**Canxing Qiu**

Dr. Canxing Qiu is currently a Professor of Structural Engineering at BJUT. He earned his doctoral degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include self-centering structures, shape memory alloy-based damping devices, and the performance-based seismic design method. He served as the principle investigator of numerous competitive research fundings. He published over 50 SCI journal papers and was authorized for over 10 invention patents.

## **Yue Zheng**

Dr. Yue Zheng is an Associate Professor of novel materials and structural systems at the Department of Bridge Engineering at Tongji University. His main research focuses on the resilience and sustainability-informed design, assessment, and life-cycle maintenance of bridges under the effects of deterioration and hazards to aid the development of a next generation of bridge engineering systems using novel materials and structural systems.
