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Dr. Zhanping You earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in 2003. After serving years of faculty positions in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University, he was promoted to Professor in 2014 and earned a Distinguished Professorship in 2019. Dr. You has completed research projects related to road materials, pavement engineering, and sustainable building materials. His contribution to pavement and materials research has led to journal articles, book chapters, and advances in engineering practice. He has led research projects from engineering practice of roads to pavement science with funding from federal, state, and local agencies. Dr. You has received numerous recognitions. He was awarded U.S. Department of Transportation’s Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship in 2001. In both 2004 and 2005, he was awarded the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Faculty Fellowship. He earned the prestigious Michigan Tech Research Award in 2019 and University Distinguished Professorship. He was named as Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials in 2020. Dr. You served as the Chair to ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute’s Pavements Committee and CI’s Bituminous Materials Committee. He is also the guest editor for other journals outside of ASCE.

Dr Zongjin LI is Chair professor at University of Macau. He received his B.E. from Zhejiang University in 1982 and obtained both his M.S. and PhD from North-western University, Chicago, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He was a fellow of American Concrete Institute, Chair of China Group of RILEM and Founding President of ACI China Chapter. As the chief scientist, he has led a China Key National Basic Research Project (973), ‘Basic study on environmentally friendly contemporary concrete’ that promoted the concrete research in China to a world-class level. He also founded the Gordon Research Conference, ‘‘Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure Development’ in 2014. He is pioneer in noncontact resistivity/impedance measurement for cement-based materials and lead the research activities in this area for about 20 years. He also developed cement-based piezoelectric and opened a new direction for civil engineering. The methodology he developed to utilizing the in situ polymerization of monomer during cement hydration process has shown a strong effect in enhancing flexural strength of cement-based composite. He has published 5 technical books, in which ‘Advanced Concrete Technology’ published by John Wiley has been collected by many national libraries and major university libraries and used by many universities as text or reference books for civil engineering. He has also published more than 400 technical papers with a Google Scholar citation of 21358 and H-index of 82. He has also been awarded eight US and twenty Chinese patents. Three of his patents have been developed into commercial products. He received the Arthur R. Anderson Medal from American Concrete Institute in 2017 and Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award from British Royal Academy of Engineering in 2014.

• Forty-six years of academic, industrial and leadership experience in the Electrical Engineering field • Thirty-nine years in an Academic field in the US. Just completed 33 1/2 years of teaching and research in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Hartford in College of Engineering Technology and Architecture; University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, USA • Ten years in industry as a Senior Executive in Mumbai/Pune, India • Four years as Head of an Electrical Engineering Department in the USA at University of Hartford, 1994-98 • Five years as Director of Graduate Studies of a College of Engineering at University of Hartford, 1993-98 • Excellent research and development record with commercialized patents, transactions and peer reviewed proceeding papers, six solo books published in the last six years, one to follow in January of 2018. One on DPV Grid Transformers to be translated into Chinese and published by China Machine Press in December of 2017 • Excellent extra-mural funding record up to $5 million, $10 million as private funding to build a start-up company in 2004. • Recipient of Bent Award for Creativity, University of Hartford, 1997 • Professional Engineer (17666), State of Connecticut since 1992 • Graduate of an elite Technology Institute in India – Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (which just celebrated its Diamond Jubilee in December of 2012)

Amir H. Gandomi is a Professor of Data Science and an ARC DECRA Fellow at the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney. Prior to joining UTS, Prof. Gandomi was an Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA and a distinguished research fellow in BEACON center, Michigan State University, USA. Prof. Gandomi has published over two hundred journal papers and seven books which collectively have been cited 24,000+ times (H-index = 72). He has been named as one of the most influential scientific minds and Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% publications and 0.1% researchers) for five consecutive years, 2017 to 2021. He also ranked 18th in GP bibliography among more than 12,000 researchers. He has served as associate editor, editor and guest editor in several prestigious journals such as AE of IEEE TBD and IEEE IoTJ. Prof Gandomi is active in delivering keynotes and invited talks. His research interests are global optimisation and (big) data analytics using machine learning and evolutionary computations in particular.

Currently a fellow of ASME, ASCE, EMI and HKIE, Ir Professor Lim received a B.Eng. from University of Technology of Malaysia, M.Eng. and PhD from National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, respectively. Prior to joining City University of Hong Kong, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at The University of Queensland and The University of Hong Kong. He is also a visiting professor at various universities worldwide. He has expertise in theory of plates and shells, dynamics of smart piezoelectric structures, nanomechanics, metamaterials and symplectic elasticity. He is currently the subject editor for Journal of Sound and Vibration, joint-editor for Journal of Mechanics of Material and Structures, subject editor for Applied Mathematical Modelling, Associate Editor (Asia-Pacific Region) for Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies, Associate Editor for International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, etc. and also on the editorial board of some other top-ranked international journals. He has published one very well-selling title entitled “Symplectic Elasticity”, co-authored with W.A. Yao and W.X. Zhong from Dalian University of Technology, as recorded by the publisher, World Scientific, in Engineering Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering. He has published more than 300 international journal papers. Recently Professor Lim was awarded the prestigious 2020 JN Reddy Medal as a recognition “for significant and original contributions to vibration of plates and shells, smart piezoelectric structures, nanomechanics, and symplectic elasticity”. He was also previously awarded Top Referees in 2009, Proceedings A, The Royal Society. Professor Lim is a registered professional engineer in Hong Kong.

