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Prof. Hong-Nan Li is the Chair professor of Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China. He is a member of the EU Academy of Sciences and fellow of ASCE. He got the Ph. D., M. S. and B. S. in 1990, 1987 and 1982, respectively. He is a Cheung Kong Scholars Program engaged professor, serves as Vice Chairman of China Panel, International Association for Structural Control and Monitoring; and Vice Chairman of Advanced Materials and Structures, ASCE Aerospace Division; Chairman of Panel of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Also, he is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal, Structural Health Monitoring and Maintenance, Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, and Editorial Board member of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Sensors and so on. His research interests are in the Structural control and monitoring, Disaster prevention and reduction and Earthquake engineering. He got more than 50 research funds from governments and industrial companies, and applied to more than 70 practical engineering projects with his new techniques and methods. He has gotten more than 70 patents, and published 7 books and more than 400 journal papers. He got 3 national awards of Science and Technology and 10 provincial awards. Also he got the Outstanding Contribution Award from ASCE Aerospace Division in 2014. He is active in the international cooperation with the United States, Japan, Australia, Korea et al.

Dr. Faisal Manzoor Arain is an experienced construction project management professional and academic leader with an MS and PhD in Construction Project Management. He has extensive experience of working at management and leadership positions in industry and academia in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Canada. He received a certificate from Harvard University, Boston, USA upon completion of the Leadership Development Program. Dr. Arain has a wealth of technical knowledge and experience as he worked in numerous professionals roles as an Architect, Project Coordinator, Project Manager, Director Projects, and Consultant with construction industry in Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Canada in the domains of Architecture and Construction Project Management. He has extensive experience of managing all phases of construction projects including conceptual phase, front end engineering design, detailed engineering, and related project aspects within construction project management domain. Dr. Arain has consulted, researched and published widely in the discipline of Project Management and Design and Construction Management. He has authored over 120 research publications, 2 book chapters, and 13 books (http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0028ORPJK). His research interests include leadership, project management, designing educational spaces, design and construction interface issues, and the development and application of knowledge-based systems for management of building projects. Dr. Arain serves on editorial boards of several international research journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Construction Project Management published by Nova Science Publishers Inc., USA. He is an expert member of the World Association for Sustainable Development, UK. Dr. Arain worked as Chair, Construction Project Management with Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Calgary, Alberta. He served as the Associate Dean of the School of Sustainable Building and Environmental Management at NAIT, Edmonton, Alberta. He also assisted Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Regina providing educational, administrative and strategic leadership for a new baccalaureate degree program in construction management. Dr. Arain worked as the Senior Principal/Senior Dean, Niagara College (NC) Campuses in KSA. As the Senior Principal/Senior Dean, provided academic quality, administrative and strategic leadership. He recently served as the Vice President, Academic at the Northern Lakes College (NLC), Alberta, Canada. Dr. Arain is currently the Vice President, Academic & Administration at the KLC College, Ontario and the CEO of AM Management Global Inc, Alberta, Canada. He can be reached at faisal.arain@gmail.com

Dr. Achintya Haldar is active in the areas of structural health assessment and monitoring for over three decades and published extensively. He taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, and now at the University of Arizona. He was a Guest Professor at the University of Tokyo, Visiting Professor at the IISc -Bangalore, IIT – Kanpur, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, Honorary Distinguished Visiting Professor at BESU. He also worked for Engineers India Ltd, New Delhi and Bechtel Power Corp, Los Angeles. Dr. Haldar has published about 640 technical articles (one of the highest in Civil Engineering in the World), including 11+1 books (including edited; one just published in 2022; one underdevelopment with contract), and about 38 book chapters. Dr. Haldar is Distinguished Member of ASCE and a Fellow of SEI. He also received Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Reliability and Safety and inducted in to Teaching Excellence Award Wall, Georgia Tech. He received many research awards including a Presidential Award from President Reagan, ASCE's Huber Civil Engineering Research prize, John C. Park Outstanding Civil Engineer Award, an Honorable Diploma from the Czech Society for Mechanics. He received Excellence in Research Journal Award, IGI Global, Certificate of Recognition from Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia, Polis University, Albania, EuroSciCon, France, Euro Congress, London; Certificate of Appreciation, Taishan Academic Forum on Structural Safety and Reliability Assessment, China, and Honorable Recognition Award from ASME. Further details of his activities can be found at his website at haldar.faculty.arizona.edu.

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, 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 (average IF: 5.347) 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 nine invited keynote speeches and one plenary speech. 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 4,232 citations, 1348 of which were received during the last year 2021. He was reported as top 0.45% cited scientist within Civil Engineering field and top 2% cited scientist in all areas for single year impact in the world in 2021 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 88,000 readings since his 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 an Associate Editor in Engineering Report, Wiley, and core peer-reviewers and Editorial Board Members in many top engineering journals associated with ASCE, Elsevier, IEEE, and Wiley.

Professor Kundu’s major research area is nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring. On this topic he has published 9 books and 373 technical papers - 193 of those in peer reviewed scientific journals with over 8600 citations according to Google Scholar with an h-index of 48 (Google Scholar), 41 (Scopus) and 36 (Web of Science). He received Humboldt Research Prize (Senior Scientist Award) in 2003 and Humboldt Fellowship award in 1989 and 1996, from Germany. He was also recognized through 2012 NDE Life Time Achievement Award from SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics), 2015 Research Award for Sustained Excellence from ASNT (the American Society for Nondestructive Testing), 2017 Founders Award from Nondestructive evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics Division (NDPD) of ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers), 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award and 2008 Person of the Year Award from the Structural Health Monitoring Journal, Satish Dhawan Chair Professorship from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a number of Invited & Honorary Professorships from France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, South Korea, Poland, Singapore, India, China and Japan. He is Fellow or Distinguished Fellow of six professional societies (ASME, ASCE, SPIE, ASNT, ASA & IIAV) and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems (JNDE). He has served as the Associate Editor of four other journals.

Dr. Bing Chen is Professor in Environmental Engineering, UArctic Research Chair in Marine and Coastal Environmental Engineering, Associate Dean (Acting) of Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science and former Department Head of Civil Engineering at Memorial University, Canada. He serves as Director of the Northern Region Persistent Organic Pollution Control (NRPOP) Laboratory and founding Director of the global Network on Persistent, Emerging and Organic PoLlution in the Environment (PEOPLE Network). He is also an affiliate faculty with UC Berkeley and adjunct/visiting professor of five other institutions worldwide. He has been selected as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), and Member of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College.He is an internationally respected leader in environmental engineering research and application with exemplary achievements in environmental emergency responses, water and wastewater treatment, persistent and emerging contaminants, AI-aided decision making, marine and coastal protection, environmental sustainability, cold region and climate change studies. He has served as VP of CSCE, VP of the Canadian Association on Water Quality, VP of Sigma Xi Avalon Chapter, Senior Advisor of UNDP, Member of RSC Expert Panel, etc. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Systems Research and serves as Associate Editor of 2 journals, Editorial Board Member of 6 refereed journals and Guest Editor of 7 refereed journals. He has given over 80 invited keynotes and guest lectures worldwide and received a large number of awards and honours at institutional, national, and international levels. As a registered Professional Engineer in Canada, he has provided consulting service to government, industry, NGOs and communities globally.

Dr. Zhanping You earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in 2003. He is a Distinguished Professorin the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University. Dr. You has completed research projects related to road materials, pavement engineering, and sustainable building materials. He has led research projects from engineering practice of roads to pavement science with funding from federal, state, and local agencies. Dr. You has received numerous recognitions. He was awarded the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship in 2001. In both 2004 and 2005, he was awarded the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Faculty Fellowship. He earned the prestigious Michigan Tech Research Award in 2019 and University Distinguished Professorship. He was named as Fellow of ASCE in 2020, Fellow of ASCE’s EMI in 2021, and Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials in 2020. Dr. You was named the Exceptional Graduate Mentor of Michigan Technological University in 2022. Dr. You served as the Chair to ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute’s Pavements Committee and CI’s Bituminous Materials Committee. He is also the guest editor for other journals outside of ASCE.

