​​​​Kyohei UEDA​

Associate Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

​2022.4 - present

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Assistant Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

​2015.4 - 2022.3

 

• Teach course on Experiments on Soil Mechanics and Exercises to classes averaging 100 undergraduate students.

• Teach course on Disaster Prevention through Geotechnics to classes averaging 20 graduate students.

• Conducted damage surveys on Hokkaido region, Japan after the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake in September 2018, and on Kyushu region, Japan after the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes in May 2016.

• Contribute to an international collaborative research, called “LEAP (Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects)” for the validation of constitutive and numerical modeling techniques for soil liquefaction analysis, from 2015 to Present.
   

Adjunct Instructor, Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

2015

 

• Taught course on Bridge and Earthquake Resistant to classes of 25 undergraduate students.

 

Researcher, Railway Technical Research Institute, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan

​2012.4 - 2015.3

 

• Contributed to revision of “Design Standards for Railway Structures and Commentary (Seismic Design)” in 2012.

 

Researcher, Port and Airport Research Institute, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

​2010.5 - 2012.3

 

• Visiting scholar at University of Southern California (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng.) in October, 2010 for the purpose of introducing and translating Japanese seismic design standards.

• Contributed to joint survey of port and harbor facilities, northern region of Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake between ASCE-COPRI Port and Harbor Facilities Field Survey Team and Port and Airport Research Institute in May, 2011.