Structural Safety and Ground Improvement on Bridge: Proceedings of 2024 8th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Structural Engineering

Dr. Bingxiang Yuan, male, professor of Guangdong University of Technology, "Outstanding Youth of Guangdong Province", graduated from Lanzhou University. During his doctoral program, he was awarded the Scholarship by the Scholarship Council of the Ministry of Education of China to study at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University for two years, and he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) from 2012 to 2015. He presided over 3 National Natural Science Foundation of China (2 face projects + 1 youth fund), Outstanding Youth Fund of Guangdong Province, 2 China Postdoctoral Funds (Special Grant + First Class Grant), Guangdong Natural Science Foundation-Enterprise Joint Fund, Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation Face Project, State Key Laboratory Open Fund Project, Guangdong Provincial Department of Transportation Project, and other more than a dozen of national and provincial scientific research projects. He has published more than 70 papers, more than 30 SCI papers (5 top 10/00 hot papers, 10 top 1% highly cited papers), more than 20 EI papers, and 13 authorized national invention patents. He participated in the preparation of the book "Engineering Geology Route Selection of Qinghai-Tibet Railway". He won the Second Prize of Guangdong Provincial Scientific and Technological Progress (ranked first), the Outstanding Award of China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement (first finisher), the First Prize of the National Teaching Innovation Competition for College Teachers, the First Prize of the Third National Lecture Competition for Young Teachers Specializing in Urban Underground Space, the Bronze Prize of the First National Post-doctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the Grand Prize of Guangdong Provincial College Teachers' Teaching Innovation Competition, the Science and Technology Prize of the China Commercial Federation Third Prize, First Prize of Land and Resources (Guangdong) Science and Technology Award, First Prize of Guangdong Geological Science and Technology Award, 2 First Prizes of Guangdong Geological Science and Technology Award, Second Prize of Guangdong Civil Engineering and Architecture Society; Guiding graduate students to win the Third Prize of Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Report of National Academic Conference on Piling, being awarded as Outstanding Class Teacher of Guangdong University of Technology, Outstanding Teaching Prize of Guangdong University of Technology, and Outstanding Graduate Student Supervisor of Guangdong University of Technology (2021-2023) 100% of graduate students received scholarships, 67% received first-class scholarships, and 2 received national scholarships).

Huseyin Bilgin is the Professor of Civil Engineering at Epoka University, Tirana Albania. He is actively taking part in teaching, research and the practice of structural and earthquake engineering, with emphasis on the response, analysis and design of reinforced concrete and masonry structures. He teaches the compulsory core courses Engineering Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials for second-year students and, he is the coordinator of the elective courses Introduction to Structural Dynamics, Supervised Independent Study and Research and Introduction to Earthquake Resistant Design in the 7th and 8th semesters of the area of structural engineering specialization. He also teaches the graduate courses Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. His main research interests are related to the response of structures to extreme loads focusing on the areas of structural and earthquake engineering with the emphasis on problems of non-linearity and performance evaluation of members, connections and structures. He has been involved in several research projects in these areas and has worked as an expert consultant on numerous engineering projects mostly made of reinforced concrete, but also of other structural materials. He has also participated in various national and international scientific activities related to structural and earthquake engineering.

Assoc. Prof. Qingzi Luo's research involves experimental and theoretical methods of soft soil foundation settlement and soft foundation treatment, and her major achievements have been published in the Sunset journals of Geotechnical Science, Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Geomechanics and Engineering, etc. She is also the chairperson of the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project and the Guangdong Province Natural Science Foundation Doctoral Research Initiative Project, and she was awarded the National Prize of Doctoral Students in 2014 and the Second Prize of China Petroleum and Chemical Automation Industry Science and Technology Award in 2016. She was awarded the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students in 2014 and the Second Prize of China Petroleum and Chemical Automation Industry Science and Technology Award in 2016.

