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Kang-Won Wayne Lee is a faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CVE) and RITRC Director at URI. He worked as CVE Director of Graduate Studies from 1996 to 1999 and served as Chairperson from 2005 to 2008. He also served as Chairman of the URI Research Council from 1990 to 1991, and a URI Faculty Senate Executive Committee member from 1992 to 1994. In 1992, Prof. Lee established the RITRC, the recipient of a $12 million research grant under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA21) in 1998 and served as R&D Director for the URI Transportation Center (TC) Grant Program from 1999 to 2003. He also has been working with the consortium of University of Maine and received USDOT Region 1 UTC – Transpiration Infrastructure Durability Center grant ($14.7M) in 2018. Prof. Lee earned his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Seoul National University in 1974. During his college years, he served in the Korean Army for three years. Following two years of consulting work as a civil engineer for Lyon Associates and TAMS Inc., he returned to academia and earned his M.S. degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Rutgers Univ. in 1978. After briefly working as a highway construction inspector for the NJ Department of Transportation (DOT), he continued his post-graduate education and received his Ph.D. degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982. He assisted Late Prof. Thomas W. Kennedy who developed Superpave asphalt mix-design during and after his doctoral program. He began his higher education teaching career at the King Saud University in 1982 and joined the URI faculty in 1985. Prof Lee’s research interests are focused on Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure and Systems (ITIS), Sustainable Infrastructure and Energy. He is a founding member of the New England University Transportation Center (NEUTC) at MIT and the New England Transportation Consortium (NETC). He also initiated a joint research program between URI and RIDOT in 1986. He is a founder of the Bituminous Materials Committee (BMC) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and served as chair for 1999-01. He has been a member of Pavement Committee, an ETG for the LTPP Data Analysis Contest, and currently serves as a paper reviewer for Journal of Transportation Engineering and Journal of Civil Engineering Materials. He served as President of the RI Section for 2006-07 and has been elected as an ASCE Fellow in 2008. Prof. Lee was member of several committees of Transportation Research Board (TRB) including AFK40 and AHD25, and currently is a member of AKG90 - Stabilization of Geomaterials and Recycled Materials, AKM30 – Asphalt Materials Selection and Mix Design, and AKT30 – Pavement Maintenance. Other professional memberships include ASTM, AAPT, ITE, and ASEE. He serves as a paper reviewer for the TRR, Journal of AAPT, ASTM Journal of Geotechnical Engineering., ARR, and other technical publications and conferences.

Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen was President of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of several journals and Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 60 research grants and contracts and 600 publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in sustainable energy, environmental impact, and energy technology (including renewable energy and efficiency improvement). Much of his research has been carried out for industry, and he has written numerous books. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honors.

Dr. Wai Yuen Szeto is a Professor and an Associate Head at the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Hong Kong, and the Deputy Director of the Institute of Transport Studies at that university. He is a Top 1 % Scholar 2015-2020 (according to Clarivate Analytics' Essential Science Indicators). His current h-index is 53 (Google scholar). He is an author of over 150 refereed journal papers, with two papers in Operations Research and 33 papers in Transportation Research Part B. His publications have been cited over 7854 times (Google scholar). The publications are related to shared mobility, dynamic traffic assignment, transport network design, public transport, network reliability, game theoretic approaches to transport and logistic problems, modeling land use, transport and environment interaction, and sustainable transport. He received the World Conference on Transport Research Prize (2001), the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies Outstanding Paper Award (2003), the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies Outstanding Dissertation Paper Award and the Gordon Newell Memorial Prize (2005), the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers (2008), the Best Paper Award of the 10th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (2018), and the Outstanding Paper Award of the 2018 China Urban Transportation Planning Annual Meeting. He also received Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing from Transportation Research Part B in 2013 and Transportation Research Part C in 2013 and 2016. Currently, he is an Editor of Transportmetrica B, an Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part D and E, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transportmetrica A, Travel Behaviour and Society, an Area Editor of Networks and Spatial Economics, and an Editorial Board Member of Transportation Research Part C and International Journal of Sustainable Transportation.

Brian Uy is Professor of Structural Engineering and Head of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney. He is Chairman of the Standards Australia Committees BD32 on Composite Structures for Buildings and BD-90-Part 6 on Steel and Composite Structures for Bridges. He is the Chairman of the Australia Regional Group of the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Australian Group of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering. Brian is a Fellow of Engineers Australia, the Institution of Structural Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers and the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering.

Dr Chua Kian Jon is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has been conducting research on air-conditioning, refrigeration, and heat recovery systems since 1997. He has conducted both modelling and experimental works for specific thermal energy systems. These include dehumidification, cooling, heat pumping, compact heat exchangers and refined temperature/humidity control. He is highly skilled in designing; fabricating; commissioning and testing many sustainable energy systems to provide for heating, cooling and humidity control for both small and large scale applications. He has more than 200 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 6 book chapters and two recent monographs on advances in air conditioning (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811584763 and https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030808426). He was highlighted to be among the top 2% of global energy scientists based on Elsevier’s database,1% of scientists in the world by the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network, top 0.3% in the Stanford list of energy researchers. He has been elected to several fellowships including Fellow of Royal Society and Fellow of Energy Institute.His works has garnered more than 11,400 over citations with a current h‐index of 55. Further, he owns more than 15 patents related to several innovative cooling and dehumidification systems. He is the Principal Investigator of several multi-million competitive research grants. Additionally, he has been awarded multiple local, regional, and international awards for his breakthrough research endeavours.

Dr. Panos Pardalos is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial and SystemsEngineering at the University of Florida, and an affiliated faculty of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science & Information & Engineering departments. In addition, he is the director of the Center for Applied Optimization.In 2011 he established the laboratory on networks at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow (with a mega-grant), where he remains the academic advisor. Dr. Pardalos is a world renowned leader in Global Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, Energy Systems, and Data Sciences. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, and INFORMS and was awarded the 2013 ConstantinCaratheodory Prize of the International Society of Global Optimization. In addition, Dr. Pardalos has been awarded the 2013 EURO Gold Medal prize bestowed by the Association for European Operational Research Societies. This medal is the preeminent European award given to Operations Research (OR) professionals for “scientific contributions that stand the test of time.” Dr. Pardalos has been awarded a prestigious Humboldt Research Award (2018-2019). The Humboldt Research Award is granted in recognition of a researcher’s entire achievements to date – fundamental discoveries, new theories, insights that have had significant impact on their discipline. Dr. Pardalos is also a Member of several Academies of Sciences, and he holds several honorary PhD degrees and affiliations. He is the Founding Editor of Optimization Letters, Energy Systems, and Co-Founder of the International Journal of Global Optimization, Computational Management Science, and Springer Nature Operations Research Forum. He has published over 500 journal papers, and edited/authored over 200 books. He is one of the most cited authors (google h-index 104) and has graduated 70 PhD students so far. Details can be found in www.ise.ufl.edu/pardalos Panos Pardalos has lectured and given invited keynote addresses worldwide in countries including Austria, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Singapore, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, and the USA.

Professor MARK BOMBERG, Technology D. (Lund Uni., Sweden 1974, D. Science in Engineering, Warsaw TU, Poland, 1965), Research Prof. at Mechanical Eng., Clarkson U, Potsdam NY, Honorary Member of Building Enclosure Technology and Environment (BETEC) Committee of the National Institute of Building Science (NIBS) in Washington, DC, worked at National Research Council of Canada (1975-2000) and was Editor-in-Chief of J. Building Physics (1984-2018). He lives in Canada but works in the US. He was teaching in the US, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Poland and China. He is an Academic Editor in Journals: Energies and Sustainability (Basel, CH) and SJEE (NY, NY). He received the highest awards in building physics in the US and Canada. His research background includes heat, air and moisture, material science and durability of construction materials. He has 45000 reads and 1100 citations on the Research Gate from more than 220 peer-reviewed papers and 7 books.

Professor Anna Romanska-Zapala(PhD 2001 at AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Kraków, Specialization: Machine Building, Topic: Vibroacoustic) leads laboratory of Infotronics at Cracow University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cracow, Poland Topic: Automation and Robotics. She specializes in multidisciplinary linking Building and Industrial Automatics with Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency in Buildings, with her background in Product and process ergonomics she also lectures in Transport Psychology Faculty at University of Social Sciences and Humanities and with her multidisciplinary background she advises postgraduate students at AGH University of Science and Technology. She works at the Univerity at parttiime as she also works under industrial research sponsored by the Polish National Center of Research and Development as a projects. She is highly innovative R&D project manager and during last 5 years she led or developed 8 industrial projects. She was also a co-founder of Malopolska Energy Efficient Building Laboratory at Faculty of Civil Engineering, Cracow U of T.

