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Slobodan P. Simonovic is globally recognized for his unique interdisciplinary research in Systems Analysis and the development of deterministic and stochastic simulation, optimization, multi-criteria analysis, and other decision-making methodologies. His work addresses challenging system of systems problems lying at the confluence of society, technology and the environment and has been applied with a sustainable development perspective in water resources management, hydrology, energy, climate change and public infrastructure. His main contributions include modelling risk and resilience of complex systems. Professor Simonovic has influenced academia, industry and government via university teaching, publication of leading-edge research, mentoring of young people, delivering stimulating research seminars at institutions around the world, carrying out joint research projects, and consulting work. He has received awards for excellence in teaching, research and outreach. Dr. Simonovic has published over 650 professional publications (over 260 in peer-reviewed Journals) and three major textbooks. He has delivered over 320 keynote and invited talks. He has been inducted to the Canadian Academy of Engineering in June of 2013 and Royal Society of Canada in Nov of 2020 and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Nov of 2021. Dr. Simonovic is currently Professor Emeritus at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of Engineering Works at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

Dr. Nguyen is currently Brace Endowed Chair Professor of Civil Engineering at McGill University, Canada. He has been for more than ten years as Chair of Civil Engineering Department, Director of Brace Centre for Water Resources Management, and Associate Director of Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre at McGill. Dr. Nguyen is widely recognized for his novel research in Hydrologic Engineering and Water Management that has significantly impacted engineering practices worldwide with over 250 influential peer-reviewed publications. More specifically, his pioneering research covers a remarkable range of topics including climate change impact and adaptation, modelling of hydrologic extremes, and watershed modelling for sustainable water resource development. He has served in several national/international expert committees to develop influential technical guidelines for engineering practice in Canada and in the world (e.g., technical guides by the Canadian Dam Safety Association, Canadian Standards Association; and World Meteorological Organization). In addition, he has been invited to deliver prestigious lectures at numerous national and international scientific conferences and has served in editorial boards of several renowned scientific international journals. He has been also Invited Professors at universities in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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.

Dr. Kumares C. Sinha is the Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University and a Honorary Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is a past president of several professional bodies including the Transportation& Development Institute (T&DI) of ASCE, and the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). He was a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB)’s Executive Committee and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)’s Research and Technology Coordinating Committee. Dr. Sinha is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Journal of Transportation Engineering. His recognitions include TRB’s Roy Crum Award (2009); and ASCE’s Frank Turner Lecture Award (1999). He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Kim is the Jimmy D. Clark Distinguished University Professor and Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. He also served as Changjiang Scholar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Chang’an University in China from 2016 till 2019. Changjiang Scholar is the highest academic award issued to an individual in higher education by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. Prof. Kim obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, and Master’s and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. He has over thirty years of experience in both the laboratory and field aspects of the performance evaluation of asphalt materials and pavements.His research is recognized by over $25 million research funding from national and international agencies, including FHWA, USDOT, NCHRP, NSF, and NCDOT, and private industries. Professor Kim is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He was the chair of the 2014 ISAP Conference on Asphalt Pavements. Dr. Kim has published over350 papers in national and international technical journals and proceedings. He is the editor of the ASCE book entitled Modeling of Asphalt Concreteandthe Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering and International Journal of Highway Engineering. He has spoken at numerous national and international settings, including over 140 invited/keynote speeches. Professor Kimhas advised 57 PhD students and 44 Masters students during his 33-year tenure at NC State University. His teaching and mentoring efforts were recognized by the Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professorship in 2012.Professor Kim has won numerous awards, including the the Walter J. Emmons Best Paper Awards by the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (1997, 2006, and 2009), NCSU Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award (2014, 2016), the Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering Research Award (2015), the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Extension (2018), the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence (2019), and the ASCE’s Francis C. Turner Award.The Holladay Medal is the highest award at NC State University to recognize members of the faculty whose careers have demonstrated outstanding achievement and sustained impact in research, teaching or extension and engagement. Also, the Francis C. Turner Award is the flagship award among the ASCE awards in the transportation area. In 2016, Professor Kim became one of the eleven inaugural members of the Research Leadership Academy at NC State University. The Research Leadership Academy is the faculty-driven epicenter of research leadership and faculty mentoring enhancing NCSU’s research culture and is composed of the University’s most outstanding researchers and mentors from diverse fields.

Weidong Zhu is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the founder and director of its Dynamic Systems and Vibrations Laboratory and Laser Vibrometry and Optical Measurement Laboratory. He received his double major BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1986, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and the University of California at Berkeley in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He is a recipient of the 2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He has been an ASME Fellow since 2010, and has served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics and the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, and as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Sound and Vibration and Nonlinear Dynamics. His research spans the fields of dynamics, vibration, control, applied mechanics, metamaterials, structural health monitoring, and wind energy, and involves analytical development, numerical simulation, experimental validation, and industrial application. He has published 273 SCI-indexed journal papers in these areas and holds seven U.S. patents. He is a recipient of the 2020 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research

Dr. Lin Shen is a Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his B.S. from Tongji University, M.S. from the National University of Singapore, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007). "His research focuses on large-scale applications" of cement-free Alkali-Activated Concrete (AAC), concrete for space exploration purposes, rheology, among others. Dr. Shen is the lead investigator of multiple large-scale applications of high-performance cement-free AAC, which is a revolutionary sustainable concrete using industrial wastes such as fly ash, slag, and red mud. His pioneer work on AAC is one of the first field applications of AAC, which could achieve 1) cement free with more than 80% reduction in carbon footprint, 2) ~25-50% reduction in cost, 3) cured at ambient temperature with well controlled setting time, flowability and other fresh properties, 4) similar or even superior hardened properties and durability, and 5) mass production ready. Dr. Shen developed a standard for AAC for the Hawaii Department of Transportation, one of the first in the US. An innovative testing method on self-consolidating concrete originally developed by Dr. Shen has been adopted as a Unite States National Standard Test (AASHTO PP58-2012). His work on developing “lunar concrete” with the potential to build human bases on the Moon and Mars (https://youtu.be/iPRmBs_6tjU) received broad media coverage including KHON2, Star Advertiser, Hawaii News Now, KITV, among others. "Dr. Shen is an associate editor of ASCE Journal of Materials" Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (JMCE), the recipient of Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, and Hi Chang Chai Excellence in Teaching Award.

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.

Dr. Evangelos Sapountzakis is Civil Engineer, Professor at the Institute of Structural Analysis and Antiseismic Research of the Structural Engineering Department of the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He is also Vice Rector for Finance, Programming and Development of NTUA and Director of the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program “Structural Design and Analysis of Structures” of NTUA. He obtained his Diploma from NTUA in 1984, the MSc and DIC degrees (Concrete Structures) from Imperial College of Science and Technology of London in 1985 and the PhD degree from NTUA in 1991. He has extensive experience (over 35 years) in the design and analysis of bridge and other largescale structural projects, while since 1996 he has provided consultancy services in various structural and transportation large scale Civil Engineering projects. He has also been a member of the Special Scientific Tender Evaluation Committee for the project: “Study - Construction, Self-financing and Utilisation of the Permanent Bridging Project of Rion - Antirrion”. Apart from NTUA, he is also Professor of Structural Analysis at the School of Corps of Engineers of the Hellenic Army since 1986 and member of the Coactive Educational Staff of the Hellenic Open University (2011-2017). His published research work comprises 130 original papers published in international journals and 181 papers published in international conference proceedings. He is the author of 12 Chapters in books published by International Publishing Companies, 5 Technical Reports, 4 educational books and co-author of 3 educational books. He is the editor of 6 Books or Conference Proceedings. He has participated in 15 financially supported research projects, while in 11 of them as the Principal Investigator. His research work has received intentional recognition, since he is Honorary Editor, Editor-in-Chief, Academic Editor, Regional Editor, Associate Editor of international journals, member of the editorial board of 29 international journals, member of 72 scientific advisory committees of international conferences, while more than 3000 citations have been noticed in international literature. He is also reviewer of scientific papers in more than 60 international journals and evaluator of research proposals of Ministries of Science, Research and Development of 3 foreign countries.

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.

Thanos Tzempelikos is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, Indiana, USA. His area of specialization is design, operation and optimization of high-performance buildings. It includes experimental and computational studies on building energy performance, indoor environmental quality and comfort, well-being, smart sensing and controls, daylighting systems and building simulation. Dr. Tzempelikos has published more than 150 articles in international scientific journals and conference proceedings and participates in technical committeesand review panels for US and foreign government and research organizations. He serves as Editor for Building and Environment journal, Section Editor for Energy and Buildings journal, and Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Energy Engineering. He is the recipient of the ASHRAE New Investigator Award, the Concordia Faculty of Engineering Doctoral Prize, and the Leon Gaster Award. He is the Chair of the bi-annual International High Performance Buildings conference at Purdue since 2010 and a faculty member of the Center for High Performance Buildings. He holds a B.Sc. from the National University of Athens, Greece and M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

Soshu Kirihara is a doctor of engineering and a professor of Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka University, Japan. In his main investigation “Materials Tectonics as Sustainable Geoengineering” for environmental modifications and resource circulations, multi-dimensional structures were successfully fabricated to modulate energy and materials flows effectively. Ceramic and metal components were fabricated directly by smart additive manufacturing, design and evaluation (Smart MADE) using high power ultraviolet laser lithography. Original stereolithography systems were developed, and new start-up company “SK-Fine” was established through academic-industrial collaboration.

Professor Kim is currently a full professor and a graduate chair at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received the U.S. National Science Foundation, Faculty Early CAREER award (2005), the University Of Hawaii Board of Regent's Excellence in Research Award (2006), and the Excellence in Teaching Award (2017). He obtained a BS (1991) and MS (1994) in Physics in South Korea and MS (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) in Civil Engineering (with an emphasis on Environmental Engineering) at the University of California at Los Angeles. His research area includes computational fluid and statistical dynamics (CFSD) for renewable energy processes, applied mathematics and high-performance computing, and socio-economic-cultural analysis for global water scarcity mitigation.

Dr. S.-H. Gary Chan is currently Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong. He is also Affiliate Professor in Innovation, Policy and Entrepreneurship Thrust of HKUST(GZ), Chair of the Committee on Entrepreneurship Education Program at HKUST, and Board Director of Hong Kong Logistics and Supply Chain Multi Tech R&D Center (LSCM). He received MSE and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Business Administration from Stanford University (Stanford, CA). He obtained his B.S.E. degree (highest honor) in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (Princeton, NJ), with certificates in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Engineering Physics, and Engineering and Management Systems. His research interest includes smart sensing and IoT, cloud and fog/edge computing, indoor localization and mobile computing, video/location/user/data analytics, and IT entrepreneurship. Professor Chan has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and a Vice-Chair of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Communications Technical Sub-Committee of IEEE Comsoc Emerging Technologies Committee. He has been Guest Editor of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Communication Magazine, etc. He is a steering committee member and was the TPC chair of IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC), and area chair of the multimedia symposium of IEEE Globecom and IEEE ICC. Professor Chan has co-founded and transferred his research results to several startups. Due to their innovations and commercial impacts, his startups and research projects have received local and international accolades. Notably, he received Hong Kong Chief Executive's Commendation for Community Service for "outstanding contribution to the fight against COVID-19" in 2020. He is the recipient of Google Mobile 2014 Award and Silver Award of Boeing Research and Technology. He was a visiting professor and researcher in Microsoft Research, Princeton University, Stanford University, and University of California at Davis. At HKUST, he was Director of Entrepreneurship Center, Director of Sino Software Research Institute, Co-director of Risk Management and Business Intelligence program, and Director of Computer Engineering Program. He was a William and Leila Fellow at Stanford University, and the recipient of the Charles Ira Young Memorial Tablet and Medal, and the POEM Newport Award of Excellence at Princeton. He is a member of honor societies Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa, and a Chartered Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (FCILT).

Professor S.L. Chanis the Chair Professor in Computational Structural Engineering at the The Hong Kong Polytechnic University until 2022 when he left and joined a research and engineering company Nida Technology Limited to continue and apply his research to engineering problems. Professor Chan’s research interests include the stability analysis and design of steel, composite and concrete structures, nonlinear finite element analysis, glass and slender skeletal structures, steel, rock and flood barriers, bamboo and aluminum scaffolding and pre-tensioning steel structures. During the past three decades, Professor Chan developed a new design method called the second-order direct analysis (SODA) allowing for imperfections applicable for design of practical structures bypassing the effective length assumption and the prescriptive use of charts and tables in Code. Since 1998, SODA has been applied to the design of numerous steel and composite structures in Hong Kong, Mainland, Singapore, Myanmar, Taiwan and Macau including the 2008 and 2016 award winning projects in Hong Kong and Macau. Over the past decades before epidemic rampage, Professor Chan delivered numerous keynote in international conferences and symposia. Currently, he is as chief editor of 3 international journals and member of board for other 7 journals.

Dr. Mohammad Noori is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering and a recipient of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship. Noori’s work in modeling complex hysteretic systems, and his general hysteresis model, BWBN, has been widely cited and has been adopted in OpenSees, and ABAQUS software tools for seismic analysis and for dynamic response analysis of a wide range of mechanical and structural systems. Noori has also carried out one of the earliest work in utilizing wavelets for structural health monitoring (SHM) and for the past 20 years with his co-workers he has developed Wavelet and Artificial Intelligence based methodologies, including machine learning and artificial neural networks, for fault detection and system identification in SHM. Noori has supervised 24 post doctoral, 26 PhD and 53 MS projects, has published over 300 refereed papers with his co-workers, and holds two US patents on SMA based devices for seismic isolation. He has also published 15 scientific books, has authored 31 book chapters in invited archival volumes, has edited 15 scientific book collections, and has been the guest editor of 15 journal volumes and internarial conference proceedings. He has given over 20 keynote and 76 invited talks and lectures at NSF workshops, symposia, universities, national labs, industry, international conferences and global organizations, and has presented over 55 invited talks at educational conferences and workshops. He is the founding executive editor of a scientific journal and serves on the editorial board, or as the associate editor of, over 15 other journals. Noori is also the Founding Editor of Resilience and Sustainability in Civil, Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering Systems Series for CRC Press (Taylor & Francis) and the founding Collection Editor of Sustainable Systems for Momentum Press. He has served as a member of several NSF sponsored US delegation committees for US-Japan and US-China Cooperative Research programs; and has served on review panels for NSF, NASA, NRC, Arizona Science Foundation, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), European Science Foundation, and other funding agencies in Asia and North America. Noori was the founding chair of the ASME Applied Mechanics Committee on Uncertainty and Probabilistics, and has chaired and/or organized, or served as a member of the scientific committee, of over 70 international conferences and over 30 educational workshops and symposia. He is an ASME Fellow and has received several ASME service recognitions. Noori is a member of Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, Chi-Epsilon, and Sigma Mu Epsilon honorary societies.He has been a founding director or co-founder of three industry-university research centers and held Chair professorships at two major universities. He served as the dean of engineering at Cal Poly for five years, has also served as the Chair of the national committee of mechanical engineering department heads, and was one of 7 co-founders of the National Institute of Aerospace(NIA) who received a $379 million 15-year NASA contract, to found NIAin partnership with NASA Langley Research Center.Noori also serves as the Chief Technical Advisor for several scientific organizations and industries. He also had the honor of being invited by President Clinton’s Special Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, as a national expert, to present a Testimony.

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.

Wensu Chen is an ARC (Australian Research Council) Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Structural Engineering, and Director of Centre for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection (CIMP) at Curtin University, Australia. His research interests are primarily in structural engineering and protective structures, primarily focussing on the development of novel protective materials and structures, structural protection against multi-hazards, and prefabricated and modular structures. He has published over 150 SCI-indexed international journal articles and won four ARC research grants as lead or sole CI. He is in the World's Top 2% Scientists List of Stanford University. He serves as an Associate Editor of International Journal of Protective Structures, a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) and Committee member of Structures Panel WA Division, Engineers Australia.

Mark Bomberg is a Research Prof. at Mechanical Eng., Clarkson U, Potsdam NY, R&D Manager of DFIE, Inc., Honorary Member of Building Enclosure Technology and Environment (BETEC) Committee of the National Institute of Building Science (NIBS) in Washington, DC. He worked at Nat. 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 and Europe. He taught in, US, Canada, Germany, Poland, China. He received awards in building physics in the US and Canada. His research includes heat, air and moisture, material science and durability of construction materials. He wrote >220 reviewed papers, 7 books, has 68,000 reads,1,250 Research gate citations

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Olivia Mirza is a Chartered Engineer and an elected Fellow of Engineers Australia (EA). She possess 12 years of academic experience in Structural Engineering. She holds leadership positions such as University Research Theme Champion and School Associate Dean-Engagement (ADE). I am the Deputy Chair for the ARC-ITTC Advanced Technologies in Rail Track Infrastructure and Deputy President (DP) for EA Sydney Division. She is internationally recognised for her industry-led research. She have published 143+ publications. She received $1,350,292 for the past three years, (2-ARCs, 4-Industry and 7-Internal grants). She is the Chief Investigator (CI) for the ARC-ITTC project with BarChip and Transport-NSW. Through this project, she was nominated for 2017 Prime Minister Science Award. Her research fits well with the current government net zero carbon emission infrastructure solutions, where she is implementing green sleepers in the Western Sydney Airport railway infrastructure.

John Sansalone, PhD, PE is a Full Professor of Engineering at the University of Florida, USA. Research and teaching areas of interest include physical and computational modeling methods for unit operations and processes focused on urban water treatment and management, green infrastructure for the urban hydrologic and heat cycle, urban water infrastructure design, combined sewer and wastewater treatment, water and soil chemistry analysis and monitoring. He is a member of the PhD faculty at Bari Politechnical University and has been a visiting Professor at Milano Politechnical University, University of Genoa, University of Bologna, University of Parma, and University of Calabria. He is an Associate Editor at Water Research. He has over 200 research publications and over 200 presentations worldwide. Beyond his academic career, he is an active triathlete and marathoner.

Dr. Samuelson is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her teaching and research focus on issues of building design that impact human and environmental health. Her current projects harness advanced building simulation to investigate issues of energy efficiency, heat vulnerability, and indoor environmental quality, while considering the future of buildings in a changing electricity grid. She earned a Doctor of Design and Master of Design with distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design where she was awarded the Gerald M. McCue medal. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture with honors from Carnegie Mellon where she was awarded the American Institute of Architects Henry Adams Gold Medal.Samuelson has coauthored more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and her work has been commended twice at scholarly conferences. Prior to joining Harvard, Samuelson practiced full-time as an architect and sustainable design consultant.

Esra Bostancioglu is an architect and Professor Doctor at Istanbul Kultur University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture in Turkey. She received her Bsc (Architecture) and Msc (Architecture, Building Construction Management) and her PhD (Architecture, Building Science) from Istanbul Technical University. She worked on designing architectural projects of residential, industrial, commercial buildings and hospitals after graduation. Prof.Dr. Bostancıoğlu has given lectures of Architectural Economics, Construction Management, Physical Environmental Control, Timber Construction Systems and Building Science at Istanbul Kultur University, Faculty of Architecture. She has lectures of Cost Estimation and Calculation Methods, Special Topics for Construction Management, Environmental Control Systems at Master’s Degree program and Energy Efficient Design and Life Cycle Costs at PhD program. She has many publishings on life cycle cost analysis of buildings, envelope design and costs, building cost, building cost index, cost estimation models, timber construction systems, construction systems and double skin facades. She participated in many scientific committees of the national and international congresses. She has reviewed a lot of articles for scientific journals. She has been a member of the Chamber of Architects in Turkey.

Dr. Tarek Zayed, Ph.D., PE, PEng, F.ASCE, F.CSCE, Professor and Associate Head (Research), Dept. of Building and Real Estate, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Zayed has a Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Management. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, in May 2001. He conducted research on infrastructure / asset management; simulation, fuzzy, optimization,risk assessment, data mining,and artificial intelligence applications in construction;and performance, budget allocation, and life cycle cost analysis for municipal underground system. He has more than 30 years of professional experience working in the construction industry training and in academic posts in USA, Canada and Hong Kong. Dr. Zayed started recently to look collectively at the three municipal key infrastructure systems, i.e. water, sewer and roads, to develop informed decision support system(s) to municipal engineers. Dr. Zayed has published around500 journal and conference articles and performed research with significant amount of funding from government and private funding agencies.He is serving as associate editor of the ASCE’s journal of pipeline systems engineering and practice and the Canadian journal of civil engineering. Dr. Zayed is also a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE) and the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (F.CSCE). He is ranked top 1.0% of scholars in Civil Engineering worldwide based on a study by Stanford University

Dr. S. Sonny Kim is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Georgia, USA. Before joining academia in 2007, Dr. Kim has been an integral contributor to several nationwide highway/airport pavement improvement projects. His primary research has focused on transportation geotechnics, Resilient/Sustainable Infrastructure monitoring using nondestructive testing, remote sensing, and machine learning. Dr. Kim is Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and was named Distinguished Faculty Fellow by College of Engineering from the University of Georgia. Also, Dr. Kim was named 2020-2021 Civil Engineer of the Year by ASCE Georgia Section and 2021 Georgia Engineer of the Year by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE). Dr. Kim is a former president of Korean Geotechnical Society – North America and an active ASCE member of G-I Highway Pavement Committee, ASCE T&DI Committee, ASCE EMI Committee, and Transportation Research Board (TRB) AKP 20 and AKM 80 Committee. He also serves FWD User Group (FWDUG) as Board of Director and academic representative of FHWA Pavement and Materials Technical Feedback Group.

Dr. Shahria Alam is a Professor and Tier-1 Principal’s Research Chair in Resilient & Green Infrastructure in the School of Engineering at The University of British Columbia. He is the Director of the Green Construction Research & Training Center (GCRTC) at UBC. Dr. Alam is the Chair of the Engineering Mechanics and Materials Division of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE). He received his PhD from Western University in 2008. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and is the recipient of many national and international awards including three best paper awards, and last year’s EGBC Sustainability Award 2021. Dr. Alam is the editorial board member of ASCE’s Journal of Bridge Engineering and Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering.

Dr. Maurice D. Kugler is a professor of public policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. His research expertise is on the role of new technologies in boosting economic growth and labor productivity (aka endogenous growth theory). His work encompasses analyses of productivity growth, global labor markets, foreign direct investment, global value chains, human capital formation, international trade, and international migration. Kugler was head of research of the Human Development Report, the UN’s annual flagship publication on international economic development after he was senior economist at the World Bank. Prior, he was Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Research Fellow at the Growth Lab of the Center for International Development, both in Harvard University (2006-10). His research has been widely published in top economics academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economics Letters, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, and the World Bank Economic Review. This work has been recognized in awards (McTaggart at the London School of Economics and Political Science and AEA/FRB at University of California, Berkeley), grants (National Science Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and U.K. Economics and Social Sciences Research Council), and prizes (Global Development Forum and Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association). Before joining the faculty at Mason, Kugler has taught full time at Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia), University of Southampton (United Kingdom), Stanford University (Palo Alto, California), Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts), and Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario). He has been consultant for the World Bank Group (both through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation) and the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as principal investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor. Kugler is Co-Principal investigator of a three year project sponsored by a U.S. National Science Foundation grant researching the use of collaborative robots in construction to expand the labor supply in the sector by allowing workers with Attention Deficit Disorder to actively participate in construction projects performing various tasks that would not be feasible for them without robots. He earned a PhD in economics at UC Berkeley, under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Paul M. Romer, after getting BSc and MSc degrees in economics at the LSE.

Prof. Dr. Zoubeir LAFHAJ is a Full Professor at Centrale Lille, France. He is also the former Dean of International Affairs, a member of the Centrale Lille Management Committee (2008-2015) and recently elected member of the Centrale Lille Institute Board of Directors (November 2019). Prof. Dr. Zoubeir LAFHAJ is a researcher at the Lam3 research centre (UMR CNRS n°9013) and holder of the "Construction 4.0" chair, an industrial research chair that deals with the challenges of modernising the construction industry in France and Europe. Prof. Dr. Zoubeir LAFHAJ's industrial research expertise focuses on (i) additive manufacturing (3D printing) for construction, industrialization and robotization of construction, (ii) applications of AI, blockchain and BIM in construction and finally (iii) value, productivity, quality, lean construction, logistics, and collaboration with all stakeholders in the construction industry. He is working internationally to make the CC4.0 Chair a European Construction 4.0 Hub involved in a strong international network with the most advanced experts in the world. He has recently published five scientific books in French on "the lean construction revolution", "blockchain in construction", "women in construction", "logistics in construction" and "the vision of the city and the construction site in 2049". He has written more than 150 scientific papers, supervised 31 PhD theses and 15 postdoctoral researchers. He is a member of the editorial board of several A-ranked scientific journals and an elected member of the board of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC). Pr. Dr. Zoubeir LAFHAJ is the founder and President of the French Institute of Lean Construction - IFCL, an association under the law of 1901 created in May 2021, which aims to develop the practice of the lean approach in the construction sector in France by federating a community of involved actors

Professor(Dr.) SudipBasack, FIE, FIGS, CEng, MASCE, MIAENGis a civil engineering professional with significant academic experience at responsible senior positions in India and abroad. He published more than 125 technical papers in reputed journals and conferences and is recipient of several research awards at national and international levels. He is an active reviewer of numerous top-class international journals. He acted as Editor of several international journals. He has supervised more than 10 research students at postgraduate (Masters and PhD) levels and executed sponsored research projects in different Universities. He has undertaken several academic visits in many countries including USA, UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, China, etc.His research has strongly focused on pile foundations, ground improvement techniques, constitutive and numerical modeling, groundwater hydraulics and hydrology, marine geotechnics, wind energy, among others. He has significant involvement in academics, research, training and consultancy.

Dr. Ahmad Sedaghat is an Associate Professor at Australian University (AU), Kuwait. He has over 25 years of experience in computational and experimental techniques in mechanical, aerospace, and maritime engineering and obtained industrial funds in energy, renewable energy, and maritime forecasting. He worked at several institutions in the UK, Europe, and Middle East as a Postdoctoral and Lecturer. He has developed courses in renewable energy, thermo-fluid and aerospace subjects and supervised more than 200 undergraduate and postgraduate students in engineering. Dr. Sedaghat obtained his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics & Fluid Mechanics at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. He is a Fellow Member of Engineers Australia, Adjunct Professor of CQU, and Reviewer and Editorial boards of several international journals. He published more than 137 refereed journal papers with over 3700 citations

Masayuki Hyodo was born in Saga (Japan).Heobtained a B.E. in Civil Engineering (1974), hisM.E. in Geotechnical Engineering (1976) and Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering at Kyushu University (1982), Fukuoka, Japan. He was appointed as Assistant Professor of Tokai University from 1979 and worked there until 1986. He was appointed at Yamaguchi University as an Associate Professor at 1986 and promoted to full Professor in1997. He served as a head of department in 2001-2002, 2004-2005 and a head of Graduate School, Environmental Engineering and Science and now the Head of East Asian International Course in the department. He retired from Yamaguchi University in 2016 and appointed to be Professor Emeritus and Research Professor specially designated. He experienced to stay in Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) from 1991 to 92 as a visiting researcher.He had organized the technical committee TC 105 on Geomechanics from Micro to Macro in ISSMGE since 2001 with Prof. Malcolm Bolton as a secretary and been a chairman from 2010 to 2018. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers and delivered invited lectures worldwide.His research involves experimental investigations as well as some numerical modeling of the behavior of geomaterial from sand to clay under low to high stresses. Applications areprincipally in earthquake engineering, petroleum, and civil engineering. On the experimental side, he has been using quite a range of soils and testing apparatus, including high stress and temperature controlled triaxial and plane strain compression devices and they are applied to experimentally detect the mechanical behaviour of methane hydrate bearing soils. He is now an advisor of Asahi Techno Co. Ltd. and is working on developing the Super Well Point Method which is possible to draw the underground water by vacuum. It is applied to improve the soft soils, stopping the landslide and supporting the construction of foundations of structures and tunnels etc.

