Yixian LI

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr. Yixian Li received his Ph.D. Degree from the Department of Bridge Engineering of Tongji University in 2021. He serves as the postdoc research fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of PolyU since 2022. His research interests include structural health monitoring, full-field sensing, physics-informed big data mining, and intelligent infrastructure management. He has published over 20 SCI-indexed papers with an H-index of 11. Dr. Li has received many international awards including the Best Oral Presentation of Hong Kong Scholars Annual Symposium, First Prize from Youth Forum Competition of MCCE2023, Excellent Doctoral Dissertation from Tongji University, National Scholarship, etc.

Zhipeng Zhao

Tongji University

Dr. Zhao obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Tongji University (China) in 2021 and currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University. His research focuses on intelligent disaster prevention and ground motion analysis. He has been recognized as a JSPS Foreign Research Fellow, with research appointments at prominent institutions such as The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Tohoku University. Dr. Zhao has led four funded research projects, serves as Associate Editor for an international journal, and has published over 50 SCI-indexed papers along with 20 patents. His contributions are among the most-cited in Engineering Structures, and he is listed within the top 2% of scientists worldwide.

Xiaoyou Wang

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr. Wang received the B.S. Degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2015, M.S. degree from Tongji University in 2018, and Ph.D. degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2021. Her PhD thesis, titled “Probabilistic machine learning and Bayesian inference for vibration-based structural damage detection”, received the Faculty Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis 2021/2022. She is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her current research interests include structural health monitoring and system identification, damage detection, Bayesian inference, probabilistic machine learning, quantum machine learning, and edge computing.

Yiming Zhang

Southeast University

Dr Yiming Zhang is a Young Chair Professor at Southeast University. He received his PhD degrees in Civil Engineering at Monash University (Australia) and Southeast University (China), followed by positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate supervisor at Jesus College. His research focuses on probabilistic machine-learning methods for addressing engineering problems from a data-driven perspective. He also serves on the Early Career Editorial Board for Advances in Wind Engineering, Sustainable Structures, and the Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development. Prof. Zhang was a recipient of the Marie Curie Fellowship, Best Paper Awards, Key Scientific Articles in Advances in Engineering, First-Class Award of Science and Technology of China Highway Society, and Outstanding PhD thesis of Jiangsu Province. He leads several key projects, including the Excellent Young Scholars Fund (Overseas) from the National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) of China, an EU Horizon 2020 program, the Cambridge University Trimble Fund, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Postdoctoral Match Fund.