Dr. Winifred Elysse Newman is the Mickel Professor of Architecture at Clemson University and the Associate Dean for Research and Academic Affairs. She also serves as Director of the Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems and Environments (CU-iMSE), promoting digital and human-machine hybrid solutions as a paradigm shift in the design and occupation of the built environment. Dr. Newman concentrates on spatial perception in architecture, ecological psychology, and neuroaesthetics with active research in data visualization, mapping, STEM learning environments, and histories of technology and science. Dr. Newman is Executive Editor of the Journal for Technology, Architecture and Design. Recent publications include Data Visualization for Design Thinking: Applied Mapping.

PhD Georgia tech 1966, MS 1961, Bch 1960), is Vice President of R and D Services, Inc., a testing and consulting company located in the United States. He is a Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, at Tennessee Technological University, retired from the Faculty in 2002 as Department Chair. Dr. Yarbrough also served as a Research Staff Member (part time) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1979 to 2011. He is a Fellow and Board Member of the International Thermal Conductivity Conference, and a Fellow and Past President of the Tennessee Academy of Science, a Fellow of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) chair of the Integration Committee of Building Enclosure and Environment Committee of the Nation al institute of Science in Washington, DC. Received 17 awards including, 2014, 2012, National Institute of Building Sciences, 2009 R&D 100 Award, Distinguished University Scientist, Tennessee Academy of Science, 1998, 2015, 2000, 1997, 1992 ASTM C16 Awards, Outstanding Faculty Award (TTU, College of Engineering),1990; Patents 2015 and 2010 and more than 220 research papers.

Prof. Guangqi CHEN is currently both a Professor of Faculty of Arts and Science and a Professor of Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. He received a Doctoral Degree of Science from the University of Tokyo in 1993 and worked as a lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering of Kyoto University before transferred to Kyushu University in 2000. His research background includes geophysics, seismology, plate technics, earthquake engineering, geo-disaster prevention, numerical simulation and risk management. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and the following 10 papers represent his most recent research interesting: 1) Improvement of DDA with a New Unified Tensile Fracture Model for Rock Fragmentation and its Application on Dynamic Seismic Landslides , ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING 54(3), 1055 – 1075, 2021; 2) A possible mechanism of earthquake-induced landslides focusing on pulse-like ground motions, LANDSLIDES, 2021; 3) Three-Dimensional Numerical Manifold Method Based on Viscoelastic Constitutive Relation, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMECHANICS, 20(9), 2020; 4) OpenMP-Based Parallel Two-Dimensional Discontinuous Deformation Analysis for Large-Scale Simulation, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMECHANICS, 20(7), 2020; 5) Exploring inelastic collisions using modified three-dimensional discontinuous deformation analysis incorporating a damped contact model, COMPUTERS AND GEOTECHNICS, 121, 2020; 6) A full-stage parallel architecture of three-dimensional discontinuous deformation analysis using OpenMP, COMPUTERS AND GEOTECHNICS, 118, 2020; 7) Development of a Coupled DDA-SPH Method and its Application to Dynamic Simulation of Landslides Involving Solid-Fluid Interaction, ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING, 53(1) 113 – 131, 2020; 8) Distributed-Spring Edge-to-Edge Contact Model for Two-Dimensional Discontinuous Deformation Analysis , ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING, 53(1) 365 – 382, 2020; 9) Extension and application of Discontinuous Deformation Analysis with a damped contact spring model, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES, 123, 2019; 10) Practical application of the coupled DDA-SPH method in dynamic modeling for the formation of landslide dam, LANDSLIDES, 16(5) 1021 – 1032, 2019

Dr. Farid is a Professor at the Civil Engineering Department. He joined the faculty in Civil Engineering at Boise State as an Assistant Professor in spring 2008. He was first promoted to Associate Professor in 2013 and then to Professor in 2020. Before joining Boise State, he was an Associate Research Scientist at CenSSIS (The Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems), Northeastern University, Boston, MA. From 2001-2003 he was a Research Assistant at CenSSIS and Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept., Northeastern University, Boston, MA where he received his Ph.D.

An expert in the field of environment-friendly, energy-efficient construction, and thermal comfort. Her dissertation "Energy assessment of buildings with the use of multi-criteria and multi-level optimization methods" received a state award. Over 100 publications. (IF index 51, January 2022). Coordinator of the test laboratory for "in situ" testing, and research group in the "Intelligent Energy-efficient Construction", leader of the interdisciplinary research group "Optimization of comfort of use and microclimate in buildings,Cracow U. of T., member of the Polish Committee for Standardization, Association of Energy Auditors, Association of Certifiers and Energy Auditors. Rector's Awards (2015, 2016) for the laboratory project, the Medal of the Centenary of Regained Independence (2019) (state award), the Bronze Cross of Merit of the President of the Republic of Poland (2020) (state award), the Honoris Gratia badge (2021) (state decoration for services to the city of Krakow)

Paulo Santos [ORCID 0000-0002-0134-6762] is currently Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is an integrated member of ISISE (Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering) research centre, Functional Performance (FP) research group. The main actual scientific research fields are Thermal Behaviour, Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Sustainable Construction. He is author of around 160 scientific publications, among books (4), book chapters (3), articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals (52) and papers published in proceedings of scientific conferences (96). He has around 2,000 citations and 60,000 reads on Research Gate network (Berlin), with an h-index of 22. He was supervisor and co-supervisor of 47 master and 3 doctoral theses already completed within his research topics. He participated in around 12 funded European and Portuguese research projects, being nowadays the Principal Investigator of the Tyre4BuildIns – “Recycled tyre rubber resin-bonded for building insulation systems towards energy efficiency” research project. He was member of the scientific committee and/or organizer of several national and international scientific conferences. He reviewed, by request of the editors, as member of the journal scientific committee, 94 articles submitted to international journals (see publons website). He is member of iiSBE – “International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment” (2011, - ) and TC14 – "Sustainability & Eco-efficiency of Steel Construction" of the “European Convention for Constructional Steelwork” – ECCS (2008, - ).

Dr. Xiangming Zhou is a Professor and Head of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences at Brunel University London. Dr. Zhou joined Brunel in October 2008 as a lecturer and was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011, Reader in 2016 and Professor in 2018. Before joined Brunel, he was a Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering at the University of Greenwich from January 2007 to September 2008. He conducted post-doctoral research at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Hong Kong Polytechnic University from January 2005 to January 2007. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in December 2004. He also holds two degrees, BEng in Civil & Structural Engineering and MEng (Res) in Structural Engineering awarded in 1997 and 2000, respectively, both by Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Dr Zhou’s research covers a broad range of fields in construction materials and technology, with a focus on cement and concrete, and structural engineering. In the area of construction materials and technology, he focuses on advanced concrete technology such as extrusion, 3D printing, additive manufacturing, low carbon and energy-efficient (through encapsulated phase-change materials (PCMs)) cementitious materials and energy-efficient buildings, cementless but cement-like materials such as magnesium oxychloride cement and geopolymer / alkali-activated cement made from metakaolin, calcined clay, pulverised fly ash (PFA), mining waste and/or ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) etc., valorization of construction and demolition waste (CDW) and mining waste, testing and modelling of rheology and early-age engineering properties of cement-based materials for extrusion and 3D printing, fracture testing and modelling of concrete, restrained shrinkage cracking of concrete, synthetic and/or natural fibre reinforced concrete, cement-based smart and functional materials for infrastructure, applications of nanotechnology in cement-based materials etc. In Structural Engineering, his research interest falls in seismic testing, analysis and design of steel-concrete composite high-rise buildings, performance-based multi-hazards mitigation of building structures under extreme loadings, precast concrete segmental bridges, fibre-reinforced concrete ground slabs, impact and fracture of natural fibre reinforced concrete, structural-function integrated structural panels, and numerical modeling of fracture and structural behavior of concrete and concrete structures which brings his expertise in Construction Materials & Technology and Structural Engineering under one umbrella.

José Alexandre Bogas is Assistant Professor of the Construction Group, Materials of Construction area, in the DECivil, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, where he has been lecturing since 1997. As a member of the Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS), his domain of expertise falls within the characterization and behaviour of materials, more specifically in the area of cement-based materials and special concretes. He is the author of 60 papers in peer-reviewed high-impact ISI/Scopus journals, 3 book-chapters, over 50 conference communications and 1 international patent. He is also the principal coordinator of three national research projects funded with 0.7 million euros and member of 7 research projects funded through competitive calls for a total of about 2.7 million euros.

Yupeng Wang is a Professor and the Assistant Dean in the School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Environmental Engineering, the University of Kitakyushu, Japan. He has the working experience as an urban planner in NIKKEN SEKKEI, the largest architecture and planning firm in Japan, and the research experience in the Heat Island Group at the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Concordia University for sustainable urban planning, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada.He has a wide range of research experiences including environmental modeling and evaluation, sustainable urban planning, urban vegetation and climate change mitigation, and published more than 30 journal papers. Because ofhis interdisciplinary educational background, research experiences and work experiences, he has received a “Hundred Talents Project” of Shaanxi Province, China in 2017, “Person of the Year” from Scientific Chinese magazine in 2018, “AIUE-O Prize” from Asia Institute of Urban Environment in 2019, and “Award of Excellence Young Scholar” from The International Society of the Built Environment in 2020. He currently serves as an Editorial Board Member for Indoor and Built Environment, Guest Editor of Buildings, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Sustainability.

