Speaker
Professor, Bing Xu, Nanchang Institute of Technology, China.
Xu Bin, Professor, Master Supervisor, Dean of School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Nanchang Institute of Technology. He enjoys the special allowance of the State Council, the technical leader of major disciplines in Jiangxi Province, and the Millions of Talents Project in Jiangxi Province. Over the years, he has been unremittingly combining theoretical teaching and scientific research, mainly in geotechnical engineering, orbital engineering, seismology, etc., scientific research involves mathematics, physics, solid mechanics, materials science, structural engineering and computer science and other multidisciplinary basic theory and applied technology, especially in soil dynamics research. His research has been supported by 5 National Natural Science Foundation of China and Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation Key Project Fund, and his research results in the basic theory of vibration wave propagation in saturated soft soil foundation, the calculation method of soil-structure system coupling effect and the vibration isolation control mechanism have been published in domestic and international top professional core journals. For example, "Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering", "Computers and Geotechnics", "Mechanics Research Communications", "Journal of Sound and Vibration", "Geotechnical Mechanics", "Chinese Journal of Civil Engineering", etc. He has published more than 110 related academic papers. Among them, 49 papers were retrieved by SCI, 81 were retrieved by EI, and 3 monographs were published. The research results have been cited 284 times by experts at home and abroad, including 274 times by SCI. The research results won the second prize of Jiangxi Province Natural Science Award (ranked first), the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award and the Shanghai Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2018.
Prof Chun-Qing Li, a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers of UK (FICE)
Prof Chun-Qing Li has been a professor of civil engineering since 2006 initially in UK and now at RMIT, Australia. He is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers of UK (FICE) as well as the Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust). He is also a chartered professional engineer of these two institutions. Professor Li has served on a number of professional bodies, including codes and standards committees, editorial boards, conference committees and so on. He was the Head of School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering in RMIT University from 2011 to 2016 during which period he changed the culture of the School, doubled the research outputs of the School and increased the ranking of Civil Engineering to within top 100 in the world. Professor Li’s core research expertise is time-dependent reliability theory and its application to whole life care of corrosion-prone infrastructure. His contribution to time-dependent reliability theory is that he derived a closed-form solution to first passage probability for non-stationary Gaussian stochastic processes in 1993 and more recently (2016) he derived a new solution to first passage probability for nonstationary and non-Gaussian process. Professor Li is one of the first researchers to advance research on corrosion from material perspective to mechanical and structural perspectives since 1998; one of the first to apply first passage probability method to service life prediction of deteriorating structures since 2004; one of the first to propose risk-cost optimisation for developing maintenance strategy for deteriorating structures since 2007; and one of the first to develop models for mixed modes fracture failures of buried pipes since 2013. Professor Li’s research in risk-based service life prediction of civil infrastructure was rated “international leading” (i.e., 4* - the highest rating) in UK’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Professor Li has published over 300 papers and more than 170 papers are published in high quality international journals, e.g., ASCE journal of engineering mechanics, journal of structural engineering, ACI journals etc.. He has been awarded many research grants in total over $10 m since 2000 as lead or sole CI from both national research councils of UK and Australia where he has worked, e.g., UK’s Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and Australian Research Council (ARC). Professor Li is ranked by Elsevier the “Top 2% scientists in the world” (the highest ranking) for both single-year impact in 2020 and for career-long impact based on more than 20 indicators.
Dr. SULISZ Wojciech, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.
PhD - Institute of Hydroengineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdańsk. Author and co-author of a book and more than 70 publications in refereed international journals and more than 200 conference papers and scientific/technical reports focusing on mathematical modeling of generation and propagation of nonlinear waves, freak waves and extreme wave kinematics, wave forecasting and hindcasting problems, interactions of nonlinear waves with structures, interactions of waves with wave energy converters, wave-induced loads on coastal and offshore structures, wave impact and vibrations problems, waves in harbors, tsunamis, renewable energy, sediment transport, morthodynamics, coastal zone management, environmental protection, climate changes, sustainable development, artificial intelligence, etc. Prof. W. Sulisz is the head of the Department of Wave Mechanics and Dynamics of Structures of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Docent at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, a member of the International Committee to establish ISO standards, ISO/WG8 -‘Bases of Design of Structures – Action from Waves and Currents’. He conducted research for more than 9 years in international institutions, led more than 100 projects, was the partner of many European Union projects including LIMAS, MaxWave, HYPOCAS, CEM, FLOODsite, CONSCIENCE, LAGOON, MERMAID, ARCOASTS, NULIMAS, MUWIN, and was an invited speaker in more than 70 universities and research institutions worldwide. Moreover, he has presented numerous invited seminars and invited training courses, and workshops in universities and research institutions around the world.
Professor Gang Zhang, Chang'an University. China.
Dr. Gang Zhang is a University Distinguished Professor at Chang’an University (CHD) and an International Famous Expert in the field of bridge fire safety. He serves as Director of Research Center on Bridge Extreme Loading and Protection, 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 “Fire Theory and Calculation Method of Bridge Structure” published by China Communications Press. Prof. Zhang He has been “elected” as “Fellow” of two academies/associations.