Prof. Hamid Bahai received his PhD degree in 1993 in Computational Mechanics from Queen Mary College, University of London. Between 1993 and 1995 he worked as a Senior Research Engineer at T&N Technology where he was involved in research and development work on a number of projects for the automotive and aerospace industries. This was followed by a period at Halliburton Inc during which time he carried out design and analysis of a number of major offshore structures. In 1996 he moved to the aerospace industry by joining Astrium, an aerospace subsidiary of European Aeronautics Defence and Space company, where as a senior scientist, he played a leading role in conducting design, mathematical modelling and computational analysis of Euro3000 space craft structures and Ariane launcher / spacecraft adapter. It was during this period that he was made a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers for his technical contributions and services to the scientific and engineering communities. In 1998 he returned to academia and joined Brunel University as a lecturer. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2004, Reader in 2005 and Professor in Computational Mechanics in 2009. He has led a number of research projects covering a wide range of topics in the area of Computational Mechanics and has published over 140 papers on various themes in the field. In 2014 Hamid Bahai was appointed as the Head of the newly formed Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at Brunel University London and in 2019 was appointed as the Director of Brunel’s Institute of Materials & Manufacturing. Hamid Bahai’s many theoretical and applied contributions include the development of a new type of non-linear shallow shell strain based finite element and a novel inverse eigenvalue formulation for optimising the vibratory behaviour of structures. His current research interests include development of non-linear finite element formulations and algorithms for fluid-solid interaction and multi-scale continuum-particle numerical simulations. He acted as principal investigator and the chair of government and industrial jointly funded consortiums to work on a high performance computational fluid-solid coupled structural analysis projects. The output of a number of analytical models developed by Hamid Bahai and his co-workers have now become international benchmarks in the scientific community and industry. He has conducted consulting work in the field of structural integrity for many UK and International companies and has given invited talks and courses the world over on various topics in structural computational mechanics. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Computational Mechanics.

Elhem GHORBEL has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years in materials science and engineering from the National High Engineering School of Mines - Paris. She is Professor at CY Cergy Paris University in the department of Civil Engineering (IUT) since 2003. She has several institutional activities and scientific responsibilities at the national and international levels. She has managed several research projects. Her research interests cover the mix design, the mechanical and fracture behavior of materials ( self-compacting, bituminous and resin concretes, composites , polymers), the valorization of inert and industrial wastes in concrete, the repairing and strengthening of concrete by composites, the durability of heterogeneous materials (aging, Chemical attacks, biodegradation and freezing-thawing resistance), … She has supervised 21 theses supported and 6 in progress at this time. She has published 71 papers in reputed journals, 100 conference papers, 4 book chapters and was invited to give more than 15 plenary conferences. She is editorial board member of Advances in Civil Engineering, buildings, …. She participated in the organization of about ten conferences and is in the scientific committee of about thirty international conferences She has scientific exchanges with foreign universities in USA, Italy, Bulgaria, UK, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon. In MINRESCUE, she is the coordinator of the CY Cergy Paris University involved in WP2 (task 2.1) and WP3(tasks 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3).

After doing PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Sheffield (UK) and postdoctoral research assignments, over a period of 2 years, in UK, Germany and Canada, Phalguni’s professional career started with the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC), Ottawa, Ontario in 1999. He led the Insulation and Building Materials Laboratory (IBML) at NRCC. In 2015, Phalguni moved to the University of Victoria (UVic) to be a Professor in the newly established Civil Engineering Department. His research outputs have influenced many changes in building construction practices over the years. He has received several awards/recognitions (ICE Editor’s Choice Journal Paper-2000; ASCE Best Application Paper Award-2002; NRC Industrial Partnership Award-2002; Global Insulation Award-2006; ASTM Honor and Appreciation Awards-2008,2013,2017; BCBEC Industry Research Trailblazer-2017 etc.) from the stakeholders of the construction industry in Canada and abroad. Phalguni is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.

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

Dr. Junjie Wang is currently a Research Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University in China. He received BEng in Civil Engineering from Hunan University in China in 2008, and he got MEng in Civil Engineering from Zhejiang University in China in 2011. His research in Zhejiang University was about performance and durability of Recycled Aggregate Concrete. He later obtained PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 2015 from Queen’s University Belfast, UK. In Queen’s University Belfast, his research was about the Influence of Structural Cracks in Concrete on Transport Properties and Chloride-induced Corrosion of Steel Reinforcement. After that, he joined New York University Abu Dhabi in UAE as a Post-Doc Associate and continued to work there from March 2016 until August 2019. He officially joined Tsinghua University in China as a Research AssistantProfessor in the Department of Civil Engineering since February 2020.Dr. Junjie Wang’s research interests include Recycled Cement, Alternative Sustainable Cementitious Materials, Durability of Concrete Structures, Non-destructive testing and Geopolymer Concrete. He has published 29 good journal papers on these research areas as a first/corresponding author. His h index is 19.

Dr Omar Alajarmeh is Research and Teaching Fellow at the Centre for future Materials-University of Southern Queensland where he was granted his PhD degree from. His research interest includes FRP composites manufacturing and their applications considering their short- and long-term behaviour, design innovative structures and materials, the use of FRP reinforcements in concrete structures and Finite element modelling. His research interest also includes new innovative analytical techniques for predicting and optimising the behaviour of structural elements.

Dr. Berardi is Canada Research Chair in Building Science, Full Professor, and Director of the BeTOP center at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. His main research interests are related to the study of innovative solutions and new materials for improving the performance within the built environment. Dr. Berardi has an extensive publication record, including 150 peer-reviewed journals, 130 international conference papers, and five books, which have received over 12,000 citations (h-index of 47). His awards include (among others): the 10th Canada's Clean16 award and Clean50 winner in 2021 and the 2021 European Thermophysical Properties award. Dr. Berardi has a body of funded research comprising over $2.5M in government and private sector sponsored research.

Dr Iman Hajirasouliha is an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering and Head of Earthquake Engineering Group (EEG) at The University of Sheffield, UK. His principal research interests lie in the areas of earthquake engineering and dynamics, resilient buildings and infrastructure, performance-based optimisation for sustainability and material efficiency, and Artificial-Intelligence (AI) based design with an emphasis on modular low-carbon structures. He has co-authored 3 book chapters and around 140 refereed journal papers and 100 conference publications in these areas. Dr Hajirasouliha has over 18 years of research and consultancy experience and his research has featured in US and European codes of practice. He has been Principal or Co-investigator of over £8M EU and UK funded projects, and is a member of several international technical committees and research networks, including IABSE Task Group 1.1 and fib Task Groups 6.6 and 7.6. Dr Hajirasouliha is currently Associate Editor of the International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering (IJEIE), Practice Periodical on Structural Design & Construction (ASCE), and Frontiers in Built Environment (Earthquake Engineering) and also serves on the editorial boards of several other international journals in the field of Structural Engineering. He has given several invited talks and keynote presentations in key international conferences and workshops.

Civil Engineer from the Univ. of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and PhD from The Univ. of Leeds (UK), Roberto Torrent has some 50 years’ experience as researcher and consultant in the field of Cement, Concrete and Concrete Constructions. He was Director of the Construction Dept. of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) and of the Portland Cement Institute (ICPA) in Argentina. He has been Head of the Concrete Technology and Applications Division of Holcim Technology Ltd. in Switzerland during 20 years. He was also a resident engineer in the construction of Yacyretá Dam (Argentina-Paraguay). Today he is Director of Materials Advanced Services Ltd. (Argentina and Switzerland). He is past-president and honorary president of the Argentine Associations of Structural Concrete (AAHES) and of Concrete Technology (AATH). He was awarded a Fellowship and became Honorary Member of RILEM, having chaired Committees in RILEM and fib.He is currently a member of ACI, fib and SIA. He has lectured in academic and industrial courses and seminarsall over the world and was Invited Professor at MSc and PhD courses in Spain (2012), Japan (2014 & 2017), Switzerland (2014 & 2017) and China (2019). He has authored or co-authoredsome 150papers in Journals and Conference Proceedings and the recently published book “Concrete Permeability and Durability Performance”. He is the inventor of the “Torrent” NDT method to measure the air-permeability of concrete on site(to be demonstrated during his lecture), which is standardized in Switzerland, Japan and Argentina and specified in India, Chile and China. He has served as member of the Editorial Board of Materials & Structures and of Cement & Concrete Research journals.