James Li graduated with a BASc in Civil Engineering and a MASc in Hydraulic Engineering at the University of Windsor, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at the University of Toronto in Canada. Prof. Li is a tenured environmental engineering full professor at Ryerson University in Canada, Lecture Professor of Nankai University’s College of Environmental Science and Engineering in China, a founding member and senior advisor of China Canada Joint Research and Development Centre on Water and Environmental Safety in Tianjin, China, Canadian Water Network’s International Stormwater Experts, Ontario Stakeholder Committee member of the Ontario Low Impact Development Guidelines, the 2016 11th Sino-American Technology, and Engineering Conference’s Invited Foreign Expert on Sponge City Technology, a licensed professional engineer in Ontario, Canada, and the Diplomate of American Water Resource Engineers Academy in the USA. His current research focuses on urban stormwater management, eco-hydrology, and eco-hydraulics, water pollution control planning, environmental benefits of green roofs, municipal spill management, and Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay technique for dioxin in environmental matrices. For the past 28 years, Prof. Li has provided technical services and advice to Canadian federal, provincial, and municipal governments and collaborated with Nankai University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Hong Kong City of Tianjin in Asia.

Eisuke Hanada received his B.Eng. and M. Eng. degrees from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1985 and 1987, respectively. He received his D.Eng. degree from Saga University, Saga, Japan, in 2001. He has worked in NEC Corp. for 5 years. Since 1992, he has worked at Nagasaki University Information Science Center for four years managing the campus LAN and information servers, and at the Department of Medical Information Science, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Science, the Division of Medical Informatics, Shimane University Hospital. Since 2014, he has been working at the Saga university Faculty of Engineering and Science as a professor. His research involves the wired/radio communication environment, EMC of medical devices, hospital information systems, ICT/IoT systems in clinical scene, AI use for medical staffs, and telemedicine. He had involved in re-development of both Kyushu University Hospital and Shimane University Hospital. Prof. Hanada is a member of the Japanese Society of Medical Informatics, the Information Processing Society of Japan, the Japanese Society of Medical and Biomedical Engineering, the Healthcare Engineering Association of Japan (a board member), and the Acoustical Society of Japan.

Jan DeWaters is an Associate Professor at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY, USA, where she has a joint appointment in the Institute for STEM Education and the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering and the Institute for STEM Education. Her primary research interests include the implementation and evaluation of evidence-based pedagogies in engineering education, environmental education, and energy education. She has developed and applied quantitative and qualitative measures of energy literacy to help us understand how energy education can improve energy literacy among pre-college students and young adults. Her energy literacy questionnaire, developed as part of that research, has been adapted for use in over 60 different research and education endeavors in 12 countries around the globe. She has published and presented her work at a number of national and international conferences and peer-reviewed journals, and is a recent recipient of the Women in Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education’s EEEG award, an early career award that celebrates strong leadership and support for female and minority engineering students. Dr. DeWaters teaches introductory courses for engineering students on energy issues and energy systems, and is a member of the team that developed and implemented Clarkson’s First Year Engineering/Humanities course, “Engineering and Society.” Her approach to teaching introductory engineering courses is to expose students to the complex relationship between the technological work of engineers and technical professionals, and the social and natural environments in which those technologies are used. Using a human-centered, socio-technical approach to engineering education, she seeks to develop students’ skills to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams and approach problems from multiple perspectives so they are better prepared to contribute toward global engineering challenges in the future.

Dr. Wang obtained his master’s degree in civil engineering from Tongji University in China in 2016. Later, he obtained his doctoral degree in civil engineering from the University of Tokyo in Japan in 2019. He is currently a project assistant professor in the University of Tokyo for the Laboratory of Joint Program for the next generation of energy infrastructure funded by J-POWER, Shimizu Corporation, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind Japan, ClassNK. He has interests in Wind Turbine Engineering, Marine Structural Engineering and Marine Geotechnical Engineering, acting on the following topics: soil-structure interaction, integrated design of offshore wind turbines and smart monitoring and maintenance of offshore wind farms.

Dr. Chiara Riccardi gained her Bachelor's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2009 and her Master’s degree in Hydraulic, Transport and Environmetal Engineering in 2012in University of Pisa, Italy. She then joined the joint research group of Prof. Massimo Losa at the University of Pisa and Prof. Michael Wistuba at Braunschweig Pavement Engineering Centre, TechnischeUniversitätBraunschweig, Germany. She received her Ph.D. degree in 2017 at both institutions. Then, she started a postdoctoral fellowship at Braunschweig Pavement Engineering Centre, TechnischeUniversitätBraunschweig and now she is a Senior researcher at the same institute in TU-Braunschweig. She has published more than 70 scientific articles in journals and international conferences.

Mikio Sasaki is a professor emeritus at Hachinohe Institute of Technology, Japan. He has been primarily concerned with the research fields on hydraulics, hydraulic engineering, coastal engineering and river engineering. He performed energetic researches on problems relating to nearshore currents, wave deformation, coastal sediment, hydrology, and snow-water mixture flows. He has been announcing a lot of papers in these research fields.

Dr. Elnokaly is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Architecture, Director of Internationalisation, Research Impact Lead and Research Unit of Assessment Coordinator for UOA-13 (Architecture, Built Environment and Planning) at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Lincoln. Amira is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a chartered registered architect in Egypt since 1998 and a member of the AEA (Architects Egyptian Association). Dr. Elnokaly held visiting, tenured and full-time posts at the University of Lincoln, University of Nottingham, University of Wolverhampton, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Alexandria and Cairo University. Dr. Elnokaly is the UK higher education representative at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) East Midlands Regional Council Board since 2012, a board member of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) England. She is currently an External Examiner at the University of Nottingham and the University of Plymouth. Dr. Elnokaly expertise lies within the Sustainable Built Environment with almost two decades of teaching and learning experience and Sustainable Architecture consultancy in the Middle East and the UK. As part of her contributions to the Sustainable Development Agenda in Egypt and her role in empowering women in Science and Technology, Dr. Elnokaly was awarded the prestigious ‘Egypt’s President's Award’ for significant Expatriates of Egypt Abroad as one of the most influential and impactful expatriate women in Science and technology in July 2017. Amira is a member of the RIBA East midlands Education Committee and is the Schools Student Engagement Lead. Having completed her PhD in 2005 at the University of Nottingham looking at environmental behaviour and energy efficiency of light weight structures, she has a vast interest in the environmental sustainability agenda and in 2008 received an Honoree award from the UNESCO - Environmental Education and Outreach Program (E3OP) - for effective role undertaken in spreading environmental awareness and global warming impact in the schools of Alexandria, Egypt. Dr. Elnokaly is an active researcher and has secured many research funds from various funding bodies over the past few years including Research Councils; Technology Strategy Board (TSB); Innovate UK; Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP); British Council and Newton Musharafa funding. In 2016, she was awarded the University of Lincoln Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of her outstanding teaching and learning attributes and the positive impact she has had on the life of students at Lincoln. Her research interests are diverse but are related by a consistent concern with embracing a sustainable mind-set in the development of cities, building design and in architectural education. Dr. Elnokaly’s research focuses on ecological and environmental sustainability within the Built Environment; Cultural Heritage; Smart and Eco-Cities. Amira has published on Sustainable Communities and Regeneration; Cultural Heritage and Conservation; Sustainable Architecture and Environmental Design of Buildings, the Application of CFD in Building Design, Renewable Energy Technology, and Architecture Design Studio Teaching addressing a wide spectrum of timely and pressing issues.

Dr. Liang Cui is an assistant professor in Geotechnical Engineering, and the graduate program coordinator of Civil Engineering at Lakehead University, Canada. Dr. Cui’s research focuses mainly on multiphysics, multiscale, and multiphase testing and modeling of behavior and performance of geomaterials (soil, rock, and cementitious materials) under static and dynamic loadings. A series of advanced mathematical (e.g., evolutive constitutive model, coupled multiphysics models, interface model, THMC consolidation model, evolutive strength model, an analytical model for arching effect, multiphase flow model, etc.) and physical models (multiphysics pressure cell model, large-scale backfill/rock column model, ventilation-based freezing tank) has been developed in my research to tackle complex engineering problems associated with cemented tailings backfill, carbon geosequestration, and soil-structure interaction. Dr. Cui’s research has been awarded multiple domestic and international research and also successfully developed multiple industrial collaborations for his research program. Dr. Cui’s research team has published a great number of research articles in top-tier journals and received multiple research awards.

