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Dr. Qingxue Shang obtained his bachelor’s degree from Southeast University, China in 2015. He obtained his master’s degree and PhD degree from Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration in 2018 and 2021. Dr Shang is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University. He has got the support of Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund Project, National Key Research and Development Plan Project, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program. Dr. Shang’s research aims to evaluate and improve the seismic resilience of our society and community. His recent works and publications include the resilience assessment of hospital systems, power systems, and water distribution networks, and some resilience enhancement techniques including resilient shear wall structures and resilient non-structural components. He worked as Individual Research Member of the International Association for the Seismic Performance of Non-Structural Elements (SPONSE) and Early Career Editor of Earthquake Engineering and Resilience. He is also an active reviewer for many international journals, including Reliability Engineering & System Safety, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Structures, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Advances in bridge engineering, etc.

Professor Tao Wang graduated from Tsinghua University, China and Kyoto university, Japan for his bachelor’s degree and PhD degree. Prof. Wang’s research commits to solve key scientific problems in reproduction of engineering failure mechanism and resilient earthquake engineering. His research findings have facilitated seismic resilience improvement of several important engineering projects. He has established extensive relations of cooperation with many experts from different countries to jointly promote the seismic resilience evaluation and promotion work. He has organized an international special issue on seismic resilience and established Huixian International Forum on Earthquake Engineering for Young Researchers, which attracted more than 600 Young scholars from 30 countries to join. He has won the Second Prize of China National Science and Technology Progress award and many other important awards. He is a leading talent in science and technology of China Earthquake Administration (CEA) and recently won the Outstanding Youth Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Dr. Jichao Li obtained his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, China in 2012. He obtained his PhD degree from Institute of Engineering Mechanics (IEM), China Earthquake Administration in 2018. Dr Li is currently an associate professor at IEM. His research focuses on seismic resilience analysis method, resilience improvement technology and intelligent vibration control theory of engineering systems. He has got the support of Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund project, Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation joint guiding project, Basic Scientific Research Business Project of the Central Public Welfare Research Institute, and National Key Research and Development Plan.

Professor Mohammad Noori is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, a Fellow and life member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, and a recipient of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship. Noori’s work in nonlinear random vibrations, seismic isolation, and application of artificial intelligence methods for structural health monitoring is widely cited. He has authored over 300 refereed papers, including over 160 journal articles, 6 scientific books, and has edited 25 technical, and special journals, volumes. Noori has supervised over 90 graduate students and post-doc scholars, and has presented over 100 keynote, plenary, and invited talks. He is the founding co-chief editor of an international journal and has served on the editorial board of over 15 other journals and as a member of numerous scientific and advisory boards. He has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at several highly ranked global universities, and directed the Sensors Program at the National Science Foundation in 2014. He has been a founding director or co-founder of three industry-university research centers and held Chair professorships at two major universities. He served as the dean of engineering at Cal Poly for five years, has also served as the Chair of the national committee of mechanical engineering department heads, and was one of 7 co-founders of the National Institute of Aerospace, in partnership with NASA Langley Research Center.