Title
Professor

Department
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering


Faculty URL
https://www.ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/soga

Research Group
http://geomechanics.berkeley.edu/

Email
soga@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
infrastructure sensing, performance-based design, underground structures, energy geotechnics, geotechnics micro to macro

Research Description
Kenichi Soga is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his BEng and MEng from Kyoto University in Japan and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He was Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge before joining UC Berkeley in 2016. He has published more than 350 journal and conference papers and is the co-author of "Fundamentals of Soil Behavior, 3rd edition" with Professor James K Mitchell. His current research activities are Infrastructure sensing, Performance based design and maintenance of underground structures, Energy geotechnics, and Geotechnics from micro to macro. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He is the recipient of many awards including George Stephenson Medal and Telford Gold Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers and Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers.