**Yee-Meng Chiew**

Dr. Chiew Yee Meng, who is currently is a Professor in at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), has forty years of research and consulting experience in the field of sediment transport, scour and erosion, turbulence, hydraulics and coastal/offshore engineering. He particularly is interested in the scour at of hydraulic structures, such as bridge piers, submarine pipelines, monopiles, ship propellers, culverts, bridge abutments, and jets, etc. and how such erosion affects the integrity of the surrounding structures and sediment bed. His research interests also include how turbulence affects fluvial and coastal hydraulics and their overall engineering impact, and the effect of seepage on the turbulence characteristics in both open channel and closed-conduit flows. Dr Chiew has close to two hundred archival publications and serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, (ASCE) and the International Journal for Sediment Research (IJSRC). He was the Chairman of the 2nd International Conference on Scour and Erosion, held in Singapore in 2004. Throughout his career, Dr Chiew has acted as a specialist consultant to numerous international and local companies as well as governmental organizations, offering his expert advice to solve challenging engineering projects.