Professor Young-Jin Cha received his Ph.D. (2008) from Texas A&M University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.S. (2004) from Yonsei University, and B. E. (2002) from Kumoh National Institute of Technology. He started as a post-doctoral fellow (2009) in the City College of New York by collaborating with Professor Anil Agrawal who is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, then he became post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2012). He then joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Manitoba in 2014. His extensive research activities in the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and structural control for seismic damage reduction have led to the publication of 41 peer-reviewed, high-impact papers in top journals including one editorial, including Computer-Aided Civil Infrastructure Engineering (CACIE) (impact factor (IF): 11.775, top rank 1 in Civil Engineering), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (IF: 8.236), Automation in Construction (IF: 7.7), and Structural Health Monitoring (IF: 5.929). He has accepted/published 39 peer-reviewed, internationally recognized conference papers and delivered 68 conference presentations including six invited keynote speeches. He also authored a book chapter that was published in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (UNESCO). His key scientific contribution is deep learning-based automated SHM with autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). He brought this topic to light with paper publications in top-ranking journals. Researchers, professors including scientists, students, and industry professionals from many different countries have been showing strong interest in this innovative topic since 2016. According to Google Scholar, He has received 4,000 citations, 957 of which were received during the last year 2020. He was reported as top 0.65% cited scientist for single-year impact in the world within Civil Engineering field in 2020 from Mendeley.com. He has been reported more than serval hundred times as the most read author, most read research items, and citations in the Civil Engineering Dept. at U of M, with more than 86,000 readings since my account on www.researchgate.net was opened. He was named to 2005 Who’s Who in America,’ organized many symposiums in the MIT and Caltech through Engineering Mechanics Institute Conferences with the topics of Deep Learning and Autonomous UAVs for SHM. He is serving as core peer-reviewers and Editorial Board Members in many top engineering journals associated with IEEE, Elsevier, and ASCE.

Professor Brian Uy is Chair of Structural Engineering and Head of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney. He is the 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. He has been elected Vice President of the Institution of Structural Engineers (Australasia and South East-Asia) from 2022-2024. 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.

Sanjay Ranka is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Information Science and Engineering at University of Florida. From 1999-2002, as the Chief Technology Officer at Paramark (Sunnyvale, CA), he developed a real-time optimization service called PILOT for marketing campaigns. PILOT served more than 10 million optimized decisions a day in 2002 with a 99.99% uptime. Paramark was recognized by VentureWire/Technologic Partners as a Top 100 Internet technology company in 2001 and 2002 and was acquired in 2002. Sanjay has also held positions as a tenured faculty member at Syracuse University, academic visitor at IBM and summer researcher at Hitachi America Limited. Research in high performance computing and bigdata science is an important avenue for novel discoveries in large-scale applications. The focus of his current research is the development of efficient computational methods and data analysis techniques to model scientific phenomenon, and practical applications of focus are improvements to the quality of healthcare and the reduction of traffic accidents. A core aspiration of his research is to develop novel algorithms and software that make an impact on the application domain, exploiting the interdependence between theory and practice of computer science He has coauthored one book, four monographs, 300+ journal and refereed conference articles. His recent coauthored work has received a best student paper runner-up award at IGARSS 2015, best paper award at BICOB 2014, best student paper award at ACM-BCB 2010, best paper runner-up award at KDD-2009, a nomination for the Robbins Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Physics in Medicine and Biology in 2008, and a best paper award at ICN 2007. He is a fellow of the IEEE, AAAS and AAIA (Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association) and a past member of IFIP Committee on System Modeling and Optimization. He won the 2020 Research Impact Award from IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing. He is an associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and an associate editor for ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Sustainable Computing: Systems and Informatics, Knowledge and Information Systems, and International Journal of Computing. Additionally, he is a book series editor for CRC Press for Bigdata. In the past, he has been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and IEEE Transactions on Computers. He was a general co-chair for ICDM in 2009, International Green Computing Conference in 2010 and International Green Computing Conference in 2011, a general chair for ACM Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in 2012, and a program chair for 2013 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium and 2015 High Performance Computing Conference. He was a co-general chair for DataCom 2017 and co-program chair for ICMLDS 2017 and 2018. His work has received 14,500+ citations with an h-index of 61 (based on Google Scholar). He has consulted for several startups and Fortune 500 companies.

Professor. Dr. Adnan ul Haque is a fulltime faculty member at the Faculty of Business and Management, Yorkville University, Canada. He holdsa Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in Organisational Behaviour from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD – London), UK. He received the Best PG Research Student Award from the University of Sunderland (MBA-HRM), PGD in Business and Management, UK, Diploma in Research and Leadership from the University of Copenhagen, and Distinctions in MPA and BPA (Hons) from the University of Karachi, Pakistan. Dr. Haque is a session chair and keynote presenter at various international conferences. He is also an approved external PhD Examiner for Athabasca University, Canada, University of Karachi, Pakistan, PAF Kiet, Pakistan, and Kalasalingan Academy of Research and Education, India. He also serves as an editor for handbooks and special issues (e.g. IGI and Sustainability). He is a corporate trainer and a consultant to MNCs. He is a mentor at Oxford Brooks University.His research interest includes organizational behaviour, human resources management, Industry 4.0, knowledge hiding, occupational stress, supply chain management, innovative work behaviour, and leadership styles.

