UEDA Tamon joined Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Durability for Marine Civil Engineering, College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen in November 2019 following his retirement as a professor at Hokkaido University.  His research interests are in numerical analysis of concrete and hybrid structures, prediction of life cycle of structures, upgrading of structures, seismic design and structural design methodology.  Prof Ueda did his D.Eng. at the University of Tokyo and PD at University of Washington.  He spent, from weeks to years, as visiting scholar at various academic institutions including the Asian Institute of Technology, Chulalongkorn University and Thammasat University in Thailand, Dalian University of Technology, Zhejiang University, Harbin University of Technology in China.  His research achievements earn him many awards including fib Medal of Merit, Thammasat University Honorary Award, JSCE International Lifetime Contribution Award.  He served as President of the Asian Concrete Federation (ACF), Chairman of ISO/TC71-SC7 Maintenance and Repair of Concrete Structures and past Vice President of JSCE. At present he is Chief Advisor and Acting Executive Director of ASEAN University Network/Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network (AUN/SEED-Net), fib Technical Council Member, Advisory Committee Chair of International Institute of FRP in Construction (IIFC), International Steering Committee Chair of East Asia and Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering (EASEC) and Chairman of Association of Civil Engineering Technology of Hokkaido.