Chin-Fu Tsang

Theses Directed

Dr. Tsang served on the thesis committees of a number of Ph.D. and M.S. students in Geological Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Mining Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley.  He also directed Ph.D. students on two-month to one-year visits to the Berkeley Laboratory from Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Aachen University of Technology, Aachen, Germany, and Chalmers University, Goteborg, Sweden.

In 1991 and 1995, he was invited to be the Foreign Examiner for a Ph.D. thesis in Hydrology in the Aligarh Muslim University, India, and also for a Ph.D. thesis in Civil Engineering, Kerala University, India, respectively 

In 1997, he was invited to be Foreign Examiner for Ph.D. thesis entitled, "Hydrogeological Evaluation of Proposed Landfill Sites in the Greater Auckland Area (N.Z.): Mt. Wellington and Peach Hill Valley", by Parviz Namjou, Department of Geology, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

In 1998, he was invited to be the Faculty Opponent for a Ph.D. thesis entitled, "The Underground as a Storage Facility: Modeling of Nuclear Waste Repositories and Aquifers Thermal Energy Stores", by Thomas Probert, Department of Mathematical Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University, Sweden.

In 1999, he was invited to be Foreign Examiner for a Ph.D. thesis entitled, "Aquifer System and Groundwater Resource Potential of Patiyali Sub-Division in Pars of Ganga-Kali Sub-Basin, District ETAH, U.P.", by Asad Umar,  Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.

In 2000, he was invited to be Foreign Examiner for Ph.D. thesis entitled, "Optimisation Techniques for Groundwater Management", by Noel Merrick, National Center for Groundwater Management, Faculty of Science, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

In 2001, he was invited to be External Examiner for Ph.D. thesis entitled, “Three-dimensional Flow and Solute Transport in Rough-walled Fractures,” by David Brush, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.

In 2005, he was invited to be Faculty Opponent of Ph.D. thesis on flow and transport in fractured rocks, by Hua Cheng, Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.