Dr. Gang Zhang is a University Distinguished Professor at Chang’an University (CHD). He serves as Director of Research Center on Bridge Extreme Loading and Protection, and Deputy Director of Bridge Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Research Office and Head of Bridge Structure and Material Fire Laboratory at Chang’an University. Prof. Zhang’s expertise is on the evaluation and protection of bridge structure and material behavior under extreme fire conditions. His research has focused on the experimental behavior, analytical modeling and numerical prediction of bridge structure under extreme fire exposure conditions, constitutive modelling of material properties at high temperatures, fire-resistant design of bridge structure, and bridge collapsed investigations. He has developed fundamental understanding on the behavior of bridge structure and materials subjected to extreme fire hazard. His research accomplishments, in the field of bridge fire safety and material at elevated temperatures, has great contribution and major impacts to improve development of disaster prevention and mitigation in transport infrastructure. Prof. Zhang, along with his students and collaborates, has led to over 150 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences. The most recent contribution from Zhang is a new text book on “Bridge Structure Fire Theory and Calculation Method” published by China Communications Press. Prof. Zhang is a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials. He is the Council Member of Fire Safety Committee of China Architectural Society, the Committee Member of the Professional Committee for Earthquake and Fire resistance of China Architectural Society, and the Committee Member of New Structure and Material Committee of China Architectural Society, and the Committee Member of Building Fire Protection Committee of China Engineering Construction Standardization Association. He is the editorial board member of Frontiers in Built Environment, and Journal of China Highway and Transport, and Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, and Journal of Chang’an University (Nature Science Edition). He won a number of Science and Technology Awards and Outstanding Papers Awards in bridge structure and material fire research field. He is also excellent reviewer of China Highway Journal, Journal of Chang'an University (Nature Science Edition), Journal of Civil Engineering and Environment.

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. 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.

Dr. Qijing Yang is currently a Senior Technical Director & Regional Technical Director of Arcadis Australia Pacific based in Sydney, Australia. Dr Yang is also an adjunct professor at East China Jiao Tong University. His consulting experiences are primarily in infrastructure development specialized in geotechnical engineering and tunnelling within Australia and overseas. Dr Yang joined the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia as a visiting research fellow in 1991 after obtaining his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from Wuhan University in 1990. He started his consulting career with Coffey Partners as a Geotechnical Engineer in Melbourne in 1993 and then in Sydney. He then worked at Maunsell (now AECOM) as a Senior Geotechnical Engineer in Sydney in 1996. In 2001 he joined Hyder Consulting as a Principal Engineer in Sydney and was promoted to Technical Director in 2006 and Regional Technical Director in 2011. Dr. Yang is a Fellow, Engineering Executive, Charter Professional Engineer of Institution of Engineers, Australia. He is a member of Australian Geomechanics Society and a Registered Professional Engineers of Queensland. He is also a member of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and International Society of Engineering Geology and Environment. He was a committee member of Australian Geomechanics Society and has published more than 70 papers in journals and conferences while practicing in geotechnical engineering and tunnelling. The projects he involved have won many prestigious awards within Australia and overseas.

ZONGZHI LI received BE from Chang’an University, Xi’an, China; MSCE and Ph.D. (December 2003) in transportation and infrastructure systems engineering, as well as MSIE in operations research all from Purdue University, USA. After completing the Ph.D. study, he joined Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory (TOPS Lab) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA as a Postdoctoral researcher until August 2004 after accepting a tenure-track assistant professor position at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), USA. Currently, he holds full professor rank with tenure and serves as the Director of Sustainable Transportation and Infrastructure Research (STAIR) Center, and Transportation Engineering Laboratory at IIT. He has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) for over US$4.3 million of research studies on multimodal travel demand and transportation system performance modeling, asset management, and network economics funded by U.S. Federal and state agencies and the private sector. He has supervised nearly 80 M.S. and Ph.D. students; published 4 books, including Transportation Asset Management: Methodology and Applications (ISBN: 978-148-221-052-1) as the world’s first graduate-level textbook in the area and Megacity Mobility: Integrated Urban Transportation Development and Management (ISBN: 978-036-736-358-1), 3 book chapters, and over 70 referred papers; developed 2 software packages; and holds 5 U.S. patents. He is a member of the editorial board of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Infrastructure Systems, and an associate editor of Elsevier Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering. Dr. Li was a recipient of numerous awards, including ASCE Arthur M. Wellington Prize (2011), IIT Sigma Xi Award for Research Excellence (2011), Charley V. Wootan Award given by the U.S. Council of University Transportation Centers (2000), and International Road Federation Fellowship Award (1998).

