 3:
Probability Density Evolution – a Unified Perspective for Engineering Reliability Analysis of Structures and Lifeline Networks

Jie Li
Distinguished Professor, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
President of the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability
Director of the Shanghai Institute for Disaster Prevention and Relief
Director of the International Joint Research Center for Engineering Reliability and Stochastic Mechanics (CERSM)

Plenary Lecture 4:
An Introduction to Sliced-Normal Distributions

Luis Crespo
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA

Plenary Lecture 5:
Prediction and Decision Making from Bad Data

Scott Ferson
Professor, School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Director of the Liverpool Institute for Risk and Uncertainty
Director of the EPSRC and ESRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantification and Management of Risk & Uncertainty in Complex Systems & Environments