Professor of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, joined Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) under the University’s Infrastructure Mission Enhancement Program in March 1999. Dr. Myers has been actively involved in high-performance materials from a research standpoint for the past twenty-eight years. In particular, his focus has concentrated on the development of advanced materials for application in structural engineering primarily focusing on advanced composites materials and sustainable advanced concretes. These have included research efforts on fiber reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM), fiber reinforced polymer (FRP), steel reinforced polymer (SRP) and steel reinforced grout (SRG) technologies for repair and new construction in civil infrastructure. His efforts in the development of environmentally sensitive advanced concrete construction materials have focused on the development and application of high-strength/high performance concrete (HS/HPC), high strength self-consolidated concrete (HS-SCC), high volume fly ash self-consolidating concrete (HVFA-SCC) behavior, and durability performance. His efforts have contributed to the code & standardization of these materials and led to the deployment of these systems into field application with in-situ studies into structural health monitoring (SHM), non-destructive evaluation (NDE), and load testing of these technologies for bridges. Dr. Myers has published more than 275 technical journal and conference publications along with 90 technical research reports. Professionally, he is very active in ACI, ASCE, ASEE, IAAM, IIFC, PCI, TMS, and TRB and serves as an active committee member in numerous technical and educational committees within these organizations. He is a Fellow of five societies and a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) and has over 10 years of professional consulting experience. He has been recognized by his peers receiving numerous awards related to his scholarship, teaching, and service contributions.

Prof. DOSHO Yasuhiro has been working for Meijo University in Nagoya City, Japan since 2014. He is also a part time lecturer at Graduate School of Science and Engineering in Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan from 2011. Prof. Dosho was aspecialistworking on structure maintenance and recycled construction material technology for nearly 20 years before started researching in Meijo university. Practical knowledge and experience help a lot in his research as well as inspire students and researchers. Prof. DOSHO Yasuhiro’s research interests include in recycling construction material especially the application of recycled aggregates as well as general purposes admixtures such as fly ash and ground granulated blast-furnace slag fine powder in concrete. With the purposes of assuring safety and quality, reducing environmental impact and, improving cost effectiveness of construction, Prof. Dosho aim to develop and disseminate the application of recycling technology for construction work which creates a sustainable society.

Dr. Julius Chang is currently a senior lecturer in civil engineering at Columbia University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in construction engineering and management, and an Associate for HDR Inc., a leading consulting engineering firm, where he is engaged in client management, contract management and project controls services. As an independent consultant, Julius has conducted executive-level training on P3 best practices for China State Construction and Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) and China Construction America (CCA). He has over twenty- five years of public and private sector experience in the planning, design, and management of transportation facilities throughout the New York metropolitan area. Dr. Chang is a licensed professional engineer registered in the State of New York. Recognized for his commitment to teaching and higher education, he is the recipient of the 2017 Columbia Engineering Alumni Association (CEAA) Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award.

Dustin Albright is an Associate Professor and Assistant Director in the School of Architecture at Clemson University. In both teaching and research, he draws from his dual expertise in architectural design and structural engineering. He is a founding faculty fellow in Clemson’s Wood Utilization + Design Institute, and his research revolves around prefabricated timber building systems at varying scales, from innovative light framing systems to mass timber design and construction. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Building Technology Educators’ Society (BTES). He is also a licensed and practicing architect, acting as a project designer and mass timber consultant with Hanbury, a regional firm in the southeastern United States.

I worked at National Land Agency, Prime Minister’s office, which covered nationwide planning, land use planning, disaster prevention and regional planning for 8 years. I received a Doctor of engineering from Tokyo University in 1991. From 1995 to 1996 I experienced an Academic Visitor of the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London University. My specialty is regional planning and planning system. I ‘m researching local city planning, comprehensive planning system including urban and rural area, and Tokyo metropolitan area planning from viewpoint of multi-core strategy, aging and sustainability such as TOD. In late years I study the actual situation of the effectiveness of the diversity for the city.

Dr. Menkulasi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan. Prior to joining Wayne State University in 2016, he served as Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech from 2014 to 2016. He received his BS in Civil Engineering from Middle East Technical University and his MS and PhD from Virginia Tech with a focus on structural engineering. Dr. Menkulasi has over 7 years of industry experience as a practicing structural engineer specializing in the design of building structures. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Virginia and Missouri, and is a member of the American Concrete Institute and associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He serves as a member and associate member on several technical committees within the American Concrete institute including ACI Subcommittee 239C Structural Design with UHPC. His primary focus is on characterizing the behavior of reinforced and prestressed cementitious composite structures under gravitational loads and environmental effects by developing mechanics-based response prediction methods informed by high fidelity numerical simulations and experimental verification. He is particularly interested in the time-dependent stress and deformational response of reinforced and prestressed concrete elements that feature significant heterogeneities and which are subject to varying stress history.

"Dr. Cui is now working as a Post-Doc research associate in University of Western Ontario in Canada. He obtained his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Harbin Institute Technology and both master and Ph.D. degree in structural engineering from University of Western Ontario. His research interest includes: Natural disaster modelling and simulation; Signal and image processing; Reliability analysis and design code calibration considering climate change. "

Laura Inzerillo is Associate Professor at University of Palermo within the Department of Engineering. Graduated cum laude in Management Engineering at University of Palermo, 1995. Ph.D in Digital Survey and Representation of the landscape and Architecture at University of Palermo in 1999. She won a fellowship ata Columbia University from 1999 to 2000 with the confirmation of researcher at Columbia University from 2000 to 2003 at MUD. She won a post PhD fellowship at Univesrity of Palermo from 2000 to 2004 when she became researcher. Her field of expertise are the digital survey, 3D representation, Descriptive Geometry, reverse Engineering, monitoring, BIM. She is editorial member of several International Journals, reviewer member in other several International Journals, chief in editor of a special issue in MDPI Journal. She is actually authors of about 150 paper, 3 monographies, 2 chief in editor books and she won a best award paper. She has been involved in several international and national projects. Actually she is involved in SMARTI ETN - Sustainable Multi-functional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructures European Training Network HORIZON20-20; in REMED - Application de l'innovation pour le développement de l'économie circulaire pour une construction durable en Méditerranée ENI CBC MED European Union.

Prof. Kageyama was born in 1949 in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Nihon University, College of Science and Technology in 1972. Then, he entered the graduate school, and he took the doctor degree in 1977 from Nihon University. Since 1977, he has engaged in Nihon University, College of Industrial Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research fields are vehicle dynamics and control, human-machine system and modeling, motorcycle dynamics and control, Tire characteristics, and so on. From 1989 to 1990, he had been a visiting researcher on the Technical University of Delft, in the Netherlands. Since 1994, he has been a professor of Nihon University. He had been a visiting researcher on the National road and traffic research institute, in Sweden for 6 months in 2004. Then, he founded the Nihon University Center for Automotive Research (NU-CAR) in 2010, and he had been the director until 2017. Since 2020, he founded Consortium on Advanced Road-Friction Database (CAR-FD)，and he has been the representative director. He retired from the university in 2020 and is now the professor emeritus.

Luciano Pilotti, Full Professor of Innovation Management and Business Strategiesat the ESP - Environmental Science and Policy of the University of Milan after 18 years in Department of Economics, Management and Statistics. Before (1992-2001) in Department of Statistics - University of Padua. Graduation in Industrial Organization (Social Science - University of Trento, 1978) and PhD in Business Administration and Management at Ca' FoscariUniversity of Venice (1988). Specialization post-graduate in Applied Economics at ISTAO - Applied Industrial Economics & Business School (business school - University of Ancona -1982). 1981 Military Service. He hasdevelopedappliedeconomics of oildemand and production modelingat ENI Holding – Research Center (1982-83) and at CESCOM – Center of Commerce Research of Bocconi University (1984-1999) on differenttopicssuchasretail management, marketing and business innovation. He isauthor/co-author of 25 books on economics and enterprisestrategies in innovationecology and governance (with differentpublishersas Il Mulino, CEDAM, Marsilio, Giappichelli, Carocci, F.Angeli, McGraw Hill, EGEA-Bocconi, UTET-Torino, EAI-Berlin,Springer, et al) and of 210scientificpaper on technologies, organization and management. He hadbeenProfessorat the University of Padua for 10 years and since 2008 until 2011 Visiting Professor at Durham Business School (UK).Teachingprofessor of International Business at SUPSI, University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano). He hasbeenPresident of Arexpo (2012-2016), the Company owner of the area interested in the 2015 Expo, the Universal Exhibitionthatwill be held in Milan and in the board (years 2016-2017) of ITS Foundation - Cantieri dell’Arte of Milan nominated by Mayor of Milan, oriented to sustainprofessionalspecialization in renovationarchitectural and monumentcompetences of undergraduatecandidates. Now in the board of MUSIL, (Network) Museum of Industry and Labor (Lombardy). Partner of academic spin-off ComplexData of the University of Milan and editor of Corriere Della Sera and Giornale di Bresciaon economics and social topics.