Neven Ukrainczyk, Team Lead at Institute of Construction and Building Materials of TU Darmstadt, likes to combine computational and measurement approaches for physics and chemistry of mineral binders materials properties. He (co-)leads four national DFG and two EU projects, and has finished (>10) post-doc research projects at TU Darmstadt, TU Delft (Marie Curie excellent science grant), TU Graz (as visiting prof.), Uni Zagreb and UFRJ (Brazil, four monthly visits). As a RILEM member he contributes to four past and three running Technical Committees (leading role in TC EBD WG4 on Reactive Transport), and lectures yearly in RILEM Computational Methods course (since 2016) and Building Chemistry at TU Darmstadt.

Marco Domaneschi is currently assistant professor at the Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering of Politecnico di Torino, where he is tenured teacher of earthquake engineering and structural design courses. Formerly, he was research associate and appointed professor of structural engineering at Politecnico di Milano, professional structural engineer for special structures, R&D consultant in industrial manufacture and mechanical engineering. He had his Ph.D. from University of Pavia (2006), and was visiting researcher at different foreign universities. He is currently associate editor and editorial board member for several international journals as the "Journal of Vibration and Control" SAGE and "Bridge Engineering" of the Institution of Civil Engineers UK, member of several research associations as ISHMII and IABMAS, reviewer for more than 50 international journals. He was speaker, sessions chair, editorial board member and organizer in several international conferences. He received different awards for best presentations at conferences, for research papers and activities. He supports/ed the coordination of several research projects, and has/d scientific responsibility of different research projects. Currently, he has authored about 70 journal and 130 international conference papers. Among his research interests and activities: structural control and health monitoring, resilience and robustness of structures and communities, earthquake engineering and seismic risk, special structures, small and large scale simulations, emergency evacuation, collapse analysis.

Dr. Surya Sarat Chandra Congress is a Senior Research Engineer in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Texas A&M Transportation Institute, at Texas A&M University, College Station (TAMU). He is the associate director of the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) Site at TAMU. He is also an FAA Certified Drone Pilot and has flown many unmanned aerial missions to collect infrastructure condition data. His areas of research interests include sustainable and resilient infrastructure design, ground improvement techniques, and smart city concepts using innovative sensors and smart monitoring technologies. He serves as the PI and CO-PI on several Federal and State-funded research projects on using innovative sensors for monitoring infrastructure assets. As part of these projects, he focuses on monitoring and evaluating the civil infrastructure health conditions by collecting pavements, railways, bridges, embankments, slopes, towers, and dams data using unmanned aerial vehicles coupled with close-range photogrammetry techniques. He uses image processing techniques to build the digital models of various infrastructure assets. He leverages Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) Techniques to automate the infrastructure condition assessments. He is also a member of two national academy’s Transportation Research Board committees and serves as TRB Committee Communications Coordinator (CCC) for one of those committees. He published his research in many peer-reviewed publications including 4 book chapters, 30 journals, and many conference papers. He delivered several invited lectures including the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering’s (ISSMGE’s) Bright Spark Keynote Lecture at an international conference in Cairo, Egypt.

Dr. Dong-Hui Yang is an Associate professor at Dalian University of Technology, school of civil engineering at China. He have long been committed to the research of "analysis and early warning" and "performance evaluation" of bridge structure monitoring data. He have proposed the bridge performance evolution and early warning method considering the coupling effect of environmental action and external load, and established the rapid evaluation method of bearing capacity performance of small and medium-sized bridges based on structural spatial response characteristics. He was awarded Natural Science Academic Achievement Award(Second Class) of Liaoning Provincial in 2018 Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Western Australia International Conference on Structural Mechanics and Materials in 2016 Gold Medal and the Best Invention Award twice by the International Exhibitions of Invention, New Techniques and Products in Geneva 2019.

Torgeir Selsøyvold is a civil engineer who has gained a lot of practical knowledge with a diploma in carpentry, theoretically with a specialization in materials and construction, now construction coordinator at HTB design and construction contractor in Norway. Experience and publication (ASCE) related to the use of Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Solving Complex Problems in Structural Engineering, Specifically Targeting Unbonded Prestressed Concrete Members. For further development and research, this conference will be an inspiration.

Hongliang Zhang, male, born on Jan.5 1974, PhD in Highway Engineering, professor in Chang’an University in China. The research area is mainly pavement material and structure, especially theecological and environmentally friendly asphalt pavement, intelligent pavement, continuously reinforced concrete pavement and the development of new pavement materials. One book entitled by Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement and more than 100 articles in which more than 20 articles are cited by SCI are published, and 14inventionpatents of China are authorized.

Dr Sateesh Kumar Deevi is working as Associate Professor in KLEF Deemed to be University. He possesses 20 years’ experience in academics and research. He pursued Doctoral degree on “Flow through Porous Media over Spheroidal Particles” under the supervision of Dr Shaik Kalesha Vali and Dr T. K. V. Iyengar; the work is very useful in construction and seepage. He worked on multi-disciplinary research problems. His fascinating research areas include: Fluid dynamics, Statistical analysis, Time Series Analysis, cryptography, Sensor Networks and Internet of things. He published 59 papers that are indexed in MathSciNet/Thomson Reuter/Scopus/web of science Journals. He is a ‘Fellow’ of I2OR of India and an Associate Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences (APAS-192). He received many national and international awards in research. One is National Preeminent Researcher award 2020 by IRSD in association with the Centre for Smart Modern Constructions, Western Sydney University, Australia and Wake let Manchester, UK. He published a Book titled “Brinkman Flows in a Porous Medium with Reference To Spheroidal Geometry (Prolate and Oblate Spheroids)”, LAP, GB in 2019. He is the Editor and Reviewer of prestigious international journals. He organized SERB-DST/ UGC sponsored workshops, conferences and DST-Inspire programs. He published three patents.

