Deputy Director General, Water Resources Agency, MOEA

Yi-Fung Wang

Received Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University.
Awarded as Outstanding Personnel (2001) and Model Civil Servant (2010).
Dedicated to the development of water resources technology, conservation, water-saving policies, inundation warning system, and drought emergency response.

Professor & Chair, Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, NCKU

Dong-Jiing Doong

Prof. Doong is Chair of the Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering and Director of the Coastal Ocean Monitoring Center at NCKU. Prior to joining NCKU, he held academic and administrative positions at National Taiwan Ocean University. He led research on coastal protection and marine hazards, advancing monitoring networks and early warning systems. He holds over 20 patents and has received several national awards, including the Disaster Prevention Contribution Award, the Outstanding Contribution to Water Resources Award, and the Engineering Professor Award.

President, Japan Society of Civil Engineers / President, FRICS / Emeritus Professor, UTokyo

Koji Ikeuchi

Koji Ikeuchi is President of the Foundation of River & Basin Integrated Communications (FRICS), President of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), and Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo. For over 40 years, he has been engaged in disaster risk reduction and flood management policies and projects. At the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), he served as Director General of the Water and Disaster Management Bureau and as Vice Minister for Engineering Affairs. After retiring from government service, he served as a professor at the University of Tokyo for six and a half years before assuming his current roles.

Full Professor Hydraulic Engineering, Hamburg University of Technology, Member WRA International Advisory Board

Peter Fröhle

Peter Fröhle is a Civil Engineer with specialization in Hydraulic Engineering and has studied in Bochum and Hannover. He worked as a researcher at University of Hannover and University of Rostock, where he obtained his PhD in Hydraulic Engineering. In Addition, he was head of the Coastal Engineering group of University of Rostock.

Peter Fröhle serves in several public boards, e.g. i) the Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Impacts and Climate Change to the Senate of the Federal State of Hamburg and ii) the Joint Board of the German Port Technology Association.

Since 2017 Peter Fröhle is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering of NCKU

Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University

Hao-Che Ho

I am an associate professor at National Taiwan University's Department of Civil Engineering, specializing in urban disaster prevention engineering and water resources management. I have pioneered the integration of IoT technology, AI prediction models, and disaster prevention engineering to establish a flood resilience indicator system, making significant contributions to urban disaster prevention.

Professor Ho maintains long-term partnerships with Taiwan's Water Resources Agency and Soil and Water Conservation Bureau, leading multiple disaster prevention projects. His team's IoT smart monitoring platform has been deployed across Taiwan, enhancing disaster response efficiency.

In international cooperation, Professor Ho has assisted Taiwan's ICDF in exporting comprehensive disaster prevention solutions to diplomatic allies, including successful projects in Belize and Guatemala, demonstrating Taiwan's global impact in disaster risk reduction.

Assistant Professor, Department of Harbor and River Engineering, NTOU

Yuan-Fong Su

Dr. Yuan-Fong Su specialized in remote sensing for environmental monitoring. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 2009 from National Taiwan University, he joined the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK, as a postdoctoral research fellow, working with Professor Giles Foody on the development of remote sensing image analysis techniques. He subsequently joined the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction in 2012, conducting research on the applications of remote sensing in slopeland hazard, flood disaster assessment, and climate change issues. Since 2021, he has been with the Department of Harbor and River Engineering at National Taiwan Ocean University, focusing on research related to the application of AI and remote sensing technologies in environmental issues.