Professor Vadym Abyzov - PhD; Doctor of Architecture; Professor of Kyiv National University of Technology and Design; Honoured Architect of Ukraine; Member of the ICOMOS, (2003-2007 - President of ICOMOS-Ukraine). He graduated from the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture in 1979 and the Netherlands Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS, Rotterdam) in 1998 at the course "Inner City Development in Transition Economies". His practical and scientific activities are related to the work of the Kyiv Regional Research and Design Institute for Experimental Design (1979-1988) and of the National Research Institute for Architecture and Urban Theory and History in the positions of Head of department, Chief architect, Director (1988-2006). Teaching work - at the Kyiv National Universities since 2017. Under the guidance and direct participation of Vadym Abyzov more than 70 projects of buildings and urban complexes were developed. Leader of the nominations' projects of Ukrainian cultural heritage objects to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Author of 7 monographs and more than 200 printed scientific works on the development of architecture environment, urban management, as well as the preservation and use of cultural heritage, theory and practice of design. Officially represented Ukraine at international symposia, meetings, seminars, assemblies of UN/ECE/HABITAT, UNESCO, ICOMOS, the TACIS European Commission. He has numerous State awards.

Antonio Domingues de Figueiredo is a civil engineer since 1987 and full professor at the Department of Civil Construction Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. He developed his post-doctorate in 2010 at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona Tech) in Barcelona, Spain. He worked as a director of IBRACON (Brazilian Institute of Concrete) since 2003. He participated in four committees of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) where he contributed to the publication of several technical standards mainly focusing on shotcrete, concrete admixtures, and fiber reinforced concrete. He has more than 140 articles published in national and international congresses and 78 papers published in journals. He has one book published focusing on the fiber reinforced concrete application and eight technical book chapters published. He conducts research on topics related to special concretes such as fiber reinforced concrete, shotcrete, precast concrete elements, recycled aggregates, admixtures and quality control.

Marta Pereira da Luz is graduate in Civil Engineering from Universidade Federal de Goiás (2001), master's in Transport Engineering from Universidade de São Paulo (2003) and Ph.D. at Multidisciplinary from Federal University of Goiás (2008). He has experience in Civil Engineering, focusing on Roads, Design and Construction, acting on the following subjects: cbr, subgrade, paving, lateritic and moisture content.

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).

Dr. Dimitra V. Chondrogianni holds a diploma in Architectural Engineering, a Master of Science in Transportation Engineering from the University of Patras and completed her doctoral dissertation on “Urban planning, Climate Change and Smart Cities” at the Department of Civil Engineering, Un. Of Patras, as fellow of the Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). Currently, she performs her post-doctoral research on green energy buildings’ refurbishment and infrastructure upgrading. As an adjunct professor, she has taught undergraduate courses on Urban Design, Spatial Planning and Research in Architecture at the Architecture Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2015, she has been working as Researcher and Project manager, developing and coordinating national, european and international projects in the field of Blue and Green Growth, Intelligent Transport Systems, Circular Economy, Urban Mobility and Smart Cities. She has coordinated and participated in interdisciplinary conferences, training days, programs and workshops, such as the New York City (NYC DOT) Seminar on Smart Cities, the Delphi Economic Forum, the "Dive in Blue Growth" International Conference and the "MIT STAMP Workshop" while she received awards in competitions such as the Architectural Competition "Renovation of the Center of Athens", "ClimateLaunchpad" and "Athens Digital Lab" Idea Competitions. She is author and co-author of multiple research publications, Vice president of the ITS Student Chapter and member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE-TCG) and the Hellenic Association of Transportation Engineers

Benedetto is a Tenure-Track researcher (ICAR/05 Transportation) at the Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics (DICATAM) of the University of Brescia since 2019. He received the National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor and Full Professor (SC 08/A3) in 2019 and 2022, respectively. RESEARCH INTERESTS. His professional career and research activity have included the operational management and/or the participation at several international, national, and local projects of applied research mainly regarding Intelligent Transport Systems, e-Powered Micro Personal Mobility Vehicles, Advanced Public Transport Systems, Transit Service Quality and Reliability, Bus Safety, Bus network design and Fare Evasion.Benedetto authored (co-authored) 58 journal papers; 22 conference proceedings papers; 27 book chapters; 3 books

Roberto is a Ph.D.student (ICAR/05 Transportation) at the Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics (DICATAM) of the University of Brescia since 2019.RESEARCH INTERESTS. His professional career and research activity have encompassed the involvement at several national, and local projects of applied research mainly regarding Bridge’s and Road’s Safety,Intelligent Transport Systems, e-Powered Micro Personal Mobility Vehicles,and Fare Evasion.Roberto authored (or co-authored) 4 journal papers; 5 conference proceedings papers; 2book chapters

Dr. Narayan is serving as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Civil Engineering at IERT Prayagraj, Prayagraj, India. He's a member of ASCE (Aff.M.ASCE). He completed his doctorate from IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India and Masters from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India in Civil/Structural Engineering. His research interests include design and retrofitting of steel structures (mainly braced frames and steel truss bridges).

Dr. Abu-Farsakh received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering in 1997 from Louisiana State University (LSU). Currently he is working as a Research Professor and Director of Geotechnical Engineering Research Laboratory at Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC) / College of Engineering, LSU. Dr. Abu-Farsakh has a vast knowledge and experience on research related to geotechnical and geomechanical engineering, deep foundation, geosynthetic reinforcement, field instrumentations, testing and monitoring, soil-structure interaction, advanced laboratory and in-situ testing, and finite element numerical modeling. Dr. Abu-Farsakh’s research is highly appreciated by the professional community, which resulted in 200+ publications including about 140 journal papers and geotechnical special publications. He gave about 150 presentation to national and international conferences. Dr. Abu-Farsakh supervised 10 Ph.D. and 23 M.S. students, and is currently advising an additional 3 Ph.D. and 2 M.S. graduate students. Dr. Abu-Farsakh is currently serving as a member on several national and international committees, such as ASCE Geo-Institute committee on Deep Foundation, ASCE Geo-Institute committee on Engineering Geology and Site Characterization, ASCE Geo-Institute committee on Geosynthetics, TRB committee on Soil and Rock Properties, TRB committee on Geosynthetics, and a member of Deep Foundation Institute, DFI. Dr. Abu-Farsakh was the Technical Publication Committee Chair/Editor of Geo-Congress 2014 “Geo-Characterization and Modeling for Sustainability,” Atlanta, Georgia; and the Editor of the “Advances in Analysis and Design of Deep Foundations,” Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, July 2017.

CHEN Zhengfa, male, Ph.D., professor, leader of geotechnical engineering, Changzhou University. Member of China Civil Engineering Society, member of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering,published more than 60 academic papers. Review: China Ocean Engineering, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Transportation Infrastructure Geology, Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Journal of China Highway Engineering, Journal of Building Materials, Journal of Underground Space and Engineering and so on. Main research directions: tunnel and underground construction engineering, new materials for civil engineering

Professor Dr. Chen Wang MIEEE, MRICS, MIETI, MCRIOCM is a Distinguished Professor in the College of Civil Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China, and a National-level Talent Plan Laureates. He is the Head of Department, Department of Construction Management, and the Director of Intelligence and Automation in Construction Fujian Province Higher-educational Engineering Research Centre, and Research Advisor, The Nan Yang Academy of Sciences (NASS) Singapore. He served as a senior engineer of China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), which is the main contractor of the 2008 Olympics Beijing National Aquatics Center known as "Water Cube" and the Russian Federal Building in Moscow. His expertise include Modern Construction Machinery and Equipment, Building Automation & Robotics, System Dynamics, Mathematics Modeling for Civil Engineering, Swarm Intelligence, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Fuzzy-QFD, Tensile Membrane Steel Structure, 3D Printing in Building & Surveying Education, Vertical Greenery Systems, Repertory Grid, sustainability in construction management, international BOT projects, energy conservation, and building integrated solar application, supported by his over 100 ISI-indexed vast publications. He is an IEEE professional member (U.S.), RICS member (U.K.), International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) Senior Member, and also a perpetual member of The Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management (CRIOCM), Hong Kong (International). He was awarded as Talent Prospect Icon in 2014 by Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. He was awarded twice the Oversea Price by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE, U.K.), The United Kingdom in year 2011 and 2019.

Dr. Chengyu Hong is Associate Professor in College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University.He received a doctorate degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2011. Currently he is the Director of Geotechnical and Underground Engineering Laboratory, Deputy Director of Intelligent Infrastructure Research Center, Deputy Director of Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Green, Efficient and Intelligent Construction of Underground Metro Station. Dr. Hong has been responsible for more than 20 industrial/commercial geotechnical engineering, and fiberopticsensors-related consultancy and product-development projects for clients such as Government Departments, industrial and commercial companies in China. Dr. Hong asa principle investigator has attracted a total of over RMB$ 10,000,000 worth of consultancy projects. Currently he as the first and corresponding author has published more than 70 SCI papers.