Dr. Hu works on a wide range of inter-disciplinary engineering innovation, especially on structural technologies with emerging materials, systems and construction for civil engineering. Her research interests include high performance fiber-reinforce polymer (FRP) composite structures and advanced construction technology. She has authored/co-authored over 20 international journal papers leading to over 320 citations and H-index 11 according to Google Scholar Citations. She is the inventor of 9 patents on novel structural technologies. She is a frequent speaker in international/national conferences and seminars, and she gave 6 lectures in international top conferences of her research field. Dr. Hu’s research contributions have been recognized by a number of honors, including Sailing Young Scientific Talent of Shanghai.

Eisuke Hanada has been working at the Saga university Faculty of Engineering and Science as a professor, since 2014. He has worked in NEC Corp. for 5 years. Then, 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 for 6 years, the Division of Medical Informatics, Shimane University Hospital for 12 and half years. He had involved in introducing/managing Hospital information systems and in-hospital network, and re-development of the hospital at both Kyushu and Shimane University Hospitals. His research involves the wired/radio communication environment, EMC of medical devices, hospital information systems, ICT/IoT/RFID systems in clinical scene, AI use for medical professionals, and telemedicine. 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), the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, and the Acoustical Society of Japan.

He Zhu is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University. His research interests include sustainable engineered cementitious composites (ECC), rheology control of fiber-reinforced concrete (spray, 3D printing, and normal cast), the infrastructure repair, low shrinkage/self-stressing concrete, and restrained cracking of concrete, as well as their applications on infrastructures including dams, pipelines, tunnels, and channels.

Professor Dr. Ebba Ossiannilsson, Sweden, is an independent consultant, expert, influencer, and quality reviewer in the field of open, flexible online and distance education. She is committed to promoting and improving open and online learning in the context of SDG4 and the futures of education. Ossiannilsson works with the European Commission, UNESCO OER Dynamic Coalition, ITCILO and with ICoBC (International Council on Badges and Credentials). She is a member of the board of ICDE (International Council for Open and Distance Education) and chair of the ICDE OER Advocacy Committee. She also serves ICDE in various other capacities, such as the ICDE Quality Network, and has been a research leader for the Global Overview of Quality Models Study and for Blended Learning. She works as an international quality assessor for ICDE and the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU). She is a researcher for the Global Research Project on Seamless Learning and Open Education and Open Science. She has worked for the Swedish Institute for Standardisation and for ISO. Previously, she was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Network for Distance Education and E-Learning (EDEN) and the European Network for Continuing Education (EUCEN). Ossiannilsson has been awarded the titles of EDEN Fellow, EDEN Council of Fellows, Open Education Europe Fellow, ICDE Global Advocacy Ambassador for OER, T4Ed Ambassador, and Open Education Champion SPARC Europe. She serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at conferences. She has published more than 200 articles. At the national level, she is Vice President of the Swedish Association for Open, Flexible, and Distance Education, a member of MeetingPlace OER and the Job and Skills Coalition Sweden. She is also a researcher at NVL Digital (Nordic Network for Adult Learning, funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers).

Rubén Rodríguez Elizalde is Geologist and Civil Engineer, PhD in Architecture and Heritage and Senior Occupational Health and Safety Degree. On professional level, he is specialized in pathology and structural rehabilitation. In addition, he has carried out preventive management tasks, fundamentally in construction, metal and entertainment sectors for the last fifteen years: he has worked as execution director, health and safety coordinator on project phase and health and safety coordinator on execution phase. In this sense, he has been health and safety coordinator of great renown works in Spain. Currently, he is a professor at various university centers, such as Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). In addition, he is Member of the National Association of the Technical Inspection of Structures in Spain, member of the Geology Applied to Engineering Spanish Association and member of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment. In addition, he is Technical Director at EIP, company specializing in structural rehabilitation and prevention management in construction sector. As a final anecdote, it should be noted that Rubén is a Remote Piloted Aircraft (RAP) Pilot and a Pilot Instructor and Examiner.

Rahmat Ali received the M.S. degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 2019. He received B.S. degree and Diploma in civil engineering and was awarded two gold medals. He is currentlyworking towards a Ph.D. degree (final year) in structural engineeringat the University of Manitoba, Canada.He is a Research Assistant with the Laboratoryfor Infrastructure Science and Technology (LIST),Canada. He has published his research work in reputable journals such as Automation in Construction and Construction & building materials. He has also received a teaching excellence certificate at the department of civil engineering, at the University of Manitoba.His research interests include structural health monitoring, subsurface damage segmentation, and deep learning.

