Prof. Zhenyu Yin

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China

Zhenyu Yin, Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Yin received his Bachelor's Degree in Architectural Engineering from Zhejiang University in 1997, and then worked in Zhejiang Jiahua Architectural Design Co., Ltd. for 5 years. He received his Master's Degree and Ph.D. Degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Ecole Centrale Polytechnique de Nantes, France, in 2003 and 2006, respectively (with a joint training program at Tongji University during his Ph.D. period). He was selected as one of the "Oriental Scholars" by Shanghai Municipality in 2011. He is also an associate editor of European Journal of Environment and Civil Engineering (EJECE), Geotechnique Letters, ASCE-IJOM, and an associate editor of Canadian Geotechnical Engineering (Can. Geot. J.), Acta Geotechnica, Transportation Geotechnics, Computers and Geotechnics, GeoRisk, IJNAMG and other journals editorial board; mainly engaged in teaching and research in geotechnics and geotechnical engineering, in recent years, he has published more than 300 SCI papers in international core journals. Prof. Zhenyu Yin's main research interests include: (1) macro and micro properties of soils and constitutive relationships; (2) model testing and numerical analysis of large deformations in geotechnical engineering; (3) application of artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering.

Prof. Guoxiong Mei

Zhejiang University, China

Guoxiong Mei was born in August 1975 in Huangmei, Hubei Province. He received his PhD in April 2002 from the State Key Discipline of Geotechnical Engineering at Hohai University. In December 2003, he received the Huo Yingdong Young Teachers Award; in December 2004, he was specially promoted to professor; in July 2008, he received the Youth Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering; in August 2013, he received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; in December 2014, he was appointed a Distinguished Professor under the Changjiang Scholars Program; in November 2018, he was selected as a member of the Civil Engineering Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education; in March 2019, he received the Mao Yisheng Young Award for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering; and in May 2020, as a key member, he won the medal for one of the Top 10 Teams in the Second National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (ranked fourth, and the only geotechnical engineering representative in the team). Prof. Mei has been listed for many consecutive years among the world’s top 2% scientists, and in 2022 he was appointed as a Qiushi Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang University. He has led projects that won first prizes for provincial science and technology progress, technological invention, and teaching achievements. He has published four monographs with Science Press and over 100 papers. He has also been listed for many consecutive years among the world’s top 2% scientists. He holds one patent each in the United States, Australia, and the Netherlands; 32 Chinese invention patents, 14 of which have been transferred for commercialization; and he has obtained three national construction methods and nine provincial construction methods.

Prof. Shuying Wang

Shenzhen University, China

Shuying Wang, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor at Shenzhen University, serves as Director of the Department of Civil Engineering (College of Civil and Transportation Engineering) and Deputy Director of the Underground Polis Academy. He was honored as a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (2020) and received the Fok Ying-Tung Education Foundation Young Scientist Award (2022). His research focuses on tunnel and underground engineering. He has led over 30 national, provincial, and industry-commissioned research projects and has received more than 10 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards. Notably, as the principal investigator, he won the First Prize of Guangdong Provincial Scientific and Technological Progress Award (2024), the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award from the China Highway and Transportation Society (2025), the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award from the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering (2024), and the Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Education (2019). He is an active member of the Working Group on Mechanized Tunnelling of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) and a member of the TC204 Technical Committee of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). He also serves as an executive director of both the Underground Engineering Branch and the Underwater Tunnel Engineering Branch of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering (CSRME), and as a director of the Tunnel and Underground Engineering Branch of the China Civil Engineering Society (CCES).

Prof. David BASSIR

Paris Saclay University, Frence

DGUT-CNAM Institute, Dongguan University of Technology, China

David BASSIR is as Professor at the French University of Technology UTBM and also a Senior Research at Ecole Normal Superieur ENS- Paris Saclay University. Previously, he was the dean of IUT at the University of Lorraine (France), Consult for Science and Technology at the French Embassy to serve at the Consulate General of France in Guangzhou (China), General Director of Research at the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics, du Batiment et de l'Industrie (Paris) and Space Craft engineer at GECI Technology in different space agencies such as Arianespace and Astrium Group. He joined the mechanical department of the UTBM as associate professor in 2001 and the Chair Aerospace Structures in 2008 at Technical University of Delft as visiting professor. He holds a Master and a PhD degree in structural optimization from the University of Franche-Comté (France). He has published more than 150 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings, including more than 56 articles in indexed journals. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Int. journal IJSMDO (Scopus, EI) that is published by EDP Sciences.

RAMSTER Benjamin

Emerald Publishing, UK

Ben Ramster is Commissioning Lead - Journals at Emerald Publishing. He has over 15 years’ experience working in the editorial offices of international peer reviewed journals. At ICE Publishing, he was responsible for editorial strategy, new journals, editor recruitment and author care. He manages the editorial team, who handle 4,000 new article submissions per year across 30 engineering and five materials science journals. Established in 1836, ICE Publishing is a leading provider of information for researchers and practitioners worldwide in the fields of civil engineering, construction and materials science. Its founder, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), UK is an influential, not for profit, professional membership body. It provides unrivalled support to its 96,000 civil engineer members around the world, supporting life-long learning. Ben began his career working for the Trends division of Elsevier on titles Drug Discovery Today and Trends in Neurosciences. Based in Cambridge and then in London, he was responsible for peer review and science news writing.