Dr. El-Salakawy is a Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Manitoba. He was a Canada Research Chair in Durability and Modernization of Civil Structures (2006-2016) in the same department. He carried out his Ph.D. research work and post-doctoral training in Structural Engineering at the University of Waterloo (1996-2001), and then worked as a Research Professor at the University of Sherbrooke for five years (2001-2006) before joining the University of Manitoba in 2006. He is the recipient of the 2020 Mete A. Sozen Award for Excellence in Structural Research presented by the American Concrete Institute (ACI). Dr. El-Salakawy's research interests are in the field of concrete structures, particularly the durability, construction, design, seismic performance, and large-scale laboratory testing of FRP-reinforced concrete structures. He has published over 260 research papers in leading journals and international conferences on various aspects of reinforced concrete and composite materials. Dr. El-Salakawy is an active member of several Canadian and American code committees, international journal editorial boards, international conference committees, research centres and professional societies. Dr. El-Salakawy is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), the American Concrete Institute (ACI), and the International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC).

Dr Jara is a Titular Professor of the Civil Engineering School at the University of Michoacan in Mexico. His research activity includes seismic hazard assessment, seismic vulnerability assessment, cost-benefit studies, use of passive control systems in structures and seismic behavior of bridges. Dr Jara has been principal investigator of several projects supported by CONACyT and the Scientific Research Council (University of Michoacan). He has been Head of the Structural Department and Head of the Graduate Division of the Civil Engineering School and President of the Structural and Seismic Engineering Association of Michoacan. He has been visiting researcher at the Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology Republic of Macedonia, at the European Laboratory for Structural Assessment (ELSA), Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy, at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and at University of Aveiro in Portugal. He has also been invited as Keynote Speaker in National Conferences in México and International Conferences in Spain, Portugal, Brasil, Colombia and India. He is co-author of two books related to the seismic protection of structures with passive energy devices and the seismic hazard assessment. He was also collaborator in the elaboration of two chapters of the new code regulation for the seismic design of structures of the new Manual of Civil Works in Mexico. He is a member of the task groups TG1.1 “Improving Seismic Resilience of Reinforced Concrete Structures” and TG5.5 “Conservation and Seismic strengthening/retrofitting of existing Unreinforced Masonry structures” of the International Association for Bridges and Structural Engineering (IABSE) . He is author of more than 140 papers published in journals and national and international conferences in the area of seismic and structural engineering and he serves in several editorial boards. He has been graduate student advisor of more than 60 Bachelor, MSc and PhD Thesis. He has named National Researcher of the National Council for Science and Technology level II and in 2015 elected to Academy of Engineering

Zhaowei Chen, male, Ph.D., postdoctor, associate professor, working in Chongqing Jiaotong University, major in train-track-bridge dynamic interaction and its control issue, member ofSAE-China, editorial board members of “Engineering and Applied Sciences”,young editorial board members of “Journal of Railway Science and Engineering” and “Journal of East China Jiaotong University”, young committee of experts of Chongqing Jiaotong University. He got more than 15 research funds from governments and industrial companies,and published more than 40 journal papers.

Mohamed Osmani is a Full Professor on Sustainable Design and Construction in the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He is known for his international research and collaborative interdisciplinary projects on circular economy, material resource efficiency, anthropogenic resource classification, construction and demolition waste prevention, recovery and optimization, and impact of building information modelling, virtual prototyping, and blockchain on sustainable project performance. Professor Osmani is an Expert Peer Reviewer for 9 major international funding bodies in the UK, Europe, Asia, and North America. He is currently leading 5 international expert groups, including BS 8895 series, and IWWG Construction and Demolition Task Group. He is also a member of numerous international and UK advisory boards, including United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Expert Group on Anthropogenic Resources, and the UK Government Green Construction Board Resources & Waste Task Group that was tasked to develop a roadmap to achieve ‘zero avoidable waste’ in the construction sector by 2050. Professor Osmani authored over 200 publications; developed a significant portfolio of funded projects, winning more than £8 million (over £40 million cumulative projects’ value); delivered over 20 keynote speeches; and presented his work in more than 40 countries across the world.

Dr. Moselhi is Professor and Director of the Centre for Innovation in Construction and Infrastructure Engineering and Management (CICIEM), Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University. He served as Chair of the department and Executive Advisor to the Dean in graduate studies and research. He has over 40 years of professional and academic experience. His industry experience spans tall buildings, bridges, nuclear power plants, harbor and offshore facilities. He is a Fellow of the Association for Advancement in Cost Engineering (AACE International), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), and of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). Dr. Moselhi supervised and co-supervised over 100 Masters and Ph.D. graduates, authored and co-authored over 400 scientific publications. He served as international consultant on academic affairs and on construction projects in Canada, USA and the Middle East. Dr. Moselhi is a recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the prestigious Walter Shanly Award of CSCE in recognition of “outstanding contributions to the development and practice of construction engineering in Canada” and the Tucker-Hasegawa Award of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC) in recognition of his “major and sustained contribution to the field of Automation and Robotics in Construction”.

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Associate Professor Dr. Zaini Ahmad has been researching in the field of structural impact and crashworthiness for years in Malaysia, United Kingdom and Australia. Dr. Zaini works as an academician in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia and currently serves as the Chair for School of Mechanical Engineering in Faculty of Engineering, UTM. Dr. Zaini has obtained M.Sc in Structures, Impact and Crashworthiness from Cranfield University, United Kingdom and has also been conferred with Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He has also been teaching various engineering courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Computational solid mechanics is of his primary research interest. Other areas of expertises are crashworthiness, impact mechanics, thin-walled structures and light-weight structure. As a professional engineer registered with Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), United Kingdom and Board of Engineer Malaysia, involvement in consultation and industrial collaboration are parts of his interest and goals in disseminating the engineering knowledge publicly. As a scholar, he has been publishing numbers of refereed scientific publications with Elsevier, Springer, SAGE, etc. and also serves on editorial members and core peer-reviewers of several international research journals.

Pijush Samui is working as an associate professor in the civil engineering department at NIT Patna, India. He graduated in 2000, with a B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India. He received his M.Sc. in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2004). He holds a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (2008) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pittsburgh (USA) (2008-2009) and Tampere University of Technology (Finland) (2009- 2010). At University of Pittsburgh, he worked on design of efficient tool for rock cutting and application of Support Vector Machine (SVM) in designing of geostructure. At Tampere University of Technology, he worked on design of railway embankment, slope reliability and site characterization. In 2010, Dr. Pijush joined in the Center for Disaster Mitigation and Management at VIT University as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to a Professor in 2012. Dr. Pijush’s research focuses on the application of Artificial Intelligence for designing civil engineering structure, design of foundation, stability of railway embankment, reliability analysis, site characterization, and earthquake engineering. Dr. Pijush is the recipient of the prestigious CIMO fellowship (2009) from Finland, for his integrated research on the design of railway embankment. He was awarded Shamsher Prakash Research Award (2011) by IIT Roorkee for his innovative research on the application of Artificial Intelligence in designing civil engineering structure. He wasselected asthe recipient of IGS Sardar Resham Singh Memorial Award – 2013 for his innovative research on infrastructure project. He was elected Fellow of International Congress of Disaster Management in 2010. He served as a guest in disaster advance journal. Dr. Pijush is active in a variety of professional organizations including the Indian Geotechnical Society, Indian Science Congress, Institution of Engineers, World federation of Soft Computing, and Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation. He has organized numerous workshops and conferences on the applications of artificial intelligence in civil engineering design. He also serves as an editorial board member and associate editor in several international journals. He has been selected as an adjunct professor at Ton Duc Thang University (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). He has been Visiting Professor at Far East Federal University (Russia). He has published more than 100 international journal papers. He holds the title of docent at Tampere University. He has written several books and book chapters.