I am a full professor at the Universidad Católica de Colombia. My research experience is in Affordable Housing, Construction Robotics, and Resilient Design. PhD: Technology and Innovation Management – 2022. Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia. One of the 10 best universities in Colombia for the quality of the research. Dissertation with Cum Laude grade. Master of Science: Habitat (study of the structure, function and change of human habitat, and the ways in which humans react with this habitat; specialization in social housing complexes), - 2006. National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. Bachelor: Architecture – 1996. National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. My professional experience has been developed in the project management field for more than 25 years, in various architectural offices and engineering companies. I have extensive experience in integrated project delivery and design. My experience with CAD and BIM software is 23 years. I have got special experience in 6D models for BIM.

Dr. Manash Chakraborty is currently working as Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering Department of IIT BHU. Dr. Chakraborty has joined at IIT BHU in July 2017 and previously, he was working at Civil Engineering Department of Thapar University. Dr Chakraborty obtained his Phd Degree in Geotechnical Engineering in 2016 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Prior to this, he completed his B.Tech. degree from Jadavpur University in 2008 and M.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2010. Dr. Chakraborty is actively pursuing teaching and research for the past six years. He works mainly in the field of limit analysis, analytical and numerical techniques in geotechnical engineering, and basic soil mechanics. Recently, he has started working on unsaturated soil mechanics. He has guided six M.Tech. dissertations, and more than twenty UG projects. Four research scholars are currently working with him. He was awarded Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Faculty by Department of Science and Technology, in 2017 and Young Scientist in Geotechnical Engineering by 5th Venus International Research Award in 2019. He has also received a Start-up project from SERB, DST, Govt. of India. He has published 22 peer-reviewed journal papers and 15 international conference papers. He has reviewed a good number of manuscripts in internationally reputed journals.

Sardar Md. Shaheen is one of the key researcher of Simec Institute of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mr. Shaheen has got a distinguished academic background and he obtained his MSc Engineering from Japan after completion of his B. Sc. Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh. He has a distinguished research career as a professional for over 25 years in the field of environmental hazard, education in climate change and justice, socio-economic changes and development. He has attended many seminar and symposium in Japan, China, Korea and UK, etc

I have finished my PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Toronto in 2011. After graduation, I got a very good job offer from a company in Berkley, California and I moved to the USA. I worked in several different renewable energy companies in the bay area and after renovating my own house, I started my own construction company. Working at construction, being a mechanical engineer, and starting my MBA at UCLA, brought me an interesting idea to work on. RoboBuild is my next generation robotic company and I am working currently on a device to build for automation in construction.

Dr. Cheng Li is an associate professor in the School of Highway at Chang’an University. He obtainedhis B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University USA. His research focuses on developing performance-based QC testing methods for geotechnical and pavement engineering.He is currently serving as the associate director of the Key Laboratory for Special Area Highway Engineering of Ministry of Education of China and the deputy director of the Center for International Education of the School of Highway at Chang'an University. He is also a member of the Technical Committee of Road Materials and Subgradecommitteeof the World Convention of Transport (WTC), a young academic editor of the Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering. At present, he serves as PI or Co-PI on over 5 research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key R&D Program of China.Base on his research findings,he published over 20 SCI papers (1 ESI highly cited paper and awarded the 2016 Iowa State University Graduate Research Excellence Award.

Dr. Sharareh Shirzad is an assistant professor at the Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment at Appalachian State University. Before that, she worked as a graduate research assistant at Louisiana State University and obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Construction Management. She also holds a graduate certificate in Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Shirzad's research expertise and interest are in the broad theme of sustainable infrastructure and sustainable construction materials. She has published the results from her research on self-healing asphalt materials in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering and the Journal of Construction and Building Materials. She is currently working on the use of bio-oil and biochar obtained from pyrolysis of the wood and forestry waste in asphalt and concrete pavement, respectively. Bio-oil is being used to partially replace the petroleum-based asphalt binder while biochar is used as a carbon-sequestering additive.

Dr. Biao HU is currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, P.R. China. He obtained his Ph.D. from the City University of Hong Kong in 2017. His main research focuses on composite materials & structures, structural retrofitting, and sustainable construction materials. He has published some 40 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings (including 30 SCI papers), and these works received more than 500 citations recorded in Google Scholar. He is the principal investigator of 4 research projects and the co-investigator of more than 10 research projects. He serves as the editorial board member of several journals (Journal of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Building Technology Research and Construction Progress) and the guest editor of Polymers. He is a regular reviewer of more than 30 peer-reviewed international SCI journals. He received the Moisseiff Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2018.

Dr. Raghavendra Datta Naik got his B.E. and M.Tech. in 2001 and 2004, respectively from Shivaji University and Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. In 2014 he was awarded PhD in Nonlinear Vibrations from BITS Pilani Rajasthan. Currently,he isan Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Goa College of Engineering, Farmagudi, Goa, India. He is interested inobtaining approximate solutions to nonlinear differential equations. He is also interested in the dynamics ofweakly coupled oscillators, stability of structures, optimal control theory,and experimental vibration analysis of structures. He is a Life member ‘ISSS’, Institute of Smart Structures & Systems, and Member ‘ACODS’, Advances in Control & Optimization of Dynamical Systems.