Zejun Han, male, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral), Associate Professor of "Youth Hundred Talents Program", Category A, Guangdong Industrial University, graduated from Tianjin University (undergraduate), graduated from Dalian University of Science and Technology (under the supervision of Dr. LIN Gao), joined South China University of Science and Technology in November 2014 for post-doctoral research, and was released from the university in March 2017 for teaching. In September 2019, he will go to Akron University in the United States for a one-year academic visit, and in November 2021, he will join Guangdong University of Technology. He has published more than 30 academic papers, 14 papers in SCI journals as first author/communicator, 9 theses, and 1 software authorization. In 2018, he received the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Education, and the South China University of Technology. In 2018, he was awarded the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award by the Ministry of Education of China, and is the Director of the Excellent Class of South China University of Technology.

Xueqiang Yang, Professor of Guangdong University of Technology, Professor Xueqiang Yang has carried out systematic and in-depth research in the areas of roadway stability, slope stability analysis, deep foundation support, retaining wall structural earth pressure, foundation bearing capacity, arch theory, vacuum pre-compression of soft ground, and the strength of rock and soil body constitutive relationship, etc. He has published more than one hundred and forty papers in domestic and international academic journals and conference proceedings, of which more than 30 papers have been indexed in the search of SCI, EI, ISTP and so on. Among them, more than 30 papers have been indexed by SCI, EI, ISTP and so on.

余炳翔博士，男，廣東工業大學教授，獲得「廣東省優秀青年」稱號，畢業於蘭州大學。在攻讀博士學位期間，他獲得中國教育部獎學金委員會的獎學金，前往多倫多大學和瑞爾森大學學習兩年，並於2012年至2015年在哈爾濱工業大學（深圳）擔任博士後研究員。他主持了3項國家自然科學基金（2項面上項目 + 1項青年基金）、廣東省優秀青年基金、2項中國博士後基金（特別資助 + 一級資助）、廣東省自然科學基金-企業聯合基金、廣東省自然科學基金面上項目、國家重點實驗室開放基金項目、廣東省交通運輸廳項目及其他十多項國家和省級科研項目。他發表了70多篇論文，其中30多篇為SCI論文（5篇為前10/00熱文，10篇為前1%高被引論文），20多篇EI論文，以及13項授權國家發明專利。他參與編寫了《青藏鐵路工程地質選線》一書。他獲得了廣東省科技進步二等獎（排名第一）、中國產業-大學-研究合作創新成果優秀獎（第一完成人）、全國高校教師教學創新競賽一等獎、第三屆全國城市地下空間專業青年教師講課競賽一等獎、首屆全國博士後創新創業競賽銅獎、廣東省高校教師教學創新競賽特等獎、中國商業聯合會科技獎三等獎、土地與資源（廣東）科技獎一等獎、廣東省地質科技獎一等獎、廣東省地質科技獎兩項一等獎、廣東省土木工程與建築學會二等獎；指導研究生獲得全國打樁學術會議優秀研究生學術報告三等獎，並被評為廣東工業大學優秀班主任、廣東工業大學優秀教學獎及廣東工業大學優秀研究生導師（2021-2023），100%的研究生獲得獎學金，67%獲得一等獎學金，2人獲得國家獎學金。

胡塞因·比爾金是阿爾巴尼亞地拉那的埃波卡大學土木工程教授。他積極參與結構與地震工程的教學、研究及實踐，重點關注鋼筋混凝土和砌體結構的響應、分析與設計。他教授二年級學生的必修核心課程《工程力學》和《材料力學》，並擔任結構工程專業第七和第八學期選修課程《結構動力學導論》、《監督獨立研究》和《抗震設計導論》的協調員。他還教授研究生課程《結構動力學》和《地震工程》。他的主要研究興趣與結構對極端載荷的響應有關，專注於結構與地震工程領域，強調非線性問題及構件、連接和結構的性能評估。他參與了多個相關研究項目，並在多個以鋼筋混凝土為主的工程項目中擔任專家顧問，也涉及其他結構材料的項目。