Prof PAN Tso-Chien. Prof Pan is the Founding Executive Director of the Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management (ICRM), NTU. He received his PhD and MS degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in the USA. Prof Pan joined the NTU faculty in 1985 and served for five years as NTU’s Dean of the College of Engineering before taking on the leadership of ICRM at NTU in 2011. He is now leading the national R&D effort on Natural Catastrophe Data Analytics Exchange Project. Prof Pan specialises in the analysis and design of structures against earthquake ground motions and other forms of dynamic loading, and has been working on natural catastrophe risk assessment of major urban centres. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, and a Fellow of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology.