Xinxin Wei receives his civil engineering education, academic training, and professional experience in China (e.g., Tongji University in Shanghai) and European (e.g., KU Leuven in Belgium and RUB in Germany). His research interests mainly include structural dynamics (e.g., human-induced vibrations), crowd dynamics, human-structure interaction, structural system identification, vibration serviceability evaluation and vibration control of civil structures, uncertainty quantification and propagation, etc. His research results publish in top-tier journals in related areas, e.g., ASCE-Journal of Bridge Engineering, Structural Control & Health Monitoring, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, etc. He develops several research toolboxes for applications. He also has many opportunities to be involved in engineering projects. He is recognized by being awarded Excellent Scholar Award, Excellent Presentation Award, State Scholarship Fund, etc.

My biography: Dr Jie Xu is professor at Tianjin University. He received his M.S. from Tianjin University in 2008 and obtained PhD from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2012. He is the chief engineer of civil engineering testing center and deputy director of bridge and structural engineering laboratory of Tianjin University. His research mainly focuses on structural health monitoring, ultra-high performance material and new technique and new system. He has published 3 technical books and also published about 100 technical papers. He has also been a reviewer for more than ten high level international scientific journals, such as CACIE, SHM, CBM and so on. His research result has been applied in many important projects and he has been awarded several awards for both research and teaching.

Saeed Rokooei is an assistant professor in the Building Construction Science program at Mississippi State University. His professional responsibilities include project planning and management as well as architectural design practice in private and public construction and engineering firms. He has taught in architecture and construction programs since 2006.Dr. Rokooei’s primary research interests include simulation and serious games, project management methodologies, construction education, data analytics, creativity and innovation, and emerging technologies. He is actively pursuing the development of educational techniques and methods in construction. He has developed construction-based simulation applications and strives to bring aspects of project management into simulation applications.

Magda Posani is a Research Assistant at the Chair of Sustainability of ETH Zürich. In the period 2017 - 2021, she developed her Ph.D. research under the Doctoral program for Eco-Constructions and Rehabilitation, in Civil Engineering. The doctoral research concerns the use of thermal mortars to retrofit historic walls, considering the feasibility, efficacy, and compatibility of different solutions. The doctoral research was developed through a collaboration between the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and the National Laboratory for Civil engineering of Lisbon (LNEC). In addition, the Ph.D. program included a period of research at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She is part of the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM), and she is the European representative of RILEM Youth Council. She is currently investigating the use of bio-based materials for climate-neutral buildings, at ETH.

Dr. Jun-Seok Oh is the Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering and the Director of the Transportation Research Center for Livable Communities (TRCLC) at Western Michigan University, USA. He has led research activities to address the nation’s critical transportation challenges through the prism of livable communities and to improve affordable and environmentally sustainable transportation options for conventionally underserved communities. His research has been applying advanced technologies to transportation issues. He has participated in a wide range of research activities related to traffic management techniques in the context of advanced traffic management and information systems. His expertise includes transportation network optimization, traffic modeling and simulation, transportation data analysis, transportation and health, and traffic safety analysis. He eared his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 2001.

Dr. Marco Lamberti is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France and Researcher at Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA). He has obtained his PhD in Structural Engineering at the University of Salerno (Italy) and has been awarded with the mention of Doctor Europaeus. After completing his PhD, he became post-doc researcher in structural engineering at the same University and in 2017 he was visiting scholar for several months at McMaster University (Canada). In 2018, he joined at SCWE (Sino-Canada R&D Center for Water and Environmental Safety) of Nankai University in Tianjin (China) receiving founding from Chinese government with the call "Global Top Talent".In September 2019, he moved to CNRS in Marseille (France) and started to work on the EU-funded MSCA-IF “ASSO project" (Adhesive Connection for Secondary Structures in Offshore Wind Installation). The relevant research activities were: the multiscale modeling of the mechanical response of composite materials and structures; the numerical and experimental analysis of the mechanical behavior of innovative adhesive structures in fiber-reinforced composite material; the mechanical behavior of concrete structures reinforced with composite materials, the numerical-experimental analysis of GFRPadhesive connections and the hygro-thermal behaviour of adhesive joints. He is author of several scientific papers, published in international journals and in proceedings of conferences.

José María Fernández Rodríguez, Degree in Chemical Sciences 1984, extraordinary award of degree by University of Cordoba, PhD in Sciences since 1988, extraordinary award of PhD by University of Cordoba. Research scholar MEC-Spain FPI (1984-88) and post-doctoral research scholar MEC/MRES-Spain FPI (1988) in Nantes University. CEU (Associate Professor) since November of 1996. Head of the Research Group FQM-391 “Materials and Applications” (12/05/2017-currently) https://www.uco.es/matapli/. Twenty- two years dedicated to the research work. The research activity has been accompanied by numerous management positions: Dean of School of Engineering Sciences of Belmez, University of Cordoba, Spain (14 years). JCR published in the last 10 years, 41 JCR of which 25 are D1 and 32 Q1. The research group FQM-391 “Materials and Applications” works in three lines: 1.- Capture, Storage and Use of CO2: This line is related to the implementation of new materials for the capture and the use of CO2. Whether it is a reversible or irreversible capture. Application in building materials. Eco-Construction; 2.- Immobilization of hazardous substances using Double Barrier techniques: This line is related to the synthesis and using of “Layered double hydroxides (LDH)”, “Periodic mesoporous organosilicas (PMOs)” and “Mesoporous carbons (CM)” in the capture of pesticides and / or heavy metals. Furthermore, the interaction of these materials with cement-based materials in order to immobilize hazardous substances by using a double barrier technique is being researched; 3.- Mortars and concretes: This line is related to the formulation of conventional, self-compacting, or alkaline activated mortars and concretes. It is needed to mention the importance of the implementation of the circular economy in the construction sector by the incorporation of industrial by-products. On the other hand, this line is addressed to the study of mortars and wall paintings in archaeological sites as well as the formulation of colored mortars.

: I am a researcher in the field of urban resilience to climate change. I did my undergraduate in Mathematics at UC Berkeley, and I did my PhD in Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. I develop mathematical models for quantifying the impacts of coastal flooding and sea level rise on urban transportation systems. My research combines climate science, mathematics, and engagement with local stakeholders to provide actionable insights into urban resilience.

Dr. Xuemei Liu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at The University of Melbourne(UniMelb). She is the Coordinator of the Bachelor of Science and Design (Civil Systems) Program in the department. She has authored more than 50 journal articles in top international journals. She obtained her Bachelor, Master and PhD degree from Shandong Jianzhu University, Tianjin University, and the National University of Singapore, respectively. Her research interest includes durability of lightweight concrete under marine environment, concrete rheology and pumpability, impact resistance of concrete, and CFST columns etc. She is the Editorial Board Member of Advances in Civil Engineering. She was selected as a future women leader in STEM sidebyside program by Veski at 2020.

DR. Belarouf SARA was born in Rabat Morocco, graduated in 2016 master's in mechanical engineering option energy: Materials & Renewable Energies at the Faculty of Sciences of the University Mohamed V, Rabat Morocco. and in 2021 Doctorate in physical sciences speciality "mechanics & energy". she worked as an engineer as well as doctor researcher in the research laboratory in Morocco and in Belgium And official representative of the Leaders Club in Morocco and Belgium and editor in chief of the scientific journal "Global Research Review".

Valentina Lentini is Assistant professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University Kore of Enna (Italy). The research activities is mainly devoted to geotechnical earthquake engineering with particular reference to the soil dynamic characterization by means of laboratory test but also to landslide risk and shallow foundation. She has published more than 80 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Valentina Lentini is member of the Editorial Board of Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment. She is actively involved in the management of activities of the Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory of the University of Enna. She is part of a research group involved in numerous research projects with the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research.

Dr. Jan Včelák is a researcher at InnoRenew CoE. He finished his doctorate in 2007 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. Since then, he has worked on several research projects in companies and research institutions with a focus on sensors and electronic systems. Between 2007 and 2012, he was postdoctoral researcher and team leader in Tyndall NI, Ireland. In 2012, he was employed by the University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings CTU where he established and led the department for monitoring and intelligent control. He also invented several patents in the EU and United States. In 2019, he was a visiting researcher at InnoRenew CoE. His work focused on sensor design and wireless sensor networks. His expertise is in electronic and sensor design as well as renewable energy use and systems for monitoring timber constructions.

Dr. Fan is a Lecturer in Flood and Coastal Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Brunel University London. He is an outstanding young researcher in the field of water and environmental systems analysis, especially in stochastic processes and statistical hydrology, flooding risk analysis, water resources management and climate change and adaptation. Fan has produced more than 80 refereed journal papers with an H-index of 29 from Google Scholar, and participated more than 20 research projects since 2009. He was an Editor assistant for the Journal of Environmental Informatics (2011-2018), and one editorial board member forWater andEnvironmental Systems Research (Springer). Fan has developed a series of stochastic modelling systems for supporting flood prediction,inferring risks for flooding events and compound hydroclimatic extremes. Some of his research works have been published on some prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (ASCE), Journal of Hydrology, Earth’s Future and so on. Before joining Brunel, Fan obtained his Ph.D degree from the University of Regina, Canada in 2015 and also had been a research fellow at the Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Communities at the University of Regina from 2015 to 2018.