The author Gabriella Vieira graduated in Civil Engineering at the Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) in 2018, became Master in Geotechnics at the University of Brasília (UnB) in 2021 and is currently a Doctorade student in Geotechnics at UnB. She participated as a scholarship holder under the Tutorial Education Program (PET) for undergraduate students, as a volunteer student of the Scientific Initiation Program (PIC) and as a student member of the Research Group in Geotechnics and Sustainability (GPGS), all at UCB. She has published scientific papers in national and international congresses. Over the years she has developed all her studies with the use of alternative materials, in the PIC and in the Final Coursework (TCC) on the use of steel slag in sidewalks, in the master's dissertation on the use of PVDF fibers (Polyvinylidene Fluoride) in the containment of hydrocarbons contaminants in the soil and is currently working on the doctorate thesis research on the stabilization of iron ore tailings coproducts with geopolymer based on perlite waste.

Maria Paola Santisi d’Avila is Assistant Professor in the Polytech Nice Sophia engineering school of the Côte d’Azur University, in France. Her teaching activity and research interests at the Smart building Department and PolytechLab laboratory, respectively,is related to structural design in seismic zones, modeling techniques for soil-structure interaction, site effects in saturated soils, ductility estimation in the case of new construction materials and structural identification using ambient noise records for existing structures.She is civil engineer specialized in structural design, with a master’s degree in earthquake engineering. She obtained her PhD in Civil Engineering and Risks from the University of Messina (Italy) in 2008 investigating about a reinforced concrete shell element model, simultaneously loaded with in-plane internal forces, bending and twisting moments and shear, using a three-dimensional nonlinear constitutive model. She developed this research at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Shestartedherpostdoctoralresearchactivity in Paris (Laboratoire Central de Ponts et Chaussées, Ecole Polytechnique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie). In 2012, she had a position at the Côte d’Azur University and in 2018 she obtained the habilitation to conduct research. Maria Paola Santisi d’Avila developed numerical models to simulate the multiaxial stress behavior of materials and structures under earthquake and vibrational loading, in particular, thethree-component seismic wave propagation in multilayered saturated soil having nonlinear elasto-plastic behavior.

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. Agapaki is an Assistant Professor in the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management and an Affiliated Faculty member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Florida. Her teaching and research interests are data analytics, AI applications in civil engineering, infrastructure computer vision,Digital Twinning and automation in construction. She obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2020, where her research pioneered the automated generation of geometric Digital Twins of existing industrial facilities from LiDAR data at a commercially viable level. She conducted part of her PhD research at MIT and was awarded the U.S. National Academy of Engineering grant for addressing one of the 14 Grand Challenges in Engineering of our century. She also holds an MSc in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering from UCLA and a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras in Greece. She has extensive industry experience working as Innovation Lead at PTC Boston, where she led innovation projects on computer vision and deep learning applications in the manufacturing industry, and AVEVA, where she advised the AI team on machine learning methods for complex data (3D point cloud processing methods). Dr. Agapaki is the Director of the Digital Twins research lab.

Jean Carlos Hochsprung Miguel is a social scientist. PhD in Science and Technology Policy. He is an associate researcher at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil. He's worked on how infrastructures are co-produced with political, cultural and social aspects.He has published several articles on how infrastructures constitute the worlds within which we live; how infrastructures are related to ideologies; and how infrastructures represent a form of material politics in the modern world. He is currently investigating how infrastructures resist environmental crises and how they can become more resilient.

Mona Al-Sharari is an Urban Planner working in Toronto, Canada. She obtained her MSc. from University College London in Infrastructure Planning, Appraisal and Development, where she focused her research on incorporating public participation strategies in infrastructure projects. She published a paper which focuses on assessing the public participation strategies implemented in urban transport projects in the context of developing countries.

Nathanaël Savalle obtained his Master (2016) and his PhD (2019) in Civil engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon. During his PhD, he has studied the seismic behaviour of dry stone retaining walls, which are vernacular masonry structures made of rough stone assembled without mortar. He was particularly focused on the design of such structures in low to medium seismic risk regions. He currently holds a Postdoctoral position in the framework of the STAND4Heritage project, where he handles and contributes to new testing facilities (tilting, settlement and shaking tables). He focuses on the behaviour of historical masonry structures with experimental campaigns using the equipment mentioned above. His expertise ranges from experimental campaigns (design, installation and conduction of tests) of masonry structures (mortared or unmortared, and including the presence of soil) to numerical (DEM) and analytical modelling of masonry (retaining) structures. Among others, he has published six journal papers and ten international conference papers.”

Dr Shaomin Wu is a professor of Business/Applied Statistics at the University of Kent, UK. He obtained both his MSc degree and PhD degree in applied statistics. His research interests include machine learning, reliability mathematics, and recurrent event data analysis, in which he has published in more than 90 journal papers. Shaominserves as an associate editor or a member on the editorial boards of six journals. He has co-chaired four international conferences.

Mohammad Reza Azadi Kakavand obtained his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Central University of Tehran in 2008 and received the master’s degree in civil engineering majored in structural engineering from University of Tehran in 2012. In 2014, his book entitled “Opensees applied manual” was published in Iran (translated in Persian language), which is licensed by the University of California, Berkeley. He served from January 2015 to April 2016 as a researcher in molecular dynamics at Bauhaus University of Weimar in Germany and also worked on this topic as a guest researcher at the Polytechnic University of Turin from January to March 2016. He started his PhD study in civil engineering at the University of Innsbruck under the supervision of Prof. Hofstetter in April 2016. A short-term visit at UCLA funded by the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation. In 2021, he joined Aalto University as a postdoctoral researcher. He is recognized as a Global Talent by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering

Eng. Aly Abdel Fattah Aly is a civil engineering consultant. He obtained his M.Sc. in engineering management from the College of Engineering, Qatar University. His graduating thesis is about the assessment of implementing value engineering factors on the design management performance of construction projects. He is a value methodology associate VMA from SAVE-international, USA, and certified green professional GSAS-D&B and CM from Gulf Organization for Research & Development - GORD Qatar.

Uttara Roy is a postdoctoral research associate at University of Wyoming. She did her Bachelor in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, her master's degree from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and her doctorate from Lamar University, Texas. She has several years' experience of teaching undergraduate Civil Engineering students in Bangladesh/ Her research focuses on road safety, marine transportation, GIS, human factors.

Dr. Tien Anh Tran (IEEE Member, IMarEST Member) is working as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at Department of Marine Engineering, Vietnam Maritime University, Haiphong City, Vietnam. He is also a Honorary Professor at School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, India. He received B.Eng and M.Sc at Vietnam Maritime University, Vietnam in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He got Ph.D. Degree at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan City, People’s Republic of China in 2018. He is an author/reviewer for the international journals indexed in SCI/SCIE, ESCI, EI. He is a Speaker for the international conferences in Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore, India, etc. He has served as an Editor for the reputation journals indexed in SCI/SCIE, ESCI, EI such as IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer Nature), IET Intelligent Transport System (Wiley), International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (SAGE), Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (Elsevier), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Frontiers), etc. He was received the NEPTUNE prize for the outstanding researcher of Vietnam Maritime University in 2019. He is one of five excellent scientists to be nominated the Ta Quang Buu Prize in 2022 by the Ministry of Science and Technology in Vietnam.

Dr Keramat joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU) as a research assistant professor in December 2020. He obtained MSc and PhD degrees (both with honors track) in Civil Engineering, majored in Hydraulic Structures, in 2006 and 2011 from Shahid Chamran University and Shahrood University of Technology, respectively. Following his graduation and prior to joining the CEE of HK PolyU, he was affiliated as a faculty member in the Civil Engineering Department of the Jundi-Shapur University of Technology, during which he taught several undergraduate and postgraduate courses and (co-) supervised/advised more than 15 MSc and 5 PhD students. He was a visiting scholar at Eindhoven University of Technology (2009-2010), visiting faculty member at Tokyo Institute of Technology (2014), a Research Associate at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2016-2017), and visiting faculty member in the University of Alberta (2019-2020). He is an active researcher in modeling fluids, pipeline structure, hemodynamics, and their computational analysis. His main research interests include wave propagation, fluid-structure interaction, column separation, defect detection, non-Newtonian fluids, viscoelasticity and buckling in pipelines and pipe networks as well as their mathematical modelling and statistical analysis. He has published over 40 papers in top peer-reviewed journals and has served as a reviewer for several professional fluid, structural and numerical-related journals.

Lucia DELLA SPINA, Professor in Real Estate Appraisals and Economic Evaluations of Plans, Programs and Projects. She has been carrying out scientific research at the Architecture Departments of the University of Reggio Calabria (Italy). The research interests concern the areas of economic, environmental, and social evaluation of plans, projects, and the environmental, and cultural heritage, according to an integrated multidisciplinary approach and according to a research perspective attentive to the territory and the tangible and intangible values it expresses.