Elias C. Aifantis is currently an Emeritus Professor of Mechanics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Greece and Michigan Technological University/USA, as well as Mercator fellow at Friedrich-Alexander University/Germany and a Distinguished Professor at Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture/China. Formerly, he has also been a Distinguished Faculty Advisor at King Abdulaziz University/Saudi Arabia, Distinguished Visiting Expert at ITMO University/Russia and Southwest Jiaotong University/China, as well as MegaGrant Director at Togliatti State University /Russia. He has promoted highly interdisciplinary work in mechanics of materials by bringing into the field of solid mechanics ideas from diffusion theory, chemical reactions, and nonlinear physics. He has coined the terms dislocation patterning, material instabilities, gradient plasticity/elasticity, chemo/nanomechanics, and pioneered internal length gradient (ILG) theories in these fields. Currently, he is extending the ILG framework to revisit electromagnetism and Maxwell’s equations, as well as gravitation and Newton’s Law. He has published over 350 articles and received about 13,402 citations with 59 h-index (Scopus); 12,450 citations with 55 h-index (Web of Science); 20,580 citations with 70 h-index (Google Scholar). He is included in the ISI Web of knowledge list of the world’s most highly cited authors in engineering

Professor Ir. Dr U. Johnson Alengaram is the Director of Centre for Innovative Construction Technology (CICT), a Research Centre under the Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He obtained his Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Madras, India. He is also a Chartered Civil Engineer of world-renowned Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE, UK) and the Engineering Council (UK); he is also a Companion member of Institution of Engineer Malaysia (CIEM), and a life member of the Concrete Society of Malaysia (CSM). He serves as the Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Civil Engineering and in the editorial boards of Jordan journal of Civil Engineering, and Journal of Construction Materials, Frontiers in Built Environment. Professor Ir. Dr U. Johnson Alengaram has been in academic, consultancy, research, and administration and contributed to society in different capacities in India, Bahrain, and Malaysia. His current Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science (WoS) h-index stand at 52, 44, and 43, respectively with the publication of over 140 articles in refereed journals and conferences. His research involves the utilization of industrial by-products and waste materials in concrete, lightweight aggregate, material characteristics, lightweight aggregate concrete, foamed concrete, geopolymer concrete and impact & blast-resistant concrete; his experimental works revolve around investigations on the microstructural behaviour, mechanical properties and durability characteristics, structural behaviour, functional behaviour etc. His research team has won multiple gold and silver awards at the national and international exhibitions, that include, Innovation and Technology Exhibition, International Conference and Exposition on Inventions by Institutions of Higher Learning, Malaysia technological expositions, etc. He received many research grants from the University of Malaya research fund, the ministry of higher education Malaysia, national and international grants including prestigious Newton-Ungku Omar Coordination Fund: UK-Malaysia Research & Innovation Bridges Competition. As the Director of CICT, he has organized conferences, seminars, workshops, school student events, etc. He has supervised 23 Doctoral and Master of Engineering Science students to graduation. He has a research collaboration and activities with various universities in Malaysia, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, China, France, Germany, United Kingdom, India, Japan, Jordan, Oman, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. He has been invited by various Universities in different countries to give the keynote lectures in international conferences, seminars, and research workshops.

William (Bill) Batson Jr. was born in Cleveland, Ohio, once known as the “best location in the nation.” After graduating from Cathedral Latin High School, he attended The Ohio State University and earned three degrees. A BA in Art and BS in Architecture and a Master of Architecture. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor teaching full-time at Prairie View A & M University. He began his career working for several years in the architectural offices and later began a teaching career. Bill started his career with precision hand-drawing, then computer aided drawing (CAD) and presently, using the latest advance in architecture-3D laser scanning technology for historic preservation and archival drawing projects. Bill Batson shares a passion for architecture, its historical context, and its future, especially as it relates to architectural systems and methods of achieving and maintaining a sustainable planet, a universal determination that we all share.

Minho Lee received the Ph.D. from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1995, and is currently a head of graduate school of AI, full professor of School of Electronics Engineering and directors for AI Institute of Technology, KNU-LG Electronics Convergence Research Center, Metaverse AI platform Convergence Research Center, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea. He was a visiting scholar for Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT from 2006 to 2007. He was president for Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) at 2013, and vice president and governing board member for Asia-Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS) and International Neural Network Society (INNS). He received several awards such as APNNA Excellent Service Award (2014) and Best Industry-Academic Cooperation Award (2014), and best paper awards at international conferences. He has been served for several international journals as an associate editor and also for international conference as general chairs. His research interests include deep neural networks, brain-neuroinformatics and natural language processing (Home page: http://abr.knu.ac.kr)

Dr. Ahmed Elshaer is a structural/wind researcher who participated in many mega-scale projects in Canada and overseas. His research group included 4 Ph.D. students, 5 MSc students and 10 undergraduate research students. He has admirable experience in research related to climate impact on structures and numerical modelling of complex structural and fluid behaviour. He received an NSERC Discovery grant to work on a climate-resilient modular design for indigenous housing. His research has gained both national and international recognition with 15 peer-reviewed journal papers, more than 21 conference papers, and 3 invited keynote speeches. His research program aims at addressing the sustainability and resiliency challenges facing the built environment, which offers great opportunities for the training interns for Canada's infrastructure industry. He has extensive experience with structural dynamics, wind engineering and High-Performance Computing (HPC). His academic activity is recognized by many academic awards including the Alan Davenport Award of Excellence and the Lakehead Merit award. He served as the chair and proceedings editor of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE) structures specialty conference in 2022.

Dr. Boyd obtained a BScEng from the University of New Brunswick (1993), an MASc from the University of Toronto (1995), and a PhD from the University of British Columbia (2001), all in Civil Engineering. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University in 2006, following a six-year stint in the University of Florida Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in Canada, was named a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute in 2008, and former chair of the nondestructive testing committees of both ACI and ASTM. Prof. Boyd’s research interests lie in the areas of construction materials and sustainability, particularly as they relate to transportation infrastructure. Specific fields of research include durability, nondestructive testing & evaluation, standards & specifications, repair & rehabilitation, recycling, and hazardous waste reduction & mitigation.

Jeeyoung Lim is a research professor at Department of Architectural Engineering, Kyunghee Universityin South Korea. She was a lecturer and a researcher at Department of Architectural Engineering, Pusan National University in South Korea. And she was a lecturer and a researcher at California State University Long Beach, USA from 2019 to 2021.She has teaching experiences at the United States and South Korea for 5 years. She studied Construction Engineering and Management at the department of architectural engineering, Kyunghee University in South Korea. She had joined three Korean construction firms,Iksungtech Co., Ltd, Kunwon Architects & Engineers Corp., Universe Top Engineering Architects.Through the experience of a total of 5 years and 5 months, including a sales engineer at a construction management company and a director of technologies laboratory at a construction panel manufacturer, she has accumulated practical knowledge and achievements. And she participated in the 2016 Hyundai E&C technology competition and received a bronze statue under the theme of ‘The System Form for Concrete Casting in the Girder Bridge Slab’ to verify technology development capability. She participated in the in-situ production application of precast concrete members at Cheonan.And she had practical knowledge for risk analysis of in-situ production. Through experiences of construction field, shehasconcentrated on the research such as development of sustainable construction technology and management, production technology of free-form concrete panels, cost management of precast concrete, big data, and safety management. In other words, she has concentrated on developing construction methods and technologies that can be applied at construction site. And especially, she has studied simulation, optimization, and risk management of construction technology.She has published 43 papers related to construction project management and technology development. She has been published in fifteen SCI (E) papers including ‘Dynamic optimization model for estimating in-situ production quantity of PC members to minimize environmental loads’ and ‘An experimental study for quality assurance of free-form concrete panels produced by CNC machine’. In addition, based on these activities, she has applied for and registered eitht patents, including ‘The rod type mold for producing free form concrete panel, the producing line system and the producing method of free form concrete panel using the same (Korea Patent, Registration No.10-2097750)’and ‘3-dimension curved surface displaying (Korea Patent, Registration No.10-1848548)’.

ProfessorIakov Iskhakov has 60 years of scientific experience, more than 130 publications, 5 monographs and 6 textbooks. Main scientific interests: - theory of RC elements without empirical coefficients; - earthquake resistance of structures; - reinforced concrete spatial structures. Main scientific discoveries: - The minimax principle; - Quasi-isotropy of RC bending elements in the ULS; - Structural Phenomenon; - Constitutive law of concrete. Main experimental investigations of full-scale structures under static and dynamic loads: - ferro-cement panel-shells 3×12 m and 3×18 m; - RC shells 24×24 m and 24×12 m; - full-scale 9-storey building for high seismicityregions; - two-layer prestressed beams 8 m span. New structures constructed based on the conducted research: - Sports Games Hall 24×24 m (spatial structure); - Tennis Court 48×48 m (spatial structure); - a one-story 18×54 mindustrial building, covered by 3×18 mferro-cement panel-shells; - a 9-story typical residential building in a seismic region; - two-layer RC prestressed bridge beams (proposed for implementation.

