Dr. Venkatesh Kodur is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. He also serves as Director of the Centre on Structural Fire Engineering and Diagnostics at Michigan State University. His research interests include: Evaluation of fire resistance of structural systems through large scale fire experiments and numerical modeling and Characterization of materials under high temperature. His research contributions has lead to the development of fundamental understanding on the fire behavior of material and structural systems and also resulted in numerous design approaches and innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing fire-resistance of structural systems. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences, and has given numerous invited key-note presentations. He is one of the highly cited authors in Civil Engineering and as per Google Scholar, he has more than 12,000+ citations with an "h” index of 61. The methodologies, techniques and design guidelines, resulting from his research, have been incorporated in to various codes and standards, as well practical applications, in the US and around the world and are instrumental in minimizing the destructive impact of fire in the built infrastructure. Prof. Kodur is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute, Fellow of the Society of Fire Protection Engineering, and Fellow of the American Concrete Institute. He is a professional engineer and serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Structural Engineering, and Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, as Past Chairman of ACI Fire Protection Committee, as Chairman of ASCE-29 (Fire) Standards Committee and as a member of UK-EPSRC College of Reviewers. He has won many awards including MSU University Distinguished Professor, AISC Faculty Fellowship Award, MSU Distinguished Faculty Award, NRCC (Government of Canada) Outstanding Achievement Award and NATO Award for collaborative research. Dr. Kodur was part of the FEMA/ASCE Building Performance Assessment Team that studied the collapse of WTC buildings as a result of September 11 incidents.

Professor Brahim Benmokrane holds the Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Composite Materials for Bridges & Structures and the NSERC Industrial Senior Research Chair in Innovative FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Infrastructures at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. Professor Benmokrane is among the world’s top and most talented civil engineer-researcher in the field of structural concrete internally reinforced with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcement. His research has significantly influenced the development of concrete structures reinforced with FRP bars, building codes, design specifications, and its practical use in North America and beyond. He has pioneered the development of related specifications and industry standards for using these new structural materials. His recognition as a leader in his field is not limited to his colleagues in academia but extends to industry, professional societies, and public agencies. His contributions go beyond his cutting-edge research to include leadership and involvement in developing international design codes and specifications for engineers and users. His research and professional services have been recognized with several awards. Some of his more note-worthy awards have come from ACI, ASCE, CSA, and the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science). For the last 20 years, Professor Benmokrane has published over 645 papers and books and given over 250 lectures worldwide. He is one of the scientists most cited in the world in the field (11,423 Citations, h-index=59, by Google Scholar, by August 10, 2020). He currently leads a research group of 30 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and has trained 162 researchers.

Brian Uy is Professor of Structural Engineering and Head of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney. He is Chairman of the Standards Australia Committees BD32 on Composite Structures for Buildings and BD-90-Part 6 on Steel and Composite Structures for Bridges. He is the Chairman of the Australia Regional Group of the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Australian Group of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering. Brian is a Fellow of Engineers Australia, the Institution of Structural Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers and the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering.

Slobodan P. Simonovic is universally acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on application of Systems Analysis to water and environmental management. He advanced understanding of water and environmental systems, providing decision-makers with tools to support their sustainable management. His demonstrated leadership in the scientific community, leading-edge research contributions, mentorship of the next generation of scholars, and joint research projects and consulting work have greatly influenced academia, industry, and government internationally. He provides unparalleled contributions to global and local management of water that have improved the lives and livelihoods of millions of people worldwide. His work has a significant impact on our understanding of system linkages between humans, and build and natural environments that lead to sustainable water resources management and resilience as a new development paradigm.

Dr. Xiong (Bill) Yu is the Frank H. Neff professor of Civil Engineering, Case Western Reserve University. His research emphasizes the use of interdisciplinary approaches to address the engineering problems in geosystem and civil infrastructure. His research activities include multiscale and multiphysics processes in geomaterials, smart sensors and materials, intelligent infrastructure and systems, bio-inspired engineering. He is the PI of over 40 research projects funded by federal, state agencies and private industry. He is a recipient of a NSF CAREER award in 2009.He has published around 300 papers in journals and referred conference proceedings, a number of which received awards and recognitions.He is committed to graduate student mentorship with large number of students successfully launched academic career, including 2 received NSF CAREER awards. He was elected as Fellow of ASCE in 2015. Among the awards and recognitions, he is a recipient of Case School of Engineering Faculty Research Award in 2019 and 2012 respectively, and Faculty Innovation Award in 2018. For professional service, he serves on the editorial board of a few journals, as chair of the ASCE Geo-Institute Engineering Geology and Site Characterization committee, as president/immediate past president of the International Association of Chinese Infrastructure Professionals, asChair of Case School of Engineering Executive Committee. He currently serves as the interim chair of the Department of Civil Engineering.

