Silvia García
Prof. Silvia Garcia holds a PhD degree in Geotechnical Engineering, a MEng in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering and a BSc in Civil Engineering, her more recent Postdoctoral course was on Emerging Computing. She has also studied Mathematics and Physics. She is the Head of the Geoseismic Soft Computing of the Institute of Engineering in the National University of Mexico, Mexico. She is teaching the postgraduate courses (i) Natural Systems Modeling, running by the National University of Mexico in cooperation with the Computing Investigation Center of the Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, and (ii) Advances in Geotechnical Designs, (iii) Soil properties Soft Determination, and (iv) New Technologies in Analysis of Earthquake Data. Her research interests are in 4D-embankments seismic design, soils engineering systems non-linear analysis, ground motions monitoring, study and prediction under extreme environments and knowledge-based estimation of static and dynamic properties of heterogeneous soils. She has >110 publications in highly ranked journals and conference proceedings, including research articles in collective volumes, chapters in specialized engineering books and citations in civil and computing engineering fields. She has participated (and chaired after invitation from the organizers) in prestigious international conferences, such as those organized periodically by the ECCOMAS, The European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, the ISSMG, The International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, IAEE, The International Association of Earthquake Engineering, and the WSEAS Organizations. She is organizing the Student and Young Engineers Congresses over the world for the ISSMG running successfully every two years since 2009 within the International Conference of Geotechnical Engineering.