Nazenin Gure, Research Assistant in Beykent University, Istanbul, TURKEY and CEO of ENHAS R&D Energy Systems Limited Co., Istanbul, TURKEY. She is Research Assistant in Department of Mechanical Engineering in Beykent University, TR. Her B.Sc. is in Environmental Engineering, B.Sc and M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering. She is a PhD. candidate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in Marmara University, TR. Her scholarship is supported by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Her start-up project is selected for Technological Entrepreneurship Industry Support (TGSD), funded by Republic of Turkey’s Ministry of Science, Industry, and Technology (MoSIT). Her M.Sc. Thesis on Energy Harvesting is published by USA’s leading piezoelectric company: Mide Technology and PIEZO. As a CTO of ENLIL project is awarded with International Theme Award in Climate Launchpad, Edinburg, UK (2018: Urban Transitions Award Winner). She has 5 National Awards in which belongs to 3 different Blockchain Projects. Finally, MNG KARGO ApiZone Hackathon Finalist for Blockchain logistic solution). She participated hackathons such as MIT Beat The Pandemic II, EUvsVirus Pan-European, Florida Sunshine Hackathon and Facebook F8 Refresh. She is the lead inventor of two awaiting patent applications. Her recent studies are presented in Silicon Valley, CA, USA in IEECP’21 and Osaka, Japan, Science Federation in Infrastructure Construction 2021.

Dr Noorsuhada Md Nor is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. Her expertise is in the field of concrete materials and structures, particularly in the areas of fatigue, retrofitting and rehabilitation, structural health monitoring, advanced materials and signal processing. Dr Noorsuhada obtained her PhD from Universiti Teknologi MARA and her Master from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia. Dr Noorsuhada has been teaching at Universiti Teknologi MARA for more than 15 years in civil engineering. She also supervises students pursuing Bachelor's, Master's and PhD degrees. She has published more than 100 scientific articles in journals and international conferences. She has been appointed as a reviewer for journals and conferences like Construction and Building Materials, Engineering Structures, Structural Health Monitoring, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Materials etc. She has participated in professional activities like conferences, webinars etc. as conference chair, session chair, guest editor for journals, conference committees, editorial board, etc. She also serves as an external examiner for PhD and master theses and as a program and resource person for subject.

Recipient of the Paul Grendrop Fracotte National Research Award. Ph.D. in Arts from the University of Guanajuato. Master in City and Sustainable Public Space, ITESO. Master in Landscape Gardening and Public Space, University of Granada. Bachelor'sDegree in Architecture with LaureateRecognition from the University of Guanajuato. She is currently a professor in the Department of Habitat and Urban Development at Western InstituteofTechnology and HigherEducation (ITESO) and is a member of the NationalSystemofResearchers. Representative of Young Architects of the CollegeofArchitectsof Guanajuato, belonging to the FederationofCollegesofArchitectsof of the Mexican republic. 2018-2020. Former Head ofDepartment at the Superior Audit Office of the State of Guanajuato. In professional practice, he has directed and coordinated educational infrastructure projects, landscape projects at the national and international level S. She is a research member in the CONDEREFF Project (Construction&demolitionwastemanagementpolicies for improved-resource efficiency), funded by the EuropeanCommission and framed within the INTERREG EUROPE program PG105560 CONDEREFF of the polytechnic university of Valencia. President of the American continent and President at National level (Mexico) of the international project RWYC "Reconnect with your culture" UNESCO. 2021-2024. Based on culture to achieve a conscious, responsible, and respectful society of community and intercultural dialogue. Currently coordinates the PRONACE (NationalHousing Project) "Adequate social housing and right to the city to ensure a sustainable habitat in western Mexico" in which she directs activities with 3 national universities and 2 universities abroad for the rescue of constructive cultures, the right to housing under the logic of inter and transdisciplinary in the Central-West adequate for families in situations of vulnerability. Researcher and coordinator of the project: "LaboratoryofReducedMobility and the Elderly" at ITESO. She has been a mentor in organizations that represent young people, such as schools and after-school programs. She is currently a research professor at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, attached to the Department of Habitat and Urban Development. In 2021 she joined the PostgraduateProgramof the Department of Habitat as a member of the basic academiccore of the Master in StrategicDesign and Social InnovationofWestern InstituteofTechnology and HigherEducation (ITESO).

Dr. Choe started his researcher career as an assistant professor in the department of architecture at the Tokyo university of science in Japan since 2020. He obtained his Ph.D degree at the Tokyo university of science. His major studies are evaluating anti-corrosion property and bond stress of galvanized steel reinforcement in concrete. In his doctoral course, He has been focussing on how to improve durability of RC structures by preventing the corrosion of steel reinforcement. After the graduation, his has been expanding his research field from material to structure. For example, his recent studies placed on seismic performance design of RC beams and evaluating bond performance of post-construction anchor. As his recent achievement, He has taken two research project funds which one is KAKENHI from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and another is from Ohata foundation

Krystyna Kazimierowicz-Frankowska, MSc, PhD, DSc, Associate Professor and Deputy Head in the Department of Geomechanics of the Institute of Hydro-Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Author and co-author of some 60 publications, including 4 books on applied mechanics, mechanics of reinforced soil, geosynthetics, and civil and marine engineering. Her research interests are focused on both basic and applied research on modelling the mechanical behaviour of geomaterials, as well as phenomena and processes in subsoil in connection with the problems of soil-structure-water interactions. Her latest books are: “Geotechnical aspects of multi-use offshore platforms” 2015, “Geosynthetics in hydraulic engineering”, 2019.

Dr. Qingyu Zhang is a full Professor and Director of the Research Institute of Business Analytics and Supply Chain Management at Shenzhen University, China. His research interests are sustainable operations.

Hassan Ait Haddou, LIFAM- Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Montpellier Hassan Ait Haddou is the Director of the Laboratoire Innovation Formes Architectures Milieux (LIFAM), France, and Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM), France, where he teaches mathematics and computer science. Hassan obtained his PhD in Mathematics in 2005, writing his thesis on the Lichnerowicz cohomology, a deformation of the de Rham cohomology which has very interesting applications in several domains of global differential geometry. His research interests include distributed and cooperative decision support systems for various applications, sustainable development and architecture, building information model(ing), geographical information system symplectic and contact geometry, foliations, and algebraic topology.

Dr. Behzad Esmaeili holds a B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from the Amirkabir University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Before joining George Mason University, Dr. Esmaeili was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction. He actively conducts research in the field of construction safety, specializing in injury prevention strategies, hazard identification, risk management, and decision making. During his Ph.D. and Postdoctoral work, he used a variety of qualitative and quantitative data-collection, data-analysis, and data mining methods. His research on construction safety has been nationally and internationally recognized more than once, most notably in the 2014 Prize Award for Innovation “Jaume Blasco,” 18th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering (ICPME), New Scholar award from the Construction Industry Institute in 2014, Best Paper Award from the Construction Research Congress in 2016, Best Academic Award from the Construction Industry Institute in 2016, and the best paper award from ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering 2018. Dr. Esmaeili actively serves on the Construction Industry Institute’s Safety Community of Business Advancement (CII SCBA) and AFH10 committee at Transportation Research Board (TRB).

Rini Asnida Abdullah is an associate professor at the School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and a professional engineer. She obtained her Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering and Master degree in Geotechnics, both from UTM, and she received her Ph.D degree in Rock Mechanics from University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Before joining the UTM as the academic staff in 2003, she has three years of working experience with the Minconsult Sdn. Bhd. and Public Work Department, Malaysia. Working as an academician in UTM, she also involves consultation work. Recent project involvements are the permanent stabilization for rock slope at Bukit Lanjan and Jelapang, and principle inspection for Meru-Menora tunnel lining and Special Study on Landslide at Bukit Antarabangsa. Rini is the author of more than 85 publications, including international journal papers, book chapters, and conference papers. Her research interests include rock mass classification, rock slope modeling, rock fractures and fragmentation, underground excavation, and blasting. Currently, she is supervising 9 Ph.D. students. She also served as the Secretary-General of the ISRM Malaysia National Group and Technical Committee of Tunneling and Underground Space Technical Division (TUSTD) of the Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM).

