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Dr. Khin Myat Kyaw

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Adjunct Faculty
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Structural Engineering
Department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (CIE)
School of Engineering & Technology (SET)
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Dr. Khin Myat Kyaw is adjunct faculty in Structural Engineering program and coordinator in Regional Network Office for Urban Safety (RNUS) at Asian Institute of Technology. She received her doctorate degree from University of Tokyo, Japan on 2020 and have joined Structural Engineering program at AIT on December 2023. She has been Research Associate in W. Takeuchi Lab., Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo since October 2022. She’s currently conducting research studies in the areas of structural health monitoring using remote sensing techniques. 

  1. Ph.D. in Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2020
    Topic: Soil-structure-interaction effects on the damage state of typical buildings in Yangon
  2. Master of Engineering in Structural Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 2014
    Topic: Suppression of tall building responses from distance large earthquake by fluid viscous dampers
  3. Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering, West Yangon Technological University, Myanmar, 2010
  1. Earthquake engineering
  2. Numerical modeling
  3. Disaster risk reduction
  4. Remote sensing-based Structural health monitoring.
  1. K. Kyaw, W. Takeuchi, 2023. “Instability Mapping of Dhaka-Kasiani-Gopalganj Railway Line in Bangladesh with InSAR Time-series Analysis.” The 2nd International Symposium on One Health, One World (OHOW), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2023/12/06. https://doi.org/10.3390/OHOW2023-16533 
  2. K. Kyaw, K. Meguro, 2022. “Analysis of SSI effect on separation gap requirement for RC mid-rise buildings in Yangon.” The 1st International Symposium on One Health, One World (OHOW), Bangkok, Thailand, 2022/12/08. https://doi.org/10.3390/ohow2022-13613
  3.  K. Kyaw, C. Gadagamma, K. Kyaw, H. Gokon, O. Murao, and K. Meguro, “Seismic Fragility Analysis of Poorly Built Timber Buildings in Yangon Slum Areas,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.15 No.3, pp. 407-415, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2020.p0407 
  4. K. M. Kyaw, K. Meguro, 2020. “Numerical modeling of mid-rise reinforced concrete building incorporation of soil-structure-interaction for different soil conditions with AEM.” 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE): Online, 2020/09/14.
  5. Khin Myat Kyaw, Kimiro Meguro, 2019. “Soil structure interaction effect in damage state of typical mid-rise buildings in Yangon.” International Symposium on New Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia (USMCA): Yangon, Myanmar, 2019/12/09. 
  6. Khin Myat Kyaw, 2017. “Suppressing Tall Building Response from Distance Large Earthquakes by Fluid Viscous Dampers.” International Seminar on High Damping Natural Rubber Bearings in Myanmar: Yangon, Myanmar, 2017/02/11.

Technical Reports

  1. UN-Habitat DRR team, Khin Myat Kyaw, 2015. Earthquake Tips in Myanmar context. UN-Habitat (Myanmar).
  2. MES, MGS, UN-Habitat DRR team, 2016. Guideline for Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards. UN-Habitat (Myanmar). https://unhabitatmyanmar.org/?p=3368
  3. Khin Myat Kyaw and UN-Habitat DRR team, 2017. Rapid visual screening report – Building vulnerability assessment of selected school buildings in Yangon. UN-Habitat (Myanmar).
  4. Khin Myat Kyaw, 2022. Rapid Assessment of Health Care Waste Management Capacity and Technology Needs in Gwa Township Hospital, Rakhine, Myanmar. UNDP (Myanmar).
  5. Khin Myat Kyaw, 2022. Rapid Assessment of Health Care Waste Management Capacity and Technology Needs in KBC Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar. UNDP (Myanmar).
  6. Khin Myat Kyaw, 2023. Rapid Assessment of Health Care Waste Management Capacity and Technology Needs in Shwe Pyi Taw Thit Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar. UNDP (Myanmar).

 

 

  1. Young Award, OHOW2023-The 2nd International Symposium on One Health, One World for the paper entitled ‘Instability Mapping of Dhaka-Kasiani-Gopalganj Railway Line in Bangladesh with InSAR Time-series Analysis’.
  2. JICA’s Innovative Asia scholarship (2017-2020) to pursue PhD. in University of Tokyo, Japan.
  3. Norwegian scholarship (2012-2014) to pursue Master of Engineering in Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
  1. Building Vulnerability Assessment
  2. Seismic Risk Assessment
  3. Seismic Retrofitting
  4. Earthquake Resistant Design 
  5. Numerical Modeling 
  6. Remote Sensing and GI
  7. Building Damage Assessment
  8. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
  9. Structural Health Monitoring
  10. Disaster Risk Reduction