Technische Universität München

Chin Man ‘Bill’ Mok graduated with B.Sc.(Eng.) in civil and structural engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 1985. After working in Hong Kong as a structural and geotechnical engineer for over a year, he moved to the University of California at Berkeley where he obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering. He joined Geomatrix Consultants, Inc. (acquired by AMEC in 2008) in 1987 and is currently a principal engineer and hydrogeologist in AMEC’s Oakland, CA, USA office. He has 25 years of consulting experience in hydrogeology as well as geotechnical, earthquake, environmental, hydrologic, and structural engineering worldwide. Apart from his industry practice, he is active in academia. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo and has been a part-time associate engineering professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has taught continuing professional development short courses in many countries and has been a principal investigator in numerous research studies funded by national agencies and AMEC. His expertise is in computational modeling, reliability/risk/hazard, resources and operation optimization, and field-testing. He is interested in applied research and is currently supervising several doctoral students.

1992-1993 Jane Lewis Fellowship

1992 Parker Trask Fellowship

1986-1992 Hui Yin Hing Fellowship

1986-1987 S.L. Pao Education Foundation Scholarship

“Coping with Predictive Uncertainties in Optimization of Sustainable Water Resources.” C.M. Mok, N. Wanakule, A. Der Kiureghian, S. Gorelick, and M. Zhang. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), the Red Book Series, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) XXIV General Assembly, Perugia, Italy. July 2-13, 2007.

“End Wall Effect for Underground Structures: Three-Dimensional Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction Parametric Study.” C.M. Mok, J. Vallenas, M. Zhang, and J. Wen. Proceedings of 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference Commemorating the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, San Francisco, CA. April 17-21, 2006.

“Improving the Accuracy of First-Order Reliability Estimate by Importance Sampling Simulations.” C.M. Mok, N. Sitar, and A. Der Kiureghian. ModelCare 2002 Conference, Prague. June 2002. Selected for publication in post-conference
Proceedings for the Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling: A Few Steps Closer to Reality, International Association of Hydrologic Sciences Red Book Publication, no. 277. June 2002.

“Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis of Large Gravity Caissons.” C.M. Mok, C.-Y. Chang, R. Settgast, H.M. Gonnermann, C.C. Chin, F. Waggoner, and M. Ketchum. U.S.-Japan Soil-Structure Interaction Workshop, Menlo Park, CA. September 1998.

“Site Response Analyses of Vertical Excitation.” C.M. Mok, C.-Y. Chang, and D. Legaspi. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics III Conference, Geo-Institute, ASCE, Seattle, WA. August 1998.

“Inference of Dynamic Shear Modulus from Lotung Downhole Data.” C.-Y. Chang, C.M. Mok, and H.T. Tang. ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. 1996.

“Numerically Efficient Approach to Reliability Analysis of Groundwater Flow and Subsurface Contaminant Transport.”
C.M. Mok, N. Sitar, and A. Der Kiureghian. Eighth
International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Morgantown, WV. May 1994.

“Analysis of Ground Response Data at Lotung Large-Scale Soil-Structure Interaction Experiment Site, Taiwan.” C.-Y Chang, C.M. Mok, and M.S. Power. Electric Power Research Institute, Report EPRI NP-7306-SL. December 1991

Dr. Mok’s current interests include surface water-groundwater interaction; high-resolution subsurface characterization; soil-foundation-structure interaction; dam erodibility; reliability and risk management; flood, landslide, avalanche hazard management decision support systems; climate change, adaptation, and mitigation; carbon dioxide geologic sequestration; dynamic earth pressure; and groundwater velocity measurement techniques.