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.

Professor Jaehong Lee, Sejong University, Korea.

Professor Jaehong Lee is a faculty member in the Department of Architectural Engineering at Sejong University, Seoul, Korea, and a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST). He is an internationally recognized scholar in computational mechanics and AI-driven structural engineering, with particular expertise in finite element analysis, composite structures, and thin-walled beams. He is widely regarded as a pioneer of physics-informed learning frameworks for structural analysis, integrating first-principles mechanics with modern artificial intelligence to develop scalable, parametric, and data-efficient modeling approaches. His recent contributions include Physics-Informed Fourier Neural Operators (PIFNO), graph neural networks for truss structures, and deep learning-based frameworks for structural drawing interpretation. According to Scopus, he has published over 310 papers, with an h-index of 62 and more than 11,900 citations.

Prof. Yan Jiabao, Tianjin University, China

Prof. Yan Jiabao is a Professor at Tianjin University, China, holding a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore (2012). He previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NUS and as a Structural Engineer in China. His research focuses on steel structures, steel-concrete composite structures, and reinforced concrete structures, with special interests in seismic performance and Arctic offshore structures. He has published over 160 journal papers, authored 7 books, and serves on the editorial board of Buildings. Prof. Yan has been recognized as a World's Top 2% Scientist for four consecutive years (2020–2023) and has received multiple first-prize provincial science and technology awards. He has led numerous research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and industry partners such as China National Offshore Oil Corporation. His recent work emphasizes low-temperature material behavior and composite structures for cold-region and Arctic applications.

Prof Sara Moridpour, RMIT University, Australia.

Prof. Sara Moridpour holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and earned both her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Traffic and Transportation Engineering. With over 23 years of professional and research experience in the field, she has been a member of the academic staff at RMIT University since 2010, and she is currently a Professor of Transport Engineering.Sara is actively involved in a wide range of research and professional activities both within RMIT and in the broader transport engineering community. She has led and contributed to numerous projects, published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and presented her work at leading national and international conferences. Her areas of expertise include transport modelling, traffic simulation, road safety, and sustainable transport, with over 165 publications
In addition to her research contributions, Sara has served on the technical and organising committees of various conferences and holds editorial board positions with several engineering journals.

Prof Rui He, Hohai University, China.

Having earned his Ph.D. from Zhejiang University with joint training at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, he has since served as Principal Investigator for over 10 research grants, including three projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and a Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund. He has published over 80 academic papers, with more than 40 indexed SCI papers as first/corresponding author, holds over 10 authorized invention patents, and authored one English monograph. He serves as Guest Editor-in-Chief for *Frontiers in Marine Science*, Youth Editorial Board Member for the *Journal of Hohai University*, and a panel judge for the CSCIED Science and Technology Core Evaluation Database. He has been a Technical Committee member for the 2023 International Conference on Civil and Ocean Engineering, convener of the Geoshanghai 5th International Conference on Marine Geotechnical Engineering Session, and has delivered five invited presentations at domestic and international conferences. Additionally, he is a member of the Expert Database of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and a Council Member of the Sub-committee on Geological Disaster Prevention and Control in Ocean Engineering.

Prof. Asen Asenov, University of Ruse "Angel Kanchev", Bulgaria.

Prof. Asen Asenov is a faculty member at the University of Ruse "Angel Kanchev", Bulgaria, where he holds a position in the Department of Transport within the Faculty of Transport. His teaching and research focus on transport systems and logistics, with particular emphasis on road transport management, green mobility technologies, multimodal logistics, and intelligent transport systems. He has extensive experience in supervising student projects, preparing academic publications and teaching aids, serving as a reviewer for journals and conferences, and contributing to national and international research projects. Prof. Asenov has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Transport (2021–2023) and has published widely on topics such as digital twins for roundabouts, driver working hour optimization, and low-emission transport zones. is a faculty member at the University of Ruse "Angel Kanchev", Bulgaria, where he holds a position in the Department of Transport within the Faculty of Transport. His teaching and research focus on transport systems and logistics, with particular emphasis on road transport management, green mobility technologies, multimodal logistics, and intelligent transport systems. He has extensive experience in supervising student projects, preparing academic publications and teaching aids, serving as a reviewer for journals and conferences, and contributing to national and international research projects. Prof. Asenov has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Transport (2021–2023) and has published widely on topics such as digital twins for roundabouts, driver working hour optimization, and low-emission transport zones.

Prof. Xiang Ping, Central South University, China.

Prof. Dr. Xiang is a professor at Central South University, a doctoral supervisor, associate director, and an expert selected for Hunan high-level talent program. He completed his doctoral degree at the City University of Hong Kong in 2012 and served as a postdoctoral researcher and associate researcher at the City University of Hong Kong from 2012 to 2017.

He has been the principal investigator for a National Natural Science Foundation of China project, and he has published over 120 research papers, including more than 100 SCI-indexed papers, several of which are highly cited (ESI) papers, and multiple top-tier SCI papers. Dr. Xiang has been granted 3 patents and holds 14 software copyrights. Dr. Xiang has also been invited to visit several international universities, including Swansea University and the University of Strathclyde in the UK, Kunsan National University in South Korea, and Dartmouth College. Dr. Xiang's research interests encompass the dynamics of high-speed railway track-bridge systems, the safety of high-speed railway bridges under seismic actions, finite element methods in computational mechanics, meshless methods in computational mechanics, prefabricated construction, composite structures, computational micro and nano mechanics.

Prof. Dr. Raja Rizwan Hussain , King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

Prof. Dr. Raja Rizwan Hussain is a Professor of Civil Engineering at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, and the Director of the Corrosion Laboratory at the Center of Excellence for Research. He earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo (Global Top 20) in just two years, where he received the prestigious Furuichi Kimitake Prize. With over 252 publications, 13 international patents, 28 research projects totaling more than 13 million USD, and more than 112 awards, his research focuses on reinforced concrete technology, corrosion science and protection, and the application of nanotechnology in corrosion prevention. He has served on 131 journal editorial boards and 122 conference committees, delivered speeches in over 60 countries, and accumulated more than 25 years of hands-on engineering experience across over 100 construction projects worldwide.