Dr.Guang Ye is an associate professor in the Section of Materials and Environment of TUDelft. He is the Chair of the research group of Concrete Modelling and Materials Behavior. He received his PhD with honor from TUDelft in 2003. After his PhD, he spent one year as postdoc in Ghent University, Belgium. In 2005 he received VENI grant from NWO and worked as senior researcher in TUDelft, afterwards as assistant, associate professor till now. Dr. Ye is also a guest professor in the Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research, Faculty of Structural Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium since 2006, and a gust professor of several Chinese universities and institutes, like Chinese Building Academy, Southeast University, South China University of Technology. Dr. Ye received his PhD in Concrete Structures and Materials in 2003. His research interests focus on the properties of cementitious materials, i.e., early age hydration and microstructural development, permeability and durability. As author/co-author, he has published 300 journal/conference papers. He is also the editor/co-editor of 8 conference proceedings and Chapter contribution of 6 books Dr. Ye is the member of several RILEM Technical Committees, like TC-ICC, TC-ATC, TC-SHC, and TC-SAP, TC-DTA and fib committee of 8.10 and 8.12.

Prof. G. Q. Li is currently a professor of structural engineering at the College of Civil Engineering in Tongji University and the director of Research Centre of Education Ministry of China for Steel Construction. He is a vice-chairman of China Association of Construction Standardization, the Chairman of China Association for Fire-Resistance of Steel Construction and the country representative of China for Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. He is the director for the committee for Accreditation of Higher Education for Civil Engineering in China and the director of the steering committee of Civil Engineering Education of China. He is also a fellow of Institution of Structural Engineers in UK, an Honorary Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Steel Construction and the first class Professional Engineer in China. He has been in involved in research and practice in steel structures covering a wide spectrum of interests, including advanced analysis and design of structures subject to earthquakes, fires and explosions. He has authored or co-authored 13 technical books and published more than 450 journal papers in either Chinese or English. He serves on the editorial boards of 7 international journals and 12 national journals of China. He is the leading or a key person responsible for the development of 14 Chinese Codes relevant to the design and construction of steel structures.

Dr.Mike Kagioglou is Professor of Process Management and Dean of Engineering at Western Sydney University, Australia. Previous to that he was the Dean of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Mike's career spans Engineering, Manufacturing, Creativity, Design, Architecture and the Built Environment, engaged in inter and multidisciplinary research at a global level. He was an Academic Director for the £11 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded interdisciplinary Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (IMRC) in Health and Care Infrastructures Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC) and was previously the Director of the £8 million EPSRC Salford Centre for Research and Innovation (SCRI) in the built and human environment. Mike has published more than 200 academic referred papers, many industrial reports and three books.

Professor Srinath Perera is the Director for the Centre for Smart Modern Construction(c4SMC) and holds a personal chair in Built Environment and Construction Management in the School of Built Environment at Western Sydney University. He is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Builders. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2017. He is also member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors and the Australian Institute of Project Managers. He holds a PhD from University of Salford, UK. Professor Perera is a pioneer in the field of construction informatics where his work contributed in the integration of AI technologies to construction and project managementsubsequently developing his research in the area of e-business in construction. He co-authored a research monograph “Advances in Construction ICT and e-Business” in 2017 published by Routledge. He has over 32 years’ experience in both construction industry and academia researching on areas of sustainability, resilience and construction ICT that lead to the publication of two internationally recognised text books by Routledge: “Cost Studies of Buildings” (2015) and “Contractual Procedures in the Construction Industry” (2017). He has over 200 peer reviewed publications and his current research leads work in the areas of Blockchain, IoT, Big Data and FinTech applications in construction, use of new business models, skill profiling and performance in construction leading to Industry 4.0.

Ning Lin is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Lin’s research areas include Natural Hazards and Risk Analysis, Wind Engineering, Coastal Engineering, and Climate Change Impact and Adaptation. Her current primary focus is hurricane risk analysis. She integrates science, engineering, and policy to study hurricane-related weather extremes (strong winds, heavy rainfall, and storm surges), how they change with changing climate, and how their impact on society can be better mitigated. Lin has published in high-impact journals including Science, Nature Climate Change, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She is a recipient of NSF CAREER award and is currently leading a multi-institutional NSF Hazards SEEs project on hurricane hazards and risk analysis. Lin received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University in 2010. She also received a certificate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy in 2010 from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Before rejoining Princeton as an assistant professor in 2012, she conducted research in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT as a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow.

