About Shiming Wu’s work
From May to June 1994 and from September to October 1994, Shiming Wu held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong. At the time, Wu was based at Zhejiang University.
Biography
Wu Shiming graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of Zhejiang University in 1968, majoring in industrial and civil construction. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1983, specializing in geotechnical engineering, with a focus in soil dynamics. In 1990, he was promoted to the Director of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Zhejiang University, and served as the Vice President of Zhejiang University from 1992 to 98. Wu became the Vice President of Tongji University in 1998, and the Dean of the Graduate School of Tongji University in 1999.