Osman Yusifu Yansaneh is an Associate Fellow at Higher Education Academy, UK. He is a PhD scholar at the University of Hull, England and his degree is under review in the meantime. His research focuses on waste plastics to valuable materials applicable in a range of industries including the transport sector, infrastructure and civil engineering, oil and gas industry, among others. Osman holds an MSc Petroleum, Oil and Gas: Chemical Engineering Technology from the University of Hull, England. He also earned an MBA from University of the People, California, USA and a couple of other postgraduate and professional certificates/diplomas. Osman did a B.Eng. (Hons.) in Mechanical and Maintenance Engineering from the University of Sierra Leone. He has designed and fabricated a couple of engineering systems and have authored several publications. His research interests include waste plastics, biomass, pyrolysis, oil and gas, renewable energy and sustainability, material science and the environment.

Dr. Basudatta Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Planning and Architecture, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India. Dr. Sarkar has completed her doctoral research in 2016 from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. She is an Architect with specialization in Urban and Regional Planning. Her doctoral research was on assessment of socio-economic vulnerability with HDI based select indicators. She has been associated with the collaborative research with IIT Kharagpur sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research titled Developing Guidelines for Trans-generational Cities and Urban Communities. Dr. Sarkar is a lead trainer for the capacity building program on Infant, Toddler, Caregiver Friendly Neighborhood (ITCN) supported by National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) India and Bernard van Leer Foundation Netherlands.

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 Scholarship in Remote Sensing and GIS on Environmental Hazard.He has completed Post-Doc fellowship under the Japan Society for 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 different branches of Civil Engineering and, 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 60 papers in the wide range discipline of environmental hazards and civil engineering. He is a Rajuk registered design engineer and completed different training organized by Rajuk and Bangladesh Government for Continuing Professional Development (CPD), especially or BNBC and other Building Codes. Dr. Islam serves on editorial boards and as a reviewer 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 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 University of Tokyo in Japan in 2019. He is currently a project assistant professor in University of Tokyo for Laboratory of Joint Program for 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 turbinesand smart monitoring and maintenance of offshore wind farms.

Dr Jun-Jie Zeng is currently a Professor in Structural Engineering and Associate Head of Department of Civil Engineering at Guangdong University of Technology, China. He received a PhD in Structural Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is an active researcher in field of high-performance materials and structures (e.g. fiber-reinforced polymer composites, ultra-high performance concrete, floating structures). Dr Zeng has published over 60 SCI indexed journal papers. Dr Zeng has received a number of research grants, including an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and two NSFC funds. He is in the 2021 World's Top 2% Scientists List of Stanford University.

Remy Kalombo Badibanga holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and he is a researcher and post-doctoral fellow under the GFFM (Group of Fatigue, Fracture, and Materials) research group at the University of Brasília, where he is developing research activities in the field of transmission power line. His researches projects are related to overhead conductors, under the supervision of Prof. José Alexander Araujo. Dr. Remy has published articles in journals with high impact factor and scientific conferences papers, as well as several technical reports related to overhead conductors. He also acts as a reviewer of journals among which the International Journal of Fatigue, Engineering Failure Analysis, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering (FFEMS).

Dr. Kishor Shrestha earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, his master’s in Construction Management, and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a focus on Construction Engineering/Management. His research focuses on Performance-Based Contracting (PBC) and Economic Analysis of Highway Assets. Kishor is working with the Washington State Department of Transportation and Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium for his current research projects. He authorstwo book chapters, nine peer-reviewed journals, and 16 conference papers. Kishor is also the reviewer of the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE; Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, ASCE; Journal of Automation in Construction; Journal of Construction Innovation; Associated Schools of Construction; and Construction Research Congress, ASCE. Kishor is also a Profession Engineer and LEED-certified individual. Beforemoving to Washington State University, Kishor was in the Civil Engineering department at the Montana Technological University in Butte, Montana. Kishor has around nine years of construction industry experience in Nepal and UAE before starting his graduate study in the US. During that period, he was involved in Heavy Civil and Building Construction projects as an engineer from a general contractor and an engineering firm. EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (Focused on Construction Engineering Management), University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Master of Science in Construction Management, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering, Tribhuvan University.

Dr. Candia (Ph.D UC Berkeley 2013) is a structural and geotechnical engineer and currently Associate Professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of Universidad del Desarrollo-Chile, and Associate Researcher at CIGIDEN, a multidisciplinary center for research in natural disaster management. Dr. Candia has published over 20 research articles in the most prestigious journals in topics that range from seismic vulnerability and risk of complex systems, to physics based models for characterizing the seismic response of structures and geotechnical systems, and the quantification of seismic hazards. Also, he is the lead developer of SeismicHazard , a state-of-art platform for probabilistic and deterministic seismic hazard assessment. As a member of the GEER Association (GeoEngineering Extreme Event Reconnaissance), Dr. Candia has participated in the reconnaissance efforts of several large earthquakes (Chile 2010, 2014, 2015; Mexico 2017; Peru 2019).

