Prof. C W LIM
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Prof IR Lim is currently a registered professional engineer (RPE). He received a first degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, a Master's Degree and PhD from National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, respectively. Prior to joining CityU, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland and Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. Prof. Lim is also a visiting professor at various universities including the University of Western Sydney, Dalian University of Technology, etc. He has expertise in vibration of plate and shell structures, dynamics of smart piezoelectric structures, nanomechanics and symplectic elasticity. He is the Editor for Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures (JoMMS), Associate Editor (Asia-Pacific Region) for Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies (JVET), Associate Editor for International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (IJBC), International Subject Editor for Applied Mathematical Modelling (AMM), and also on the editorial board of some other international journals. He has published among one of the well-selling titles in Engineering Mechanics entitled "Symplectic Elasticity", co-authored with W.A. Yao and W.X. Zhong, as recorded in April 2010 by the publisher, World Scientific. He has published more than 300 international journal papers, accumulated more than 3000 independent citations, and one of the papers was granted the IJSS 2004-2008 most cited article award. He was also awarded Top Referees in 2009, Proceedings A, The Royal Society.
Prof. TianQiao Liu
Beijing University of Technology, China
TianQiao Liu, Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, China. Dr. Liu received his bachelor's degree from Chang 'an University in 2012. In 2013, he received his master's degree in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017; After graduation, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Pittsburgh until December 2017. In 2018, he joined JMT Engineering Consulting Company in the United States and engaged in bridge design; In 2019, he entered the Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University and began his postdoctoral research work.
Dr. Liu’s research has been focusing on the pultruded fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites and their new structures, aiming to promote the theoretical and practical developments of FRPs in the field of civil engineering. His research interests include the analysis and design methods, long-term environmental durability, and advanced manufacturing techniques. He has authored/co-authored over 20 SCI journal papers and received over 650 citations with H-index of 13 (Google Metrics). Two of his papers have been recognized as the Top 1% ESI Highly Cited Paper. Additionally, Dr. Liu has co-edited the first Chinese design standard for pultruded FRP composites—Technical Specification for Structure of Pultruded Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites, CECS-692 2020. In 2022, Dr. Liu was selected into Beijing Youth Talent Program.
Prof. Shinichi Miyazato
Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Shinichi Miyazato is currently an Assistant to the President at Kanazawa Institute of Technology, and a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2001. He had many awards such as Japan Cement Association Award in 1999, ACI-SINGAPORE chapter award in 2001, Japan society of material science award in 2002, Lim Hoe Peng Award in 2015, IAAM Award in 2019, and Japan Prestressed Concrete Institute Award in 2023. Also he acted at some committees in some Japanese social society and institute, about durability, maintenance, environment, 3D Printing of concrete, and engineering education et.al. He is currently involved in a young researcher training program run by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and is also the representative of two major research projects run by the Cabinet Office. One is a project funded by the Local University and Regional Industry Creation Grant, titled "Project to Create an Environmentally Friendly Composite Material Midstream Industry Utilizing Advanced Fiber and Machine Processing Technologies Developed in the Region." The other is a project under the Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program called "Establishment of a Smart Infrastructure Management System," titled "Improvement and Efficiency of Technologies and Systems for Infrastructure Maintenance in Local Governments, and Human Resource Development and Utilization for Their Implementation."
Assoc. Prof. Mohammadreza Vafaei
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Mohammadreza Vafaei is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He received his Bachelor and Master’s degree from Iran in 2000 and 2004, respectively, and obtained his PhD from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2013. He is a member of American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) and Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI, USA). As a professional engineer that has served several consultant companies, he has led seismic design of many structures including tall residential and office buildings, airport terminals, air traffic control towers, lattice telecommunication towers, bridges, water reservoirs and monumental structures. During past years, Dr. Vafaei has served as the scientific committee of many international conferences and has been the member of editorial boards of scientific journals like The Open Civil Engineering Journal and The Open Construction & Building Technology Journal. He has been selected as the keynote speaker for five international conferences and has been invited as the speaker for many national seminars and workshops. Dr. Vafaei has more than 80 publications in the referred journals and conferences.
Prof. Ming-hung Wong
The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Professor Wong Ming-hung was Emeritus Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He had been appointed as Chair Professor of Biology from 1990 until August 2013 and had served as Head of Department of Biology of HKBU from 1986 to 2004.