Yuanlong Yang, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Structural Engineering in Chongqing University Chongqing, China Education Ph.D. in Structural Engineering (07/2011), School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China Dissertation Title: Mechanical Behavior of T-shaped Composite Columns M.S. in Structural Engineering (07/2007), School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China Dissertation Title: Static Behavior of T-shaped Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Columns B.S. in Structural Engineering (07/2005), School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China Professional Experiences 03/2016-present Chongqing University Chongqing, China Associate Professor 07/2011-02/2016 Lanzhou University Lanzhou, China Lecturer

Elvira Maeso Gonzalez is Senior Lecturer (UK) of the Department of Economy and Business Administration at the School of Industrial Engineering, University of Málaga (Spain) since 1998. She is Phd. Industrial Engineer (University of Málaga, 2001). Dr. Maeso is the responsible for the Research Group “Work and Transportation Management”. She launched the Chair of Transport Management in 2004 and directed it up to 2015, when she was appointed Deputy Mayor of Mobility and Transport of the City of Malaga until 2019. She is Responsible Researcher and Researcher of numerous contracts and R&D projects, related to logistics and transportation. Her main research interest is on Transport management of both people and goods that allows greater optimization and efficiency in times, costs, energy, safety, gender equity and environmental impact. Because of her experience, her research spams from the development of theoretical models to practical applications on real world policies.

Dr Dong joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an assistant professor of structural engineering in December 2016. He received his bachelor’s degree in bridge engineering from Hunan University, China in 2009 and his PhD in structural engineering from Lehigh University, USA. After that, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Lehigh. He has published several journal papers, refereed proceedings, and invited keynotes. He has also been a reviewer for some international scientific journals. Dr Dong serves as a committee member of the ASCE- SEI Technical Council on Life-Cycle Performance, Safety, Reliability and Risk of Structural Systems and Multi-Hazard Mitigation. He has been awarded several international awards, such as the Young Scholar Award from the IABMAS (international conference on bridge maintenance, safety and management). His research mainly focuses on the development of the next generation of civil and marine structures, incorporating risk, resilience, and sustainability in a life-cycle context. Specifically, he has formulated possible solutions to make our cities and communities safer, more resilient, and more sustainable, considering climate change effects and the potential application of novel materials and structural systems.

Dr. Izni Syahrizal Ibrahim has a Bachelor Degree (Hons.) in Civil Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 1998. He then joined UTM as a tutor in 1999 and completed his Master in Structural Engineering also from UTM in 2000. He is then appointed as a Lecturer before pursuing his Doctoral Degree in the United Kingdom. He obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom in 2008 and was appointed as Senior Lecturer in 2009. Since 2017, he has been an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UTM. Dr. Izni Syahrizal Ibrahim is currently the Director at Forensic Engineering Centre (FEC), Institute for Smart Infrastructure and Innovative Construction (ISIIC), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia since April 2018, which requires direct involvement with planning and implementation of all research work, consultation, seminar and professional training to support the industry in Forensic Engineering. At the same time, he is also the Quality Manager at Civil Engineering Testing Unit (CETU) under the School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UTM. CETU is an accredited laboratory for MS ISO/IEC 17025: 2017 SAMM No. 804. His research area/interest is related to precast concrete construction, composite action behaviour in precast structure, steel fibre reinforced concrete and forensic engineering investigation. He has published more than 100 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings mainly in Structures and Materials.

Dr. Wang is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wang is an internationally recognized expert in the field of X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) characterization and discrete element method (DEM) modeling of granular soils. Dr. Wang's work has been awarded the prestigious international prizes of the 2011 Geotechnical Research Medal (UK Institution of Civil Engineers) and the 2010 Higher Education Institutions Outstanding Research Award - Natural Science Award (the Ministry of Education of China). He has delivered a number of keynote and invited lectures in reputable international and domestic conferences, workshops and seminars. Dr. Wang currently serves as the editorial board member of “Soils and Foundations” (The Japanese Geotechnical Society). He is also a member of TC 201 (Dikes and Levees), TC220 (Field Monitoring in Geomechanics), and TC 221 (Tailings and Mine Wastes) of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). So far Dr. Wang has published over 140 journal articles and conference papers.

Prof. Wang-Ji Yan received his B.E and M.E degree in civil engineering from Central South University in 2006 and 2009, and his PhD in structural engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2013. In 2014, he joined Hefei University of Technology as a full Professor of civil engineering. He conducted research as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the University of Nottingham since 2018. Now he is an associate Professor of State Key Lab of Internet of Things for Smart Cities at the University of Macau. His research focuses on structural health monitoring and uncertainty quantification in structural dynamics. His research has led to over 70 publications including more than 50 papers in highly ranked journals in the field of structural vibration and monitoring. Prof. Yan has received around 10 academic awards and was awarded more than10 research grants. He served as the reviewers for more than 50 journals.His work has been cited by a number of world-renowned researchers including 15 academicians from more than 10 countries. He is among ‘World's Top 2% Scientists in 2020’released by Stanford University.

Dr. Saeed Talebi is the Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment at the Birmingham City University. He has taught on several areas including BIM in architectural design, engineering and construction, Innovation in Construction, and Lean Construction at both UG and PG levels. His current research interest is in the areas of geometric control, condition monitoring of infrastructure, and platform design using technologies such as 3D scanning, UAV, thermography, BIM, and AI. Bringing practical experience of working on a number of projects, he is researching and helping teams manage the interfaces between theory and practice. Saeed has secured more than £2000K since he has started his academic career in 2018, including research projects funded by Network Rail to utilise emerging surveying methods and AI to replace visual inspection of railway bridges.

Deshan Shan Education September 1999 PhD., Bridge Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, 610031 Work Experience July 1996 ~ Date Southwest Jiaotong University Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, and also a Doctoral supervisor Areas of Expertise Nondestructive evaluation and monitoring of bridges, Seismic analysis / design of bridges, including expertise in structural dynamics. May 1996 M. Sc. Bridge Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, 610031 July 1990 B. Sc. Bridge Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China, 400074

Research fellow and lecturer in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering at the University of Molise in Italy. In 2019, Ph.D. in Bioscience and Territory from the same university in the field of Geotechnical Engineering. In 2017/2018, a 9-months experience at the Geotechnical Laboratory of the University of Tokyo conducting 1-g shaking table model tests to address the response of underground pipelines to earthquakes in soil liquefaction environment with the proposals of systems to mitigate the induced effects. In 2018/2019 and 2015, cooperation with the Onshore Pipeline Specific Engineering Department of the Saipem S.p.A, an international global solution provider in the energy and infrastructure sectors, within an agreement with the University of Molise. In 2016/2017, engineering post-reconnaissance following the 2016 Central Italy earthquake with the Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance team. In 2015-2018 and 2019-present, support to the activities of seismic hazard prevention within the framework of local seismic response and liquefaction, as contribution to a national DPC-ReLuis project.

Yu ZHOU Ph.D.,FRSA is an Associate and Senior Manager at the CSCEC (China State Construction Engineering Corporation), the the world’s largest construction and investment corporation and the Fellow of RSA (Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering (2020) from the University of Melbourne (Australia) and BSc in Theretical and Applied Mechanics (2015) from University of Science and Technology of China (P.R.China). With focus on simulation and optimisation of hybrid geothermal systems during his PhD and current interests in energy systems and prefabricated infrastructure, he is a world expert in energy systems, and serves as an Overseas High-Caliber Personnel of the Shenzhen

Eva Barreira is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Porto – Faculty of Engineering (FEUP). She is responsible for several curricular units of the Integrated Master in Civil Engineering (MIEC), the Master in Integrated Building Design and Construction (MPRINCE), the Advanced Studies in Building Rehabilitation (EARPE) and the Doctoral Program in Civil Engineering (PRODEC). She is the head of the Building Division of FEUP, member of the Scientific Committee of MPRINCE and Director of EARPE. She develops research work on hygrothermal behaviour, indoor thermal comfort and energy efficiency of buildings applied to building physics, technology of construction, building pathology and building rehabilitation. She is a member of CONSTRUCT R&D Unit and the Laboratory of Building Physics, both at FEUP. She has participated in various national and international R&D projects and she was member of several scientific and organizing committees of national and international events. She is Guest-Editor of 4 Special Issues.She is the author of 4 international books and more than 150 scientific publications, including about 50 articles in international peer-reviewed journals listed in Science Citation Index (SCI). http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1343-5578 (Scopus h-index: 12).

Dr. Rouzbeh Nazari, is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of Sustainable Smart Cities Research Center (SSCR) with a dual appointment in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering and School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His primary research interests are: application of remote sensing in water resources and environment, Coastal resiliency, hydrodynamic modeling, stormwater management and impact assessment of extreme weather events on the built environment. Dr. Nazari is the founder and creator of NJFloodAlert.com as well as QPeak technologies (an NSF I-Corp funded startup company based on his patented work), the first high resolution asset based resiliency decision making system that is currently in use by state and local officials and as well as residents in New Jersey. He has worked on New York and New Jersey Resiliency planning has been a pioneer in the damage and resiliency assessment of coastal infrastructures and community vulnerability to natural disasters. He has received over $3,200,000 in funding from federal, state and industry for his research. Dr. Nazari’s research has been supported by NSF, USDA, FEMA, NJDCA, NJDEP, NY/NJ DOT, and American Water. Dr. Nazari’s work has been featured on TV and major Newspapers including, PIX11 news, NJTV, US Guardian, Philadelphia Inquirer, New Jersey Business and Press of Atlantic City to name a few. Dr. Nazari has published several book chapters, journal papers and has presented his work in national and international conferences.