Jacob Bortman is currently full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Head of the PHM Lab in Ben- Gurion University of the Negev. Retired from the Israeli Air Force as Brigadier General after 30 years of service with the last position of the Head of Material Directorate. Chairman and member of several boards: Director of Business development of Scoutcam Ltd, Chairman of the board of directors, Selfly Ltd., Board member of Augmentum Ltd., Board member of Harel Finance Holdings Ltd., Chairman of the board of directors, Ilumigyn Ltd. Member of the committee for "The National Initiative for Secured Intelligent Systems to Empower the National Security and Techno-Scientific Resilience: A National Strategy for Israel". Editorial Board member of: “Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology Advances (Springer, Quarterly issue)”. Member of: BINDT - The British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing, Head of the Israeli Organization for PHM, IACMM - Israel Association for Comp. Methods in Mechanics, ISIG - Israel Structural Integrity Group, ESIS - European Structural Integrity Society. Received the Israël National Defense prize for leading with IAI strategic development program, Outstanding lecturer in BGU, The Israeli Prime Minister National Prize for Excellency and Quality in the Public Service - First place in Israel. Over 80 refereed articles in scientific journals and in international conferences.

Dr. Takehiro OHTA is a professor of Faculty of Science, Yamaguchi University, Japan. He is affiliated in the Department of Geo sphere Science. He held a doctorate in Volcanic Geology and Petrology from the Tohoku University, Japan. He researched the engineering geological problems beside railway such as tunnel construction and disaster mitigation at Railway Technical Research Institute over 20 years before entering academia. His research interests are the engineering geological and Geo-ecological approach to mitigating natural hazards and the Geo-environmental assessment for infrastructure construction.

Mr. Hossain received his M.A.Sc (Masters of Applied Science) degree in Civil Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in 2006. He is a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) candidate in structural and earthquake engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. At present, he is working as a full-time faculty (Lecturer) position in the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management at the University of Texas, Tyler, USA. He has more than 15 years experiences in structural engineering design in North America. He is a Registered Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in Texas and State of Washington, USA. He is a former Licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Alberta, Canada. He worked as an adjunct Professor in Department of Construction Management at the University of Houston. He worked as a teaching and research assistant in Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He has several publications in International Journal and Conferences. Mr. Hossain joined as a full-time faculty member (Lecturer) at the University of Texas, Tyler in 2019. His research interest includes Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Structural Health Monitoring, Earthquake Resistant Reinforced Concrete Building design, Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Building Analysis and Design, Matrix Analysis Method and Finite Element Method

Dr. Sasanka Mouli S. had done his Ph.d. from IIT Hyderabad, India. HisPh.d. topic is on behaviour of back-to-back reinforced retaining walls using numerical modelling. His area of interest include numerical modelling of MSE walls, modelling of flexible pavement and many more. During the tenure of my Ph.d., he was actively involved in various projects: Rehabilitation and Revitalization of the BidarKarez System; Quality Control on the improvement of foundation soils in Medigadda Barrage (Kaleswaram Project), Telangana; Performance Study of Geogrid and Geocell Reinforced Pavements-NHAI sponsored. He is working on a sponsored project, Analysis of back-to-back walls and reinforced abutments for high precision structures, from the Department of Science and Technology, India Presently working as assistant professor in VNR VJIET, Hyderabad.He presently guiding 3 PG students and 5 UG students.

Fernando F. S. Pinho, Researcher and Assistant Professor at FCT NOVA (Lisbon, Portugal). Graduated in Civil Engineering and master’s degree in Construction by Instituto Superior Técnico. PhD in Civil Engineering (Construction Sciences) by NOVA University of Lisbon. He developed design activities, management, and supervision of works between 1989 and 1998. Since 1998, he teachesCurricular Units in the scope of building materials, technologies, and construction management, at FCT NOVA.He co-authored about 110 publications (including international peer-reviewed scientific journals, two books and several conference proceedings) and 20 technical reports, regardingnamely the characterization and rehabilitation of ancient stone masonry walls.He co-organized and belong to scientific committees of national and international conferences, manly aboutrehabilitation of ancient buildings. Currently, he is a CERIS member; coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Sustainable Construction and Rehabilitation, and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Civil Engineering Degree of FCT NOVA. He is the coordinator of the Southern Regional College of Civil Engineering of the Portuguese Engineers Association and member of the Strategic Council of the Portuguese Construction Technology Platform.

Research fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Pavia, she obtained the title of Ph.D. (ICAR17), with the thesis entitled "The experimentation of parametric moderation procedures for cultural heritage. From digital survey to the HBIM model for the enhancement and management of some examples of the historical and architectural heritage ". Since 2015 he has been actively collaborating with the DAda-LAB, Drawing Architecture DocumentAction Laboratory, in particular on issues related to the management of databases, dealing with parametric modeling systems and detection systems using mobile laser scanner technology.

Ilaria Trizio is a building engineer. She holds a PhD in Medieval Archaeology in 2007 at the University of L’Aquila and is a full-time researcher at the L'Aquila branch of ITC-CNR since October 2011. She is a member of the Board of the PhD in Biosciences and Territory - curriculum Applied Sciences - at the University of Molise. She is Responsible for InnResLab (Distributed laboratory for documentation, analysis, conservation, valorisation and regeneration of the built environment) from 2021. Her research activities are related to the documentation, enhancement and accessibility of cultural heritage, in particular of the historic built heritage. Since the beginning, through her research, she has approached issues related to the combination of procedures for the archaeological, architectural and urban survey and the use of information technology applied to the analysis of the historical buildings, with particular reference to Architectural Information Systems (SIArch) and processes HBIM (Historical Building Information Modelling).