**About the Editors**

### **Jian-long Zheng**

Dr. Zheng is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is a highway engineering expert, professor, and doctoral supervisor of Changsha University of Science and Technology, director of the National Engineering Laboratory of Highway Maintenance Technology, director of the Key Laboratory of Highway Engineering of the Ministry of Education, the vice director of Teaching Guiding Committee for Civil Engineering of the Ministry of Education, the vice chairman of China Highway & Transportation Society and the executive director of the International Road Federation. Dr. Zheng has been long engaged in developing and practicing the technology of highway and geotechnical engineering, with over 200 articles and seven academic books published. He holds 35 national patents in inventions. He led a well know project on the Technology of Highway Construction in Expansive Soil Area, and he received the First Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2009 due to this achievement. His effort on the Technology of Asphalt Pavement State Design Method and Structural Performance Improvement Technology made him receive the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2012. Meanwhile, he has won a number of special awards. He won a Second Prize of National Teaching Achievement and two First Provincial Level Prizes. He was also awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award in Transportation Technology from the Ministry of Transport among his numerous key awards.

### **Zhanping You**

Dr. Zhanping You earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in 2003. Dr. You is a Distinguished Professor at Michigan Technological University. In his capacity as a Professor, he has completed research projects related to road materials, pavement engineering, and sustainable building materials. His contribution to pavement and materials research has led to journal articles, book chapters, and advances in engineering practice. He has led research projects from engineering practices of roads to pavement science with funding from federal, state, and local agencies. His contribution to pavement and materials research has been featured in newspapers, magazines, and other media. Dr. You has published over 400 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. You has received numerous recognitions. He was awarded the U.S. Department of Transportation's Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship in 2001. In both 2004 and 2005, he was awarded the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Faculty Fellowship. He earned the prestigious Michigan Tech Research Award in 2019 and University Distinguished Professorship. He was named a Fellow of ASCE and a Fellow of the EMI. Dr. You served as the Chair of ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute's Pavements Committee and CI's Bituminous Materials Committee. He is also the guest editor for other journals.

### **Xueyan Liu**

Dr. Liu is currently an Associate Professor in the Section of Pavement Engineering of the Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences of TU Delft. He works in the areas of constitutive modeling, numerical modelling and material experimental characterization. Within the research program of the Section Pavement Engineering, his research topics mostly relate to the development and implementation of constitutive models for the simulation of the static and dynamic response of various pavement engineering materials like soils, asphalt concrete, liner and reinforcing systems and sustainable development technologies, i.e., multiscale modelling of asphaltic materials, warm/cold asphalt concrete technology, the durability of asphalt surfacings on orthotropic steel deck bridge, accelerated pavement test, pavement continuous monitoring and sustainable development technologies. Dr. Liu was granted his doctoral thesis in 2003. During the same period, Dr. Liu also participated in the team that developed the ACRe model for Asphalt Concrete Response currently implemented in 3D Computer Aided Pavement Analysis system (CAPA-3D). Dr. Liu has published more than 100 technical and journal papers on the mechanics and the finite element modelling of granular, concrete and asphaltic materials. Dr. Liu is a member of RILEM Technical Committee of Cracking in Asphalt Pavements WG3 and a member of Delft Centre for Materials (DCMat). He is also a member of ISAP, AAPT, APSE and IACMAG. Dr. Liu is an Editorial Board Member of Geomaterials (GM). Dr. Liu was appointed as a Board member of the International Association of Chinese Infrastructure Professionals (IACIP) and a member of the Academic Committee of the Key Laboratory of Road Structure and Materials Transportation Industry of the China Ministry of Transport. He is also actively involved in organizing inter/national workshops and conferences and was invited as a Scientific/Technical committee member of several international conferences.