Dr Yan Zhuge is a Professor in Structural Engineering at UniSA STEM, University of South Australia, Australia. Yan has lectured in several Australian universities for more than 20 years. She has a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Structural Engineering from Beijing, China, a PhD in Structural Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. Prof Zhuge’s main research interests include green concrete materials, composite materials and structures and seismic retrofitting of structures. She has published more than 200 SCI technical papers in the referred international journals and conferences and has been invited as a keynote speaker at several international conferences. Yan has won several Australian government awards and fellowships and attracted funding from Australian Research council and industry. She was the winner of 2018 South Australia Government Winnovation award in Engineering category.

Dr. Sari Yamamoto is the Professor of color design, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Sari graduated from the graduate school of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, with Doctor of Engineering in 1997. Her main areas of research are color and sign, planning and design in architecture and other design field. She has been active in various academic societies, serving as a board member of the Japanese Society for the Science of Design (JSSD), a chairperson of the subcommittee on Color Design, in Architectural Institute of Japan, and a delegate of the Color Science Association of Japan. She not only conducts experimental research for color and sign and other design, but also designs building color and public signage. Her design works are highly rated, and she has won the JSSD Excellent Design Award for her work twice. Recently, she has expanded her interests to public environmental design, including Shared Space which is one of the urban design approaches without signs.

Dr. Roslli Noor Mohamed is an Associate Professor from School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His expertise is in the area of concrete material and structures, specialized on fibre reinforced concrete,self-compacting concrete, prestressed and precast concrete. Dr Roslli obtained his PhD from University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Prior to that, he finished his Master and first degree, both from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Dr Roslli has involved in teaching in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for morethan 20 years. Hismain teaching subjects are Mechanic of Materials, Reinforced Concrete Design and Prestressed Concrete Design. Besides, he also supervising undergraduate, master and PhD researchstudents. The output of the research is mainly manifestated in terms of publication. Dr Roslli have authored and co-authored 30 journal articles of which one-third of them were indexed in ISI and others indexed by Scopus and other database agencies. On top of that, he have been appointed as paper reviewer with several journal publication and conferences such as Jurnal Teknologi, APSEC, ISEED-SEPKA and etc.

1Tsutomu Tsuboi joined Hitachi from 1979 and worked as industrial motors designer until 1985, then Network product management of Semiconductor Div. from 1986 to 1997. He was manager of Hitachi Semiconductor America Inc. from 1997 to 2000. He was senior manager of Renesas Technology from 2003 to 2010. He was senior manager of Smart City Div. of Hitachi Ltd. from 2010 to 2012. He was Project Director of Hamamatsu Agency for Innovation from 2012 to 2014. He is currently project leader of New Creative Busines Divison in Nagoya Electric Works since 2014. He is IPSJ member and IEEE senior member. Education: Ph.D of Information and Science Technology at Aichi Prefectural University 2017, Master of Sustaibale Urban Regeneration Program at the University of Tokyo 2012.

Dr. Li is a registered engineer in Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ), Canada. He obtained a bachelor degree and a M.Sc.A. degree both in mining engineering in China, and a doctorate degree in France. He has been working in geotechnical engineering for more than 20 years. He is a fullprofessor and the Head of the Mining Engineering Program in the Department of Civil, Geological and MiningEngineering at Polytechnique Montreal.He is an academic editor of Advances in Civil Engineering and anEditorial Board Member of Canadian Geotechnical Journal. He has been serving a large number of journals as reviewer. He is specialized in geotechnical engineering (rock, soil and backfill mechanics), numerical modeling, analytical solution development, stress estimation in backfilled openings (mine stopes, civil trenches, powder silos), and geotechnical testing. Since last ten years, Dr. Li is particularly active in research on mine backfilled stopes for sizing barricades made of waste rocks andassessing the required strength of side- or base-exposed cemented backfill.Currently, he is Guest Editor of aSpecial Issue entitled "Numerical Modeling in Civil and Mining Geotechnical Engineering" for MDPI’s open access journalProcesses (indexed in SCIE and Scopus; Impact Factor=2.753).

Associate Professor of geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) in KTR, the Circular Economy Solutions Unit. Basic degree Bach App. Sc in Physics and Geology, Phd in Mining Engineering from JKMRC University of Queensland. Work experience 18 years in the Australian mining industry in research and development, 12 months at Ausenco in the private sector, 3 years in Belgium at the University of Liege researching Circular Economy and industrial recycling. Work experience in Finland has been at GTK has been in the Minerals Intelligence in the MTR unit, before joining the KTR. Mineral processing and geometallurgy being developed. Long term objectives include the development and transformation of the Circular Economy, into a more practical system for the industrial ecosystem to navigate the twin challenges of the scarcity of technology minerals and the transitioning away from fossil fuels.

 Shukra Raj Paudel has been working as Professor (Asst.) of Environmental Engineering, in Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal. Currently, he is also working as Asst. Campus Chief (Academic) in Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, TU.  He had successfully completed 3 years research in the area of Aquatic System which was in collaboration with 3 different Universities: Columbia University, New York, University of Hawaii, USA, and Korea University, South Korea, and also 2 years collaborative research with a Senior Scientist, Prof. Dr. Friedemann T. Freund, NASA, USA. Moreover, he already did some collaborative research works with more than a dozen countries and currently, he is involving some collaborative research works with Japan, Australia, Brazil, USA etc.  He has involved as a member of Editorial Advisory Board in the International Journal, Renewable Energy Focus, Elsevier, Associate Editor in the domestic journal, Nepal Journal of Civil Engineering, and Editor, Journal of Engineering Issues and Solutions (JoEIS). Besides, he has been also working as a Reviewer of several international peer-reviewed journals in Elsevier, Springer, Taylor and Francis, and Frontiers etc.  He has published several review and research papers in various National and International platforms including peer review journals in SCI/E and proceedings.  His research interest area covers –in general—in Environmental Science and Engineering; and more focus on especially in the area of: Nitrogen Management, Groundwater, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Renewable Energy, Waste to Energy, Water-Energy-Climate Nexus, and Chemical Precursors’ role on developing Global Earthquake Warning System (GEWS).  He is actively involved in teaching/tutoring environmental engineering subjects to students in the Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Professor Dr. Md. Monirul Islam is an experienced academic leader and a Civil Engineer with BSc Engineering in Civil from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and he did his Masters in Civil Engineering and PhD from Japan under the Japan Government Monbusho Scholarship in Remote Sensing and GIS on Environmental Hazard.He has completed Post-Doc fellowship under the Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS) in the year of 2002-2004. He did another Post-Doc fellowship from Tropical Marine Science Institute of National University of Singapore in the year of 2000-2002. He obtained different positions in academia in Bangladesh, Singapore and Japan. He led the development of curriculum activities of Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Technology (CEAT) of International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT), Bangladesh since 2004. He has a distinguished service and research career as a professional for over 30 years in the field of Environmental Hazard and Disaster Management. His activities are focused on Remote Sensing and GIS techniques for oceanography, environmental hazards such as earthquake, flood, cyclone, tornado, and climate change and climate justice, etc. He has published more than 50 papers in the wide range discipline of environmental hazards His research interests include remote sensing and GIS with machine learning techniques for hazard management and relief distribution. Currently he has concentrated research on climate change and climate justice. Dr. Islam serves on editorial boards of several international research journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IUBAT Reviews, a multi-discipline journal published by International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Bangladesh. He is an expert member of the Outcome Based Education in the university and worked as Chair, Department of Civil Engineering of IUBAT and the Dean of College of Engineering and Technology of IUBAT. Dr. Islam has lectured and given invited addresses worldwide in countries including China, England, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the USA.

Dr. Wang is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wang is an internationally recognized expert in the field of X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) characterization and discrete element method (DEM) modeling of granular soils. Dr. Wang's work has been awarded the prestigious international prizes of 2011 Geotechnical Research Medal (UK Institution of Civil Engineers) and 2010 Higher Education Institutions Outstanding Research Award - Natural Science Award (the Ministry of Education of China). He has delivered a number of keynote and invited lectures in reputable international and domestic conferences, workshops and seminars. Dr. Wang’ research has attracted over 7 million HKD of external grants including the Research Grant Council (RGC) of Hong Kong SAR and National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Dr. Wang currently serves as a Scientific Editor of Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (The Chinese Academy of Science), and an Editorial Board Member of Soils and Foundations (The Japanese Geotechnical Society). So far Dr. Wang has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles including 80 SCI journal papers and over 60 international conference papers.

Dr. Abdelkrim MOUFAKKIR Team Thermodynamic – Energy, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

Dr.Shujin Laima is an associate professor in the department of civil engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)in China. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from the department of civil engineering at HIT in 2013. His research interests are focused on Wind Engineering, Bridge Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, and Machine Learning.