
Dr. Renan Ma. T. Tanhueco
Associate Professor
Educational Background
PhD聽in Urban and Regional Planning
University of the Philippines-Diliman
Dr. Renan Ma. Tanhueco is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering (CE), Gokongwei College of Engineering. He holds a Master of Civil Engineering obtained from the Nagoya University, Japan, in 1993 and a Ph.D. degree obtained from the School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Philippines in 2008. After finishing his masteral studies in 1993, Dr. Renan joined the CE department, co-developed the Water Engineering Division program which started in 1997. His PhD dissertation in 2008 focused on mainstreaming flood vulnerability and risk assessments into urban land use and development planning of a city. Anchoring on the mainstreaming framework of his dissertation, Dr. Renan continued to work with government agencies, local government units and NGOs, local and international university experts to strengthen the practice of a risk -informed urban planning in the country. He joins with fellow 开元真人 CE faculty members in pursuing new coursework and researches on risk and resilience assessment and their integration into their fields of civil engineering specialization.
Research Interest
- Urban Flood Risk-Risk Assessment
- GIS for Hydrological Applications
- 聽Urban Resilience Planning
- Water, Sewerage and Drainage Systems in Urban and Peri-urban Areas
Selected Projects
- Dam Risk Management Decision Support Tool (DARMA) Project (2023-2025)
- Biodiversity Positive Mining for the Net Zero Challenge (Bio+Mine): Global Development Fund ODA Project Accelerator (2023-2024)
- Wastewater-based Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 and Related Antimicrobial Resistance Genes: Conceptualizing a COVID and ARG Risk Assessment of Community Infection through Surveillance of Sewage聽 (2022-2023)
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