I (Dr. Amir Tabaković) am a Marie Skłowoska-Curie Fellow at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO - Netherlands), an associate research fellow at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft - Netherlands) and visiting assistant professor at UCD School of Civil Engineering (Ireland). I am also founding member and director of a start up company called Revolution Road Ltd., which focuses on development and promotion innovative sustainable technologies for asphalt pavement design, construction and maintenance. I hold a BEng, an MPhil in Mechanical Engineering from Technological University Dublin and a PhD in Civil/Mechanical Engineering from University College Dublin (UCD). I have over 18 years’ experience in asphalt pavement research. During that time, I have been awarded EU Marie Skłowoska-Curie Individual Fellowship twice, in 2014 for project called Self-healing Asphalt for Road Pavements (SHARP) hosted by the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and in 2020 for project entitled Advanced Solutions for Asphalt Pavements (ASAP) hosted by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). Between 2019 and 2021 I led an Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Project (HealRoad), which sought to commercialise and extrinsic self healing system for asphalt pavement. Currently I am also PI and technical expert on two Transport Infrastructure Ireland funded project which are investigating use of bio-inspired technology (self-healing and bio-bitumen) in asphalt mix design. My research focuses on the development of bio-inspired systems for asphalt pavements. I have published widely on this subject and I also work with the International RILEM committee to develop international standards for evaluating self-healing asphalt. My career goal is to introduce bio-inspired technology into asphalt pavement design and maintenance processes, with a focus on sustainability and the circular economy.

Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from PUC-MG (2000) and Master's in Architecture from the School of Architecture of UFMG (2010). Effective teacher since 2014 at CEFET-MG (Varginha unit). Currently a PhD student at the UFMG School of Engineering, researching automated water management in commercial buildings using a website with the BIM platform.

I obtained my bachelor in 2013 and master degree from the university of Ottawa in 2015 (Thesis: NUMERICAL MODELLING OF LIQUID CONTAINING STRUCTURE UNDER DYNAMIC LOADING ), and I'm currently a Ph.D student in the same university.

Dr. Hojjat Mohammad is a Geotechnical Engineer with a strong background in computational Geo mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering as applied to linear infrastructure. He obtained his PhD in the field of computational Geo mechanics at McMaster University under supervision of Prof. Pietruszczak, one of the well-know people on this filed. He is currently working as a Tunnel Designer- Geo structural at Hatch Ltd, one of the best consultancy and Construction Company in the field of tunnel engineering in Canada.

Dr. Ba-Phu Nguyen is a lecturer at Department of Civil Engineering, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He is also a member and leader of researcher group of the New Material Technology in Construction Lab at his university. He earned PhD at Pukyong National University, Republic of Korea. His research and interests focused on topics: (i) soft soil improvement; (ii) soil structure interaction; landslide.He is the author of numerous papers in the geotechnical engineering field.

Professor Longjun Xu, the Distinguished professor in Earthquake Engineering at the The Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai) until 2021 when he left and joined Hubei (Wuhan) Institute of Explosion and Blasting Technology and the State Key Laboratory of Precision Blasting, Jianghan University, to continue and apply his research to engineering problems. He obtained his PhD degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2006, a Visiting Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 2015-2016. Professor Xu has long been committed to the research on disaster prevention and mitigation in building structure and infrastructure engineering, as well as the development of experimental equipment. some innovative achievements have been made in the new generation of design ground motion and earthquake fault action. The research results won the State Science and Technology Prizes in 2015, and were adopted or referenced by national and local seismic design codes, good social and economic benefits have been achieved.

Wang Lan, professor, Doctor of engineering, doctoral supervisor. the dean of the School of Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, the director of the Council of the Chinese Society of Mechanics, the head of the "New Materials and Practical Innovation Talent Team for Road Engineering in Cold and Arid Regions" of the grassland elite innovation team of the autonomous region, and the director of "Key Laboratory of Civil Engineering Structure and Mechanics of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region". Mainly engaged in the research work on the macro and mesoscopic mechanical properties of civil engineering materials and the recycling and reuse of industrial solid waste in construction and road and bridge engineering. In recent years, she has presided over 5 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and more than 30 provincial and ministerial-level projects, and Won 6 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological progress first, second and third prizes, won 2 Du Qinghua Mechanics and Engineering Awards. Published more than 100 papers indexed by SCI/EI. Editor-in-chief of 1 local standard, and 11 authorized patents. The research results have been successfully applied in the construction of highway projects in the autonomous region, with significant social, economic and environmental benefits.

Dr. M. Spiliotis is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH) in Xanthi, Greece. He studied Civil Engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace. He then finished a postgraduate study and a doctoral study in the School of Rural & Surveying Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Subsequently, he completed a postdoctoral study at the National Technical University of Athens in cooperation with the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) in Spain. As it can be observed from the PI’s CV, Assistant Professor M. Spiliotis has led and participated in several studies (over 47 articles in international scientific journals) in a variety of topics in Water Resources Planning and Management. These studies involve methodologies with a complex mathematical background that require high mathematical skills. Additionally, emphasis has been put on the uncertainty, which is an inherent property of the hydrological processes. For this purpose, he extensively studied and applied the - relatively recent - theory of fuzzy sets and logic.

Azita Morteza is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the application of Blockchain in construction management and engineering, as well as resilient infrastructure systems. She co-authored a few papers and collaborated with Siemens as part of the Green-Connect team that won 1st place in the international tech for sustainability hackathon

Dr. Dai-Yeun Jeong is presently the Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center and an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea). He received BA and MA Degree in Sociology from Korea University, and PhD in Environmental Sociology from University of Queensland (Australia). He was a Professor of environmental sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea) from 1981 to 2012. His past major professional activities include a Teaching Professor at University of Sheffield in UK, the President of Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, a Delegate of South Korean Government to UNFCCC and OECD Environmental Meeting, etc. He has published 13 books including Environmental Sociology, and has conducted 95 environment-related research projects funded by domestic and international organizations.Dr. Dai-Yeun Jeong is presently the Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center and an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea). He received BA and MA Degree in Sociology from Korea University, and PhD in Environmental Sociology from University of Queensland (Australia). He was a Professor of environmental sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea) from 1981 to 2012. His past major professional activities include a Teaching Professor at University of Sheffield in UK, the President of Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, a Delegate of South Korean Government to UNFCCC and OECD Environmental Meeting, etc. He has published 13 books including Environmental Sociology, and has conducted 95 environment-related research projects funded by domestic and international organizations.

Dr. Feng Chen’s is currently a Professor in the College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University. He has been committed to studies in the areas of Traffic safety, Connected car and Human factor. He earned his doctorate degree and was postdoctoral fellow at the Colorado State University. From 2007 to 2012, he participated in eight USA projects on Traffic safety, Vehicle dynamic model and Reliability analysis. And from 2012 till now, he served as the PI of about 30 research grants funded by various national and provincial agencies, including NSFC and Ministry of Education, in the field of Traffic safety, ITS and Driving simulator. He has published more than 40 peer reviewed SCI/SSCI journal papers and many other peer reviewed conference papers and reports, and has served as Guest Editors for International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Journal of Advanced Transportation. He has also has served as reviewers for more than 50 SCI/SSCI journals including Transportation Research Part C，Transportation Research Part F, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Risk analysis and so on.

Dr. Alon Urlainis is a lecturer and a faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering at Ariel University. He received his Ph.D. from Ben Gurion University with a thesis entitled "Probabilistic Risk Appraisal and Mitigation of Critical Infrastructures for Extreme Seismic Events". His research interests are risk assessment and management of critical infrastructures due to extreme events and Building Information modeling (BIM). His current research focuses on the development of risk analysis and risk management methodology that will be integrated into BIM infrastructure models.

Ms. Asra Nusrat has got 05 years research experience in the field of Underwater Signal Processing with specific research topics including Target Estimation, Tracking and Optimization methods for underwater vehicles, ships and submarines. She had received her Bachelor of Engineering in Elecronics (2010) and ME in Electronics System Engg. (2014) from Pakistan. She has been working as Manager (Technical) in National Engineering Scientific Commision of Pakistan for 09 years and completed various engineering projects from 2012 to present. She have completed her Masters degree in Naval Architechture and Ocean Engineeringfrom Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xia’n China in 2019-2022. During her studies she has also got Best Graduate Student Award from the university. She has received Excellent Paper Presenter Award in China Ocean Acoustics Conference (2020) held in Harbin, China. She is currently doing research on optimal maneuver strategies for observers in passive bearing only tracking of underwater targets.