Professor Wong is an outstanding academic and leader in Environmental Science and ecology as evidenced by his prodigious output of scientific publications. He has published over 540 refereed research articles (SCI), 32 book chapters, edited 25 books/journal issues and filed 4 patents. He is currently the most cited Chinese scientist in the world under Environmental Science (ISI Web of Knowledge). His major research areas include environment and human health, and remediation of contaminated sites. At present, he is Editor-in-chief of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Springer) and Book Series Editor (Urbanization, Industrialization and the Environment) of CRC Press. His reputation has been widely recognised internationally and capped by receiving two DSc Degrees awarded by the University of Durham, UK and the University of Strathclyde, UK in 1992 and 2004 respectively.
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Dr. Min Wu
Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr. Min Wu is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Aarhus University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2014 and conducted research work at École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (MINES ParisTech, France) and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). He had 7 years’ experience working in industry, with approximately 3 years as a development scientist for BASF Construction Chemicals and 4 years as a durability specialist for COWI A/S. His main research interests are related to different aspects of materials especially for construction uses, including interaction between CO2 and construction materials (e.g. in the context of Carbon Capture, Use and Storage), microstructure and properties of cement-based materials, durability design and service life modeling of reinforced concrete structures, novel and sustainable construction materials, recycling and waste utilization, self-healing and self-repairing materials, etc. The research aims to improve our understanding of the mostly used construction materials, i.e. cement based materials, and to create more synergy between two major aspects of construction materials, i.e. sustainability and durability.
Prof. Ping Xiang
Central South University, China
Dr. Xiang is a professor at Central South University, a doctoral supervisor, vice director, and an expert selected for Hunan Province's introduction of overseas high-level talent program. He completed his doctoral degree at the City University of Hong Kong in 2012 and served as a postdoctoral researcher and associate researcher at the City University of Hong Kong from 2012 to 2017.
He has been the principal investigator for a National Natural Science Foundation of China project, and he has published over 120 research papers, including more than 100 SCI-indexed papers, several of which are highly cited (ESI), and multiple top-tier SCI papers. Dr. Xiang has been granted three patents and holds three software copyrights.
As a representative of outstanding teachers at Central South University, he received a warm welcome from the Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Dr. Xiang has also been invited to visit several international universities, including Swansea University and the University of Strathclyde in the UK, Kangwon National University in South Korea, and Dartmouth College.
Dr. Xiang's research interests encompass the dynamics of high-speed railway track-bridge systems, the safety of high-speed railway bridges under seismic actions, finite element methods in computational mechanics, meshless methods in computational mechanics, prefabricated construction, composite structures, computational micro-nanomechanics, and biomechanics.
Dr. Pin Zhang
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Pin ZHANG is an incoming presidential young assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS, Dr ZHANG as the Royal Society Newton International Fellow worked at the University of Cambridge (2022-2024). He earned his Ph.D. from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in 2022, with a one-year stint as a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford. Dr ZHANG’s research is centred around explainable AI algorithms, intelligent computational mechanics, uncertainty quantification and complex systems, micro- and macro-scale granular mechanics, coastal infrastructure resilience and digital twins. Recognitions for Dr. ZHANG's work includes two Editor’s Choice papers by JEM-ASCE and FSCE, and six journal’s top cited/downloaded papers, Early Career Award from Géotechnique (Institution of Civil Engineers), Ringo Yu Prize from The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and PolyU PhD thesis-Merit Award. Dr ZHANG also serves as the nominated/corresponding members of TC105, TC222 and TC309, ISSMGE, and guest editors of “Data-Centric Engineering (Cambridge)” and ‘Georisk’.
Assoc. Prof. Sompote Youwai
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
Dr. Sompote Youwai serves as an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), where he specializes in geotechnical engineering. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering from Chulalongkorn University and both Master and Doctor of Engineering degrees in Civil Engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology. Dr. Youwai's research combines traditional geotechnical engineering with cutting-edge artificial intelligence applications. His expertise spans computer vision, geotechnical modeling, and ground improvement techniques. His significant contributions include the development of AI models for civil engineering applications, such as pile foundation design, subsurface investigation, and road damage detection. A notable achievement is his development of YOLO9tr, an advanced image detection model that enhances pavement damage detection through innovative feature extraction and attention mechanisms, offering improved precision and real-time processing capabilities. His pioneering work includes a novel approach to geotechnical analysis, treating soil profiles as sequential tokens - a methodology adapted from large language model processing. This innovative perspective has enabled more sophisticated modeling of soil behavior in complex geotechnical scenarios. Beyond research, Dr. Youwai actively contributes to professional education through online training sessions focused on soil model selection and parameter calibration. He regularly delivers lectures on artificial intelligence applications in civil engineering, helping bridge the gap between traditional geotechnical practices and emerging technologies.