**Bing Bai**

Bing Bai is currently a professor working at the Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. He holds a Ph.D. in Geotechnial Engineering from Wuhan University, China. His research interests include geo-environmental engineering, thermal consolidation theory, and contaminant transport theory and control methods. Recently, he devoted himself to research on advances in soil pollution and geotechnical environments. He developed a theory describing the cotransport of heavy metals and suspended particles at different temperatures in porous media and proposed a nonlinear attachment–detachment model with hysteresis suitable for substances with sizes ranging from ions to large particles, which is of great significance in understanding groundwater pollution mechanisms and in the development of purification technology. He has published more than 150 academic papers and five scientific books. He serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Geotechnical Engineering and Rock and Soil Mechanics of China. He is the member of several professional committees, such as the Special Committee on Soil Constitutive Relationship, the Strength of China Society of Civil Engineering, and the Special Committee on Energy Underground Structure and Engineering of the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics
