Advanced measurement data interpretation for sustainable asset management

Yoichi Watabe

Hokkaido University

Dr. Yoichi Watabe is a professor of Hokkaido University, Japan, since October 2016. He had been working at Port and Airport Research Institute for more than 20 years after obtaining Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1995. He has been invited many technical committees for port and airport construction projects. From 1997 to 1999, he spent 2 years at Quebec, Canada as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Laval University. From 2010 to 2014, he was the secretary of Japanese Geotechnical Society and contributed to the organization of the 15th Asian Regional Conference of ISSMGE. His main research topics have been consistently on soft clay engineering. Currently, he chairs a new ISSMGE-technical committee: TC217 on “Land Reclamation.”