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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. 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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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. 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. 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

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. 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

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.

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. 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

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).

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.

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 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.

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.

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.”

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

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. 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.

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.

Antonio Domingues de Figueiredo is a civil engineer since 1987 and associate 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 six 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.

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.