Dr. Mosallam is a Professor of Structural and Earthquake Engineering, also a Professor, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering Technology and served as the Director of the UCI Structural Engineering Testing Hall at the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at University of California, Irvine (UCI). He is the Founder of the Egyptian Green Building Council and the principal author of the Green Pyramid Rating System (GPRS). He is a Fellow and a Control Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Chairman of the International Committee of ASCE LA Chapter. He is a registered Structural Professional Engineer in the District of Colombia and has forty years of experience in structural engineering with particular interests in green materials, affordable housing, advanced building systems, nano composites, structural health monitoring and repair and rehabilitation of historical buildings and bridges. He has several patents on innovative building system and smart composite repair and joining systems. He is a member of ASCE Construction Institute Materials Directorate (Executive Committee) and a Control Member on the ASCE Structural Composites and Plastics Committee (SCAP). Professor Mosallam serves on the Technical Advisory Board of the International Accreditation Service (IAS). He has published over 500 technical papers, chapters, and reports on structural performance of structural systems and authored, edited and co-edited seven books in this area. He is the author of the ASCE Design Manual for FRP Composites Connections (ASCE MOP 102) and the co-developer of the ASCE/PIC Prestandard Document on Structural Design of Pultruded FRP Composite Structures. He is serving on the editorial board of Composites: Part B Journal and Guest Editor for special issues on Infrastructure Applications for several journals including Composites Part B: Engineering, Reinforced Plastics and Composites Journal, Materials & Design, Journal of Smart Structures, and an Editor in Advances in Civil Engineering Journal and others. Professor Mosallam is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Outstanding Research Award from the International Conference of Composites Engineering, OCEC President’s Award, Best Design Paper Award from Composite Institute, the Industry Impact Award from McGraw Hill, Best Paper Award from SPI, and the Outstanding Engineering Educator of Year Award from American Society of Civil Engineers, among other numerous national and international awards.

Dr.Maged A. Youssef is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Western Ontario. He received his PhD from McMaster University, Canada, in 2000, and then joined Murray Engineering P.C., New York City, as senior structural engineer. Dr. Youssef joined Western in August of 2002. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2009 and to the rank of Professor in 2015. He also acted as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs from 2012 to 2015. Dr. Youssef received the 2007 R. Mohan Mathur Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition to university teaching, he is actively involved in professional development of practicing engineers. Dr. Youssef’s research focus on improving safety of our civil structures to natural and man-made disasters. His research covers areas in Earthquake Engineering, Structural Fire Engineering, and Smart Materials and Systems. He shared in publishing three standards. He also published 2 book chapters, 57 journal articles, 55 conference papers, and several technical reports. He presented his research as a keynote/expert speaker in national and international conferences. He was also invited to present his research at Tohoku University (Japan), Kyoto University (Japan), and South China University of Technology (China). Dr. Youssef supervised 12 PhD students, and 8 Master students to graduation. He is currently supervising 3 PhD students and 2 Master Students. He is an active member of the professional Committees of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers and the American Concrete Institute. He is licenced professional engineer and is actively involved in structural engineering consulting activities.

Sara Pavia is an Associate Professor in the Dept of Civil Engineering, University of Dublin Trinity College. Her work focusses on sustainable construction including thermal insulation, earth construction, building limes, bio-aggregate concretes, alkali-activated cements and pozzolanic binders. She also works on historic buildings in both academia and industry. Over the last decade,her main objective has been to produce sustainable binders for construction by activating rubbish and raw materials from all over the world. She has authored 148 publications including 4 books, and works in several European groups such as RILEM and CEN.

Prof.Abdeldjelil Belarbi is an Algerian-American Structural Engineer and Researcher whose research deals with the design, evaluation, and rehabilitation of reinforced and prestressed concrete bridges and buildings. He is currently the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at University of Houston and previously a Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology.[1][2][3] Belarbi is actively engaged in a broad spectrum of structural engineering research areas. His primary research contributions focus on the constitutive modelling, analytical, and experimental investigations of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. His research has also focused on the use FRP composites for internal reinforcement of structural concrete as well as rehabilitation and strengthening of aging and deteriorated civil engineering infrastructure. Belarbi has published over 230 technical research papers and had supervised over 50 MSCE theses and PhD dissertations and he is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI). He is the recipient of over 30 awards and honors for his excellence in research, teaching and service to professional community. Belarbi completed his undergraduate studies in Algeria before joining the US in 1984 to further his studies in Houston, Texas.

Dr.Liyaning (Maggie) Tang got her bachelor degree at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and the Ph.D degree at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. After post-doctoral research experience at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she worked at West Virginia University for three years. She had rich experience in collaboration with government departments in both China and the U.S. Research projects included Public Private Partnership projects, highway pavement construction, dust control on construction sites, environment impact assessment of construction projects, carbon footprint in construction. She is now a Lecturer of Construction Management at Western Sydney University. She teaches construction courses and supervises both undergraduate and graduate students. She is a full registered Principal Supervisor (Doctorate) in Graduate Supervisor Register at WSU. She is also a World Bank Group / APMG certified PPP Professional (CP3P) Foundation trainer. Her current research focuses on “Improving Mental Health of Construction Site Workers and Construction Site Safety by Using Big Data Analytics”.