Ana Margarida Bento is a postdoctoral researcher integrated member of the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE) and an external researcher collaborator of the Water Resources Systems team, from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR). She developed her Ph.D. thesis in a partnership between the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC) and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), under the FCT PhD Program - Infrastructure Risk Analysis and Mitigation (InfraRisk). The work carried out consisted of the development of a new and pragmatic methodology for the assessment and rating of risk associated with bridge foundation scour, using a semi-quantitative priority factor. The scour risk assessment was based on an interdisciplinary approach that combined experimental and numerical analysis to achieve a more advanced and comprehensive understanding of the scouring phenomenon in the vicinity of bridge foundations, under clear water and live bed flow conditions. She completed her MSc in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics and Water Resources) in 2013 at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). The master's thesis focused on the characterization of dam breaching following overtopping and the work was developed at LNEC. She did an international internship at Faculdades Integradas de Aracruz (FAACZ, Brazil), by IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience), about the construction of irrigation dams in the Municipality of Aracruz. In 2014, she joined the Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment Division of FEUP as a master researcher in the project NUMPIERS - "Numerical and experimental study of the flow around complex bridge piers". In July 2021, she joined the research project InfraCrit, as a postdoctoral researcher at ISISE (UMinho). Her role consists of management and risk prediction of critical infrastructures subject to flood events, on a GIS integrated platform. During her professional work, she collaborated with national companies such as IP and EDP, and several universities as IST (Portugal), FAACZ (Brazil), FEUP (Portugal), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), University of Minho (Portugal), and Universidade Agostinho Neto (Angola). She is a member of FOAM@PT, Order of Engineers, International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), Portuguese Association for Classification and Data Analysis (CLAD), Portuguese Water Resources Association (APRH), Specialized Committee on River Hydraulics (CEHF), and International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE). Within IABSE, she is currently contributing to the task groups TG 5.2 (Key performance indicators: Definition), and TG6.1 (Effects of Climate Change on Infrastructures). From 2018 to March 2020, she joined the leadership team of Young Professionals Network of the Portuguese IAHR. She co-supervised a master's student of Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), from 2019-2020. She joined the scientific committee of three peer-reviewed journals (as a reviewer) and of two conferences, and has taught an academic session to a class of Civil Engineering master's students of ISEL. Recently, she was involved in the jury committee of a master's student and a doctoral's student defenses. She aided the preparation of proposals for FCT R&D Projects (as a team member in 2020, and as a co-PI in 2022). She is also involved in international scientific proposals, two as a team member and one as a leader, totalizing potential funding of more than 6 million euros. Ph.D. Ana Margarida is also the author and co-author of 1 book, 2 book chapters, 8 conference abstracts, 13 conference papers, 11 journal articles (32 citations and an h-index of 3 in the Scopus 04/2022), 2 reports, and 2 theses.

Kamal Srogy Darwish is an Assistant Professor in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems at Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, Minia University, Egypt. He was born in El Minya city, Egypt in 1984. He earned his Bachelor Degree in Geography with Concentration of Surveying and Maps in 2005. In 2017, he graduated his Ph.D. in the field of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (Joint-supervision Scholarship between School of Geomatics, University of Florida, USA and Geography Department, Minia University, Egypt). The dissertation title: Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the Modeling, Assessing, and Analysing of Sea-Level Change, Shoreline Retreat, and Coastal Erosion Hazard and Risk along Nile Delta Coast. In 2018, he won a prize of the best Ph.D. dissertation in El Minia University, and in 2021, he graduated from a Professional Diploma in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (Ain Shams University, Egypt). Dr. Kamal Darwish has many courses in solution developer were earned in remote sensing analysis and Geoinformatics from Hexagon Geospatial, NASA, and ESRI. He has many publications in international journals, and he participated in many Conferences around the world in the field of Remote Sensing, GIS, Sensors, Water and Sustainability. Dr. Darwish is interested in GIS Programming, Geospatial Intelligence, Optical, SAR, and Laser Remote Sensing, Light Detection and Ranging Technology, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle , Geoinformatics, Smart Surveying , Coastal Geomorphology and Engineering and Geospatial Technologies

Dr. Hsi-Hsien WEIis currently an Associate Professor of Department of Building and Real Estate at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.He received his PhD in Project Management at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Maryland, College Park.His area of specialization includesDigital Construction Engineering and Management, Project Management and Resilience and Sustainability Assessment of the Built Environment

Yongding Tian received his Ph.D. from the School of Civil Engineering at Southeast University and the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University (Australia). After his graduation, Yongding joined Southwest Jiaotong University as an Associate Professor. His research interests focus on the development of advanced sensing technology, computer vision and artificial intelligence for structural health monitoring. He has published more than 20 SCI-indexedhigh-quality journal articles, including the journal of Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (Top 1 journal in Civil Engineering, IF=11.775), Nano Energy (Top journal, IF=17.881), Automation in Construction (Top journal, IF=7.7), Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Top journal, IF=6.823), etc. His research output has been applied to the noncontact vortex-induced vibration measurement and the cable tension force measurement,the horizontal vibration measurement of high-rise tower and full-field deformation monitoring of flexible barrier system under rockfall impact. He has awarded Golden Medal of the 46th Geneva Inventions, the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award of China, best paper award of the 12th Research Symposium for Chinese PhD Students and Scholars in Australia and the Gold Prize in the 6th China International College Students “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. And he is served as the reviewer of the journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE) ,Experimental Techniques and Actuators.

Juan José Encinas Cantaro, He was born in Lima, Peru. He is a Mechatronic Engineer. Session Chair and participant of the 4th North American Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference-IEOM 2019 in Toronto, Canada. He received a certificate for attendance and presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Automation Engineering and Intelligent Manufacturing-ICIMA 2018 in Penang, Malaysia. He participated in the X International Symposium on Innovation and Technology-ISIT 2019 in Cusco, Peru. Member of the steering and technical committee of the ISIT. He participated as part of the Peru Section of the IEEE in the XXVI International Congress of Electronics, Electricity, Engineering and Computing-INTERCON 2019 in Lima, Peru. He with experience in research, development and innovation in the fields of mechatronics, medical robotics, telemedicine, aerospace engineering and bioengineering. Researcher in programming by IPCEM agents. Lecturer and Consultant in Mechatronic, Spatial and Biomedical Technologies. He is also a consultant in information and communication technologies in the Peruvian government sector.

Mehran Mazari is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at California State University Los Angeles. His research interests include Infrastructure Materials, Sustainable and Resilient Transportation Infrastructure, and Applied Data Science and Machine Learning. He has been actively involved in federal and state-funded research projects. Mehran is associate editor of International Journal of Pavement Engineering, editorial board member of CSU Journal of Sustainability and Climate Change, and handling editor of the Transportation Research Record (TRR) journal of the Transportation Research Board. Dr. Mazari is the faculty director of Sikand Center for Sustainable and Intelligent Infrastructure (Sikand SITI Center) and founding director of the Sustainable Infrastructure Materials Research Lab (SIM-Lab) at California State University Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Highway Pavement Committee, Sustainable Transportation Committee, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Transportation Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Dr. Cristiano Loss is an Assistant Professor in the Wood Science Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC), specializing in sustainable structural systems, with an emphasis on high-performance hybrid wood-based structures and performance-based optimum design procedures for a resilient built environment. He is Chair of the UBC Sustainable Engineered Structural Solutions Laboratory. He has extensive involvement in public-funded and industrial applied-research projects, having conducted research for the Italian Civil Protection Department and the Italian Laboratories University Network of Seismic Engineering Consortium, and acting as Principal Investigator in many projects financed by the Government of Canada. He participated in the Italian code development with seismic design provisions specificfor timber structures and design guidelines–CNR-DT 206–instructions for timber construction design, execution, and assessment. He also authored research reports and a design manual for timber builders. Among successful knowledge transfers from academia to industry,his record also lists several granted patents. He is a designated member ofthe Connections- and System Design-Subcommittees of the Canadian Standard Association Technical Committee CSA-O86 and a member of the European Technical Committee ECCS-TC 11–Composite Structures. In addition, he is a voting member in several subcommittees of the ASTM-D07. He serves on the International Scientific Committee panel of the 2023 World Conference on Timber Engineering.

I am a Research Professor at the Gustave Eiffel University of France (Université Gustave Eiffel), formerly IFSTTAR (where I have been a member for about 20 years). My research focuses on pavement surface performances, particularly Skid resistance, Rolling resistance, and Noise. I am interested in experimental and numerical aspects ranging from the characterization of pavement materials, the surface texture, to tire-pavement contact

Marcio Pimentel is graduated in Airport infrastructure engineering at Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA - 1997), specialized in sanitary and environmental engineering at State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ - 2000), Master in Public Health at National School of Public Health (ENSP - 2003) in Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) and became PhD by co-tutorship in Geomaterials from Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée (PARIS-EST - 2008) - Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2008). Since 2013, he has been working in Division of Civil Engineering at Aeronautics Institute of Technology as visitor professor in graduation and pos-graduation courses. From 2020 on, he took on as effective Professor, and, nowadays, he acts as Adjunct Professor A2 of the Division of Civil Engineering at ITA. He works in Sanitation, Effluent Treatment and Sustainability projects on the following topics: Cold and hot Water, Fire Fighting, Solar Heating, Rainwater, Rainwater harvesting, Energy, Electrical Installations, Water and Sewage Networks, Water Treatment Plants, Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants and Advanced Oxidative Processes. Last research has been focus on water treatment and distribution and has been studying applications of Continuous Flocculation Monitoring Equipment (EMCF) and free software (as QGIS and EPANET) in water supply systems.

Dr. Yang is currently an Assistant Professor in School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology. She has been committed to studies in the areas of dynamics and control of spacecraft, mainly about the debris evolution as well as removal technologies. During her doctorate time, she was funded by China Scholarship Council to study in McGill University with Prof. Misra who is a fellow of International Academy of Astronautics.She also participated in many international conferences, such as International Astronautical Congress, International Space Technology Symposium, International Conference on Tethers in Space, and so on. Until now, she has published 14 papers in including 6 SSCI journal papers mainly in astronautical field. She also served as reviewers in Acta Astronautica and Journal of Aerospace Engineering.