Prof. Ying Lei received his PhD degree from Vienna University of Technology.From 1999-2005, He was a visiting scholar and researcher/ lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Stanford University and University of California, Los Angeles, respectively. Currently he is aChaired Professorof Civil Engineering at the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xiamen University. Prof. Lei’s research interests include structural health monitoring, structural system identification and damage detection, structural control, and stochastic structural dynamics.He is the authors of over 200refereed papers in international journals and conference proceedings.He is a member of editorial board of “Structural Monitoring and Maintenance– an International Journal” of Techno Pressand has served as the guest editors of over 10 International Journals and peer reviewer for more than 60 international journals.

Dr. Asad-ur-Rehman Khan is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan. He is also serving as the Dean of Faculty of Civil and Petroleum Engineering in the same University. He did his Bachelors for the same University and completed his Masters and Ph.D. from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Hisresearch interests are Repair and Retrofitting of Reinforced Concrete Structures by Externally bonded CFRP and TRM, Behaviour and design of recycled aggregate concrete structures, Concrete Durability, Computational Modelling, Material Modelling using Damage Mechanics. He has authored or co-authored more than Sixty research papers in International Peer-reviewed Journals and Conferences. He is an active member of American Concrete Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, International Institute of FRP in Construction, RILEM (Senior Member), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. He is also member of Technical Committees of RILEM,292-MCC: Mechanical Characterization and Structural design of Textile Reinforced Concrete; 273-RAC:Structural behaviour and innovation of recycled aggregate concrete.He is involved in International Joint Research Projects as a Lead Investigator from the University.

Professor Ji Wang is the founding director of the Piezoelectric Device Laboratory, Ningbo University. Professor Ji Wang also held visiting positions at Chiba University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Argonne National Laboratory. He received his PhD and Master degrees from Princeton University in 1996 and 1993 and bachelor from Gansu University of Technology in 1983. Professor Wang has been working on acoustic waves and high frequency vibrations of elastic and piezoelectric solids for resonator design and analysis with dozens of US and Chinese patents, over 200 journal papers, and frequent invited, keynote, and plenary presentations in major conferences around world.

Dr. Ahmed Eltwati is an assistant Professor at Department of Roads and Airports Engineering, Bright Star University, Libya. Currently works as a dean of faculty of Aeronautics. Eltwati does research in Pavement Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Civil Engineering. Their current project is 'Use of polymers from waste and reclaimed asphalt pavement to manufacture sustainable bituminous mixtures.

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

She graduated in Architecture from the University of Palermo in 1986, with Prof. Jorge Silvetti of Harvard University (USA) as thesis advisor. From 1987 to 1994 she worked as an architect in Italy and abroad. Since 2000/01 she has been teaching at the University of Palermo in the SSD Icar/12 Technology of Architecture in the Degree Course in Architecture and in the Degree Course in Industrial Design and since 2007 she has been a member of the Board of Teachers of the PhD Course in Architecture at the University of Palermo. She is ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of Architectural Technology ICAR / 12 at the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo (Italy) - FULL PROFESSOR of Design and Technological Planning ASN: 08 C1. She is DELEGATED BY THE RECTOR FOR UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING. SHE IS DELEGATED BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE FOR INTERNSHIP AND PLACEMENT ACTIVITIES. She is the coordinator and scientific manager of international conventions with foreign universities. She is a member of several editorial boards of scientific journals and series. She is chairman of international conferences. She has organised numerous scientific events: conferences, study seminars, ideas competitions, workshops and exhibitions. She has received awards for his scientific activity. She is scientific head and coordinator of national and international research groups. Her main lines of research concern: a) RECOVERY AND VALORISATION OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE; b) REGENERATION OF THE BUILDING ENVIRONMENT from a SUSTAINABLE perspective; c) ENVIRONMENTAL RECONVERSION, ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AND PARTICIPATED DESIGN. She has produced over 200 scientific publications, including 14 monographs, and has participated in many international and national conferences as invited speaker.

Paul Grunow has completed his Ph.D at the age of 30 years from Technical University Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and postdoctoral studies from the COPPE/UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the general manager of Trinity Solarbeteiligungen GmbH, an investment company in renewable energies. Before, he co-founded three companies in the area of photovoltaics based in Berlin, i.e. Solon, Q-Cells, PI Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin. He has published more than 12 papers in reputed journals.

Mohanad M. Abdulazeez is an assistant professor in the Department of civil engineering at Tikrit Universit, Iraq, and a Postdoc fellow researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology (S & T) - Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, USA. His research interests are in the areas of City Infrastructure Resilience and Material recycling and materials recovery from complex products. He has published his work in research publications including journals of ASCE, Transportation Research Record (TRR), Construction and Building Materials, Engineering Structures, American Concrete Institute (ACI), and Journal of Cleaner Production. He received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Missouri University S&T, Rolla, USA and M.Sc. /B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Tikrit University, Iraq

Professor Moon-Young Kim received his Ph.D. (1987), M.S. (1984), and B.E. (1981) from Seoul National University in Department of Civil Engineering. He started his research career as a post-doctoral researcher (1988) in the same University. After three years, he became assistant professor (1991) at Sungkyunkwan University in Department of Civil Engineering. His research activities have been about stability analysis and design of thin-walled steel beams and bridge engineering. His recent interest is about dynamic interaction analysis of Maglev-guidway structures, initial shaping analysis of cable-stayed and suspension bridges, and spatial stability of pre-stressed steel beams with deviators. As his research results, he has published more 50 peer-reviewed, internationally recognized papers. According to Google Scholar, he has received 1,920 citations

Çağrı Ün was born in Adana, Turkey. He graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Chemical Engineering-BS (2008). He completed his MSc (2014) and PhD (2021) degree in Çukurova University. He also graduated from Anadolu University, Business Administration Department (2016). He has been working at Adana Metropolitan Municipality since November 2010. He has a lot of NGO experiences. In May 2017, he was selected as a Member of International Waste Working Group (IWWG) as a result of his academic and governmental work of waste and environmental management. Çağrı Ün has many academic scientific publications and many professional certifications (in the fields of waste, environment, innovation, quality and project management). He attended many national, international seminars and panels. He works as Public Officer for Adana Metropolitan Municipality at EU, World Bank and Development Agency projects. He has a National & International Mentorship certificate. He did scientific and academic studies at USA, Austria, Australia, Belgium, China, France, Iran and Italy. He is married and has two girl.

She is Adjunct Professor 4 at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), in Brazil, and a visiting professor at the University of Birmingham (2022), in the UK. She holds an M.Sc. in Structural Engineering from the University of São Paulo (SET/EESC/USP) and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minho (Uminho/Portugal). She has been teaching various engineering courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research topics are strengthening reinforced concrete elements with FRP materials, FRP bars, TRC/TRM composites, and durability tests. She has authored or co-authored 80 papers in Journals and Conference Proceedings and recently published the book "Fiber-reinforced polymers in civil construction: design of strengthening systems and non-metallic reinforcements applied to bend and shear according to ACI standards", in Portuguese. She is a member of the Brazilian committees IBRACON/ABECE CT 303 - Use of unconventional materials on structures of concrete, fibers, and fiber reinforced concrete, working in the TG 2 (strengthening of existing concrete structures with unconventional materials) and GT3 (Concrete structures reinforced with non-conventional materials). She is also the chairwoman of the Scientific Committee of Concreto & Construções journal.

