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Dr. Emerzon T. Torres

Assistant Professor

Educational Background

Ph.D in Civil Engineering
De La Salle University

MS in Civil Engineering
De La Salle University

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
Bulacan State University

Dr. Emerzon Torres received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bulacan State University, Bulacan, the Philippines, in 2015. He earned his M.S. in Civil Engineering, majoring in Geotechnical Engineering, from De La Salle University, Manila, in 2020 and finished his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a focus on Geotechnical Engineering in 2025 at the same university. He was the recipient of Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC Award for Outstanding Student Researchers (Doctorate Level) during the 202nd Commencement Exercises of De La Salle University. From May 2016 to February 2019, he worked as a Highway Design Engineer at a reputable consulting firm. In 2020, he joined the GEMMMS (Geotechnical Mapping of Metro Manila Subsoil) Project, spearheaded by the DLSU Gokongwei College of Engineering Geotechnical Engineering Division and funded by the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development, as a Science Research Specialist II, a position he held for two years. Emerzon was an SM scholar during his undergraduate studies. He is a full-time scholar under the DOST-ERDT program, which supported him throughout his M.S. and continues to support him during his Ph.D. studies. His primary research interests include civil and geotechnical engineering, soil liquefaction, constitutive modeling, GIS, interpretable machine learning, data mining, data analysis and disaster risk reduction.

Research Interest