Senior Engineer (Professor Level) , Guanghua Yang

Guangdong Research Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower, China

Guanghua Yang, male, born in 1962, is a member of the Communist Party of China. He holds a Ph.D. and is a professor-level senior engineer, doctoral supervisor, and nationally certified civil engineer (geotechnical and hydroelectric engineering). He is also an inaugural Guangdong Provincial Engineering Survey and Design Master, Honorary President and Director of the Academic Committee of the Guangdong Research Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower, Chief Science and Technology Advisor to the Guangdong Provincial Department of Water Resources, and Chairman of the Guangdong Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering. With a long-term dedication to geotechnical engineering, he discovered and established a new theory—the Generalized (Plastic) Potential Theory. He proposed the incremental calculation method considering the entire construction process, the in-situ soil tangent modulus method for nonlinear settlement calculation of foundations, and a new approach for determining foundation bearing capacity based on the load-settlement curve of actual foundations. Additionally, he introduced the stress-displacement field method for slope stability analysis. He has participated in or led over 300 engineering research, treatment design, and consulting projects, published four monographs, and authored more than 300 academic papers. He has presided over three National Natural Science Foundation of China projects and served as the chief editor of two Guangdong provincial local standards while contributing to the review and compilation of multiple local standards in Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City.

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. Xiangqiu Wang

Foshan University, China

Xiangqiu Wang, Doctor of Engineering, Professor at Foshan University, Deputy Director of Guangdong Provincial Civil Engineering Technology Research Center, and Director of the Institute of Urban Underground and Rail Transit Engineering. He also serves as a part-time doctoral supervisor at Hunan University, a visiting professor at Guizhou Provincial Water Resources Research Institute, a peer review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, a member of the Foundation Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Society of Civil Engineering and Architecture, a member of the Tunnel and Underground Engineering Committee of the Guangdong Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, a council member of the Foshan Society of Civil Engineering and Architecture, and a reviewer for academic journals such as Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Journal of Vibration and Shock, and European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering. His research interests include: rock and soil mechanics and underground structure engineering, construction control and health monitoring of civil engineering.

Prof. Dong Su

Shenzhen University, China

Dong Su, Male, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, and Deputy Dean of the Future Underground Urban Research Institute at Shenzhen University. He graduated from the Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University in July 2000 with a bachelor's degree, and obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in January 2005. His research focuses on intelligent monitoring and risk decision-making for underground infrastructure, macro-micro mechanical properties of soil, and soil–underground structure interaction. He has been selected as a provincial training target of the Guangdong Provincial "Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talent Project," a local high-level talent of Shenzhen, a high-level overseas talent of Shenzhen, and one of the first "Liyuan Excellent Young Talents" of Shenzhen University. He has led one national key R&D program project and five projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, published over 70 academic papers, edited one textbook, and has been granted 4 Chinese invention patents, 2 U.S. invention patents, and 7 software copyrights. He received the Second Prize of the Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Award (Natural Science) in 2016.