I am currently working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India. I completed my Ph.D. from IIT Madras recently under the guidance of Prof. A. Boominathan and Dr.Subhadeep Banerjee. I completed my M.E in Geotechnical Engineering in 2012 from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University Chennai, and my bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 2010 from Thiagaraja College of Engineering, Madurai. I have experience in soil dynamics and earthquake engineering, numerical modelling, vibration motoring and geophysical subsoil investigation techniques. My Ph.D. research topic was “Performance of Geogrid reinforced Geo-Base Isolation (GBI) system for seismic protection of buildings.” Geo-Base Isolation (GBI) system refers to a layer of low shear modulus and high damping material between the building foundation and base soil acting as a seismic load filter medium. During my Ph.D., I carried out scaled model experimental studies on footing resting on GBI system comprising of geogrid reinforced sand-rubber mixture in a sand-bed tank set up. Further, I have carried out finite element numerical modelling using ABAQUS, adopting soil-structure interaction to study the performance of low-rise buildings resting on Geo-Base Isolation (GBI) system subjected to seismic loading. Recommendations for the GBI system for low-rise buildings were developed based on the studies. Currently, I am working on the implementation of the GBI technique on a larger scale for low to medium-rise hospital buildings in North-east India (highly seismic prone region) along with my team at IIT Madras in collaboration with Larsen &Tubro (R&D), India. I have carried out extensive full-scale field tests and numerical studies on vibration mitigation from impact pile driving using sand-rubber mixture infill trench barriers. I have led a six-member team consisting of Ph.D. scholars and technicians from IIT Madras to measure vibration at the ground surface/ nearby structures during the controlled blasting induced demolition of high-rise buildings at Maradu, Kochi, India. Further, I am involved in geophysical surveys using the MASW technique for building sites in and around Chennai.

Dr. Rasha Ismail holds a Ph.D. in Business Process Management from the University of the West of England, in 2010 and an MBA in MIS/E-payment from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt. From August 1996 to September 2012, she worked in career teaching until she got promoted to Assistant Professor at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt. Rasha is currently working at the University of Hertfordshire as an Associate Dean of the School of Business and a Program Leader of Business Administration. She has published research about business process modeling, the transition to e-business, and process improvements in education and industry. Rasha Ismail received an award of high-rank publication (Q1) from AUM in 2019, she was also awarded certificates for attending conferences and presenting papers, as well as a certificate of appreciation as a reviewer from IBIMA, in addition to certificates of appreciation from AUM for her efforts for leading and directing students’ Academic Activities and lately in 2021, she received an excellent certificate of appreciation as an invited speaker from 4th International Conference on Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence (MLMI 2021).

Dr. Dibyendu Adak is a Assistant Professor at National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya (NITM). Research Interest 1. Structural Engineering Materials and Design. 2. Concrete Micro-structure. 3. Waste Materials based Sustainable Eco-friendly Green Composite. 4. Sensor based Structural Health Monitoring System. 5. Concrete filled steel tube (CFST).

Malal Kane currently works for the Laboratoire de Environnement, Aménagement, Sécurité et Éco-conception (EASE), Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l’Aménagement et des Réseaux. Malal conducts research in Civil Engineering, Materials Engineering and Transportation Engineering. Its current project is 'ROSANNE - Rolling resistance, Skid resistance, and Noise Emission measurement standards for road surfaces'.

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

Research directions: The properties of materials and structures under intensive dynamic effects (shock, shock-wave load, etc.). Mathematical and numerical modeling of deformation and fracture of materials with complex mechanical properties (anisotropic, gradient materials, composite).

Prof. Ehab Diab is an assistant professor at the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Saskatchewan. His main areas of research are public transit planning and service operations, land-use and transportation planning, and social equity in planning. He has actively engaged in interdisciplinary research that incorporates transportation planning into other disciplines such as health and epidemiology. Dr. Diab is currently serving as an associate editor of the Journal of Public Transportation. He is also a member of the US Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committee on Transit Management and Performance (AP010) and Standing Committee on Light Rail Transit (AP075).

Dr.S.Kanmani is the Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Anna University, Chennai, India. She has teaching experience for 32 years. Areas of Research • Reclamation and Reuse of Industrial wastewaters by Chemical and biological treatment processes • Environmental Applications of AOPs for Industrial Water Pollution Control • Degradation of toxic and non biodegradable organic pollutants in gaseous and aqueous phases • Utilization of renewable solar energy and Design of solar photocatalytic reactors and pilot scale studies for treatment of industrial wastewaters • Utilization and solidification of Industrial sludge • Converting waste into energy(Solar Photocatalytic generation of Hydrogen from hydrogen sulphide) • Environmental Management Plan for Industries • Waste Minimization / Cleaner production for Industrial Waste Management • Remediation of soil for heavy metals and organic pollutants

Dr Ambrosios Antonios Savvides is a MSc Civil Engineer at National Technical University of Athens.

Prof. Stephen Hicks is Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Warwick, and possesses over 20-years of international research and development experience in steel and steel-concrete composite structuresgained in both Europe and the Asia-Pacificregion. He has previously held senior management positions at the Heavy Engineering Research Association in Auckland, New Zealand (2008 to 2019) and the Steel Construction Institute in the UK (1997 to 2008).He is currently serving as Vice Chair of the CEN committee responsible for the European design standard for steel and concrete structures: Eurocode 4. Stephen has also been participating on three Project Teams responsible for developing the second generation of Eurocode 4 since 2015. Between 2011 and 2019, he was both Chair and Drafting Leader of the committee responsible for the first harmonized Australian and New Zealand bridge design standard for steel and composite bridges AS/NZS 5100.6. He also served on the committee responsible for the first Australasian composite building design standard AS/NZS 2327 between 2013 and 2019. As well as participating on several other committees responsible for design, execution and product standards, he has served in a number of governance roles, including Director of the Australasian steel certification bodyACRS and EPDAustralasia.Stephen was also responsible for forming the New Zealand National Group of IABSE and served as its Chair between 2015 and 2019. In addition to national and international standards, he has expertise in the development of new construction products for manufacturers in both Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, such as cold-formed steel sheeting profiles for composite slabs in both normal and fire conditions. Stephen has regularly delivered CPD courses to designers within Europe, Australasia and Singapore, and has also delivered several Eurocode training courses on steel and composite structures in China.

Guillermo is a researcher at Technical University of Madrid, a Chartered Engineer and he also works as a private consultant engineer. He is trying to develop integrated design schemes by enriching traditional engineering design protocols and routines with ecosystem services and eco-engineering approaches. Specialist expertise in ground bio- and eco-engineering solutions and erosion protection. He has a broad experience in river restoration and slope stabilization projects. Guillermo holds a PhD and Msc degrees in Forestry Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (Spain).

The author Kai YE, graduated from Nagoya university, in 25th March 2022. In his doctor course, the reusabilities of cold-formed steel square hollow section after fire, which the type of cold-formed steel square hollow section is widely used in steel structure in Japan, have been studied. During the studies, the reuasabilities including the Charpy impact energies of both the welded connections and cold-formed steel square hollow section are investigated at high-temperature and at the ambient temperature after fire, the post fire mechanical of the cold-formed steel square hollow section including the coupon tensile strength, flexure buckling strength and local buckling strength has been studied. This time, he will do a presentation of his study about a prediction equation of the displacement of the column at high temperature and the residual displacement after fire.

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.

Hakim S. Abdelgader - is a Full Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in 1990 and 1996 respectively from Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland. His research interests include pre-placed aggregate concrete, self-consolidating concrete, concrete with recycled materials, utilization of pozzolanic materials, underwater concreting, concrete durability, and concrete casting in fabric forms. He has authored or co-authored over 70 professional technical papers and reports. He was been involved in organization of several International Conferences and member of Scientific Committees. He is a associate member and voting member of American Concrete Institute (ACI) Committees 221, Aggregates; 237, Self-Consolidating Concrete; 304, Measuring, Mixing, Transporting, and Placing Concrete; 444, Structural Health Monitoring and Instrumentation; and 555, Concrete with Recycled Materials. He is an Editorial Board member of more than five academic Journals. He is reviewer and contributor to American Concrete Institute (ACI), all Elsevier journals related to Construction Materials and Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE). Prof. Abdelgader was elected fellow of ACI in 2019. He has been a keynote speaker at several international conferences in North America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Japan, Iran, and India.

Sabra is a doctor in civil engineering, obtained her PhD degrees recently in early 2022 from the universities of Clermont Auvergne, France and Tunis El Manar, Tunisia. Her field of research is integrated in the calculation of structures and steel construction. She started teaching at her mid-20’s, in the National Engineering School of Sfax as a temporary teacher then she was recruited from the Polytechnic Institute of Advanced Sciences in 2019 to be part of its teaching staff. In 2021, Sabra was appointed as Head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Polytechnic Institute of Advanced Sciences. Throughout her career as a doctoral student, numerous articles and papers have been published in national and international journals, the last of those was selected to represent the Clermont University research in Paris.