Anuj Kumar joined Department of Energy Efficiency, CSIR-Central Building Research Institute Roorkee on March 2016 as a Ramanujan Fellow and Assistant Professor (SG) (AcSIR Faculty). He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Physics (Electronics) from MJP Rohilkhand University Bareilly, India in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He received his M. Phil. degree in Instrumentation from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in 2000, M. Tech. degree in Instrumentation from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India in 2004, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India in 2011. He worked as a Research Associate in Instrument Design and Development Center (IDDC), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India from May 2011–Dec. 2011. Subsequently, he joined as an Assistant Professor in Electronic and Communication Engineering Department, Amity University Noida, India from Jan. 2012-Oct. 2012 and also during this period, he was associated with Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea as a visiting Post-doctoral Fellow. He was a Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellow at Advanced Sensor Network (ASN) group, Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering Department, University of Pretoria, RSA from Nov. 2012-Dec. 2014. Subsequently, he joined as a Research Fellow at Electrical Machines and Drives Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, National University of Singapore (NUS, Singapore), Singapore from March 2015–Dec. 2015. From Sep. 2000–June 2002, he was an Instrumentation Engineer in APL Intelligent Embedded, New Delhi, India. He was involved in development of microcontroller-based hardware development applications. From Oct. 2004–Dec. 2005, he was an Instrumentation Engineer–EDA in Dell Soft Technologies, New Delhi, India. He has authored one book, three book chapters, and published more than 80 papers in international refereed journals and conferences. He has 2 copy rights and 3 Patent filed in last three years. His research interests include intelligent systems, smart sensor/actuator, wireless sensor actuators networks, internet of things (IOT), instrumentation electronics, instrumentation & measurement, sensor based system, environment monitoring, smart buildings, smart grid, microprocessor based applications/systems, pollution measurement for industry and buildings, industrial automation, and health monitoring. Dr. Kumar has carried out extensive research in smart building areas of the development of hardware and software for experimental prototypes. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access Journal. He is a reviewer of IEEE Transactions, Elsevier, and Springer Journals. Dr. Kumar is a Senior Member of the IEEE Societies of IES, Sensors, and Instrumentation & Measurement. He is a recipient of the Ramanujan Fellow award in Engineering Sciences in 2015. Dr. Kumar also received the IEEE Sensors Council President most downloaded Research Paper award in 2014, 2015 & 2016. Dr. Kumar has been listed in Marquis “who’s who in the World” listed in 2013 and Marquis “who’s who in the America” listed in 2015. He is engaged with a number of large-scale regional and international research projects (approximately funding 360 Lakhs INR); among others he is currently leading a smart buildings and multi-agent system projects. Beyond his academic contributions, Kumar serves as an industrial & Institutional consultant for business Enterprises or new setup of the Institute or university.

Dr. Christian Paglia is Ph. D in Material Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Sika AG in Zurich. Post-doctoral Researcher in the Corrosion of Aerospace Aluminum Alloys Friction Stir Welds at the Material Science Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, in collaboration with the Wright Patterson Air Force Research Laboratories. Responsible of a branch office of the Helbling Consulting Engineering Group, Zurich. Director of the Institute of Materials and Constructions at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland. Publications on concrete, metals, corrosion and building materials. Editorial board member of materials and corrosion scientific journals. Member of the SIA commission 215 on mineral binders. Technical committee member Rilem for the degradation of organic coating materials, for the carbonation of concrete with supplementary cementitious materials, chloride bonding in concrete, concrete fire spalling and performance-based asphalt recycling. Member of the commission for the impartiality of the Swiss certification body for construction products S-CERT AG (CH) / S-CERT FL GmbH (FL).

In-Seok Yoon is working as a professor at Department of Smart Construction and Disaster Management, Induk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He earned PhD at University of Seoul, Republic of Korea, and worked as a postdoc researcherfor TU Delft, The Netherlands. His research focuses on the repair and rehabilitation system to enhance service life of infrastructure, as well as service life prediction of concrete structures.He is a creator of YOON’s test to estimate quantitative materials parametersof concrete with various exposure conditions, and YOON’s Galvanics to monitor corrosion of reinforcement or strand. He is the author of numerous papers and won best paper awards from KCI and KOFST.

Dr. Letizia Verdolotti is Research Scientist at the Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials of the National Research Council of Italy (IPCB-CNR). The main research topic falls within the macro-area of sustainability, decarbonization and green materials which include the design of sustainable multifunctional polymer composites/hybrids compact and foam materials with tunable properties, obtained starting from renewable and/or natural resources and bio-based functional fillers, and innovative process technologies at low environmental impact. Through the use of functional fillers and the novel process technology is possible to regulate the chemical-physical, mechanical, thermodegradative and functional properties (high thermal and acoustic insulation properties for energy efficiency) of materials. They are applied, mainly, in the construction, automotive, environmental and transport sectors

Đidelija Muamer was born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina on April 12, 1995. He finished primary school in Vrapčići, where he was proclaimed the best of generation. He then enrolled at the Civil Engineering High School –Department of Geodesy in Mostar, where he was also proclaimed the best of generation. At the school year 2013/14 he enrolled at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Sarajevo at the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformatics. At school year 2015/16 he ends the first cycle of studies and earns Bachelor of Geodesy degree, where he was also named the best student in the 2013-2016 generation of the department. After completing the first cycle of studies, at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Sarajevo, in the school year 2015/16, he enrolled another – second cycle of studies at the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformatics. At school year 2017/18 he completes the second cycle of studies and gains the Master of Geodesy and Geoinformatics degree - a graduated geodesy and geoinformatics engineer, where he earns the Dean's award for outstanding success (the highest average rating in the generation). Muamer spent about six months, during 2017 and 2018, at Geobiro d.o.o. Konjic, where he carries out tasks related to the field of engineering geodesy. SinceJanuary 2019 he is currently employed as Teaching assistant at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Sarajevo - Department of Geodesy and Geoinformatics. In January 2019 he enrolled in the third study cycle (PhD) of Geodesy and Geoinformatics at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Sarajevo. He is a secretary of “Union of citizens' associations of the geodetic profession in Bosnia and Herzegovina” since October 2019, and also secretary of the National Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina for International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) since October 2019.

I was awarded a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Gaziantep University in Turkey (2013) and a master’s degree in Building Information Management from Portsmouth University in the United Kingdom (2017). Currently, I am in the last year of a doctoral degree in Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Blockchain Technology across the Digital Twin for the Construction Industry at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. I have published papers, and one of them proposes a Blockchain-based BIM data provenance model to support information exchange in construction projects. And the other is Leveraging BIM and Blockchain for Digital Twins.

Haider H. Aodah is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Thiqar University (Iraq) and is actively involved in research in the area of highway materials and pavement design. He has published more than 20 research papers in national and international journals, most of them related to highway materials.He has completed several research projects, guided 5 M. Tech dissertations. He completed his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee/India, 2014. • From 2015 to 2019 Head of Civil Engineering Department at Thiqar University. • From 2017 to2020Director of the Construction Engineering Laboratory in the Consulting Engineering Office - College of Engineering Thi-Qar University.

Dr Mohammad Arif Kamal is an architect, having around 16 years of Teaching, Research and Professional experience in the field of Architecture, Building Construction Technology and Interior Design. He studied architecture at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh from where he received his Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch.) degree with honors. He was awarded a Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) fellowship for pursuing both Master of Architecture (M. Arch.) and Ph.D. degree in Architecture from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India. He has designed and implemented many architecture and interior design projects besides his teaching duties both on Design Theory, Construction Systems, Sustainable Architecture, Interior Design as well as Architectural Design Studios. Dr. Kamal is presently working as an Associate Professor in Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has also worked as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Architecture at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia for 3 years. He was awarded Junior Faculty Development Grant at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia in 2010. He was associated with an International Architectural Project ‘The Mataaf Design Intervention in Haram Mosque’, Mecca, Saudi Arabia. His area of research includes Environmental Design, Climate Responsive Architecture, Sustainable Architecture, Building Construction Systems, Building Materials and Traditional Architecture. He has published many Research papers in various International Journals and Conferences as well as many articles in Building Construction Magazines. He has published 3 books and 10 book chapters. He is Editorin-Chief of 7 International journals related to Architecture, Construction and Civil Engineering. He has edited 5 Special Topic Volume Related to Sustainable Building Materials, published by Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland. He is member of editorial board team/ associate editors of many International journals and conferences and also member of many national and International associations / professional bodies.

Dr. El Nemr has 25 years of experience in contracts and claims management, encompassing positions in various international project management firms, such as Bechtel, Fluor Daniel and Hill International. He has also assumed several roles during dispute resolution proceedings in construction projects, acting as arbitrator, expert adjudicator, expert appointed by the tribunal, expert appointed by an arbitration party, arbitrator and dispute adjudication board (DAB) member. He is Regional Director (MENA) of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE) International – Greater Cairo section, Regional Director (MENA) of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF) and Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIARB) – Egypt Branch,. He is the author of numerous papers and a speaker in numerous conferences, seminars and webinars on the topic of construction contracts and claims.He is currently the Contracts Director of Hill International’s North Africa branch, based in Egypt, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The American University in Cairo in the construction engineering department.