Dr. Husham Almansour, Ph.D., P.Eng. is a Senior Research Officer in the Civil Engineering Infrastructure unit of the NRC-Construction Research Centre, National Research Council Canada and Adjunct professor in the area of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Ottawa. Dr. Almansour expertise is in the area of structural mechanics with focus on the performance, protection and rehabilitation of aging structures and infrastructure against extreme loads and the area of innovative structural systems using advanced materials. He is now leading NRC research team in the area of climate resilience of bridge infrastructure and the area of innovative high performance structural systems using advanced materials. Dr. Almansour is a member of NRC-NBC Part 4, CSA committees S6 (Canadian Bridge Design Code), S 850 (Design and assessment of buildings subjected to blast loads), TAC Structure Standing Committee, and CSCE committee on Education and Research.

Dr.YeongAe Heo received her PhD from Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Davis in 2009. She began her career in the offshore engineering field in charge of risk-based safety studies for offshore platforms at the R&D Center of Samsung Heavy Industries. Dr. Heo joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Case Western Reserve University as Assistant Professor in 2014. Dr. Heo has been selected as 2017 Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellow of National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, 2018 ASCE Excellence in Civil Engineering Education Fellow, and ASCE-Sponsored Young Professional. Dr. Heo has served as the vice chair of the ASCE/SEI Multihazard Mitigation Committee and a topic organizer of the Scientific Committee of ASME OMAE for data-driven models. Also, she has served on the ASCE Codes and Standards Activities Division Committees (ASCE/SEI 59: Blast Protection of Buildings) and ACI348 Committee on Structural Reliability and Safety as a voting member.Dr.Heo’s research includes large-scale modeling and evaluation for nonlinear dynamic structural performance, multi-hazard risk and resilience evaluation, effects of long-term deterioration and cascading failures, machine learning and big-data analytics applications to decision-making framework for resilient and sustainable structural systems.

Prof. Alejandro Luis Grindlay Moreno completed his Ph.D. Civil Engineer in University of Granada (Spain) (2001) and Specialist Course in Regional Planning and Environment, Fundicot- Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) (2000)&Master degree in Urban Planning and Management, Granada’s Official Architects College (Spain) (2005).He worked as a Lecturer from 2001-2012 and Senior Lecturer from 2012-present in Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Civil Engineering, University of Granada (Spain) and he is a Research Group Member (RNM034): “Research Cluster on Territorial Synergies”, University of Granada, Spain He is a Visiting Professor at TU Graz - Institute for Urban Development in 2019.Department of Structural, Building and Geotechnical Engineering in Polytechnic of Turin, Italy in 2017. Department of Architecture and Planning in Polytechnic of Milan, Italy in 2012. University of Alicante Spain in 2003.And he is a Visiting Researcher at Centro Internazionale “Città d’Acqua” Venice, Italy (2001) and at Centre for Earth and Environmental Science Research “Sustinable Hub” Kingston University in London, UK(2011). He is an author of a number of publications (Papers in Refereed Journals, in Edited Proceedings, Books and Chapters in Books, etc.)

Dr.Hassan Azad, currently an assistant professor at the University of Florida, is a scholar known forhis research, teaching, and practices in the areas of architecture and technology and especially  architectural and environmental acoustics. He holds a Ph.D. in design, construction, and  planning from the School of Architecture at the University of Florida. Prior to his current  appointment at UF, Dr. Azad worked as a senior acoustical consultant in San Francisco bay area  for a year. His research interests include Environmental and Building Technology,  Environmental Acoustics, Architectural Acoustics (Building & Room Acoustics), Technology  Integration with Architectural Design, and Computer Programming, modeling, and simulation  for Architectural & Acoustical Applications. Dr. Azad is a LEED AP BD + C and holds the  membership of several professional and educational organizations such as Institute of Noise  Control Engineering (INCE‐USA), International Building Performance Simulation Association,  USA Chapter (IBPSA‐USA), Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE), Building Technology  Educators Society (BTES), Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and Audio Engineering Society  (AES). He serves as a reviewer for the ACSA annual conferences and as a member for the  Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Technical Committee (TC) on Architectural Acoustics, and  Technical Specialty Group (TSG) on Computational Acoustics. Dr. Azad has received many  awards, scholarships and grants and is a recipient of Robert Bradford Newman Medal for  Excellence in Architectural Acoustics.