Hrvoje Vučemilović is a 45-year-old civil engineering professional with a master of science title, of Croatian nationality. He is a resident of Qatar and an active participant in its’ private construction sector on the side of Contractors. He has 15 years of professional experience whereof 10 years he has been active in Qatar. He is currently pursuing a PhD title at his home university in Croatia but his research subject, as is visible from the title, is bound to Qatar and the Gulf. During the course of his PhD efforts, he has produced and published 2 research papers in the Geotechnical and Geological Engineering journal. He is currently finalizing his PhD thesis which he expects to wrap up by end of year 2022. He is a proponent of an idea that institutions of high learning in the Gulf countries should assume initiative for geotechnical research on their home soil and rock masses, which to date has been, for the most part, in hands of their construction sectors.

Dr Eng Sara Belarouf received his PhD in Mechanics and Energetics at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco in 2021, with a thesis dedicated to treatment and recovery of building waste. After obtaining a The Brussels Faculty of Engineering Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) research fellowship in 2019, Currently an Phd researcher in the research laboratory in Morocco & Belgium and editor in chief of the scientific journal "Global Research Review ».

Maged Gouda is a Technical Product Manager at Advanced Mobility Analytics Group where he oversees the development of sensor-based SaaS for smart traffic safety and transportation asset management applications. Maged Gouda received his M.Sc. in Transportation Engineering from the University of Alberta (U of A) in Canada in 2016. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree at the U of A and Nanodegrees in AI programming and Self Driving Vehicle Engineering at Udacity. His research area focuses on big sensor data analytics to develop data-driven smart urban mobility solutions, smart city, and infrastructure design and study the impacts of emerging trends/technologies on transportation infrastructure design and construction. The quantitative analyses used are utilized to address equity, resilience, and sustainability in smart infrastructure investments. His current research interests include machine learning, 3D point cloud data processing, deep learning applications for the segmentation of point cloud data, image processing, and smart infrastructure design/asset management

Yane Coutinho is currently pursuing a Ph.D degree in Civil Construction at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, where she conducts studies on alternative construction materials. She received her BSc and MSc degrees in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande (2016) and Federal University of Pernambuco (2019), Brazil, respectively. In 2013, she was awarded a grant to study at Brunel University, London, UK, where she conducted studies on self-levelling mortars with addition of fibers. In 2018, she was awarded a grant for a training period at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, at MaMeCh laboratory (Materials and Methods for Cultural Heritage). Her research interests include alternative materials, alkali-aggregate reaction, durability of structures, and concrete properties.

Prof. Vivekanand Singh is a Professor, Dean (R&C) and former Head, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna, India. He has obtained his Bachelor Degree from BIT Sindri, Dhanbad. He has obtained his Master’s degree and PhD Degree in Civil Engineering Department with specialization in Water Resources Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He has more than 30 years of experience in Engineering Education and Research. His research interests are in the areas of Water Resources, Hydraulics, Flood and Drought, Surface and Subsurface Flow Modelling, Irrigation Engineering, Climate Change, Groundwater Recharge etc. Dr. Singh was a scientist at the National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee. He has published around 85 research papers in referred international and national journals and conferences and has supervised 38 M Tech and 06 Ph.D. students. Dr. Singh has worked as Chair Professor of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Chair for Water Resources at NIT Patna. He has organized several summer courses, conferences and workshops. He has also coordinated a few international conferences. He has been working as an Editor in some Indian Journal.

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Dr. Babu Alappat holds a Ph.D (Environmental Engineering) from I.I.T Bombay. He has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience in Environmental Engineering. Currently, Dr. Alappat is a Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, I.I.T Delhi. Also, he is a Visiting Professor in IMT Atlantique, Nantes, France. Prof. Alappat specialises in Environmental Engineering, especially on fluidized bed reactors, solid waste management and thermal treatment techniques. He has published more than 160 research papers in international & national journals and conferences. He is a reviewer of more than 20 international journals. Also, has supervised several Ph.D and M.Tech projects. Prof. Alappat is a consultant to many Govermental and non-Govermental organisations and expert member in several committees. His main contributions in waste management includes: incineration in fluidized bed reactors, waste to energy and environmental indices like incinerability index, leachate pollution index (LPI), etc.

Dr. Sunita Kumari is working as an associate professor in the civil engineering department at NIT Patna, India. She holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering-Geotechnical Engineering (2014) from IIT Roorkee, India. Area of Interest: Geotechnical engineering, Soil dynamics, Liquefaction, Numerical Modeling, Utilization of waste product

Hasan Tosun is professor in the Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey. He is the president of National Association of Dam Safety in Turkey. Dr. Tosun specializes in geotechnics for dam and tunnel engineering, and teaches Soil Mechanics, Engineering Geology and Dam Engineering. Up to 1997, he worked at the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works, and supervised the geotechnical studies of large dams constructed in Turkey. He has over 350 technical papers published in national and international journals and conference proceedings, and is the author of six books on soil mechanics and geotechnical studies of dam structures. He is a member of the ASDSO in USA and CDA in Canada.

Alessandro Bianchi received M.Sc. in 1996 and Ph.D in 2000, both in Architecture, in Florence. In 1997 qualification as registered architect for practice. In 1999 he founded the practice Abad Architects Ltd, specialized in BANKING design and GREEN and PARK design. Visiting fellowship at the Ecole de la Villette de Paris in 2000. Professor at IED of Milan from 2000 to 2005 years. Professor and researcher at the Politecnico di Milano since 2001, he teaches architectural design, since 2018 is an Associate professor in Architectural an Landscape Design. Twice winner of the prize “Nuove Lettere” by Italian Institute of Culture of Naples (2003 and 2005 editions). City Councilor in a metropolitan town of the Milan province, for planning and private buildings, sustainable architecture and policies for urban renovation and reuse of abandoned settlements. He begins his cooperation with China in 2009, with a project of clubhouse for Xiamen Island, and in 2011 for a high-rise building in Xi’an. In 2010 he was invited as exhibitor at the Festival of the Architecture 5. In 2012 he was appointed referee from ERC and editor in chief of the exhibition “Palazzo Te at the mirror” by Palazzo Te Centre. In 2013 and 2014 he is professor at High Polytechnic School (ASP) in Sustainable architecture. In 2015 he was invited as exhibitor at the Cité des Sciences in Paris, Showcase of Asean-EU STI Days, with the project "Smart clinic for New Delhi"​, and with the project “Playing architecture” was selected by China Government for showing his works at the Business Forum Italy-China at Beijing. He wrote six books and more than seventy scientific papers. In 2016 selected for Climat KIC Accelerator with the project SO-HO smart building. Since 2017 member of ANITEC - Confindustria for "Smart Building"​ Commitee. In 2017 Scientific certification by ASN 2016-2018 and in 2018 he is Associate Professor in DAStU, Politecnico di Milano. In 2019 is Scientific Director of the international Workshop Italy-China “Discovering Milan by experience”.

Dr. Samah El-Khateeb is an associate professor in the Urban Design & Planning Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. She was the head of the Architecture Department in Effat College of Architecture and Design, Saudi Arabia for four years starting from 2014 till 2018. She is the PI of the smart and future cities laboratory for sustainable urban solutions funded by STDF, and the PI of the Cairo charter a framework for social and environmental justice-driven Urban AI in Cairo & beyond funded from Facebook Research & HSRC. Additionally, she is also a co-principle investigator of the MOOC entitled "Urban AI: Inspiring Smart Action for African Cities".funded from the African cities lab project. Her research work is focusing on future & smart cities design and sustainable neighborhoods guidelines. She was the PI for many research projects since 2011 between Egypt, Germany like; Ezbet Project. On the practical level, Samah was the executive director of Prime engineering consultants from 2007 till 2013. Currently, she is a smart city’s consultant and Environmental consultant for urban projects. She is also working as an urban planning consultant for national and international bodies. Additionally, she is a member of the Urban AI think tank and she is the country representative of responsible AI network Africa (RAIN AFRICA)

Dr.Roshni holds a Ph.D (Water Resources Engineering) from University of Pisa, Italy. She has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in Water Resources Engineering. Currently, Dr.Roshni is working as an Assistant Professor of Water Resources Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna. Dr Roshniis working on river restoration structures, climate change, soft computing techniques, surface and groundwater ydrology. She has published more than 40 research papers in international journals. She is a reviewer of more than 10 international journals.

Dr. Bappaditya Manna is currently Professor at the Civil Engineering Department of IIT Delhi. Dr. Manna has joined at IIT Delhi in May 2010 and previously, he was at Civil Engineering Department of NIT Rourkela. Dr. Manna did his Bachelor of Engineering (B. E.) in Civil Engineering from Bengal Engineering College (A Deemed University), Shibpur, presently Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur in 2001 and then worked in the construction industry for 2 years. He obtained M.Tech. Degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2005 and then Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2009. Prof. Manna has been actively involved in teaching, research, consulting and also in administration for more than 10 years. He is the author or co-author of more than 40 scientific papers in reputed journals and 70 papers in conferences. He already guided 08 Nos Ph.D. students and 36 Nos M.Tech. Students. He is a member of American Society of Civil Engineers, Deep Foundation Institute, Indian Geotechnical Society and ISSMGE. Prof. Manna has received five best-paper awards of the Indian Geotechnical Society, IEI Young Engineers Award 2012 – 2013, ISTE-SGSITS National Award 2012 – 2013 for Young Teachers, Outstanding Young Faculty Fellow 2011 and DAE Research Award for Young Scientists 2012. He was awarded the Endeavour Research Fellowship 2010 and DAAD Fellowship 2012 for Research Stay. Prof. Manna investigated on the designing of pile foundations and block foundations for machine induced vibrations considering soil nonlinearity, seismic design of reinforced soil slopes, dam-foundation system on jointed rock, soil cement column for soft clay, connected and disconnected piled raft system, and design of reinforced soil walls. Beside that he has started research on vibration isolation system of railway track for high speed trains and underground metros and also on the development of foundation systems for intermediate and deep-water offshore wind platforms.

S M Anas is a Ph.D. candidate and researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University) Accredited with grade A++ by NAAC, New Delhi, India. After completing a bachelor's in civil engineering at Sharda University (India), I post graduated from the Jamia Millia Islamia. I am now conducting a Ph.D. research on blast loading and blast effects on masonry structures. He has published many research articles (over 40) in international journals/conferences contributed as author/co-authors. Research interests: strengthening techniques, finite element modeling, structural performance, composite materials, FRP, AFRP, BFRP, CFRP, GFRP, steel Tubes, metallic foams, pre-tensioned concrete girders, blast-resistant shelters, heritage masonry buildings, masonry walls, underground blasting, ground shock, impact-resistant structures, among others. Recently, he has been awarded "best paper award" at The First International Conference on Recent Advancements in Civil Engineering (ICRACE) 2021 Organizer by the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India. Apart from this, he has reviewed many research articles and worked as a senior reviewer for different journals namely; Structures (Elsevier), Advances in Structural Engineering (SAGE), International Journal of Structural Engineering (InderScience Publishers), Materials Today: Proceedings, and so on. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2649-3611.

Graduated, masters and doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the State University of Maringá (Brazil), the latter with an internship period at the University of Minho (Portugal). She is currently an associate professor at the Federal University of Technology - Campo Mourão Campus. She is also a dual-degree advisor at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança and permanent professor at the Postgraduate Program in Technological Innovations and at the Professional Master in National Network in Management and Regulation of Water Resources. She has experience in Chemical Engineering and Sanitary Engineering, acting on the following topics: production of drinking water, water resources and environmental sanitation.

Amnah Y. Alqenaee obtained her B.S. degree in Civil Engineering at California State University, Fullerton (2018) and her M.S. in Civil Engineering and Architectural Engineering at Pennsylvania State University (2021). She is currently a design engineer at the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). Her research focus has been on establishing an environmentally friendly concrete material suitable for 3D Printing (3DP) and on establishing a 3D printable cob (clay based) mixture. She has participated in several conferences and published a couple of journal papers in this research field.

Dr. Ratan Das is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Science, Assam University Silchar, Assam, Inida. He obtained his B.Sc. Degree in Geology in 2013 from Cotton College, Gauhati University, and his M.Sc. degree in Applied Geology in 2015 from IIT Bombay. He has completed his Ph.D. in Engineering Geology from IIT Bombay in February 2019. His doctoral research dealt with tunnelling induced deformation in jointed rockmass with thesis entitled "Stress and deformational behavior in weak jointed rockmass during tunnelling". Dr. Das also worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, at IIT Kharagpur 2021-22. His broad areas of research are Engineering Geology, Rock Mechanics, and Tunnelling. He is currently a Guest Editor of a Special Issue in the Environmental Earth Sciences Journal (Springer) with IF: 2.784. He has 8 international publications in reputed journals.

Xiaoxu LIANG is a PhD student in the Department of Architecture and Design (Politecnico di Torino) and a current research fellow at the University of Plymouth. Her research interest to holistic cultural heritage management in the rapidly Chinese urbanizing contexts. She has published several articles on the interaction of Information and Technology tools with public participation in urban heritage sites.

C G Krishnanunni is a Ph. D. candidate and researcher at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, USA. He received a B. Tech degree in Civil Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut and M. S degree in Structural Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Previously, he has published numerous research articles in the field of structural health monitoring, computational dynamics and signal processing. His current research interests lies at the intersection of scientific machine learning, mechanics and mathematics.

Kobe Samuel Mojapelo has twenty-one years’ experience in the Engineering and Built Environment industry,specializing in materials, road structures, structural engineering, rehabilitation of structures and heavy earthworks design. He has extensive experience in project conceptualization, economic, financial analyses, project management, and contract administration in the public and private sectors. He co-founded SML Projects, a civil engineering consulting firm operating for over a decade. He has been instrumental in the ISO 9001:2015 certification of the firm, working tirelessly to ensure that quality control and quality assurance are- and remain at the forefront of managing and delivering projects. He also served as a Director of Mocha Labs, a civil engineering laboratory which received its South African National Accreditation System (SANAS) certification in 2017. He is a registered Professional Technologist with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), holds a master’s degree in Civil Engineering and is currently pursuing a PhD in Civil Engineering at Tshwane University of Technology. He aspires to see a radical change in the Engineering and Built Environment and intends to be at its forefront by mentoring research students.

Eddy Yusslee is a Professional Civil Engineer (P.Eng) currently a PhD student working with Assoc.Professor Dr Sherif Beskhyroun and Professor John Tookey at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. Before this, he served for over 12 years as a civil engineer working with an engineering consulting firm and construction company. He was involved in many projects, mainly forensic engineering, and concrete rehabilitation. His research at AUT focuses on developing eco-friendly cementitious materials as an alternative to conventional Portland cement. The cement binder is composed ofindustrial by-products such as fly ash, slag and metakaolin, activated with the alkaline activator to produce Alkali Activated Materials (AAMs), which can be utilized in the form of paste, mortar, and concrete. His research on the hybrid one-part alkali-activated mortar has been selected and awarded the Doctoral Scholarship under The School of Future Environments (SoFE), AUT, for the research on green and sustainable construction materials technology.

Master in Crisis Management from University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica (Croatia). Currently a PhD candidate in the field of the Security Studies at the Faculty of Faculty of Criminalistics, Criminology and Security Studies University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Employed at the Croatian Centre for Earthquake Engineering (CCEE) at the Faculty of Civil Engineering University of Zagreb on the project of Earthquake Risk Assessment of the City of Zagreb as the project administrator. One of the founders of Croatian Centre for Earthquake Engineering – Intervention Service (CCEE-IS), an NGO founded for organising participation of engineers in Civil Protection System of Republic of Croatia. At the CCEE-IS serving as the Management Board Member responsible for Operational activities. During the first year responsible for most of the CCEE-IS activities which were mainly directed towards setting up the organisation for future development. Also, inside the CCEE-IS serving the role of a Coordinator of all the CCEE-IS activities in the disaster struck area following the 2020 Petrinja Earthquake which include assessing the damage and usability of the affected buildings and infrastructure, assessing the need for urgent demolition of most damaged buildings, managing of the building damage and usability database, providing data and expert knowledge to other participants of the Civil Protection System and reconstruction process. As a Coordinator, regular participant of the meetings of the National Civil Protection Headquarters for mitigating the consequences of the devastating earthquake, where all the strategic decisions are made.